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Essential Studio for Universal Windows Platform Release Notes (Beta)

v16.4.0.40
December 10, 2018
Starting with version 16.2 (2018 Vol 2), you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications. Please refer to this help topic for more information

Common

Breaking Changes

  • Starting with version 16.4 (2018 Vol 4), Syncfusion has removed the fewer NuGet packages from the Essential Studio. You can find the older NuGet packages and their equivalent new NuGet package details from the KB article.

DocIO

Features

  • #155259, #176052, #211046, #218374 - Added support to update Auto Number field in a Word document.
  • #216440 - Added support to update SET field in a Word document.
  • #211192, #216218 - Added API to access the external Excel file path for a chart in DOCX to DOCX conversion.
  • #213984 - Added support to restart the list number while performing Mail merge.
  • #215528 - Added support to specify Encoding while converting a Word document to HTML.
  • #213040 - Added option to maintain information about imported list styles while importing Word document elements.

Bug Fixes

  • #218957 - The IndexOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while updating TOC in RTF format document.
  • #218795 - The XMLException will no longer be thrown while resaving a DOCX format document.
  • #210586 - The NotSupportedException will no longer be thrown while converting a HTML document to Word document.
  • #210586 - Page break preservation issue has been resolved in HTML to Word conversion.
  • #210586 - Text is now aligned properly while converting an HTML document to Word document.
  • #210586 - Tab is now preserved properly while converting a document to HTML.
  • #217259 - Nested paragraphs are now preserved properly while opening a Word document.
  • #213770 - Hanging issue has been resolved while updating a Word document fields.
  • #216566 - The file will no longer be corrupted while adding Chart into a Word document (DOCX).
  • #215421 - Paragraph list is now preserved properly while merging a cloned paragraph with ImportOptions.KeepSourceFormatting.
  • #F139944, #215539 - Custom UI is now preserved properly while opening and saving a Word document (DOCX).
  • #214749 - The FormatException will no longer be thrown while opening a Word document.
  • #213886 - List number is now preserved properly while opening and saving a Word document (DOCX).
  • #213151 - Bullets are now preserved properly while merging the Word documents.
  • #213042 - Unexpected frame preservation issue has been resolved while calling the WordDocument.Replace API for Word document.
  • #182512 - The OutOfMemoryException will no longer be thrown while opening a Word document.

SfKanban

Features

  • Now, the kanban control supports DataTemplateSelector for cards.

PDF

Features

  • #212281, #216409, #219899 - Added the support for creating PDF-A1B document.
  • #130495, #131138, #136165, #136511, #99972, #174605, #175254, #196824, #205109, #209482, #218456, #217889 - Added support for OpenType font (OTF).
  • #216464 - Added support to parse ForeColor and BackColor from PdfLoadedFormFields.

Bug Fixes

  • #215133 - Performance has been improved when accessing the PDF document layers.
  • #210943, #216074 - String was not recognized as a valid DateTime exception will no longer occur while loading a PDF document.
  • #215941 - Barcode is now preserving with proper size when specifying the size of a barcode.
  • #215595 - The 1D barcode is now scanning properly with default width.
  • #215096 - FNC characters in the given input is now preserving properly for PdfGS1Code128Barcode.
  • #215166 - The Null-reference exception will no longer occur while loading a PDF document.
  • #214918 - Light table header is now preserving properly when providing the data source through IEnumerable.
  • #214401 - The ArgumentException will no longer occur when loading a PDF document.
  • #219778 - Object reference not set to an instance of an object exception will no longer occur when saving the PdfInkAnnotation.
  • #217829 - Index was outside the bounds of the array exception will no longer occur when loading the PDF document.
  • #220618 - “Object reference not set to an instance of an object exception will no longer occur when creating PDF signature..
  • #219990 - Text mark annotation is now preserving properly when flatten the PDF document.
  • #217865 - NullReferenceException will no longer occur while removing custom metadata entries.
  • #218695 - Bookmark destination is now preserving properly after reading the bookmark.
  • #218348 - Gap between barcode data sections is now preserving properly when drawing 1D barcode to PDF.
  • #218231 - The PdfCode128Barcode Size property is now working properly.
  • #218235 - Barcodes are now preserving properly with its default size.
  • #218230 - Exception will no longer occur when getting the size of the PdfCode128Barcode.
  • #217889 - The PDF document is now preserving properly when drawing a string with OTF font.
  • #219709 - Object reference not set instance of an object exception will no longer occur when drawing PdfGrid in a PDF.
  • #218192, #218299 - NullReferenceException will no longer occur when saving the document with EnableValidationAppearance.

Presentation

Features

#213426 - Added support to create, edit, and remove connectors in PowerPoint files.
#214420 - Added support to clone and insert paragraphs.

Breaking Changes

The Insert(int, IParagraph) method has been added to IParagraphs interface.
The Clone() method has been added to IParagraph interface.
The AddConnector(ConnectorType, IShape, int, IShape, int) method has been added to IShapes interface.
The AddConnector(ConnectorType, double, double , double , double) method has been added to IShapes interface.
The ConnectionSiteCount property has been added to IShape interface.

Bug Fixes

#205041 - PowerPoint files will no longer be corrupted while inserting a cloned picture.
#207078 - The FormatException will no longer be thrown while resaving a PowerPoint document with formulated path points.
#214073 - The PowerPoint slides are now converted properly from multiple views.

SfCalendar

Features

  • #139808, #215033 - Support has been provided for customizing the events in Inline and Agenda views.

Breaking Changes

  • In SfCalendar today date will be highlighted with Square or Circle on SingleSelection based on the SelectionShape API in MonthViewSettings class.

SfChart

Bug fixes

  • #218388 – The trackball label template will be aligned smartly.

Features

  • The stacked doughnut support has been provided to chart.

  • Now, the chart control supports RangeColumnSeries chart type with a single y-value.

  • Now, the data label and PieSeries/DoughnutSeries segments can be connected with horizontal straight line.

  • Support has been provided to group the data points into Others category in PieSeries and DoughnutSeries charts.

  • The text or any view can be added to the center of the doughnut chart.

Enhancements

  • Now, the dashes can be applied to the polar and radar charts when rendering as lines.

SfDataGrid

Feature

  • #214948 – Provided support to auto generate the custom type property as single column without auto-generating all inner properties as separate columns.

SfDiagram

Bug Fixes

  • #211310 - Horizontal scrollbar of Diagram is now scrolling properly.
  • #214265 - Resizing with multiple selection is now working properly.
  • #216310 - Node creation is now working properly while clicking Duplicate button.
  • #216297 - Exception will no longer thrown when drag and drop image object onto the node/diagram from another data source.
  • # 219029 - Now, preview shows currently dragging object from the stencil properly.

Features

  • Added support to split or join segment of the connectors.
  • Added support to override the default cursors used in SfDiagram.
  • Connection support has been provided to ports that lies outside the node bounds.
  • ConnectorEditing events will now be fired for Bezier and Straight segments editing.
  • Added support to reduce or enlarge a diagram when printing, using PrintScale option.

Behavior Changes

  • Now, Load will clear the diagram before loading the saved file. To retain the old behavior, you can use new Import method instead of Load.
  • Type of Id and ParentId should be same for data given in IDataSourceSettings.DataSource.
  • Now, page will be extended when the elements move outside the page bounds instead of page margin.

Breaking Changes

  • Now, Syncfusion.UI.Xaml.Diagram.Controls.ThumbType is deprecated, instead use Syncfusion.UI.Xaml.Diagram.ControlPointType.
  • Now, Syncfusion.UI.Xaml.Diagram.Layout.Base.HorizotalAlignment is deprecated, instead use Syncfusion.UI.Xaml.Diagram.Layout.Base.HorizontalAlignment.

SfDockingManager

Bug fixes

  • #218599 – The DocumentTabStripMenu icon is now shown properly after closing and adding tabs at run time in SfDockingManager.

Breaking changes

  • Add child views for SfDockingManager using the DockItems property instead of the Children property. Children is the default property of Panel where SfDockingManager will not arrange items based on Children from this release. SfDockingManager will render child items based on DockItems only.

SfMaps

Features

  • Tooltip support has been provided for Shapes, Bubbles and Markers.

SfNumericTextBox

Bug fixes

  • #216743, #217816, #218351, #218605, #219872 - The NumericTextBox works properly in Windows 10, version 1809.

SfNumericUpDown

Bug Fixes

  • #220457 - The exception will no longer be thrown while performing two-way binding.

  • #213527 - The maximum value will be restricted while typing a value in NumericUpDown.

SfPdfViewer

Features

  • #214387 - Exposed API MinimumZoomPercentage in SfPdfViewer.

Bug Fixes

  • #214415 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown when loading a PDF document with the IsTextSearchEnabled, IsTextSelectionEnabled, and IsThumbnailViewEnabled properties are set to false.
  • #216096 - Page number will be updated properly when changing the pages in the SinglePageView mode.
  • #214387 - The SinglePageView mode will fit to the height when the size of the page of PDF document are of different size.
  • #214640 - Annotations can be saved properly when continuously saving and loading the same PDF file.
  • #214640 - The position of Circle and Square annotations are preserved properly when saving and reloading the landscape oriented PDF file.
  • #214079 - The System.ArgumentException will no longer be thrown while scrolling the loaded PDF document through SfPdfViewer if the multiple instances of SfPdfViewer created in separate windows.
  • #208697 - The Pop-up annotation’s editing window can now be opened using stylus.
  • #207767 - Exposed events to track the changes in the annotation properties while editing the annotation in PDF Viewer.
  • #216103 - Application no longer crashes when resizing the annotation.
  • #214133 - The System.InvalidOperationException will not be thrown when printing PDF documents.
  • #213771 - The TextMarkup annotation is now working properly when loading the PDF document.
  • #214097 - The TextMarkup annotation is now selected properly while adding multiple annotation on the same position.
  • #216106 - Annotations will be resized and moved properly while applying rotation to SfPdfViewer.
  • #215619 - Annotations are now preserved properly while saving and loading the PDF documents.
  • #218482 - The Color picker is now accessible for comment annotation.
  • #216079 - Color menu options are now in the viewable area in PDF Viewer.

SfPivotGrid

Bug fixes

  • #216075 - Able to bind the format property for pivot calculations directly through XAML code.
  • #216401 – Control renders properly while setting display option as none.

Features

  • #216075, #216401 - Option to show/hide the grand totals in the pivot grid control has been provided.

SfReportViewer

Bug Fixes

  • #215797 – Now, the subreport loads properly using the LoadSubreport method in RDL processing mode.
  • #173060, 194301 – Chart report item rendering issue in print preview has been resolved.

SfRichTextBoxAdv

Features

  • #167558, #169855, #177418, #221463 - Added support for UI container to embed (host) UI elements within the document.

Bug Fixes

  • #214604 - ArgumentException will be no longer thrown while loading the document containing image in header.
  • #214604 - NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while loading the document containing fields.
  • #215798 - Scrolling behavior is now working properly when RotateTransform is set for the control.
  • #217668 - ArgumentException will be no longer thrown while loading the document containing row with invalid height.
  • #219882 - NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while opening the HTML document containing two or more consecutive hr tags.
  • #218434 - Punctuation marks associated with non-RTL text is now displayed properly while opening the HTML document.
  • #218434 - Unwanted white space characters after paragraph and break tags are no longer added while opening the HTML document.
  • #218434 - Image is now displayed properly while opening the HTML document containing image source as base64 string and URI.
  • #218434 - The contents of style tag defined inside a div is now skipped properly while opening the HTML document.
  • #218430 - Paragraphs with empty tags are now skipped properly while opening the HTML document.
  • #218434 - NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while opening the HTML document containing nested list without root element html tag.
  • #219938 - Image of a nested table that extending outside its parent cell boundary is now clipped properly.
  • #219939 - Pages are now properly visible when resizing the table that spans to several pages.
  • #221478 - ArgumentException will be no longer thrown while saving the document containing table within invisible header or footer.

SfSunburstChart

Features

  • #216254 – Support has been provided to programmatically zoom in and zoom out the sunburst chart.

SfTextBoxExt

Bug Fixes

  • #218946: The SfTextBoxExt works properly when setting the null value for the items.

SfTileView

Bug Fixes

  • #216609 – The SelectedIndex and SelectedItem are now updated properly in SfTileView even when invoking asynchronous call in initialization.

SfTreeGrid

Bug Fixes

  • #219613 – DropStatus will be updated properly when dragging and dropping the nodes.

XlsIO

Breaking Changes

  • #217605 - UseStringDelimiter has been added in IApplication interface to support string delimiter in CSV document.
  • #218001 - SkipAutoFitRow has been added in IApplication interface to skip autofit for rows.

Bug Fixes

  • #139653 - Issue with VLOOKUP formula while setting custom separators in German culture is fixed.
  • #204947 - Exception thrown while opening Excel document with duplicate attributes is resolved.
  • #212300 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while add copying the workbook with invalid sheet references.
  • #212300 - File corruption issue while copying a range having named range formula referring to External workbook is resolved.
  • #213242 - Chart default axis title area text settings and text box properties are now cloned properly in XlsIO.
  • #213274 - StandardHeight is now properly set for XlsIO generated Excel documents.
  • #213608 - Incorrect Rich-Text format while saving the Excel document is fixed.
  • #213658 - Null reference exception thrown while getting ListOfValues property of Data Validation is fixed
  • #213658 - NumberFormatSettings returning null value while accessing particular range is fixed.
  • #213658 - Issue with FirstFormula property of Data Validation in binary Excel files is fixed.
  • #213819 - DeleteColumn method works properly for CSV file.
  • #214495 - Issue with slicer getting removed on saving the file in Excel 2007 version is fixed.
  • #214638 - Excel file with incorrect anchor type for shapes is resaved properly without any corruption.
  • #214638 - Excel file with text box is resaved properly in Excel 2007 version without any corruption.
  • #214879 - Exception thrown while parsing the named range formula without worksheet reference is resolved.
  • #214915 - Enabling WrapText property will no longer throw exception during BeginUpdate().
  • #214924 - Excel file with conditional formats is resaved properly without any corruption.
  • #215001 - Issue with horizontal alignment for textbox is resolved.
  • #215030 - Null reference exception thrown on casting chart data label as text area on parsing Excel file is fixed.
  • #215185 - Text box color and macro link are properly resaved in the Excel document.
  • #215197 - Issue with changing legend position from manual layout is fixed.
  • #215350 - Special characters (Ampersand and less-than symbols) can be used in HTMLString property without any exception.
  • #215591 - Issue with copying borders in merged cells is fixed.
  • #216094 - ArgumentException thrown while assigning “/” as cell value is fixed.
  • #216187, #214895 - Performance issue while inserting rows is resolved.
  • #216305 - AutoFitColumn now works properly for currency values.
  • ArgumentException thrown while accessing used range having styles alone is fixed.
  • Border set to a cell through BordersAround method is now applied properly.
  • Unhandled exception thrown while opening an Excel file with duplicate shape attribute is fixed.
  • #210172, #218493 – Protected document with objects is resaved properly without unlocking the objects.
  • #216939 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException is no longer thrown while saving the workbook with shapes, after deleting rows.
  • #217119 - Performance delay while applying multilevel subtotal is fixed.
  • #217178 - XML exception thrown while opening XML document with invalid attribute value is fixed.
  • #217348 - Exception thrown while setting font for empty text has been resolved.
  • #217365 - Issues with inserting new rows in table and add copying the worksheets with table formulas is fixed.
  • #217695 - Exception will no longer be thrown while opening Excel file with duplicate custom XML relations.
  • #218001 - Autofit row enhancement is implemented for Calibri and Tahoma fonts.
  • #218655, #218656, #220908 - Line breaks are now properly retrieved for cells with Rich-Text.
  • #218676 - Chart legend border value is properly retrieved while resaving the Excel file.
  • #218730 - Manual layout is preserved properly while resaving the Excel document.
  • #218730 - XML error thrown while parsing Excel document with charts is fixed.
  • #218869 - Color formatting issue due to comma cell style is fixed.
  • #218983 - Null reference exception thrown while opening the Excel document without theme.xml file is resolved.
  • #219575 - Conditional formats are now properly serialized for an empty document.
  • #219606 - Format exception is no longer raised while opening the Excel file in German culture.
  • Exception thrown while accessing UsedRange of worksheet in an Excel workbook opened with ExcelParseOptions.ParseWorksheetsOnDemand is resolved.
  • DisplayText is retrieved properly after getting CalculatedValue.
  • Issue with secondary value axis for different chart types is fixed.
  • Next available column ID is properly updated while refreshing the query table in existing workbook.