DevExpress.AIIntegration.WinForms.Chat

DevExpress.AIIntegration.WinForms.Chat NuGet Package

Contains classes for the DevExpress WinForms AI Chat Control. The control embeds an interactive, Copilot-inspired chat UI in your WinForms application.

Key Features

• Copilot-Inspired Chat UI for DevExpress WinForms: Embeds an interactive assistant interface that supports modern conversational workflows.

• Real-Time Streaming Responses: Display tokens as they are generated for a smoother chat experience.

• Markdown-Aware Output Pipeline: Renders responses as Markdown, provides a conversion hook, and supports HTML sanitization.

• File Attachments with Policy Controls: Allows users to attach documents and images and configure MIME type filters, allowed file extensions, and limits on file count and size.

• Prompt Suggestions and Empty-State Guidance: Provides clickable starter prompts and customizable placeholder and empty-state text.

• Advanced UI Customization: Allows you to customize message containers and content, prompt suggestions, empty-area templates, the header and title, clear-chat behavior, and input resizing.

• Message Lifecycle Extensibility: Allows you to intercept outgoing messages in MessageSending to add system prompts, validate input, redact sensitive content, or cancel delivery.

• Conversation and Context Management: Supports stateless and stateful AI services, saving and loading chat history, attaching external resources, chatting with application data, and switching between multiple chat client services.

Documentation

DevExpress WinForms AI Chat Control

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This package is included in the following commercial subscriptions:

• DevExpress WinForms Subscription

• DevExpress DXperience Subscription

• DevExpress Universal Subscription

• DevExpress .NET Reporting Subscription

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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

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