detailed development workflow with modular patterns for git, code review, testing, documentation, and deployment
Development process rules for this project including testing, branching, and commit standards. Use when implementing features, fixing bugs, or making any code changes.
Generate and configure DevExpress Blazor AI Chat (DxAIChat) — an AI-powered chat UI for Blazor apps. Use for building conversational assistants, integrating providers (OpenAI,…
Generate and configure DevExpress Blazor Charts (DxChart, DxPieChart, DxPolarChart) for common chart types (line/bar/area/pie/donut/scatter/bubble/financial), data binding, axes,…
Build and configure the DevExpress Blazor ComboBox (DxComboBox) — a drop-down/select editor for Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and Hybrid apps.
Generate and configure DevExpress Blazor visualization components such as DxBarGauge, DxRangeSelector, DxSankey, DxSparkline, and DxMap.
Build and configure the DevExpress Blazor Grid (DxGrid) — a full-featured data grid for Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and Hybrid apps.
Build and configure the DevExpress Blazor Pivot Table (DxPivotTable) — an interactive pivot grid / cross-tab analysis component for Blazor.
Build and configure the DevExpress Blazor Ribbon (DxRibbon) — an Office-style tabbed command UI for Blazor.
Build and configure the DevExpress Blazor Scheduler (DxScheduler) — a calendar/appointment scheduling component for Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and Hybrid apps.
Build and configure the DevExpress Blazor Toolbar (DxToolbar) — an adaptive command bar for Blazor apps.
Build and configure the DevExpress Blazor TreeList (DxTreeList) — a hierarchical data grid / tree grid for Blazor Server, WebAssembly, and Hybrid apps.
Build .NET applications with the DevExpress AI-Powered Extensions for Office File API to add NLP-powered document processing capabilities — proofreading, translation, and text…
Build .NET applications with the DevExpress Barcode Generation API for generating barcode images programmatically.
Build .NET applications with the DevExpress Excel Export Library for streaming generation of Excel files with low memory footprint.
Build .NET applications with the DevExpress PDF Document API for creating, reading, editing, merging, signing, and extracting content from PDF files programmatically.
Create, load, modify, secure, and print PDF documents using the new DevExpress.Docs.Pdf API — a modern object-oriented DOM approach for .NET.
Build .NET applications with the DevExpress Presentation API for creating, reading, modifying, and exporting PowerPoint presentations programmatically without Microsoft Office.
Build .NET applications with the DevExpress Spreadsheet Document API for creating, reading, modifying, and exporting Excel workbooks programmatically without Microsoft Office.
Build .NET applications with the DevExpress Word Processing Document API for creating, reading, modifying, and exporting Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Office.
Build .NET applications with the DevExpress Zip Compression and Archive API for creating, reading, and extracting ZIP archives programmatically.
Integrate DevExpress Report Viewer and Report Designer into ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages. Configure Program.cs with AddDevExpressControls, ConfigureReportingServices.
Integrate DevExpress Report Viewer and Report Designer into Blazor Server, Blazor WebAssembly, and Blazor Web App.
Create reports programmatically with DevExpress XtraReports runtime API (.NET and .NET Framework). Build XtraReport in code, add bands (DetailBand, GroupHeaderBand), controls…
AI agent skill for the DevExpress WinForms AIChatControl. Covers NuGet setup, the project SDK change, AI client registration (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Ollama), adding the control to…
DevExpress WinForms Chart Control (DevExpress.XtraCharts.ChartControl) for 2D and 3D data visualization.
DevExpress WinForms Data Grid — GridControl with GridView, BandedGridView, AdvBandedGridView, CardView, LayoutView, TileView, and WinExplorerView, plus the TreeList for…
DevExpress WinForms Layout Management — form layout and docking controls: LayoutControl (free/flow/table layout modes, groups, tabbed groups, size constraints, runtime…
DevExpress WinForms Loading Indicators — SplashScreenManager (namespace DevExpress.XtraSplashScreen) is the single entry point.
DevExpress WinForms MVVM Framework with the MVVMContext component. Covers ViewModel types and priority order (compile-time DevExpress.Mvvm.CodeGenerators with…
AI agent skill for the DevExpress WinForms PivotGridControl. Covers NuGet setup, data binding (DataSourceColumnBinding, ExpressionDataBinding, OLAP), field areas and layout,…
DevExpress WinForms PropertyGridControl — displays and edits the public properties of any object. Covers NuGet setup (DevExpress.Win.VerticalGrid, namespace…
DevExpress WinForms Ribbon (RibbonControl) and traditional Bars (BarManager + Bar) — Office-style ribbon UIs or classic main-menu/toolbar/status-bar UIs.
DevExpress WinForms Scheduler (SchedulerControl with SchedulerDataStorage; Day/WorkWeek/FullWeek/Month/Year/Timeline/Agenda/Gantt views; appointments, resources, recurrence,…
Expert skill for the DevExpress WinForms XtraTabControl (DevExpress.XtraTab, DevExpress.Win.Navigation NuGet).
Expert skill for the DevExpress WinForms TreeList control (DevExpress.XtraTreeList.TreeList, DevExpress.Win.TreeList NuGet) — a data-aware control that shows data as a tree, a…
Build WPF applications with the DevExpress Accordion Control (AccordionControl) — a hierarchical navigation control for compact app sidebars and category-based UIs.
Embed a Copilot-inspired AI chat interface in WPF apps with DevExpress AIChatControl — install DevExpress.AIIntegration.Wpf.Chat, change the project SDK to…
Build WPF applications with the DevExpress Chart Control (ChartControl) — 2D bar, line, area, pie, financial, polar, radar, funnel, box plot, point, bubble, and scatter series.
Build WPF applications with the DevExpress Data Grid (GridControl) — a data-aware control that displays and edits data in table, card, and treelist layouts.
Build WPF applications with the DevExpress layout-management controls — DockLayoutManager (Visual Studio-style dockable panels and MDI), LayoutControl (compound forms with…
Display loading indicators in WPF apps with the DevExpress utility controls — SplashScreenManager (a window-level splash screen shown during startup or long-running operations,…
Build WPF applications with the DevExpress MVVM Framework — view-model strategies (compile-time GenerateViewModel source generator, runtime POCO ViewModelSource, ViewModelBase,…
Build WPF applications with the DevExpress Pivot Grid (PivotGridControl) — a control for multi-dimensional data analysis displaying data in a cross-tabular pivot table.
Build WPF property editors with the DevExpress PropertyGridControl — bind any object via SelectedObject (or multiple via SelectedObjects), define which properties show via…
Build WPF applications with the DevExpress Ribbon control, toolbars, and menus. Use when adding RibbonControl, ToolBarControl, MainMenuControl, StatusBarControl, BarManager, or…
Build WPF applications with the DevExpress Scheduler Control (SchedulerControl) — an Outlook-style calendar control for displaying and editing appointments, time regions, and…
Build WPF tabbed UIs with DevExpress DXTabControl — define tabs explicitly as DXTabItem children or generate them from a data collection via ItemsSource + ItemHeaderTemplate /…
Build WPF applications with the DevExpress TreeList (TreeListControl) — a data-aware control for hierarchical data.
XAF Conditional Appearance module for dynamic UI styling. Covers AppearanceAttribute for controlling FontColor, BackColor, FontStyle, Enabled, and Visibility on UI elements,…
Implement XAF CRUD operations and business logic with IObjectSpace. Use when creating, reading, updating, or deleting objects, calling CommitChanges, handling ObjectSpace events…
XPO-specific CRUD and business logic patterns for XAF applications. Sub-skill of devexpress-xaf-business-logic — load this when XPO ORM is detected.
Design XAF business model classes with EF Core or XPO. Use when creating persistent classes, defining entity relationships (one-to-many, many-to-many, aggregated), applying data…
XAF Controllers and Actions for implementing UI logic and user interaction. Covers ViewController, ObjectViewController, WindowController lifecycle…
Filtering data in XAF applications. Covers CriteriaOperator syntax, CriteriaOperator.FromLambda, IObjectSpace filtering methods (GetObjects, GetObjectsQuery, FindObject,…
XPO-specific filtering patterns for XAF applications. Sub-skill of devexpress-xaf-filtering — load when XPO ORM is detected.
XAF performance optimization across database, ORM, and application layers. Covers server-mode data sources and data access modes, EF Core eager loading, query splitting, and…
XAF Reports V2 module, data export, and printing. Covers adding the Reports module (AddReports with ReportDataType and EnableInplaceReports), CollectionDataSource and…
XAF Validation module for enforcing data integrity rules. Covers built-in rule attributes (RuleRequiredField, RuleCriteria, RuleRange, RuleRegularExpression, RuleValueComparison,…
XAF Views, layout, and navigation. Covers ListView, DetailView, DashboardView class hierarchy, View creation (Application.CreateListView/CreateDetailView/CreateDashboardView),…