Antisocial Networks

Is the online world becoming increasingly friendly? Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and now Google+.

What happens when you have family on one network, friends on another, colleagues somewhere else and a mixture of all three on another completely different social site?

You get an antisocial CTO, that’s what!

DevExpress Releases v2011.1 of the VCL Controls

Our Delphi and C++ Builder community have finally been able to get their hands on v2011.1 of the VCL Subscription.

From this point, you will be able to download and install a 30-day trial version of the product suite as part of some of the major changes that the subscription has recently undergone.

Check out the What’s New pages to review all of the latest and greatest enhancements to this substantial package. We hope you are impressed.

Download a 30-Day Free Trial of the New VCL Subscription What's New in v2011.1 of the VCL Subscription?

Celebrate Our 50th Issue and Win!

With this issue, we celebrate 50 publications of DX Press: The DevExpress Newsletter.

To celebrate this milestone half-century with you, we’re giving you the chance to win great prizes in our Find the Fifty contest.

Join us on the DevExpress blogs to find out how you can celebrate with us as we Find the Fifty.

Find the Fifty to Celebrate 50 Issues of the DevExpress Newsletter

Time to Move On? .NET 3.5 and Beyond

Five years ago we made the decision for DXperience v2006.3 to be the final major update to support Visual Studio 2002/2003 and .NET 1.x.

Today we find ourselves in a similar situation. Our desire to move forward with features and functionality for our WinForms and ASP.NET customers is being restrained by the current support for .NET 2.0. Looking forwards to DXperience v2011.2, we will support Visual Studio 2008 or later, and .NET 3.5 or later.

How does this affect you? Take a look at Julian’s post and leave us your feedback in the comments.

DXperience Moving to .NET 3.5 or Above

New DevExpress Training Courses with Oliver Sturm

Independent DevExpress expert, Oliver Sturm, is joining us as we host a 3-day training course focusing on the ASP.NET controls.

Oliver will lead the training course, taking you through the process of creating an application from scratch.

The dates of this training course offer a great opportunity for you to link your trip with the DevConnections event being held in Las Vegas.

Find out more about the course outline and reserve your seat with us today.

DevExpress ASP.NET Training: October 26-28 2011 in Las Vegas, NV

Explore New WPF Reporting Features with Seth Juarez

The DevExpress Reporting Suite is already packed full of features and functionality that make creating reports for your end users a walk in the park.

Imagine if we made room for even more great enhancements for our WPF developers working with reports. Wait. We have! That makes this webinar for you.

Space is limited so reserve your seat now for this introductory interactive webinar and join us today, live.

Webinar: New WPF Reporting Features in v2011.1 (July 13, 2011)

Highlight Changes using jQuery Yellow Fade Effect

Trying to find an unobtrusive way of displaying changes made on your webpage?

Why not take a leaf out of StackOverflow.com’s book and try this simple and elegant solution that helps your users to locate changes, without detracting from the usability of your site.

How-To Add jQuery Yellow Fade Effect to ASP.NET GridView

Video Training Materials for Silverlight and WPF Controls in v2011.1

Our most recent release of DXperience saw a number of new enhancements to our WPF and Silverlight controls, including Instant Feedback UI Mode, data binding services and a new splash screen control.

Do you want a recap of the most recent additions to your WPF and Silverlight control suite? Take a look at the materials in this post and leave your feedback on topics you’d like to see covered in future videos.

Silverlight and WPF Video Training Roundup

Guest Webinar: Dino Esposito on Code Correctness

Writing tests is not a new concept, and we all agree that it is good practice. But is writing tests the be-all and end-all?

In this webinar recording, Dino invites you to explore the concept of code contracts. The principle of a code contract creates an environment for much more effective refactoring, while not excluding the practice of unit testing.

Stick on your headphones and let Dino explain how introducing software contracts into your development process can help you.

Towards Code Correctness: Integrating Software Contracts and Unit Testing

CodeRush Feature Workshop: Adding IDisposable to Existing Classes

The CodeRush Feature Workshop is a weekly webinar series with Mark and Rory. It takes community plug-in suggestions and sees the DevExpress Duo build them live. An energetic two hours of content await you in this recent two-part installment.

The latest webinars deal with code generation and are a great resource. Specifically, these webinars took a suggestion from community member, James Counts, to add IDisposible to all classes.

Remember, you can influence the plug-ins built during this weekly webinar – email your suggestions to Rory including CodeRush Feature Workshop Idea in the subject line.

CodeRush Feature Workshop: Part One CodeRush Feature Workshop: Part Two

Using Stylish and Interactive Gauges in WPF and Silverlight

DXperience v2011.1 saw sleek and stylish gauges added to DXCharts for WPF and Silverlight.

In this introductory video, Bryan shows us a selection of linear and circular gauges, as well as the levels of interactivity possible using these new controls.

Introducing the DXGauge Suite for WPF and Silverlight

Community Speakers Continue the DevExpress Webinar Series

The DevExpress Webinar series continues over the coming weeks with content from leading community figures Chris G. Williams and Peter Myers.

We invite you to reserve your free seat for these live and interactive webinars, and explore some of the ideas that your peers and colleagues are considering.

Space is tight, so register now for these upcoming webinars. See you there!

Using the Push Notifications Service in Your Apps or Games (July 14, 2011) Making Money from Free Apps with the Microsoft Ad SDK (July 21, 2011) Embed “Artificial Intelligence” into Your Solution with Data Mining (July 26, 2011)