DevExpress

10/21/2026

This week on Code it with AI, Carl and Rocky write their personal rules for coding with an AI agent.

Carl and Rocky write their personal rules for coding with an AI age...

10/21/2026

DevExpress Agent Skills v1.6.0 is now available. These skills help your AI coding assistant write accurate DevExpress code.

What's new:

• BI Dashboard skills for data sources, export, and parameters (ASP.NET Core, Blazor, WinForms, WPF)
• Reports skills for WinForms and WPF, plus a reworked ASP.NET Core Reports skill that runs your app and verifies the result before reporting success
• Four new WPF skills: From Screenshot, Theme Customizer, Grid Data Source, and Dependency Injection
• ASP.NET Core support for all 13 DevExtreme skills

In our tests, smaller models completed most dashboard and reporting tasks with these skills installed. Without them, those models struggled with most of the same tasks.

Supported assistants include GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, JetBrains Junie, and JetBrains AI Assistant. If you installed our plugins, the update arrives through the marketplace.

In this post, I'll summarize the following v1.6.0-related updates: - New DevExpress BI Dashboard skills - DevExpress Reports skills for WinForms and WPF, plus a reworked ASP.NET Core Reports skill - Four new WPF skills - ASP.NET Core support for DevExtreme skills

10/14/2026

This week on Code it with AI, Rocky demonstrates how multiple round-trip requests using MCP 2 blows the doors off the possibilities for MCP servers.

Rocky demonstrates how multiple round-trip requests using MCP 2 blo...

10/07/2026

This week on Code it with AI, Carl shows how to remotely access your local machine and run Copilot or Claude against a local LLM.

09/30/2026

This week on Code it with AI, Rocky provides solutions for problems you didn't know you had running Claude remotely.

Rocky provides solutions for problems you didn't know you had runni...

09/23/2026

This week on Code it with AI, Carl and Rocky share their experiences running Claude Code against a local LLM.

Carl and Rocky share their experiences running Claude Code against ...

09/16/2026

This week Carl and Rocky talk about accessing your GitHub Copilot and Claude Code sessions remotely.

09/09/2026

This week on Code it with AI, After testing multiple local LLM runtimes for hosting Qwen, Carl finally settles on NInfer.

After testing multiple local LLM runtimes for hosting Qwen, Carl fi...

09/09/2026

JFYI: We invite everyone to discuss our v26.2 proposal: AI Chat to manage Application Model and other aspects at runtime (as an alternative to the traditional developer-centric Model Editor). https://supportcenter.devexpress.com/ticket/details/t1206756/xaf-application-model-model-editor-and-non-windows-development-support-macos-linux-with -4942-4d01-8850-3bf5a80aa397 - Your feedback is welcome in comments.

09/09/2026

Office & PDF File API for Java is here as a free Community Technology Preview on Maven Central. Three API libraries for PDF, PowerPoint, and barcode processing in Java applications, with no dependency on Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat.

What's Included:

PDF Document API (devexpress-docs-pdf): Create documents from scratch, edit existing PDFs, merge and split files, search and replace text, manage interactive forms (AcroForms), add annotations and watermarks, encrypt and secure documents, generate tagged accessible PDFs (PDF/UA-1 and PDF/UA-2), create ZUGFeRD-compliant invoices, and export pages to images.

PowerPoint Presentation API (devexpress-docs-presentation): Create, load, modify, save, and export PPTX, PPTM, POTX, and POTM files. Full access to slides, masters, layouts, shapes, tables, themes, formatting, headers, footers, and notes. Export to PDF or per-slide images.

Barcode Generation API (devexpress-docs-barcode): Generate print-ready 1D (EAN, UPC, Code 128) and 2D (QR Code, DataMatrix, PDF417, Aztec) barcodes. Export to PNG, JPEG, SVG, or PDF. Embed barcodes directly into PDF pages or presentation slides.

Cross-Platform Architecture: All libraries run on Windows x64, Linux x64, and macOS ARM64, including Docker containers and cloud deployments on Azure and AWS. The rendering stack uses Skia with ICU for text processing instead of java.awt, so the same code runs in desktop applications, headless Linux containers, or cloud services.

Getting Started: JDK 21 or later, Maven 3.9+ or Gradle 8.14+. All packages are on Maven Central under the com.devexpress group. Demo projects available on GitHub.

What's Next: Word Document API and Spreadsheet API are planned for future releases. PowerPoint Chart API is in active development. PDF digital signature support is also planned.

The CTP is free with technical support available through registration. The commercial release is set for 2027.

Developer Express Inc is proud to announce the immediate availability of its newest release, DevExpress v26.1. Built and optimized for desktop, web, and mobile developers alike...