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DevExpress Newsletter

19 November 2009
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Message from the CTO

Assessing Risk

We human beings are bad at assessing risk. Consequently we are bad at mitigating risk, not having a clear idea of the risks in the first place.

Recently, I was having a chat with someone regarding loss-of-limb insurance. It's a nasty thing to have to happen to you to be sure, and getting some kind of recompense if it happens sounds great. But consider the risk you're insuring against. From the internet, I discovered that half of all 200,000 amputations in the US each year are due to diabetes. So, providing you don't have diabetes, you have roughly a 1 in 3000 chance of having to have an amputation for health reasons.

If you look after yourself, what are the chances of losing a limb due to some kind of trauma? The latest figures I found from 1996 showed a rate of 0.6 per 10,000 people. To put that into perspective, in 2005 42,636 people died in car accidents in the US, which is roughly 1.4 deaths per 10,000 population. You are over twice as likely to die in a car accident than lose a limb through trauma (such as from a car accident). Which is why I put my money into life insurance instead.

In software development, risks are everywhere. We mitigate the most obvious ones through source control, offsite backups, unit and functional tests, keeping our stakeholder informed at all times, short iterations, the whole panoply of Agile development. But what about other risks? Your lead developer walks and no one else knows how he implemented the communication layer. Your only customer is affected by the recession and cancels all development work until sales pick up. And so on.

So what risks do you consider? What mitigations have you prepared for them? What risks do you ignore because the probability of them happening is so remote? How did you assess that probability?


Julian M Bucknall, CTO
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Contents

Sneak Peek: Silverlight Layout Control
What's in a WPF Name? Announcing the Winning Entry
Introducing the CodeRush Test Runner
DevExpress Channel - Bringing PDC to You
Delphi at PDC? Surely Not!
TechEd Europe 2009 – What a Week!
Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls Hits the Virtual Shelves
Don't Forget Your Umbrella – XPO Predicts Rain
DevExpress Controls - Helping Customers Succeed
Top 5 Support Issues

Sneak Peek: Silverlight Layout Control

Silverlight 4 was announced at PDC this week, and with the platform becoming increasingly appealing for professional developers the need for intuitive, customizable controls is becoming more of a necessity. The Silverlight Team at DevExpress have been patiently plugging away with our controls for Silverlight, and Vlad just had to tell you about this sweet little addition to the DevExpress family.

Introducing the new design-time support for AgLayoutControl in Blend 3. Check out Vlad's post and tell us what you think in the comments.

* Silverlight Layout Control: Design-time Support in Blend 3

What's in a WPF Name? Announcing the Winning Entry

After over 140 responses to Rachel's appeal for help in naming our WPF color tool we not only broke a commenting record on the DevExpress blogs, we also have a winning name.

Check out the post... it could be you!

* The Name Game: WPF naming contest results

Introducing the CodeRush Test Runner

You called and asked for it, and so we have come to your aid – the CodeRush Test Runner will make its debut in the v2009 vol 3 release. The team have been hard at it getting this ready for Mark to show at PDC this week.

Comments on Mark's post seem to suggest that there are some of you who just can't wait to get your hands on this little beauty! Take a look at Mark's screenshots and drop us a line with your thoughts.

* The Extensible Test Runner You've Been Waiting For

DevExpress Channel - Bringing PDC to You

It's that time of year again – Mark Miller lands some crazy scheme on the DevExpress team and before you know it we've got movie stars and models hanging out with us in the booth! This year is no different and as you probably know by now we have a Beatles Rockband theme.

Check out the PDC Day 1 show reel and let DevExpress bring our PDC experience to your PC.

* PDC 09: Day One Show Mix
* PDC 2009 Day 1
* First Impressions from PDC 2009
* PDC 2009 Day 2

Delphi at PDC? Surely Not!

Oh yes, it's true! OK, so maybe it's flying underneath the Microsoft radar, but Richard is at PDC and he'll be talking to developers who are using Delphi. So, if you are reading this and you're attending PDC this week hunt Richard down for a chat about Delphi development.

* Delphi at PDC

TechEd Europe 2009 – What a Week!

DevExpress came, DevExpress saw and DevExpress conquered... well, Gary spoke at TechEd Europe, which is kind of the same thing if you think about it in a Braveheart kind of way! With over 7300 attendees Microsoft really pulled it out of the bag for this event. The turnout was huge and the Exhibition Hall was buzzing. Not what we have come to expect from a recession-gripped development community.

A huge thank you to all of the DevExpress customers that came to see us. We had a great time and we look forward to seeing you again next year!

* A Look Back at TechEd Europe 2009
* That Was TechEd that Was!

Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls Hits the Virtual Shelves

After almost 9 months of hard work, bleeding fingers and nagging writer's block, our first published book, Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls is finally available. If you are at PDC this week you can pick up a copy from our booth for no cost at all.

Paul and Julian chatted to Mehul for this video introduction to the book:

* A Chat With the Authors of the New DevExpress ASP.NET Book

Don't Forget Your Umbrella – XPO Predicts Rain

Gary's two-part series using our ORM tool, XPO, continues this week as he graphs some of the weather information that was collected from his local METAR station and persisted using XPO.

Check out Gary's blog and drop your thoughts into the comments.

* XPO – Charting Local Weather Conditions #2

DevExpress Controls - Helping Customers Succeed

It's always great to receive customer feedback, and we appreciate it even more when you get in touch to tell us about your successes with DevExpress controls. Your stories make our work worthwhile.

Check out our latest developer story from the guys at Binary Menorca S.L.

* Case Study: ERP App Leverages ASP.NET and WinForms

Top 5 Support Issues

Here's this week's top 5 list:

* ASP.NET - The general technique of using the Init/Load event handler
* ASP.NET - Cancel callback processing on server side
* ASPxEditors - Multi-line ASPxLabel with scrollbar
* XtraPrinting - How to print multi-frame images
* AgDataGrid Suite - How to bind to data created at runtime
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