Essential Studio for Universal Windows Platform Release Notes

v14.4.0.15
November 18, 2016

DocIO

Breaking Changes

  • Default encoding is modified from UTF-8 with BOM to UTF-8 without BOM while saving text file using the method Save(string fileName, FormatType.Txt) of WordDocument class and it can be modified using existing public method SaveTxt(string fileName, Encoding encoding) of WordDocument class.
  • Default encoding is modified from Windows Default (ANSI) without BOM to UTF-8 without BOM while saving text file using the method Save(Stream stream, FormatType.Txt) of WordDocument class and it can be modified using new public method SaveTxt(Stream stream, Encoding encoding) of WordDocument class.

Bug Fixes

  • #161326 - WMF images are now preserved properly while import/export the DOC format document.
  • #162311 - Checkbox is now preserved properly while resaving a particular DOCX format document.
  • #163760 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer thrown while opening a particular RTF format document.
  • #165424 - Unicode characters are now preserved properly while resaving a particular RTF format document.
  • #163530 - EncoderFallbackException will no longer thrown while resaving a particular Word document as Text file.
  • #162545 - Track changes are now accepted properly for the particular DOCX format document.
  • #165820 - FormatException will no longer thrown while opening a particular RTF format document.
  • #165387, #166451 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while executing Mail merge using ExecuteNestedGroup() method.
  • #164561 - Page and NumPages fields are now preserved properly while re-saving a particular Word document.
  • #164782 - IndexOutOfRangeException will no longer thrown while disposing a particular Word document.
  • #165645 - Character spacing of text is now preserved properly while import/export a RTF document.
  • #165843 - List number is now preserved properly while clone and merge a particular Word document.

PDF

Bug Fixes

  • #158424 - Index was outside the bounds of the array exception is no longer thrown, while loading a PDF document.
  • #163906 - Adobe reader exception is no longer thrown, while drawing image in the PDF document.
  • #164832 - Can not find catalog information exception is no longer thrown while loading a PDF document.
  • #154150 - PdfGrid cells are now properly resized based on the row span.
  • #164859 - Application will never get hang while generating the PDF document in multi thread environment using PdfTrueTypeFont.
  • #165358 - NullReferenceException is no longer thrown while accessing file name in PdfLoadedFileLinkAnnotation.
  • #163307 - Layer value is now preserved properly while retrieving from the PDF loaded document.
  • #163309 - Font value is now preserved properly in the PDF loaded document.
  • #161409 - Form fields value are now preserved properly in extended feature enabled document.
  • #165258 - Size of the PDF document pages now preserving correctly when loading the PDF documents.
  • #165326 - ArgumentException is no longer thrown while saving PdfLoadedDocument.
  • #164884 - No more empty layers are added while getting PDF page layers.
  • #161409 - Form fields value has been preserved properly in extended feature enabled document.
  • #165345 - Form fields value has been preserved properly while appending the text in the PDF document.

Predictive Analytics

Bug Fixes

  • #167087 - Resolved the PMML 4.2 version compatibility issues with Naive Bayes model evaluator.

Presentation

Features

  • #166430 - Added support to access and modify the rotation angle of a shape in PowerPoint slides.

Breaking Changes

  • The property Rotation is now added into IShape interface.

Bug Fixes

  • #166067 - The generated PowerPoint presentation will be no longer corrupted while adding or removing the Notes pages.
  • #160129 - Issues with adding multiple instances of OLE objects in a PowerPoint slide is now resolved.
  • #165072 - Issues in Clone and Merge functionalities are now resolved.
  • #164372 - Null reference exception will be no longer thrown while resaving the PowerPoint presentation with a cloned SmartArt diagram.
  • #162341 - Text formatting will be now preserved properly while merging two PowerPoint presentations.
  • #164372 - The merged PowerPoint presentation will be no longer corrupted while cloning the slides using KeepSourceFormatting option.

SfAccordion

Bug Fixes

  • #166550 - Key navigation now working properly.

  • #166550, #166643 - AccordionItem no longer expand, when Enter Key is pressed and its child control is focused.

SfCalendar

Bug Fixes

  • #165747 - Date Selection will now persist, when mouse double clicked on it.

  • #165592 - Appointment Indicator color will be applied properly.

Features

  • #165592 - Provided support to customize DayCell Background.

SfChart

Bug Fixes

Features

SfCircularGauge

Bug Fixes

  • #163767 - Now, CircularGauge EndValue visibility issue has been fixed.

SfDataGrid

Features

  • #162623 - Provided support to update the FilterRowText when applying the filter programmatically.
  • #166142 - Provided support for changing the Filter Popup size by setting GridFilterControl style.
  • #164532 - Provided support to notify details view DataGrid events to parent DataGrid.
  • #160865 - Provided the support to change the expander column width and indent column widths.
  • #166922 - Provided the support for NewItemPlaceHolderPosition when adding a new record using AddNewRow.
  • #162862 - Provided the support to fill the remaining width for column based on other column widths.

Bug fixes

  • #166289 - Null value is now committed properly while pressing Enter key in GridDateTimeColumn.

Breaking Changes

  • In GridSelectedRowsCollection class, Contains method has been renamed to ContainsObject.

SfDatePicker

Bug Fixes

  • #166289 - SfDatePicker value does not overlap with Watermark anymore.

SfDiagram

Breaking changes

  • Internally, we have exposed DragStarting Event in DiagramThumb. Now, we have changed this Event name as ThumbDragStarting.

SfDockingManager preview

Features

  • Provided TabStripPlacement support for Tabbed Dock Window.
  • Provided DocumentTabItemPlacement support for Document Window.

SfHubTile

Known Issues

  • Rotate Transition of SfHubTile crashed in 14393 SDK due to issue with ElasticEase class. It was logged as issue by Microsoft in this forum.

SfKanban

Bug fixes

  • #165264 - Now the Kanban card can be dropped over an dynamically generated empty column.

  • #165194 - IsExpanded property in ColumnTag is now properly synchronized with KanbanColumn UI.

Features

  • Now a scrollbar will be displayed when you move the mouse over the Kanban column to indicate that there is more data to be scrolled.

SfMaskedEdit

Bug Fixes

  • #165832- Now value gets updated only when focus lost on LostFocus ValidationMode.
  • #165767- Now, the Regex will update the mask correctly.

SfNavigationDrawer

Features

  • Provided Gray scale overlay support for SfNavigationDrawer

SfNumericUpDown

Bug Fixes

  • #165188- Now, MinWidth property has been applied properly.

SfPdfViewerControl

Features

  • #164896 - Implemented PagePointerClicked and PagePointerReleased events in SfPdfViewerControl.

Bug Fixes

  • #165298 - Application will not be crashed while loading large size PDF documents in SfPdfViewerControl.
  • #163276 - Annotation colors are preserved properly in SfPdfViewerControl.
  • #163276 - Application will not crash anymore on resizing the SfPdfViewerControl.

SfPivotGrid Preview

The SfPivotGrid control is an easily configurable, presentation-quality business control that summarizes large amount of information from OLAP and relational data sources and represents it in a cross-tabulated form.

Bug fixes

  • #162144 - Sort direction is now applied properly when using multiple controls in the same application.

Features

  • PivotGrid values can now be exported to Excel, CSV, PDF and Word documents. This is available for both OLAP and relational data sources.
  • Top summary layout has been enabled for PivotGrid supporting relational data sources.
  • Cell selection along with column and row header support has been provided for PivotGrid supporting relational data sources.
  • Sorting for value columns can be done in PivotGrid supporting relational data sources.

SfRadialMenu

Features

  • Provided FontIcon support for SfRadialMenu.

SfReportViewer

Bug Fixes

  • #165837 – Resolved exception when setting empty string value for report parameter through SetParameter.

  • #164494 – Resolved the compilation error when sample compiled in release mode with .NET chain enabled and runtime directives are removed in application.

  • #165300 – Resolved bounds exception when sorting is applied to tablix report item without group rows.

  • #165837 – Resolved report parameter prompt value not updated in UI while setting parameters.

SfRichTextBoxAdv

Features

  • #164639 - Added GripperSize property to modify the size of touch gripper (the visual element used for touch text selection).
  • #164828 - Added FontSizeScaleFactor property for scaling the text display in Mobile device to match Desktop device.
  • #165917 - Added UseCtrlClickToFollowHyperlink property to enable/disable the CTRL key holding while clicking to open a hyperlink.

Breaking Changes

  • Default font size scale factor is modified from 1.55 to 1.17 times and it can be modified using new public property FontSizeScaleFactor of SfRichTextBoxAdv class.
  • Default size of touch gripper (the visual element used for touch text selection) is modified from 16 to 18 pixel for Windows Phone devices and it can be modified using new public property GripperSize of SfRichTextBoxAdv class.

Bug Fixes

  • #127282 - Table border and cell spacing are now preserved properly on loading the particular HTML.
  • #163026 - Candidate key conversion now works properly while using 12 key keyboard in Windows Phone.
  • #165260 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while loading multiple documents at a time in asynchronous mode.
  • #164825 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while setting IsTextPredictionEnabled property.
  • #165424 - Unicode characters are now displayed properly while loading the particular RTF file.
  • #164588 - White space in the document will be now preserved properly while exporting HTML.
  • #165910 - Unicode characters are now parsed properly on loading text document.
  • #127282 - Table border is now rendered properly for the table with cell spacing.
  • #165260 - Operation canceled exception is no longer thrown while opening document in asynchronous mode.

SfSchedule

Features

  • #162790 - Resource feature support for Schedule (Desktop mode) has been provided.

Bug Fixes

  • #163791 - Now, Yearly Recurrence appointments passes correct value in YearlyWeekDay while schedule culture get changed.

  • #166409 - Now, Editor will open on double clicking while AllowEditing false to view the appointment details.

  • #166409 - Now, NoEndDate Recurrence appointment will add when Recurrence property RangeStartDate value is previous month.

Breaking changes

  • SubractDays Method is deprecated, use SubtractDays Method instead.

  • FocusedMonth property is deprecated, use ScheduleMonthCellStyle property to customize the month cell.

  • NonFocusedMonth property is deprecated, use ScheduleMonthCellStyle property to customize the month cell.

SfTextBoxExt

Bug Fixes

  • #165987- Now, the selected item is updated properly on Mouse click and Key press.
  • #165332 – Now, Suggestion list get updated correctly.

SfTreeGrid

Features

  • Support to set the column width based on certain logic has been provided. Some options are SizeToCell, SizeToHeader, Auto, etc.
  • Provided support for clipboard operations such as cut, copy and paste the data within control and between other applications such as Notepad, Excel.
  • Support to freeze the columns in view at the left side like in excel has been provided.
  • Support to bind dynamic data object has been provided.

Breaking Changes

  • In TreeGridSelectedRowsCollection class, Contains method has been renamed as ContainsObject.

SfSpreadsheet

Features

  • Provided Context Menu support for Graphic Cells.

  • Provided support for Cut, Copy and Paste operations in Graphic Cells.

  • #164975 - Events related with Copy/Paste operations are implemented.

  • Provided support for COUNTIFS formula.

SfSunburstChart Preview

A new Sunburst chart control has been added, which is useful for visualizing hierarchical data.

Key Features

  • Visualize hierarchical data.
  • Data label support for better readability.
  • Interactively select or highlight segments.
  • Interactive legend.
  • Colors can be customized.

XlsIO

Features

  • Support for advanced filter is provided.
  • Support for comment in ODS export is provided.

Breaking changes

  • The method AdvancedFilters is now added in IWorksheet interface.
  • The methods SetPreviousBaseItem and SetNextBaseItem are now added in IPivotField interface.

Bug fixes

  • #163654 - Argument out of range exception is no longer thrown when opening Excel document with shapes.
  • #163633 - Data validation and conditional formatting are properly updated in XLS format.
  • #163489 - File corruption issue while creating a document with single column sorting is resolved.
  • #163056 - Issue with improper relative hyperlink address is fixed.
  • #163490 - Issue with percent values for Top10 auto filters is fixed.
  • #165013 - Issues with cell merge and its text data while copying ranges are fixed.
  • #163802 - Issue with comment shapes while moving ranges is fixed.
  • #163473, #165498 - File is no longer corrupted while setting ShowDataFieldInRow property to true.
  • #164435 - Circular reference exception thrown while moving a cell range is resolved.
  • #164782, #159383 - Not a legal OleAut date exception thrown while converting Excel document to PDF in Greek culture is fixed.
  • #163341, #163474 - Issue with pivot filter types is fixed.
  • #161896 - Incorrect row height while merging the row with wrapped cells is fixed.
  • #154681 - Text formatting issues in chart elements like data label, title, legend and axis title are fixed.
  • #163882 - Issues with conditional formatting of CFType cell formula are fixed.
  • #165559 - Exception is no longer thrown on accessing formula values from conditional formats.
  • #163337 - Application hangs while opening Excel file with pivot table has been fixed.
  • #163560, #166624 - Formulas updation issue after inserting rows has been fixed.
  • #157952 - Issue with removal of comments while moving a range has been fixed.
  • #164858 - Exception while saving a document by deleting a row with filter, is no longer thrown.
  • #164758 - File corruption issue while re-saving in German culture has been fixed.
  • #165805 - Looping issue while opening an Excel document with absolute anchored shapes has been fixed.
  • #166878 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while copying empty cells to new workbook.