Setting newsControl.ItemSettings.DateHorizontalPosition to DateHorizontalPosition.Right has no effect on the date position. This can be easily seen on the demo page here:
http://demos.devexpress.com/ASPxImageAndDataNavigationDemos/NewsControl/Features.aspx
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