Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v15.3.0.33
September 29, 2017

Bug fixes

  • #186948 - Programmatic selection behavior will function properly.

Chart

Bug Fixes

  • #185871 - Spline area chart in 3D mode is now rendering properly.
  • #187022 - Now we are able to customize the logarithmic axis labels text.

ComboBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #185095 – Control loaded in child dialog is now not disposed on closing of dialog box.
  • #183613 – Dropdown arrow color for Metro, Office 2007 and Office2010 style is now changed to maintain the common arrow color for all editor controls.

ContextMenuStripEx

Bug fixes

  • #175359 – MetroColor will be applied properly and additional border will not be displayed.

DocIO

Breaking Changes

  • #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.

Bug Fixes

  • #186310 - Paragraph is preserved properly while resaving a particular RTF document as DOC format document.
  • #187463 - KeyNotFoundException is 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.
  • #186983 - Chart series is preserved properly in chart to image conversion.
  • #186982 - Image is preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF in EnableFastRendering mode.
  • #182997 - Tab content is preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #186087, #186252 - RTL text is inverted improperly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #186496, #183778, #185121 - Hanging issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #185858 - List number is preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #185247 - RTL table cell is preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #184961 - Floating table is preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #183778 - Shape vertical position and empty space is preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.

DockingManager

Bug fixes

  • #187462 - Dotted lines are showing in Caption Bar of DockWindow in designer page even ShowMetroCaptionDottedLines sets as false in DockingManager has been fixed..

DomainUpDownExt

Bus Fixes

  • #184390 – Drop down button is now renderer properly in all DPI resolution.

EditControl

Bug fixes

  • #187471 – Expand / Collapse marker will be displayed properly for Custom Language configuration.
  • #187210 – Typed characters will be reflected properly, when input is given in French keyboard settings.

GridGroupingControl

Bug Fixes

  • #186570 – Null reference exception is no longer thrown while resetting the same DataSource after editing the foreign key cell.
  • #I185223, #184779 – Null reference exception is no longer thrown while using the Table.ExpandAll method after resetting the data source.
  • #185529 – The row selection is now working properly while selecting the drop down item of ComboBox.
  • #185528 – Designer is no longer crashed while adding the custom panel with GridControl in a Form.
  • #184946 – Disabled covered cells are no longer getting focused.

MetroForm

Bug fixes

  • #187624 – Bounds will be applied properly in higher resolution environment.

MultiSelectionComboBox

Bug Fixes

  • #186956 – Removed items will not be selected while mouse over in drop down list.
  • #186481 – Accent characters and spaces are now allowed in filtering of items in autocomplete suggestion.
  • #188002 - Now, items have been properly check and uncheck while opening the drop down.
  • #188002 - IndexOutOfRangeException while closing VisualItem is fixed.

Bug fixes

  • #186934 – Null Reference Exception no longer occurs, when Background image is added.

NumericUpDownExt

Bug Fixes

  • #184390 – Drop down button is now renderer properly in all DPI resolution.
  • #183613 – Drop down arrow color for Metro, Office 2007 and Office2010 style is now changed to maintain the common arrow color for all editor controls.

Office2007Form

Bug fixes

  • #182791, 184959, 186874– Control Box buttons size will be updated based on DPI settings.

Office2010Form

Bug fixes

  • #182791, 184959, 186874– Control Box buttons size will be updated based on DPI settings.

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.
  • #186261 - Background color will be preserving properly, while using ToImage in Barcode.
  • #186233 - Stream was not readable exception will no longer thrown, while signing PDF document by using certificate as stream.
  • #186884 - IndexOutofRangeException will no longer occur, while signing the particular PDF document.
  • #185605 - Extra space will not be added in the bottom of the image, while converting HTML to Image using IE.
  • #184245 - Output document is now preserving properly, when applying security to the loaded PDF document.
  • Application crashing issue has been fixed, while performing OCR.
  • Tesseract engine has not been initialized exception will no longer thrown while performing OCR.
  • Preservation issues are no longer occurs, while compressing existing PDF documents.
  • PDF conformance is preserved properly while converting Word to PDF.

Features

  • #182338 – PdfHtmlTextElement supported HTML string can be drawn to the PdfGridCell directly.
  • #186261 – Added support for generating Data Matrix barcode as image to the desired size.
  • #185022 – Added the support to change the tab order of the form fields.

PdfViewerControl

Features

  • #186735 - Exposed an event ‘TextSelectionCompleted’ which will be triggered when the text selection operation is completed.

Bug Fixes

  • #185607 - Hyperlink navigation will work properly while clicking on the hyperlinks in the PDF document.
  • #186066, #186836 - The text contents of the PDF document will be rendered properly.
  • #186435 - Content in the PDF document is now rendered and printed properly using PdfViewerControl.
  • #184492 - The image contents of the PDF document will be rendered properly.
  • #185883 - Hyperlink link navigation will work properly for newly loaded PDF document.

Presentation

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.

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.
  • #185808 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while converting a PowerPoint slide to image.
  • #185262 - Deleted legends in the charts is no longer visible in the converted PDF.
  • #185808 - Numbered list is now preserved properly while converting a PowerPoint slide to image.
  • #186643 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while converting a cloned PowerPoint slide to image.

RadialGauge

Bug fixes

  • #187051 – Visual Studio no longer crashes, when MinorDifference is set as zero.

RibbonControlAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #186426 - Argument exception will not be thrown while resizing.
  • #186019 – ToolstripSplitButtonEx text and shortcut key text are now aligned properly without overlapping.
  • #183581 – When ToolstripEx added to the QAT, the items inside the dropdown of ToolstripEx is now aligned properly.
  • #187851 - In Windows 7 OS, ContextMenuStripEx item displayed correctly while using 150 scaling.

ScheduleControl

Bug Fixes

  • #186022 – The recurrence appointment is now rendering properly while adding the recurrence appointments in monthly or yearly basis.

ScrollersFrame

Bug fixes

  • #183045 – ScrollBar Thumb size will be updated properly in Metro Theme.

Spreadsheet

Features

  • #184580 - Provided support to cancel the command execution of Spreadsheet commands.

Bug Fixes

  • #183952 – Context switch deadlock exception is no longer thrown while resizing the column with wrap text format.

Breaking Changes

  • Event argument of CommandExecuting event is changed from CommandExecutionEventArgs to CommandExecutingEventArgs.

XlsIO

Bug fixes

  • #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.
  • #184801 - Currency format is now proper in PDF conversion.
  • #185138 - Combination chart with bar series is rendered properly in chart to image conversion.
  • 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.
  • Rich-text is proper in Excel to PDF Conversion.
  • Clearing contents in a merged cell doesn’t remove cell formatting.