Essential Studio for Universal Windows Platform Release Notes

v15.4.0.17
November 10,2107

Calculate

Features

  • #119434, #133890, #153524 - Provided support for array formula calculation like Excel.

DocIO

Features

  • #179888, #182242 - Added support to continue or restart list number while importing Word document.

Breaking Changes

  • WordDocument.Background.Type property will not return the value NoBackground, if show background in print layout view option is disabled and valid background is defined. In this case make use of new property WordDocument.Settings.DisplayBackgrounds to check whether show background in print layout view option is enabled or disabled.
  • #186150 - IsMaxCross property is set to true and secondary axis is added to the right side of the chart, while adding new secondary chart axis. You can set the IsMaxCross property to false, to add secondary axis on the left side.
  • The types Diagonl_Up, Diagonl_Down, From_Corner and From_Center of OfficeGradientStyle enumeration are now deprecated. The new types DiagonalUp, DiagonalDown, FromCorner and FromCenter are added to replace these deprecated types.
  • The property NumberSufix of WListLevel class is now deprecated. The new property NumberSuffix is added to replace this deprecated property.

Bug Fixes

  • #184513 - Formula fields are updated properly while calling UpdateDocumentFields() method.
  • #183656 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while closing a particular Word document.
  • #183819 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while setting WMergeField.FieldName property.
  • #184348 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while parsing a Word document which contains shapes.
  • #186310 - Paragraph is preserved properly while resaving a particular RTF document as DOC format document.
  • #187463 - KeyNotFoundException will no longer thrown while importing a particular Word document.
  • #184941 - Bulleted list is preserved properly while merging multiple documents.
  • #186150 - Document protection is preserved properly while resaving DOCX document to DOCX.
  • #184955 - The Word document is no longer corrupted while setting the DateTime value as chart data.
  • #188782 - ActualFormatType property will retrieve a proper value for all Word formats document.
  • #188160 - Shape is preserved properly while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #189107 - No longer hangs while parsing a particular Word document.
  • #188296, #188686 - Field results are updated properly while performing Mail merge in a particular Word document.
  • #189378 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer thrown while deleting a bookmark content from a particular Word document.
  • #183627 - Document background color is preserved properly while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #182050 - Page orientation is preserved properly while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #188048 - Tab preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as HTML.
  • #187669 - IndexOutOfRangeException will no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as HTML.
  • #176634, #179293, #184808, #189056 - Table grid’s column width is preserved properly while converting a particular HTML file to Word document.
  • #190219 - NotSupportedException will no longer thrown while opening a Word document which has an invalid OLE data path.
  • #189859 - Image will be preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as HTML.

NuGet

Features

  • Added NuGet support for SfSmithChart and SfImageEditor controls.

PDF

Bug Fixes

  • #186604 - PDF document pages are no longer rotated, while merging a particular PDF document.
  • #186765 - Unexpected token error is no longer occurs, while loading particular document.
  • #185183 - The custom metadata added to PDF document is now displayed in custom window of PDF document properties.
  • #182001 - Form fields are not duplicated when load and save the PDF document.
  • #182438 - Named destinations are preserving properly while merging the particular PDF documents.
  • #183859 - The size of the Code128Barcode is now preserved properly.
  • #185884 - Empty page is not created, when merging particular PDF document.
  • #185705, 183560 - Text is now preserving properly, when converting particular XPS document to PDF.
  • #185722 - PDF document with Adobe flash is now merging properly.
  • #185460 - Attachment collection is not empty, when loading a particular PDF document.
  • #185098 - Exception no longer occurs when merging particular PDF document.
  • #184712 - The document keywords are not duplicated when using commas along with keyword.
  • #184488 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when signing existing PDF document.
  • #183595 - ArgumentOutOfRange exception is no longer occurs when importing pages from a particular PDF document.
  • #183375 - Exception will not be thrown when converting a particular XPS Document to PDF.
  • #182417 - Annotation are now removing properly from PdfLoadedPage.
  • #188040 - Preservation issues will no longer occurs while drawing JPEG images.
  • #188375 - Exception will no longer occurs while loading the particular XFA document.
  • #187013 - PDF layers count is now retrieving properly while loading the existing PDF document.
  • #175611 – Annotation appearance will be preserved properly in Foxit and Bluebeam PDF viewers.
  • #187909 - Exception no longer occur while loading particular PDF document.
  • #189070 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while accessing cell padding property from PdfGridCellStyle.
  • #188406 - PDF document is no longer corrupted while drawing specific JPEG image into PDF.
  • Child grid cell padding preservation issue is no longer occur in PdfGrid.
  • Annotation transparency is preserving properly when set opacity value as zero.
  • PdfFormFields are now preserving properly while creating in PDF document.
  • Bookmarks are now created properly for particular document.
  • Metadata property is now updating properly when changing document information in PDF document.
  • TextMarkupColor is now preserving properly in PdfFreeTextAnnotation when loading the particular PDF document.
  • The text in the PdfGrid is now aligning properly within the provided space.
  • Signature fields are not duplicating when loading and saving the signed PDF.
  • Form fields are not empty when loading and saving the PDF document.
  • PdfPopupAnnotation is preserving properly after flattening.

Features

  • #185022 - Added the support to change the tab order of the form fields.

Predictive Analytics

Bug Fixes

  • #187834- Resolved issues with “InlineTable” property in “MapValues” transformation.
  • #187928- Resolved issues with scoring procedure of expressions in PMML transformations.
  • #190249- Resolved issues with Multinomial Logistic Regression model scoring procedure.

Presentation

Features

  • #182254 - Added support to render picture bullets while converting the PowerPoint slide to image.
  • #182254 - Added support to render the image with color transformations (Black and white - 25%, 50% and 75%) while converting the PowerPoint slide to image.
  • #178015 - Added support to render the image with gray scale while converting the PowerPoint slide to image.

Breaking Changes

  • IsMaxCross property is set to true and secondary axis is added to the right side of the chart, while adding new secondary chart axis. You can set the IsMaxCross property to false, to add secondary axis on the left side.
  • The types Diagonl_Up, Diagonl_Down, From_Corner and From_Center of OfficeGradientStyle enumeration are now deprecated. The new types DiagonalUp, DiagonalDown, FromCorner and FromCenter are added to replace these deprecated types.

Bug Fixes

  • #187206 - Data labels in the bubble chart is now added as expected while creating a chart in PowerPoint presentation.
  • #186544- Null reference exception is no longer thrown while creating a PowerPoint slide with SmartArt diagram.
  • #184264 - The PowerPoint presentation is no longer corrupted while setting the DateTime value as chart data.
  • #186100 - Guides are now preserved properly while creating a PowerPoint slide from an existing layout slide.
  • #186105 - Shape properties are now preserved properly while creating a PowerPoint slide from an existing layout slide.
  • #185046 - System argument exception is no longer thrown while converting slide to image.
  • #184967 - Argument out of range exception will not be thrown while cloning a PowerPoint slide with pie chart.
  • #182963 - FontSize property of Font class will now return the correct value.
  • #185046 - ArgumentException will not be thrown while converting the PowerPoint slide to image.
  • #185237 - The shape name will be preserved like Microsoft PowerPoint, while creating new slide from an existing layout slide.
  • #185236 - The shapes in the footer will be preserved properly while creating new slide from an existing layout slide.
  • #188996 - Null reference exception will be no longer thrown while changing the slide background from SolidFill to PictureFill.
  • #188405 - Object disposed exception will be no longer thrown while saving the cloned PowerPoint presentations.
  • #188525 - Percentage symbols in the chart primary axis are now preserved properly while creating chart in PowerPoint slides.
  • #188081 - Now charts can be created using data from any worksheet of excel file in PowerPoint slides.
  • #188977 - Font color is now preserved properly in PowerPoint slides while retrieving it from the master slide.
  • #187656 - The font name and size are now preserved properly in PowerPoint slides while retrieving those from the master slide.

SfCellGrid

Bug Fixes

  • #180504 - Null Reference exception no longer thrown when compare the border brush with null value.

SfChart

Bug Fixes

  • #184969 – SideBySide(ColumnSeries, BarSeries, StackingColumnSeries, etc.,) series will be rendered properly while having one data with non-SBS series.

  • #186061 – EnableClipping property will work properly for TextAnnotation.

  • #186076 – GridLines will be rendered properly, while changing its visibility dynamically.

  • #185138 – SideBySide series will be rendered properly when binding LineSeries X-Axis to SBS Series X-Axis.

  • #132272 – Adornment labels will be updated properly when changing itemsSource dynamically for RangeSeries.

  • #149882, #156728 – SfChart, Zooming and panning performance was improved in UWP mobile.

  • #188800 - ChartToolTip will be updated properly while hovering on last data point in LineSeries.

  • #189818 - NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown, when clearing Sparkline data source.

  • #189351 - Trendlines will be rendered properly for non-indexed data.

  • #189680 - TypeInitializationException will no longer be thrown, when initializing ChartSeries without adding in chart.

Features

SfCircularGauge

Breaking Changes

  • Labels, ticks, range, and range pointer were dependent of on Scale. i.e. if the scale’s RadiusFactor is reduced, other elements will be moved with relative to the Scale. Now, this issue has been fixed.

  • LengthFactor value as 1 for NeedlePointer was not working dynamically and default value was rendering. Now, this issue has been fixed.

  • Default space in prefix and postfix labels has been removed.

SfComboBox

Bug Fixes

  • #189790 - Now SelectedItem updated properly while select an item using mouse.

SfDataGrid

Features

  • #187048 - Provided support to load different ItemsSource for each row in GridComboBoxColumn through ItemsSourceSelector property
  • #185826 - Provided support for read-only mode in editing through IsReadOnly property where user can enter edit mode and can’t input text.
  • #175085 - Provided support for AutoGenerateColumnsMode.SmartReset in DetailsViewDataGrid to retain valid columns and it’s the data operations settings when changing ItemsSource.
  • #131467 - Provided built-in support to drag and drop the rows.

Bug fixes

  • #189231 - Deadlock Exception will no longer thrown while adding new row using AddNewRow with multiple view.

SfDiagram

Bug Fixes

  • #189578 – Symbol/Shape will be completely visible in Stencil.

Features

  • Provided HitPadding support to customize the hit area of the Node and Group.
  • Provided Delete constraint for Node, Group and Connector to decide whether it is removable.
  • Provided Dynamic constraint for Port to establish connection at a relative point on Node’s boundary.
  • Provided support to create parallel connection using DockPort.
  • Provided option to find the overlapping objects using GetOverlappingObjects method.
  • Provided option to find nearest obstacle-free location using GetCollisionFreeLocation method.
  • Provided option to add a port while establishing connection with node or connector at runtime.
  • Provided support to customize the appearance and alignment of the QuickCommands.
  • Provided option to reduce the number of pages by customizing origin of the Page.
  • Provided interaction events for Port and Annotation.
  • Provided support to print the diagram along with PageBackground

Breaking Changes

  • We have added Commands property in ISelector.
  • We have added Info property in IPageSettings.
  • We have added HitPadding property in INode.
  • We have modified the ControlTemplate of the Selector to provide QuickCommands support.
  • We have added PreviewSettings property in IGraph.
  • We have deprecated DragOverNode , DragOverConnector, DragOverNodePort and DragOverConnectorPort properties from RunTimeConnectionIndicator class.

SfDockingManager

Feature

  • #F130588 - Provided support to customize the Tabbed Window Background and Foreground in SfDockingManager.

SfGantt

Features

  • #182180 - IsHeader property has been added in TaskDetail to determine whether this task is a parent task.

SfKanban

Bug Fixes

  • #189404 - CardTapped event will no longer be raised while scrolling the content of the KanbanColumn.

  • #185264 – Catastrophic failure will no longer occur, when an element is dragged over the Kanban control.

SfMaps

Bug Fixes

  • # 186631 – Maps will not crop at the bottom and render properly even while adding Map headers.

SfMenu

Bug fixes

  • #190684 - SfMenu will no longer crash while navigate to sub items by keyboard navigation keys.

SfPdfViewerControl

Bug Fixes

  • #185367 - Setting AllowHyperlinkNavigation property to false will work as expected.
  • #184234 - Application will no longer crash when the window is resized.
  • #184604 - Application will no longer crash when PDF documents are loaded and unloaded repeatedly.
  • #186627 - Text elements will now be selected properly using SfPdfViewer.
  • #184604 - NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while navigating between the XAML pages.
  • #185288 - PDF document will be displayed in SfPdfViewer, even if ViewMode is set to FitWidth and IsThumbnailView is set to False.
  • #184078 – Annotations will never be duplicated when changing the parent of PDF viewer.
  • #187106 – No more memory leak occurs in PDF viewer after unloading the PDF document
  • #187335 – Argument exception will no longer been thrown while clicking the links in the attached PDF document.

SfPivotChart

Bug fixes

  • #189243 - SfPivotShared package can be created or generated in release mode.

SfPivotClient Preview

The SfPivotClient control supports browsing multidimensional data that is organized in the form of dimensions, measures, named sets, and KPIs in a cube format. You can visualize the results in graphical (PivotChart) and tabular (PivotGrid) formats. The control can also be used to create and edit reports on the fly that are stored for later use.

Bug fixes

  • #189243 - SfPivotShared package can be created or generated in release mode.

Features

  • Layout for mobile view has been provided.
  • Implemented label and value filtering along with sorting like in Microsoft Excel.

SfPivotGrid

Bug fixes

  • #189243 - SfPivotShared package can be created or generated in release mode.

Features

  • #164163 - Implemented label and value filtering along with sorting like in Microsoft Excel.
  • Top summary layout is now supported in PivotGrid.
  • Provision to disable grouping bar header areas has been done.
  • Provided support to maintain expanded and collapsed fields (State Persistence) in PivotGrid.
  • Provision to change the properties of calculation item dynamically has been done.
  • Provided an option to show the calculation fields in row headers.

SfReportViewer

Features

  • #187493 - Provided option to export report as CSV document in Report Viewer.

Bug Fixes

  • #184964 - Now, paper orientation applied properly for report.

  • #189709 - Resolved zooming issue while printing the report in UWP report viewer.

SfRichTextBoxAdv

Features

  • #131913, #175243, #186034 - Added support to view and modify the Right-to-Left contents such as text, table, paragraph and list.
  • #137783, #149291 - Added support for drag and drop contents within the control.
  • #187534 - Added EnableCopyIcon property in SfRichTextBoxAdv class to enable or disable built-in copy icon.
  • Added StorageFile or file uri string parameter types support for InsertPicture method in SelectionAdv class to insert the picture at cursor position in addition to Stream or byte[] parameter types.

Bug Fixes

  • #184764 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will be no longer thrown when typing text in Mobile device.
  • #185160 - COMException will be no longer thrown when custom template is used for SfRichTextBoxAdv control.
  • #188103 - StackOverflowException will be no longer thrown when inserting large size image in nested table.
  • #188105 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will be no longer thrown when editing text in document containing more than one paragraphs within field code.
  • #188194 - Style values specified within single quotes are now preserved properly while opening HTML.
  • #188522 - Borders values are now properly exported in HTML with all cultures.
  • #188522 - Text inside table is now displayed properly after modifying table properties.
  • HTML tags font, strike and attributes font-size, line-height, padding are now preserved properly while loading HTML.

SfSchedule

Bug Fixes

  • #189815- Now, radial menu expanding properly while tapping the Schedule appointment.
  • #187655- Now, selection text color of appointment works properly.

Improvements

  • Added Appointments property in CellTappedEventArgs to get appointment collection in the touch events.

SfSmithChart Preview

A new Smith chart control has been added that is useful for visualize high frequency circuit data.

Key Features

  • Visualization of the impedance and admittance of a transmission line.
  • Representation of data with line series and various types of markers.
  • Data label support for better readability.
  • Interactive tooltip support.
  • Interactive legend.
  • Customizable colors.

SfTabControl

Bug fixes

  • #188562 – Visibility of Scroll Buttons in Tab Panel now updated properly based on TabScrollButtonVisibility of SfTabControl.

SfTreeGrid

Features

  • #180714 – Provided support for freeze columns (non-scrolling columns) on the right, like in Excel using FooterColumnCount property.
  • Provided support for stacked header rows, which are unbound header rows that can span multiple rows and columns to group one or more header cells.

SfTreeNavigator

Bug fixes

  • #189037 - Items will be loaded properly, when ItemSource is updated dynamically.
  • #189177 - HierarchicalDataTemplate will work properly, when loaded from the XamlReader.

SfSpreadsheet

Features

  • #119434, #133890, #153524 - Provided support for array formula calculation like Excel.

VS-Extensions

Features

  • Added Syncfusion Troubleshooter support for Syncfusion UWP applications.

XlsIO

Features

  • #156296, #F125729, #185873, #F57065 - Different odd and even page headers/footers, different first page headers/footers for worksheet and chart sheets are now supported in XlsIO.

Breaking Changes

  • #185530, #185561 - Exposed an API Name to get OLE object name in IOleObject class.
  • The properties EvenPage and FirstPage of type IPage are added in IPageSetup class.
  • The properties LeftHeader, CenterHeader, RightHeader , LeftHeaderImage, CenterHeaderImage, RightHeaderImage are added in IPage class to set text and images in the Even and First page headers/footers.

Bug fixes

  • #182915 - Issue with borders being cleared while merging cells is fixed.
  • #183016 - Issue with cell text casing while setting number format is fixed.
  • #183332 - Issue with conditional format is not preserved which has formula as another worksheet range, is fixed.
  • #183361 - Marker color gets changed on resave is fixed.
  • #183369 - Exception is no longer thrown on assigning the scatter chart category axis properties.
  • #183445 - Exception is no longer thrown while inserting rows in XLS format file.
  • #183738 - Performance issue while opening Excel file with multiple charts is fixed.
  • #183799 - Issue while setting print title rows for binary files is fixed.
  • #183807 - CopyTo() method is not working properly after applying AutoFilters is fixed.
  • #184328 - Exception is no longer thrown while applying data validation through ListOfValues property.
  • #184407 - Index out of range exception is thrown while setting RTF text is resolved.
  • #184407 - Key not found exception is thrown while setting RTF text is resolved.
  • #184540 - Binary Excel file gets corrupted while copying range with conditional formats is fixed.
  • #184569 - Cell value with comma character is changed while saving in CSV format is fixed.
  • #184894 - Exception is no longer thrown while adding IconSet multiple times.
  • #185139 - Argument exception is no longer thrown while copying worksheet with EMF images.
  • #185527 - Application hanging issue while opening the Excel file with table is resolved.
  • #184160 - Issue with incorrect margin values on resave is fixed.
  • #183807, #187025 - CopyTo() method is working properly when AutoFilters are applied.
  • #187751 - External exception is no longer thrown while performing text AutoFit in a cell.
  • #186234 - Custom RGB tab color is no longer changed while resaving the Excel file in XlsIO.
  • #187234 - Issue with improper row height is resolved for the given Excel document.
  • #184407 - Exception is no longer thrown while setting RTF text.
  • #185577, #186951 - Rich-text is now properly set for complex RTF string.
  • #186451 - Date filter is now working proper in pivot table.
  • #186446 - UnKnownName exception is no longer thrown while opening CSV files.
  • #185221 - Exception is no longer thrown while opening Excel file with external workbook range in data validation formula.
  • #187026 - Exception is no longer thrown while resaving XLS file with table.
  • #187723 - Overflow exception is no longer thrown while accessing DisplayText for large numbers.
  • #185270 - Key not found exception is no longer thrown while copying range to another workbook multiple times.
  • #187025 - Text filter is now proper in XLSX document.
  • #187181, #187315 - Exception is no longer thrown while invoking IRange.BorderNone.
  • #185921 - File encoding is now correct while parsing zip file with Latin characters.
  • #186738, #187783 - DisplayText returns number value for cell reference formula in Portugal culture.
  • #188856 - Issue with incorrect formula values when formulas contain unknown prefix is fixed.
  • #189191 - InvalidOperationException is thrown while saving Excel document with comments is fixed.
  • #189077 - Issue with InvertIfNegative in chart series data points is fixed.
  • #188263 - Issue with AutoFilterRange when AutoFilter collection is empty, is fixed.
  • #188856 - ReferToRange property now returns proper value for discontinued range.
  • #188787 - File is no longer corrupted while resaving Excel document with XML maps.
  • #188854, #190448 - Application hanging issue while opening Excel document with table AutoFilters is fixed.
  • #188687 - Exception is no longer thrown while adding worksheets after deleting named ranges.
  • #188620, #189263, #190029, #190818, #190866 - Formulas with external workbook reference gives incorrect formula string value is fixed.
  • #155547 - XlsIO memory consumption in row storage class has been reduced.
  • Sorting (descending order) is not working properly when filtering a column is fixed.
  • Issue with copy and paste of formatted cells is fixed.
  • Issue with IsBestFit property while accessing the SetColumnWithPixels method is fixed.
  • Stack overflow exception is no longer thrown while accessing RefersToRange property.
  • Argument exception is no longer thrown while copying one range to another range with styles.
  • Argument exception is no longer thrown when sorting filtered numbers in descending order.
  • The old and new cell values are validated on copy/paste through ValueChanged event.
  • AutoFit is now proper when text in the input file contains line feed and wrap text is set to false.
  • Performance issue in filtering when sheet has comments is fixed.
  • Exception is no longer thrown when coping the defined names between different workbooks.
  • Exception is no longer throw when cloning shape during AddCopy() method.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while accessing table range using formula token.
  • Calculated column formula is not updated during AddCopy() is fixed.
  • Null reference exception is no longer thrown while serializing conditional formats during AddCopy().
  • Issue with ColorRGB in Borders is fixed.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while parsing category labels with external range.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while updating sheet names in Worksheet.AddCopy().
  • Exception is no longer thrown while opening file with PieChart.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while copying conditional formats to another workbook.
  • The old and new cell values are validated on copy and paste operation through ValueChanged event.
  • Format exception due to pivot table data type is fixed.
  • XlsIO returns correct date for the number formats in German culture.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while opening an Excel document with stacked marker chart.
  • CellStyle.Font.RGBColor of a range now returns proper value.
  • DisplayText issue for number formats with ‘GMT’ is fixed.
  • Clearing contents in a merged cell doesn’t remove cell formatting.
  • Issue with incorrect display text for FormulaArrays is fixed.
  • ArgumentOutOfRangeException is no longer thrown while resaving Excel documents with duplicate cell style name.
  • Issue with hidden rows not being copied while using CopyTo() is fixed.
  • Formulas with improper sheet references are now proper on resave.
  • Image rotation will be preserved properly in Excel documents.
  • Issue with incorrect DisplayText value when a cell contains particular IF formula is fixed.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while opening a file with chart sheet.
  • Issue with calculated column formula on resave is fixed.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while cloning a workbook containing table formula using AddCopy().