Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes
BackStageView
Bug fixes
- #146750 - Backstage back button image will be updated properly in disabled state.
- #146330 - Custom controls will be loaded properly in Backstage.
BarcodeControl
Features
- Support for customizing the barcode size is now added based on the actual size of the control.
Breaking Changes
- Barcode rendering area/size now inherits the actual size of the control itself.
Calculate
Bug fixes
-
#144288, #147194 - IF function returns wrong calculated value is fixed.
-
#144942 - Calculated value is incorrect in UK culture is fixed.
-
#144965 - Braces are trimmed on the calculated value is fixed.
-
#145382 - Date functions return wrong value is fixed.
-
#146011 - SUMIF function doesn’t return proper value like Excel is fixed.
-
#146469 - Issue in calculating tomorrow date using the DATEVALUE formula is fixed.
Chart
Bug Fixes
- #146465 - Fancy tooltip is now disappearing, after switching to other window application.
- #146332 - ForeColor of axis label will now work for polar and radar series.
- #149191 - Axis range is now updating properly, when zooming out of chart area using rubber band selection.
ComboBoxAutoComplete
Bug fixes
- #143435 - SetSelectedItem method will select the appropriate match based on input string.
GridDataBoundGrid
Bug fixes
- #147611 - Current cell focus is now moved to next cell after editing completed when using
ENTER
key. - #147949 - Data entry loss in keystroke will no longer happen when ActivateCurrentCellBehavior is set to
SelectAll
.
DateTimePickerAdv
Features
- #77604 - Provided option to select todays date.
Bug fixes
- #146537, #147295 - Designer crash will not occurs when DateTimePickerAdv is loaded in Windows 10 OS.
Diagram
Features
- #145984 - Bridging support for connector ports has been implemented.
- #145888 - Support to zoom the diagram programmatically is added.
Bug fixes
- #147342 - Copy/pasted node is now getting updated properly while performing Undo/Redo operation.
- #147342 - Undo/Redo operation is now working properly while copy/paste the node after control point is moved.
- #148430 - Flickering issue with connector has been fixed now.
- #147342 - Line bridging performance has been improved now.
- #147342 - While setting the
EnableSelectionListSubstitute
is false the offset is getting multiplied by n if we move n nodes is fixed.
DocIO
Features
- #121151 - Support to access and modify begin and end arrow head style for a line shape has been added.
Bug Fixes
- #144170, #148351 - Out of memory exception is no longer thrown while converting Word document to PDF.
- #143542 - Content preservation issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #143555 - Cell border preservation issue in header row while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #144762 - Culture not supported exception is no longer thrown while opening the particular Word document.
- #143753 - Wrong image extension issue while converting Word DOC format document to DOCX document has been fixed.
- #144991 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while cloning table rows.
- #143820 - Text box preservation issue while importing document contents has been fixed.
- #141530 - Date format preservation issue while resaving the Word document has been fixed.
- #145324 - Table border preservation issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #145258 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while closing the document.
- #144371 - Argument out of range exception is no longer thrown while merging two documents.
- #144511 - Incorrect page number issue while updating Table of contents has been fixed.
- #144137 - Footnote preservation issue while separating each as section as new document has been fixed.
- #145619 - Content preservation issue while deleting bookmark content has been fixed.
- #144442 - Parameter not valid exception is no longer thrown while converting Word document containing shape to PDF.
- #145088 - Image preservation issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #144498 - Paragraph border preservation issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #146059 - File corruption issue while opening DocIO generated document in Word 2007 has been fixed.
- #145250 - Text box preservation issue while importing document contents twice has been fixed.
- #145150, #145586, #145886, #146121, #147132, #147967 - Argument out of Range exception is no longer thrown while replacing text in the document.
- #145475 - File corruption issue while resaving the Word document containing shape has been fixed.
- #146608 - String was not recognized as a valid Boolean exception is no longer thrown while opening the particular DOCX document.
- #146207 - Page number missing issue while updating Table of contents has been fixed.
- #145274 - Table preservation issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #146185 - Bullet character preservation issue while cloning the contents to another document has been fixed.
- #144420 - Table left indent preservation issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #146416 - Performance has been improved while saving the document containing tables.
- #146571 - Paragraph before space preservation issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #144057 - Process is no longer terminated partially while converting Word document to PDF.
- #148124 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while converting Word document to PDF.
- #144057 - Incorrect page number preservation issue while updating Table of contents has been fixed.
- #147628 - Updating Table of contents in the Word document no longer hangs.
- #148166 - Text position issue based on text wrapping while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #147760 - Image position preservation issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #147628 - Stack overflow exception is no longer thrown while opening the Word document.
- #148656 - Table border preservation issue while converting HTML to Word document has been fixed.
- #146067 - File corruption issue while resaving the Word document containing more than 63 cells in a table row has been fixed.
- #148214 - Table cell border preservation issue while converting Word document to HTML has been fixed.
- #148194 - Argument exception is no longer thrown on saving the document containing invalid surrogate characters.
- #148571 - Argument exception is no longer thrown while saving the Word document.
- #148773 - Content preservation issue while converting HTML to PDF has been fixed.
- #147628 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while opening the Word document.
- #147628 - Index out of range exception is no longer thrown while updating field.
- #148131 - Text position issue based on text wrapping while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #148200 - Text visibility issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
- #147628 - Updating field in the Word document no longer hangs.
- #147910 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while Mail merging.
- #144572 - Image and table position preservation issue in footer while resaving the DOCX document has been fixed.
- #147836 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while resaving the Word document containing chart.
- #145088 - Converting the document containing chart to PDF no longer hangs.
DockingManager
Features
- #32473, #68270, #37867, #50882 - Provided option to customize floating Form caption.
EditControl
Features
- #143418 - Provided Syntax highlighting support for PowerShell language.
- #142326 - Provided Microsoft Visual Studio like Block selection.
- #F75671 - Provided option to customize the Context Choice Item font.
Bug fixes
- #146037 - Application will not crash when loading invalid XML file.
- #144999 - BOM characters will not be appended when loading UTF-8 characters.
- #145348 - Null exception no longer throws on CloseContextPrompt method.
- #142309 - UTF-8 characters will be loaded properly.
GridControl
Bug fixes
- #145821, #146274, #147605 -
AutoComplete
behavior of ComboBoxChoiceList
is now working properly. - #146308 -
GridControl
toPDF
converter no longer exports blanks when using certain cell types. - #146392 - Current cell is now positioning properly for the disabled cell on selecting the header.
- #146524 - Specific pages printing can be done in GridPrintDocumentAdv.
- #147188 - Header cell
BackgroundImage
is visible while ThemesEnabled set to true. - #147824, #148940 - Columns are now printing properly without truncating the cell text.
- #147932 - Formula cell range adjustment is now properly exported.
- Support added for accessing the merge cells and covered cells as a single cell in Coded UI.
GridGroupingControl
Features
- #111470 - Support provided for numbering the row headers of
GridGroupingControl
.
Bug fixes
- #143491 - The
Remove icon
is now placed properly in theGridGroupDropArea
cells while enablingRightToLeft
mode. - #129611 - FormulaTag can be now deserialized even it is null.
- #144402 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown, while exporting the large data to excel.
- #145304 - Font styles are now exporting properly to the excel.
- #146970 - Issues in Find and Replace dialog box has been resolved.
- #147832 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while filtering the empty row values.
GroupBar
Bug fixes
- #144291 - System.TypeInitializationException will not occurs when using Satellite assembly for localization.
GroupView
Features
- #64081 - Provided Double click event to handle the custom requirement.
HTMLUIControl
Bug fixes
- #147697 - Microsoft.VSA file not loaded exception will not occur in HTMLUIControl.
ImageStreamer
Bug fixes
- #143933 - ShowNavigator property will work properly with ImageStreamer.
LinearGauge
Features
- #144615 - Provided Custom Renderer option to customize the linear gauge.
Bug fixes
- #144615 - Needle placement will be positioned properly in linear gauge.
Maps
Features
- #144485 - Provided support to get map co-ordinates based on points.
MessageBoxAdv
Bug fixes
- #143318 - Now MessageBoxAdv buttons ForeColor will work properly.
MultiColumnTreeView
Features
- #80231 - Provided option to display BackGroundImage in column header.
MultiSelectionComboBox
Features
- #145066 - Provided option to select and unselect all items.
Bug fixes
- #145327 - Dropdown button location will be updated properly when size is changed.
- #144232 - Text will not be cleared in lost focus.
- #143797, #144773 - Proper object value will be returned in ~SelectedItem.
- #143618 - VisualItem will be not overlapped in scrolling state.
NumericUpDownExt
Bug fixes
- #145612 - Border will be updated properly in Office2007/Office2010 theme.
Features
- Support for adding
PdfHtmlTextElement
inPdfGridCell
has been added. - Support for adding
PdfTextElement
inPdfGridCell
has been added. - Support for Circle, Ellipse, Polyline, Polygon, Rectangle, Square annotation has been added.
- Support for
BeginCellLayout
andEndCellLayout
event in PdfGrid has been added. - Support for adding hyperlinks in
PdfGridCell
has been added. -
PdfGrid
cells can now have unique cell paddings instead of uniform paddings for the entire table.
Bug fixes
- #142878 - Document is no more corrupted while changing permissions for PDF.
- Null reference exception is not thrown anymore while importing pages of loaded document.
- Textbox border color is correct now when loading the existing PDF form.
- #143205 - Images are now replaced properly in the existing document.
- #143767 - Images are preserved properly now in word to PDF conversion.
- #143809 - No more black borders are shown in form fields for the border width of zero.
- #143869 - No more PDF syntax error occurs after carrying out OCR.
- #143875 - PDF lexer exception is not thrown anymore when loading the particular PDF document.
- #144199 - Texts are displayed properly now when converting XPS to PDF.
- #144523 - OCR text is not visible and searchable now when applying OCR to the particular PDF document.
- #144761 - PDF generation does not hang anymore when running in multithreading.
- #145021 - Index out of range exception is not thrown anymore when generate QR code for particular URL text.
- #146038 - No more white border appear when applying the transparency to the form field border color.
- #146102 - Contents are preserved properly now for the rotated PDF document.
- #145340 - Background color is now applied properly when merging the rows in PDF grid.
- #145474 - Texts are not overlapped while converting XPS to PDF.
- #145539 - Collection was modified exception is not thrown anymore while saving the document.
- #146359 - Exception is not thrown anymore when accessing the conformance level of PDF document.
- #146394 - Transparency is preserved properly in PDF document when convert XPS to PDF.
- #146454 - Signature panel is now visible when signing an existing PDF document.
- #146456 - Out of memory exception is not thrown when applying OCR to the particular document.
- #147063 - Index out of bounds exception is not thrown anymore when merging the particular PDF documents.
- #147181 - Exceptions is not thrown anymore while extracting the text from PDF Document.
- #147856 - Texts are aligned properly now when running the project without debugger mode.
- #147956 - Positions are correct now when drawing an image with particular PDF document.
- #147997 - Not enough space exception is not thrown anymore when drawing a
PdfLightTable
. - #148112 - No more memory leak occurs when performing OCR in large PDF document.
- #148235 - No more text will be visible when performing OCR in the PDF document.
- #148326 - Exception is not thrown anymore when drawing
PdfLightTable
. - #148861 - Exception is not thrown anymore when drawing multiple
PdfLightTable
sequentially in PDF document.
PdfViewerControl
Features
- #145129 - Added support to export pages of the PDF document as image by setting DPI.
- #146451 - Added support for rendering Open Type Fonts.
Bug Fixes
- #143579 - Text is rendered as expected without any collision.
- #144150 - Watermark texts are displayed as expected.
- #144915 - Texts are displayed as expected in
PdfViewerControl
. - #144225 - PDF document contents are rendered as expected in
PdfViewerControl
. - #147731 - Contents are now copied as expected while selecting and copying text in
PdfViewerControl
. - #143663 - Setting
BackColor
property forPdfViewerControl
is working as expected. - #146976 - Portrait PDF documents are printed as expected using
PdfViewerControl
.
PivotGridControl
Bug fixes
- #146079 - Null Reference exception no longer thrown while adding same color more than once.
Predictive Analytics
Feature
* Added support to apply built-in and define functions under Transformation dictionary.
* Added support for PMML files generated by IBM SPSS for the following models:
- C-R Tree
- QUEST
- CHAID
- Linear Regression
- Neural Net
- C5.0
- Logistic Regression
- Apriori
- Genlin
- SVM
- K-Means
- Kohonen
- GLMM
- Decision List
- Cox
- Sequence
- Carma
Presentation
Features
- #138896, #138971 - Added support to create and modify the SmartArt diagrams.
Breaking Changes
- The types “L_Shape” and “LShape” of AutoShapeType enum will be no longer available. The new type “Corner” was added to replace these types.
Bug Fixes
- #148305 - IsHorizontalMerge is now enabled on setting the ColumnSpan property.
- #147721 - Table rows are now preserved as in input file during presentation to PDF conversion.
- #148508 - The chart is now preserved properly while resaving a PowerPoint presentation.
- #147836 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while resaving a PowerPoint presentation having charts.
- #146862 - Font is now preserved in the table cell having empty text.
- #145664 - The issue with chart type is always “Column_Clustered” if the series has been cleared is now resolved.
- #145854 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while accessing an empty cell in the embedded excel of chart.
- #145625 - Chart data is now cleared properly using ChartData.Clear() method.
- #146464 - Object disposed exception is now handled while saving presentation as stream.
- #145088 - Converting the presentation containing chart to PDF no longer hangs.
ProgressBarAdv
Features
- #146624 - Implemented Custom Renderer option to customize its appearance.
RadialGauge
Features
- #138408 - Provided option to customize Gauge start and end Arc position.
- #138548 - Provided Custom Renderer option to customize the appearance.
- #144432 - Provided option for User Interaction.
RibbonControlAdv
Features
- #143851 - Provided option to enable/disable the controls loaded in QAT customization.
Bug fixes
- #145917 - ToolStripTabItem will be aligned properly in CustomizeRibbon.
- #144268 - Now spacing will be maintained properly between Menu button and ToolStripTabItem.
- #143929 - Text and image alignment will be maintained properly in 125 DPI scaling.
- #143961, #148136 - Ribbon Panel height will be maintained properly when Font is updated.
- #143572 - QAT Dropdown text will be displayed properly in Windows 7 classic theme.
Breaking changes
- #143968, #144268, #149004 Implemented option to customize MenuButton Back Color.
RibbonForm
Bug fixes
- #147475 - Border will be drawn properly when ~EnableAeroTheme property is updated.
SpellChecker
Bug fixes
- #147039 - Filtering will be applied properly in SpellChecker Dialog.
TextBoxExt
Bug fixes
- #147685 - TextBoxExt size will be updated properly when ~EnableTouchMode is enabled.
TreeMap
Bug fixes
- #144644 -
SelectionChanged
event is fired multiple times issue has been fixed.
TreeViewAdv
Features
- #78901 - Provided option to drag and drop TreeNodeAdv with its images.
- #94733 - Provided option to drag and drop TreeNodeAdv along with Custom Control.
Bug fixes
- #146107 - Now proper result will be returned in Action argument of AfterInterActiveChecks event.
XlsIO
Features
- Trend lines support in chart to image conversion is provided.
- Number format support of chart elements is provided in chart to image conversion.
Bug fixes
- #137871 - Text alignment differs while exporting to PDF is resolved.
- #139737 - Data validations in extension list are no longer lost while re-saving.
- #139986 - Looping issue while parsing an empty element in Excel to PDF conversion is resolved.
- #140408 - Calibri Unicode characters issue in PDF conversion is fixed.
- #140408 - Alignment issue while converting Calibri Unicode characters to PDF is resolved.
- #140485 - Cell background color missing due to improper style reference is resolved.
- #140547 - Argument out of range exception is no more thrown when converting an Excel file in Italian culture to PDF.
- #140873 - File no longer gets corrupted due to repeated data validations during
CopyTo()
. - #140888 - Issues with cell formatting are fixed.
- #141140, #F119555 - Null reference exception thrown due to improper date format is fixed in PDF conversion.
- #141188 - Shapes overlapping issue in merged ranges is resolved.
- #141200 - RTF issue with line breaks is resolved.
- #141287, #143511 - Parse exception is no more thrown with formulas in Excel file.
- #141357 - Format exception is no more thrown when converting an Excel file to PDF.
- #141360 - Date format loss in display text having formulas, is resolved.
- #141373 - Application exception is no longer thrown while opening a file.
- #141529 - Time formatting issues are resolved.
- #141783, #142874, #144317 - Data validations with extension lists are no more missed while re-saving.
- #141835, #142140 - Out of memory exception is no longer thrown during
AutoFitColumns
. - #141904 - Chart data range is updated properly while inserting a new range.
- #142117, #144113 - Custom DateTime formatting issues are resolved.
- #142165 - Performance issue while accessing row height is resolved.
- #142285 - Number format with escape sequences issue is fixed.
- #142507 - Issue with display text dropping last character “0” (zero) is resolved.
- #142530 - Exception is no more thrown while protecting an unprotected sheet in binary file.
- #142538 - Merged cells text alignment issue in PDF conversion is fixed.
- #142611 - Row height is now properly updated in copied worksheets.
- #142740, #143592 - Argument exception is no more thrown while parsing workbook with shapes.
- #142755 - Parse exception is no more thrown while accessing conditional formats.
- #142811 - Incorrect borders on merged cells in PDF conversion is resolved.
- #142816 - Print area is null while changing the workbook version is resolved.
- #142969 - Support is provided to parse and serialize the chart caches.
- #143074 - Row height issue for rotated text in merged cell is resolved.
- #143378 - Calculated value of named range now returns proper value.
- #143421 - Chart is now properly converted while passing file stream in ExcelToPDFConverter.
- #143460 - Access violation exception is no more thrown while closing the workbook.
- #143661 - Chart position is now retained properly in PDF conversion.
- #143769 - Null reference exception while setting footer image is no more thrown while converting Excel to PDF.
- #143769 - Scale with document option is now working properly in PDF conversion.
- #144471 - The outline wrapper range is now properly updated while modifying the rows within the group.
- #147078 - Number format is now preserved properly while exporting from Grid to Excel.
- #143604 - Issue with
Worksheet.Replace
method setting cell content to lower-case is fixed. - #145491 - XlsIO throws exception when the time value is zero is fixed.
- #143744 - Custom number format characters change to lower-case is fixed.
- #145792 - Null reference exception is no more thrown while parsing charts with category labels of empty strings.
- #143212 - Column auto-fit sets proper width when workbook font is specified.
- #144486 - X Error bars on chart cannot be assigned and throws exception is resolved.
- #144891 - RTF support is implemented for chart elements in binary file.
- #145969 - Exception is no more thrown while parsing formula tokens.
- #146015 - Argument exception while parsing the CF record of
IconSet
is resolved. - #146483 - Argument exception is thrown while setting number format containing EUR with # is resolved.
- #147084 - Access violation exception on converting sheet to HTML is resolved.
- #145835 - Page field for pivot table is now serialized properly.
- #143187 - Issue with display text returns zero at number format applied cell where Excel returns nothing, is fixed.
- #145889 - XlsIO workbook names collection is made case insensitive similar to Excel.
- #146739 - Performance issue in workbook to HTML conversion is resolved.
- #146741 - Issue with picture’s Column offset/Row offset when the column/row is hidden is fixed.
- #146722 - File is no longer corrupted while re-saving Excel file with encoded values.
- #147337, #147464 - Reference to CSS file is removed while converting worksheet to HTML.
- #147604 - Issue with RTF styles being overwritten while applying the style non-sequentially is fixed.
- #147523 - Font styles on chart elements change while re-saving the file, is fixed.
- #147613 - Issue with
isReplace
parameter in Subtotal is fixed. - #147344 - Exception thrown while converting workbook to HTML is resolved.
- #147645, #147732 - Looping occurs while parsing conditional format in PDF conversion is fixed.
- #145835 - File with shapes is no longer corrupted while re-saving in 2007 and 2010 versions.
- #147254 -
WrapText
is now preserved properly in .xls file. - #148689 -
ThrowNotSavedOnDestroy
returns wrong value while calling from destructor is fixed. - #148362 - Argument exception due to wrong column name is no longer thrown while opening a file.
- #147518 - Chart title color is now properly preserved in re-saving binary files.
- #144537, #146780 - Display text is wrong on rounded number is fixed.
- #147337 - Chart is misplaced in HTML conversion is fixed.
- #148923 -
ActiveSheet.Select
property is now updated properly. - #149074 - Font record of legend is now preserved properly while re-saving a binary file.
- #147880 - Formatting error is thrown while re-saving an Excel file in 97-2003 format is resolved.
- #148028 - Raw rich text mark-up in cell is implemented.
- #148566 - Overflow exception is thrown when form’s offset exceeds Int32.MaxValue is fixed.
- #147676 - Parameter invalid exception thrown while saving image in workbook is resolved.
- #147447 - Chart grid lines with gradient colors are now preserved properly in re-saving binary files.
- #144986 - PDF exception when saving a PDF document created with a disposed ExcelToPDFConverter is resolved.
- #145864 - Images are now properly converted to PDF.
- #133800 - Support is provided for empty chart conversion.
- #146808, #148470 - Line chart missing in PDF conversion is fixed.
- #146213 - 3D charts are now properly converted to 2D charts in PDF conversion.
- #146757, #147141 - Bar width is now properly preserved in chart to image conversion.
- #147141 - Number formats in chart elements are properly preserved in the image conversion.
- #147570 - Invalid operation exception on workbook to PDF conversion is resolved.
- #147385 - Chart with no fill background is now properly converted to PDF.
- Issues with copy and paste of tables with styles are fixed.
- Spark lines are now properly copied.
- Issues with number formats of different cultures are fixed.
- Issue with thousand separators not being included for exponential formats is fixed.
- Cell values and formats are updated properly while merging.
- AM/PM pattern not being recognized in German culture is fixed.
- DateTime issues in display text due to different culture are fixed.
- Not a legal oleaut date error while opening CSV file is resolved.
- Display texts are working properly for more than 15 digits.
- Incorrect display text for the number format ([mm]:ss) is fixed.
- Display text returns in lower case for the number format “DATE:” mm dd yyyy is fixed.
- Display text is not shown for fraction value is fixed.
- Display text issues for percentage and scientific number format are fixed.
- DateTime issues in Data validation are fixed.
- Conditional formatting range is now properly updated on clearing conditional formats.
- Conditional formats are duplicated while copying a range with
ExcelCopyRangeOptions.All
is fixed. - Exceptions with decimal separators in conditional formats for different cultures are resolved.
- Sorting issues of cells with number and text, empty values and casing are fixed.
- Performance is improved in row and column grouping.
- Issues with active cell while freezing panes and saving XLTM file as XLSM file are fixed.
- RTF issues with superscript, subscript, casing and strikes in text box are fixed.
- Radar chart in Excel documents is preserved properly on re-save.
- Issues with visibility, rotation, label position, tick labels and tick marks in chart axis are fixed.
- Number format and series name issues in data points are fixed.
- Issues with chart and axis titles, categories and data label properties are fixed.
- Chart area transparency issue in image conversion is fixed.
- Issues with axis missing, title rotation, legend border, line pattern, grid lines and chart overlap in chart to image conversion are fixed.
- 3D charts are converted as 2D charts in image conversion.
- Exception thrown while converting worksheet to HTML is resolved.
- RTF support is provided for header/footer in PDF conversion.
- Alignment issues with header/footer in PDF conversion are fixed.
- Table style issues in PDF conversion are resolved.
- Alignment issues of merged cells in PDF conversion are fixed.
- Number in exponential format is now converted properly in PDF conversion.
- Issue with custom page breaks in PDF conversion is fixed.
XPToolBar
Bug fixes
- #143616 - ~TextAlignment will be updated properly in BarItem.