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Display data in a table in Universal App

I have been looking for a couple of days for a UWP control that has similar functionality as the WPF ListView, which allows me to create a table like appearance.
Is there a control like this in the UWP or not?
What I want to achieve is a SCRUM and Kanban overview for Jira Software. Maybe there are better options.

Microsoft has created an add-on control that fits this use case nicely, the DataGrid control from their community toolkit.
More details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/communitytoolkit/controls/datagrid
It supports sorting, filtering, grouping, and can even generate columns automatically from supplied data.

There is a control such as that and it is called listview.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.xaml.controls.listview.aspx
Maybe you could use GridView as well, there is a nice short tutorial on:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Windows-10-development-for-absolute-beginners/UWP-040-Data-Binding-to-the-GridView-and-ListView-Controls

Customize expand/collapse button in NavBarGroup in Devexpress

I have a NavBarControl which contains collection of NavBarGroups.
NavBarGroup have a header and container control. NavBarGroups can be collapsed/expanded.
The button to expand/collapse is on right side. By default it looks like double up/down arrow. I want to customize this button to change its look and feel to indicate collapsed/expanded state.
(using Devexpress in Windows Forms)

For future reference, the self-help and online support at DevExpress is exceptionally thorough, and they will answer questions like this for paid subscribers within 24 hours, usually with a code sample.
In this case there are two ways to achieve your goal (assuming you're on a relatively recent version of DevExpress) as described here.
The "right way" to do what you want is to make a custom skin with your own icons; you can use their skin editor to open your current skin, make changes, and save it. Nearly every aspect of the look & feel of their controls is skinned and you can make pretty significant changes to them.
Deploying custom skins isn't all that complex but it might be a bit overkill for the effect you're trying to achieve. The other option is to custom draw the group caption. There's a sample attached to that post that is a working example of doing so, but you basically implement the CustomDrawGroupCaption event and do your own painting, including whatever icons you want based on the group's state.

Difference between Panorama and Pivot Control

What is the difference between the winphone 7 Panorama and Pivot Controls? To me they seem very similar, apart from the slightly different visual appearance.
In which situations should one or the other be used?

There is a video on Channel 9 with Amy Alberts and Chad Roberts that talks about the differences between the Panorama and Pivot controls and when you should use each.
In my opinion, the Panorama control is for when you need to create a "hub"-type application (like the Games hub) that acts primarily as a jumping point and offers summary information for the rest of the application. The Pivot is used in much the same way that you would use a tab control on other platforms.

As said above, the Panorama control is really meant for rich Hub type look .. smooth multi-screen scrolling with Parallax effect, ideally including images in the views. The Pivot control is more for presenting slices of the related data to the user or categorizing the content .. the in-built emails & calendar are examples. Both controls are very suited for dynamic data-binding.
Jeff Blankenburg, one of the MSFT evangelists wrote two nice posts explaining their use:
http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/post/31-Days-of-Windows-Phone-7.aspx
Hope this helps!

I would use the Panorama control if the content of your application lends itself to being presented in a format where you think of the screen as being a window into a larger page...one that can loop back around to the beginning. Also, consider whether that content needs to support gestures, especially swipes, because those will cause conflicts between some action intended to take place in a control, for example a map with panning, and the "outer" Panorama control's behavior of scrolling.
I'm also reconsidering using the Pivot control. It has a more distinct division between sections of content than Panorama does and I like both the gesture swiping to switch between pivots and the animation. However, it has caused some tombstoning problems and with the advent of copy-and-paste there could be a conflict between the user trying to select content to copy and the triggering of the swipe gesture to switch pivots. Disabling the Pivot Control swipe gesture talks about a possible work-around, although I haven't tried it and see from the comments below that article that there may be some other issues.

Where to start with building a blotter

I need to build a blotter using csharp and WPF. Basically, like an excel sheet but would have the capability of customizing backgrounds of each cell or setting the value of each cell. But not sure where to start.
If anybody build blotters in csharp or WPF, a few pointers on where to get started would be great. If you can suggest some good open source blotters that I can copy and enhance, that would also be great.
I cannot use standard data grids as they lack many of the capabilities I am looking for.
I know windows forms and applications related to that which have standard controls but to create cells that are editable/customizable like excel, not sure where to start....

Take a look at the Adaptable Blotter (www.adaptableblotter.com).
It includes all the functionality that you seek and works with a number of different WPF grid controls, both vendor and open source. There is a single set of screens giving you advanced search, flashing cells, bulk editing etc but with individual implementations for each underlying grid.

You can use a UniformGrid to create the Grid. You can put Textboxes or even more advanced UserControls into the cells.

alternative to DataGridView in Win API

Somewhere on net on one Blog I read a sentence that is "DataGridView something like Boeing 777, but what is goal when I do not know how to fly.
Before I goo deep in creating my projects I wanna know is there alternative for DataGridView in C#.
Something like jQuery in WEB api.
The favors things which I am looking for is that is simple for using, if its posibile to be freeware and looks smoth and modern.
Best regards
Admir

If you want to fly one person across town you can learn to fly a Piper Cub. If you want to fly hundreds across an ocean you need to learn to fly a 777.
There are many ways of displaying data in WinForms applications; which one is best for you depends on what you're trying to do. If you want to show a fixed, non-editable, non-scrollable list of data you can use a DataList; simple and limited. If you want to add scrolling you can output the data to a scrolling textbox.
If you want to handle a scrolling grid of multiple rows with multiple, resizable, editable columns you will need to move to a DataGrid or DataGridView.
There are many alternatives to DataGridViews; simpler controls provide fewer features and more functional controls are more complex.

I have implemented the datagridview extensively as an unbound control in a windows forms project using Visual Studio 2008. Looking back, implementing this control has consumed a large amount of time, mostly because it is loaded with bugs and peculiar behavior that should have been fixed rather than just 'documented'. A good data grid control is essential to any application of substance. I would recommend looking for a third party alternative from a company that is more interested in getting it right rather than just getting something out there.

The DataGridView is perfectly easy to use without going too deep. If all you want to do is display data in a grid, create a DataGridView and turn off features like adding and editing rows. The fact that it's got all of these incredibly complex features is really only an issue when you start needing to use them - and in that case, you'll be glad you're using it.

DevExpress has a really good gridview.