110% DX ? DXTREME

Before everyone starts messaging me and telling me 110% is not possible, just listen ! For weeks I’ve been watching the countdown over at DevExpress promising to announce something cool. Well tonight 6pm AEST all was revealed – DXTREME In a nutshell, 3 tools in 1 – developing rich cross platform applications, and it looks … Read more

100% DX – XtraReports : bye bye Crystal, sorry ActiveReports

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when I mention reporting? Crystal? ActiveReports? I have used these and others on numerous projects, but then I learnt about Developer Express XtraReports, lets see if XtraReports can make it into the 100% DX range… For a full run down on all the cool things you … Read more

100% DX – CodeRush replaces ReSharper

The debate as to CodeRush or ReSharper has been undertaken by many people of the years, in fact prior to writing this post, I read through a number of older comparisons which put forth good arguments for both camps. For me, it is part of the 100% DX campaign. For years I was an avid … Read more

100% DX

Over the coming months I will be writing a series of articles on the benefits of the DevExpress range of products, and to see if it is possible to use one 3rd party set of components to deliver real world business solutions. In my post “What’s in your toolbox” I noted that my favourite grid … Read more