User Interface Package DevExpress v18.1 has finally officially released, this site will be serialized form for you to introduce the new content of each version. This article will introduce the new features of devexpress WinForms v18.1 and download the new trial version now!
Navigation Uipager Navigation
The Radio group and Windows UI Button panel can be used as Pager:tile Control, Tile Bar, Navigation frame, and image Slider. Pager automatically splits the contents of the target control into separate pages.
Tile Control-directx Hardware Acceleration
DevExpress WinForms Tile Controls now support DirectX rendering, so you can create high-performance solutions for use on high-dpi devices.
Fluent Design Form
The new version includes the new fluent design Form, inspired by the new Microsoft Fluent design system, which includes:
- Integrated Hamburger Menu
- Adaptive Layout
- Acrylic Material (partially transparent texture)
- Reveal Highlight
The acrylic material and reveal highlight effects can be used on systems with Windows Spring creators updates.
Hamburger Menu
The new version integrates Hamburger menu with accordion control: Sets the ViewType property to Hamburgermenu, and the accordion control supports the purpose of emulating windows 10 the collapsed state of the application operation (displays a small segment of the icon when collapsed).
When used with the new fluent Design form, the Hamburger menu automatically adjusts its state when the table is resized for large hours. It also supports acrylic material and reveal highlight effects (which can be used on systems with Windows Spring creators updates).
Accordion control–navigation Pane Layout
WinForms Accordion control supports the new Navigation Pane option-mimicking the latest styles used by Microsoft UWP applications. To enable it, set the Enablepanefooter property to True.
The control also supports DirectX hardware acceleration-an option designed to improve rendering performance on high-dpi screens.
PDF viewerdirectx Rendering (Beta)
In the new version, the PDF Viewer for WinForms and PDF Document APIs support DirectX rendering:
- Improve the performance of common usage scenarios.
- Supports all text rendering modes (for example, a clipping region that uses text as a drawing).
- High-quality text rendering (GDI uses integer coordinates for glyph positioning) and improved text antialiasing (especially for Type 1 fonts).
- All blending modes are supported.
To use DirectX rendering, activate any of the following options:
- PDF Document API: Enable ' pdfdocumentprocessor.renderpagecontentwithdirectx ' option
- WinForms PDF Viewer: Enable ' pdfviewer.renderpagecontentwithdirectx ' option
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