Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v14.1.0.41
April 5, 2016

Calculate

Bug Fixes

  • #149698 - VLOOKUP formula returns wrong value when the lookup value is null has been fixed.

  • #149394 - IF formula returns string value with quotation has been fixed.

  • #153140, #153143 - CalcEngine returns wrong value while calculating the formula with embedded IF formula has been fixed.

  • #151586 - Memory leak after disposing the CalcEngine has been fixed.

  • #150944 - CalcEngine returns wrong value while calculating SUBTOTAL formula has been fixed.

  • #149908 - Performance issue in CalcEngine while calculating VLOOKUP formula has been fixed.

Chart

Bug Fixes

  • #149845 - Gridlines will render upon intervals while setting PointOffset.
  • #149136 - SortPoints property is now working properly on spline series.
  • #151090 - Stacking column will update properly on moving the scrollbar.
  • #146465 - FancyTooltip is now disabled on pressing ALT + TAB.

Diagram

Bug fixes

  • #153051 - Exception thrown while pressing the Tab/Enter keys with empty diagram is fixed.
  • #151372 - Performance of opening the diagram’s page setup window has been improved now.
  • #150915 - While performing double click on the connector, connector’s position gets changed is fixed.
  • #151190 - Unwanted ConnectionPoint created when modifying the CurveRadius of the polyline connector is fixed.

Features

  • #54368 - Support to set the padding around sides of the view when model’s SizeToContent is enabled has been implemented.
  • #51674 - Read-only support for diagram control has been implemented.
  • #75098 - Support to set the relative/absolute positioning for the CurveRadius of RoundRectangle has been implemented.

DocIO

Features

  • #144293 - Support for Alternate chunk contents in Word document to PDF conversion has been added.
  • #150946 - Support to notify if any unsupported elements encountered during Word document to PDF conversion has been added.
  • Added support to create and manipulate Character Style in Word document.

Bug Fixes

  • #148757 - List restart numbering is now preserved properly in the generated DOCX document.
  • #148656 - Font properties preservation issue while converting HTML to Word document has been fixed.
  • #149126 - Hyperlink is now preserved properly while opening RTF document.
  • #149172 - Header and Footer is now preserved properly while converting Word document to HTML.
  • #149314 - Argument out of range exception is no longer thrown while saving the Word document.
  • #150546 - MergeField event is now triggered properly while Mail merging.
  • #148551, #151550, #151174, #153104 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while converting Word document to PDF.
  • #150145 - No duplicate entry of heading text is added to the updated Table of Contents.
  • #150567, #151499 - Hyperlink preservation issue while converting Word document to PDF has been fixed.
  • #148882, #149223, #149320, #152738 - Word documents with huge content are now converted to PDF without hang in a reasonable time.
  • #149496 - Word document layout options are now preserved properly in the generated DOCX document.
  • #149192 - Table border is now preserved properly while converting HTML to Word document.
  • #151035, #151119 - Argument exception (An item with the same key has already been added) is no longer thrown while Mail merging.
  • #149697 - Chart preservation issue while converting a particular Word document to PDF has been fixed.
  • #150727 - Paragraph border line width preservation issue while converting a particular Word document to HTML and vice versa has been fixed.
  • #150727, #149592 - Custom tab stop preservation issue while converting a particular Word document to HTML and vice versa has been fixed.
  • #149974 - Image cropping issue with Metafile images has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
  • #150727 - BeforeSpacing and AfterSpacing properties of paragraph formats are now preserved properly while converting a particular HTML file into Word document.
  • #150353, #150253 - Table cell width preservation issue while converting a particular Word document to PDF has been fixed.
  • #149643, #150727 - Table cell width Preservation issue while converting a particular Word document to HTML has been fixed.
  • #152897 - Number format preservation issue while updating DOCVARIABLE field had been fixed.
  • #152965 - Argument out of range exception is no longer thrown while executing Mail merge.
  • #150209 - Image overlapping issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document to HTML.
  • #151476 - Argument out of range exception is no longer thrown while opening a particular Word document.
  • #151329 - Justify alignment preservation issue while converting a particular Word document to PDF has been fixed.
  • #152818 - Image preservation issue while converting a particular Word document to PDF has been fixed.
  • #149592 - Text superscript and subscript preservation issue while converting a particular Word document to HTML and vice versa has been fixed.
  • No extra empty paragraph is preserved now at the end of Word document.
  • Object reference exception is no longer thrown while converting RTF to Word document.
  • Argument exception (An item with the same key has already been added) is no longer thrown while opening the Word document with duplicate list styles.
  • Argument exception (An item with the same key has already been added) is no longer thrown while opening the Word document with duplicate character styles.
  • TextBefore and TextAfter properties of merge fields are now preserved properly.

EditControl

Bug fixes

  • #149064, #149131 - Memory leak issue no longer occurs when LineBackColor and CustomBookMark is used.
  • #149509 - UTF characters are now loaded properly.

Features

  • #150889 - Provided option to access ScrollBar.

LinearGauge

Features

  • Provided option to customize the Range Start and End width.
  • #145059 - Provided option to customize increment value interval on user interaction.

GridControl

Bug Fixes

  • #149267, #149353, #149396 – Exporting is now working properly while using comma separator for currency cells.
  • #149667, #149788 – Location of scroll bar is now positioned properly while enabling shared scroll bar mode.

GridDataBoundGrid

Bug Fixes

  • #150147 – Columns are hiding properly while using the AllowProportionalColumnSizing property.
  • #150003 – Columns are now zooming proportionately to the zoom percentage.
  • #148684 – Zooming is now working properly when BrowseOnly property is set to true.

GridGroupingControl

Features

  • Provided Excel inspired Data Bar support which is used to visualize the column values with the given criteria.
  • Word exporting has been enhanced to export images and styles in GridGroupingControl.

Bug Fixes

  • #150153 – ActivateCurrentCellBehavior is now working properly when changing in the designer mode.
  • #152735 – ClearFilter method is now working properly on using GridExcelFilter
  • #149867 – Deserialization is now working for the GridBorder property.
  • #151019 – Exception is no longer thrown in GridExcelFilter, while searching unmatched items.
  • #150206 – Exporting is now working properly, while using merged cells.
  • #144018 – Support added for using case sensitive search while filtering in GridExcelFilter.
  • #149267, #149353, #149396 – Numbered row header is working now properly.

Breaking Changes

  • The Syncfusion.DocIO.Base library needs to be added as assembly reference for exporting GridGroupingControl to Word hereafter.

HTMLUIControl

Bug fixes

  • #150059 - Font is now applied properly in windows 10 operating system.

Features

  • Provided option to customize the BorderColor and BorderStyle.

PDF

Features

  • Support for built-in styles in PdfLightTable and PdfGrid has been added.
  • Support for flattening annotations has been added.
  • Support for GS1-128 barcode has been added.
  • Support for adding and editing named destinations has been added.
  • Support for X509 key storage flags has been added while adding digital signature in the PDF document.
  • Time stamping in digital signatures has now been improved.
  • Library has now been optimized for handling very large documents.

Bug Fixes

  • #131177 - Annotation is now properly preserved while importing pages from loaded document.
  • #150932 - Exception is not thrown anymore while performing OCR in PDF documents.
  • #150635 - Exception is not thrown anymore when loading a particular PDF document.
  • #149974 - Header is now preserved as expected when converting EMF to PDF.
  • #149811 - Opacity values of annotations are now properly read from existing documents.
  • #149841 - Multiple items can now be selected when using PdfLoadedListBoxField.
  • #149641 - Exception is not thrown anymore while importing existing document pages.
  • #149735 - Exception is not thrown anymore when filling the form fields.
  • #149683 - PDF documents are not corrupted anymore after performing OCR.
  • #149367 - Location is now properly preserved when drawing the image in the specific PDF document.
  • #149295 - Read-only property of form fields can now be toggled as expected.
  • #149094 - Textbox font is now preserved as expected while flattening the PDF document.
  • #148808, #150061 - Comb of characters are now preserved correctly when flattening the form fields.
  • #148514 - PDF document is not corrupted anymore when drawing string with particular TrueType font.
  • #147786 - PdfLoadedComboBoxFiled does not change to PdfLoadedListBoxField when resaving the PDF document.
  • #148326 - Exception is not thrown anymore when drawing the PdfLightTable.
  • #148112, #149671 - Memory leak does not occur anymore when performing OCR in large PDF documents.
  • #146456 - OutOfMemoryException is not thrown anymore when performing OCR in the particular document.
  • #143809 - Black borders are no longer shown when setting the border width of form fields as zero.
  • #142878 - Exception is not thrown anymore while importing pages of loaded document.
  • #144523 - Text is now searchable after applying OCR in the particular PDF document.
  • #142957 - Application does not hang anymore while drawing text using PdfTextElement.
  • #143924 - Invalid TIFF directory warning message is no longer shown when applying OCR in the particular PDF document.
  • #143869 - PDF syntax error no longer occurs after performing OCR in the PDF document.
  • #143767 - Image is now properly preserved during Word to PDF conversion.
  • #143205 - Images are replaced properly in the particular PDF document.
  • #143209, #144199 - Text is properly displayed when converting XPS to PDF.
  • #140266 - Double quotes are not changed to question mark anymore when flattening form fields.
  • #144761 - Application no longer hangs when generating PDF in multi-threaded environment.
  • #149691 - STA thread handling is properly done in HTMLConverter class.
  • Line annotation is properly parsed from existing PDF documents.
  • Text is no longer misplaced when drawing the PdfGrid.
  • Table height is changed as expected when drawing the PdfGrid.
  • Text overlapping does not occur while converting HTML to PDF.
  • File size is reduced as expected after replacing with low quality images.

PdfViewerControl

Bug Fixes

  • #146141 - Tooltip for drop down list is now shown as expected.
  • #148251 - FindText method now works with landscape PDF document.
  • #149059 - Printed output file size(XPS format) is not increased too much when compared to original document.
  • #148715 - Contents in the PDF document are now rendered properly in PdfViewerControl.
  • #149449 - Printing the PDF document now works properly in .NET Frameworks 2.0 and 3.5.
  • #149551 - Clipboard copy is now properly done in PDF document processed with Optical Character Recognition.
  • #149640 - Images are now rendered properly in PdfViewerControl.
  • #149922 - Images are not filled with inappropriate background color anymore.
  • #150075 - Empty bounds are not returned anymore while searching vertically aligned texts in the PDF document.
  • #150512 - PDF document does not look blurry anymore in PdfViewerControl.
  • #151086 - Image does not look stretched anymore in the PdfViewerControl.
  • #151118 - Background color for the image is now filled properly while extracting the images from the PDF document.
  • #151255 - Memory is now properly released while processing images in JPXDecode Filter.

Predictive Analytics

Feature

* Added experimental support for PMML files generated by SAS for the following models:

  • Association Rules
  • Clustering model
  • Neural network model
  • Regression model
  • Tree model

* Added support to provide input data as “ExpandoObject” and “Dictionary” object in GetResult() method.

* Added support to provide input PMML file as “TextReader” object for PMML Evaluator.

* Added support to perform PMML Schema validation on input PMML.

* Tree model result returns “Predicted node” and “path” ID with predicted result.

* Association rules model result returns “Confidence” value.

Presentation

Features

  • Added support for creating and modifying notes to slides in a PPTX file.

Bug Fixes

  • #149697 - Chart title font style, border thickness, chart size are now preserved properly in the converted PDF.
  • #149697 - Legend icon size is now preserved properly in the converted PDF.
  • Not supported exception is no longer thrown while cloning a PPTX file with charts.
  • Implemented the IDisposable interface for Presentation and PresentationToPdfConverter classes.
  • File corruption issue while opening the generated PPTX file with SmartArt diagrams has been fixed.
  • File corruption issue while opening the PPTX file generated by cloning and merging slides from another PPTX file with Use Source Formatting option has been fixed.
  • Issue in setting VerticalAlignment property of Legend is now resolved.
  • Issue in setting Delimiter property of chart DataLabel is now resolved.
  • Issue in setting Backward and Forward properties of the Trendline is now resolved.
  • Issue in setting AutoFormat and IsAutoLineColor properties for chart border is now resolved.
  • Issue in setting HasCustomShadowStyle property is now resolved.
  • Issue in setting Angle, Blur and Distance properties of Shadow is now resolved.
  • Issue in setting ReversePlotOrder property of chart axis is now resolved.
  • Issue in setting InnerPreset property for InsideDiagonalTopLeft is now resolved
  • Transparency is now preserved properly while setting shadow for a chart.
  • Shadow color of the chart is now preserved properly while opening and saving PPTX file.
  • Bullet characters are now preserved properly while converting PPTX to PDF.
  • Slide background color is now preserved properly while converting PPTX to PDF.

ScheduleControl

Bug fixes

  • #150147 - Multi span is working properly now for appointments in month view.

Spreadsheet preview

The Spreadsheet is an Excel inspired control that allows you to create, edit, view and format the Microsoft Excel files without Excel installed. It provides absolute ease of use UI experience with integrated ribbon to cover any possible business scenario. Spreadsheet comes with built-in calculation engine with support for 400+ most widely used formulas.

Features

  • Support for loading, editing, and creating workbooks has been provided.
  • Support for the ribbon has been provided.
  • Support for Excel like selection has been provided.
  • Support for formulas has been provided.
  • Support for name manager has been provided.
  • Support for undo and redo has been provided.
  • Support for pictures, text boxes, and charts has been provided.
  • Support for Sparkline has been provided.
  • Support for merge cells has been provided.
  • Support for freeze panes has been provided.
  • Support for cell comments has been provided.
  • Support for floating cells has been provided.
  • Support for data validation has been provided.
  • Support for hyperlinks has been provided.
  • Support for conditional formatting has been provided.
  • Support for grouping has been provided.
  • Support for cut, copy, and paste has been provided.
  • Support for fill series has been provided.
  • Support for worksheet and workbook management has been provided.
  • Support for worksheet and workbook protection has been provided.
  • Support for localization has been provided.
  • Support for zooming has been provided.
  • Support for Format Cells dialog has been provided.
  • Support for context menu has been provided.

RibbonControlAdv

Features

  • #150089 - Provided option to customize ToolStripCheckBox ForeColor when TouchStyle is enabled.
  • #148840 - Provided option to customize the ToolStrip DropDownButton Back, Hover and Selection Color when TouchStyle is enabled.
  • #150645 - Provided option to customize ToolStripSplitter size when TouchStyle is enabled.
  • #144459 - Provided MSOffice2010 like small icon support.

Bug fixes

  • #146750 - Ribbon MenuButton visibility is now updated properly.
  • #149548 - Title color is now updated properly when TouchStyle is enabled.
  • #149572 - RibbonPanel height will be maintained properly in 125 and 150 scaling.

RibbonForm

Features

  • #149548 - Provided option to customize the Control Box buttons Normal, Hover and Selection color when TouchStyle is enabled in RibbonControlAdv.

Bug fixes

  • #149308 - Child Dialog window will be positioned properly in Maximized WindowsState.

BackStageView

Bug fixes

  • #149364 - AutoSize is now working properly when TouchStyle is enabled in RibbonControlAdv.
  • #149321 - Provided option to customize BackStageTab and BackStageButton ForeColor when TouchStyle is enabled in RibbonControlAdv.

MetroForm

Bug fixes

  • #152999 - Caption Images location will be updated properly now.

DockingManager

Features

  • Provided option to customize Tabbed Docked control padding.
  • Provided option to customize the Metro Caption lines visibility.

Bug fixes

  • #152713 - Splitter is now updated properly when closing control in Auto hidden state.
  • #150472 - AutoHide tab will be hidden properly when focus is lost.

ColorPickerButton

Bug fixes

  • #150688 - Null exception no longer occurs when selected in touch screen.

Office2007Form

Bug fixes

  • #150368 - Paint event will be invoked properly.

XPToolBar

Bug fixes

  • #150018 - TextBox value will be updated properly in ComboBoxBarItem.

MultiSelectionComboBox

Features

  • #150610 - Provided option to select VisualItem programmatically.

Bug fixes

  • #149940 - Null exception no longer occurs when BindingSource is used.

RadioButtonAdv

Bug fixes

  • #149635 - ColorScheme will be updated properly now.

AutoComplete

Bug fixes

  • #149615 - TextBox value will be updated properly based on user input.

TrackBarEx

Bug fixes

  • Painting issue no longer occurs when value is updated.

StatusStripEx

Bug fixes

  • CustomRender will be applied properly now.

TreeViewAdv

Bug fixes

  • #119199 - Undo History will be updated properly now.

XlsIO

Features

  • #112832 - Controlled styles duplication while copying.
  • #112832 - Removed unused styles from workbook.
  • #141981 - Provided support to convert TSV to Excel and vice versa.

Bug fixes

  • #148923 - ActiveSheet.Select property selects the proper sheet now.
  • #148566 - Overflow exception thrown when form’s offset exceeds Int32.MaxValue is resolved.
  • #151608 - File corruption issue while creating pivot table with duplicate column names is fixed.
  • #149398 - MissingManifestResourceException thrown while opening an Excel file is fixed.
  • #150279 - Quotes are added for unquoted values while generating a file in XlsIO code generator.
  • #149334 - List validation is updated properly while inserting column in Excel 97-2003 file.
  • #150945 - Argument out of range exception is no longer thrown while converting an Excel file with pivot table.
  • #147676 - Parameter invalid exception is no longer thrown while saving image in workbook.
  • #151492 - Shape’s left and top positions changed while setting ColumnWidth property is fixed.
  • #153332 - PivotOption16 chart element is preserved now.
  • #149568 - Opening a workbook in XlsIO will no longer take long time.
  • #149370 - Text outside of merged cell is no longer displayed after Excel to PDF conversion.
  • #150169 - File corruption issue if the cell contains NaN is fixed.
  • #143201 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while resaving merged workbooks with Conditional Formats and Tables.
  • #150100 - ArgumentNullException is no longer thrown when empty password is given for an unprotected workbook.
  • #150712 - Exception is no longer thrown while parsing a formula which contains single quote.
  • #149405, #152732, #153311 - File with an image is no longer corrupted when opening the file in Excel 2007.
  • #149074 - Font record of legend is preserved properly while resaving an Excel 97-2003 file.
  • #148576 - AutoFitRows works properly when sheet contains chart.
  • #147141 - Column chart’s color is no longer different from Microsoft Excel while saving as image.
  • #149884 - Content and chart preservation issue in Excel to PDF conversion is fixed.
  • #146240 - Line missed in PDF conversion is fixed.
  • #148028 - Rendering raw rich text markup to cell is resolved.
  • #147880 - Formatting error is no longer thrown while resaving an Excel file in *.XLS format.
  • #147447 - Chart gridline with gradient colors is preserved while resaving an Excel 97-2003 file.
  • #150311 - Custom date is detected while exporting CSV file into DataTable.
  • #121597, #149385 - ColumnWidth is no longer incorrect in *.XLSM file.
  • #144703 - Deleting columns with conditional formats is properly removed.
  • #151231 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while opening a particular Excel file which contains chart with data points.
  • #153378 - Comma missed in DisplayText is fixed.
  • #153378, #153507 - Format is no longer changed to currency after applying long date or time and editing the cell’s number format.
  • #148557 - Conditional format address is updated properly.
  • #141357 - FormatException is no longer thrown when converting an Excel file to PDF.