Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v14.3.0.49
September 28, 2016

BackStageView

Bug Fixes

  • #149364,157485 - Now, Backstage width increased properly based on BackStage Tab/Button text size in TouchStyle.

Calculate

Features

  • Provided support for 6 new Excel 2016 functions.

Bug Fixes

  • #157446 - Offset formula returns wrong value in CalcEngine has been fixed.

  • #161691 - CalcEngine returns wrong calculated value while using PI function inside any formula has been fixed.

  • #161691- CalcEngine returns wrong calculated value while using LN and INTERCEPT formula has been fixed.

Chart

Features

  • Provided support for Linear, Exponential, Logarithmic, Power, Polynomial and Moving average trendlines.

CheckBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #160718- Flickering and designer issue will no longer appear while loading with ToolStripEx.
  • #162722- Focus style is applied properly while moving focus to the control using Keyboard.
  • #160718- Rendering issue with AutoSize property has been fixed.

ColorPickerButton

Bug Fixes

  • #161647- Now SelectedColorGroup properly select the associated tab.

ComboBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #162397- Now the SelectedIndex refreshed properly even re-populate the data.
  • #162722- Focused style applied properly while moving focus to the control using Keyboard.
  • #157779- Now, Dropdown closed properly when it placed on a panel.

ComboDropDown

Bug Fixes

  • #161834- Now Visibility issues has been fixed when the control is added as component in Excel add-in.
  • #160441,161447 - Issue with ComboDropDown popup visibility has been resolved.
  • #157779- Now, Popup closed properly while used in Excel add-in.

DateTimePickerAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #161404 - Now, Width of the Header column displayed properly in Spain culture.

Diagram

Bug fixes

  • #158300, #159270, #161022 - Exception raised when double click on the Connector.EndPoints is fixed.
  • #162541 - Exception raised while deleting all the nodes in the diagram using Controller’s Delete method is fixed.
  • #159393 - OnMouseLeave event is now working properly for group node.
  • #159484 - RoundedCorner of the OrthogonalConnector is updating properly now while changing the Connector.CurveRadius property.
  • #161563 - Exception raised when dragging the segments of the PolyLineConnector is fixed.
  • #159469 - Unable to move the ControlPoints of the PolyLineConnector is fixed.

Features

  • #139380, #159457 - Support to Bridging with Corner Radius for connector has been implemented.
  • Built-in support to activate the connector creation when mouse hover on the port is added.

DocIO

Features

  • #158446 - Support to access and modify AllowOverlap for a Textbox has been added.
  • #160314 - Support to access CommentStart and CommentEnd range for a Comment has been added.
  • #134302, #125959 - Added support to export Word document as an OpenDocument Text(ODT) format documents.

Bug Fixes

  • #156461 - Symbol preservation issue has been fixed while resaving the particular RTF document.
  • #156461 - Table header row is now preserved properly while resaving the particular RTF document.
  • #158390 - Special characters is now preserved properly while resaving the RTF document.
  • #156461 - TOC alignment is now preserved properly while converting a particular RTF file to Word document.
  • #159078 - AutoHyphenation setting is now preserved properly while resaving the Word document as RTF file.
  • #159658 - Line break is now preserved properly while converting particular Word document to RTF.
  • #159668 - Paragraph style is now preserved properly while resaving a RTF document.
  • #158263 - TOC text contents are now preserved properly while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #160117 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while performing Mail merge using ExpandoObjects.
  • #160072 - EndGroup merge field preservation issue while using RemoveEmptyGroup has been resolved.
  • #159331 - Line spacing preservation issue has been fixed while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #157651 - ArithmeticException will no longer thrown while parsing DOC format Word document.
  • #159459 - Date format with invalid value is now preserved properly while performing Mail merge.
  • #159300 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer thrown while inserting a section break using InsertSectionBreak API.
  • #159295 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer thrown while opening a particular DOCX format document.
  • #161012 - Null reference exception will no longer thrown while opening a particular RTF file.
  • #159859 - Image background color is now preserved properly while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #160658 - Picture color is now preserved properly while resaving the Word document.
  • #161449, #158728 - No longer hangs while opening a particular DOCX format document.
  • #162513 - Image overlapping issue has been fixed while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #158472 - Checkbox is now preserved properly while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #156622 - File corruption issue has been fixed after executing Mail merge process for a particular Word document.
  • #158650 - No longer hangs while updating document fields for a particular Word document.
  • #159712 - Image size is now preserved properly while resaving a particular RTF document.
  • #163074 - PageRef field result value is now properly updated while updating document fields for a particular Word document.
  • #163074 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while updating document fields for a particular document.
  • #158494 - Spacing and symbols are now preserved properly while resaving a particular RTF document.
  • #158494 - Paragraph missing issue has been fixed while resaving a particular RTF document.
  • #158494 - Normal style is now preserved properly while resaving a particular RTF document.
  • #162224 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #162163 - Font name is now preserved properly while inserting a text using BookmarkNavigator.InsertText API.
  • #162204 - DocIO generated documents are now properly opened in Google docs.
  • #162224, #157132 - NullReferenceException will no longer while opening a particular Word document.
  • #156859 - Image preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #156827 - Tab stop based on compatibility option of ‘ForgetLastTabAlign’ is now properly preserved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #157199 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #157199, #159064 - IndexOutOfRangeException will no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #157199 - Image position are now preserved properly while converting particular Word document as PDF.
  • #157194 - Textbox content preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #157194 - Line shape is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #158757 - Table row background color preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #158757 - Tab stop is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #159373 - Paragraph horizontal alignment preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #158995 - Table row is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #160085 - Multi column text preservation issue has been fixed in Word document to PDF conversion.
  • #160288 - Text formatting is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #159859 - Text position is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #160085 - Paragraph contextual spacing is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #156913 - Sinhalese text is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #159065 - Hyperlinks are now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #161130 - Paragraph alignment is now preserved properly while converting Word document as PDF.
  • #160732 - Horizontal lines are now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document to PDF.
  • #159686 - Images are preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #159295 - Header image is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #161435 - Image overlapping issue has been fixed while converting a particular Word document to PDF.
  • #136131 - OutOfMemoryException will no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #161197 - Table is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #156827 - Image cropping is now preserved properly while converting a particular DOC format document to PDF.
  • #159868, #161156, #160703 - Image missing issue has been fixed while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #160467, #162755 - Images are now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as HTML.

DockingManager

Bug Fixes

  • #162534- Issue with Tab key selection in nested panels has been resolved.
  • #162236- Now Drag providers updated properly in Windows 10 Operating System.
  • #161580- NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while selecting the AutoHide caption button in DockingManager.

DoubleTextBox

Bug Fixes

  • #160156- Now, BackColor is applied properly while applying Theme.
  • #161570- Issue with DateBinding has been fixed.

General

Bug Fixes

  • #161701, 161607, 161823, 162233, 162886, 163686, 164030, 163796 – Now Syncfusion controls will work properly in Windows 10 OS Anniversary update.
  • Predefined templates like Outlook-Mail,Outlook-schedule,Outlook-Contact,Spreadsheet,VisualStudio has been added to the VisualStudio project templates.

GridControl

Features

  • #89777 - Provided support for Excel-like cell comment tip.
  • Provided support for touch scrolling.

Bug Fixes

  • #159058 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while performing copy series or fill series for a range with null value in first cell.
  • #159336 - Performance has been improved while exporting the data from GridControl to Excel.
  • #160957 - Stack Empty Exception is no longer thrown while calculating the RIGHT and LEFT formula with input string that contains the # character.
  • #161030 - Button border is drawn properly while setting the cell back color in Office2007 and Office2010 themes.
  • #162618 - GetPropertyValue method of GridCellUIAProvider returns null value while accessing the value of Boolean property in Coded UI has been fixed.
  • #162999 - The display text of the ComboBox cell type is shown correctly while deleting a selected item when ComboBox has both DisplayMember and ValueMember.

GridDataBoundGrid (Classic)

Bug Fixes

  • #159143 - The row heights are now scaling properly while scaling the application using app.Manifest.
  • #163265 - The column header text color is now displaying properly while switching the theme from Office2010Black to any other theme.

GridGroupingControl

Features

  • #89777 - Provided support for Excel-like cell comment tip.
  • #154949, #162084 - Provided support for filtering the records based on display text in dynamic filter.
  • Provided support for touch scrolling.

Bug Fixes

  • #158517 - The TitleColumnCount property is now properly serialized while setting through designer.
  • #160810 - The EqualsToand NotEqualsTo condition in GridConditionalFormatDescriptor is now working properly for string column type.
  • #162618 - The last row cell values can be retrieved properly in Coded UI.
  • #162483 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while adding the column in Preview and Edit mode designer.
  • #157031 - The items are properly displayed based on the HeaderText of the columns in StackedColumnFieldChooser and ColumnFieldChooser.
  • #162152 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while assigning the DataSource in CellClick event of GridListControl.
  • #162327 - Excel filter is working properly while applying filter programmatically.
  • #159424 - The properties of GridGroupingControl are now serialized properly while setting through designer.
  • #162618 - Boolean type column values are read properly in Coded UI.
  • #162328 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown in ZoomGroupingGrid when GridGroupingControl is hosted in WPF.

GridRecordNavigationControl

Bug Fixes

  • #159869 - Current record number is now displayed properly while clicking on a row that is greater than 9th row in GridRecordNavigationControl.

HTMLUIControl

Bug Fixes

  • #161339 – Windows 7 Operating System based text rendering issues with CSS Style tags has been fixed.

MetroForm

Bug Fixes

  • #162518 - Now, Caption aligned properly while change the CaptionAlign to Center.
  • #161830 – CaptionImages now rendered properly, when Mouse pointer hovers on it.

MultiColumnComboBox

Bug Fixes

  • #162491 – Visibility issue with Row Data when there is only one item has been fixed.
  • #161669- Now, Value and Display member values updated properly based the SelectedItem.

MultiColumnTreeView

Bug Fixes

  • #160336 - Previous CheckState maintained when selecting all the nodes has been resolved.

PDF

Features

  • #157075 - Support has been added to draw content directly in content stream during HTML to PDF conversion using IE.
  • #157234 - Support for adding textbox fields with same name has been added for both the existing and new documents.
  • #158792 - Performance is now improved while merging PDF documents.
  • #106625, #145937 - Provided support for creating, editing and filling both static and dynamic XFA form in a PDF document.
  • Added support for Code128 type of Barcodes.

Bug Fixes

  • #161770 - Exception is no longer thrown while time stamping the PDF document.
  • #161606 - Application will never hang while generating PDF documents in multithreading environment.
  • #158316 - Alignment is now preserved properly while converting Excel to PDF.
  • #162060 - Exception is no longer thrown, while reading the form fields.
  • #161780 - Format exception is no longer thrown while converting XPS to PDF.
  • #161619 - Border width of checkbox field is now preserved properly.
  • #163097 - Border width of textbox field is now preserved properly.
  • #163551 - Web link will be enabled properly when adding PdfTextWebLink to PdfLoadedDocument.
  • #161994 - Exception is no longer thrown while flattening the form field.
  • #161102 - Shapes are no longer missed while converting EMF to PDF.
  • #160094 - Images are rendered properly while drawing in PDF document.
  • #160057 - NullReferenceException is no longer thrown while merging the PDF document.
  • #159398 - NullReferenceException is no longer thrown while getting the index from page.
  • #159067 - Fatal error is no longer thrown while loading the PDF document.
  • #159859 - Bold texts are now preserved properly while converting EMF to PDF.
  • #156890 - Image data is now cleared properly, while disposing the PdfImage.
  • #156607 - Images are now preserved properly when converting EMF to PDF.
  • #156700 - Polish text is now preserved properly while converting Word to PDF.
  • Annotations are now removed properly while using remove method in PdfLoadedAnnotationCollection.
  • Text is now preserved properly while converting EMF to PDF.
  • Text is now retrieved properly from PdfLoadedTextBoxField.
  • Currency symbol is now retrieved properly from PdfLoadedTextBoxField.
  • Popup annotation position has been preserved properly.

PdfViewerControl

Features

  • #157721, #160579, #109334 - Provided support to enable and disable the toolbar buttons of the PDF viewer control.
  • #106644 - Support for Bookmark Navigation in PDF viewer control is added.
  • #155851 - Provided support for printing text elements as text in the PDF viewer control.
  • #160982 - Provided support for retrieving the zoom percentage of PDF viewer control.
  • #157379 - Provided support to enable and disable the horizontal and vertical scrollbar of PDF viewer control.

Bug Fixes

  • #161677 - Shapes are filled with appropriate colors in PDF viewer control.
  • #160325 - Unnecessary horizontal lines are not drawn at the top of the PDF document in the PDF viewer control.
  • #160598 - Images in the header are rendered properly without distortion.
  • #160585 - Images are rendered properly in PDF viewer control.
  • #161254 - Umlauts and Euro signs are rendered properly in PDF viewer control.
  • #160956 - Type 1 font contents are rendered properly in PDF viewer control.
  • #158881, #160558 - Application will not hang anymore while extracting texts from PDF.
  • #162673 - Latin American characters(ALT-165) are rendered properly in PDF viewer control.
  • #162603 - Polish characters are rendered properly in PDF viewer control.

Pivot Chart Preview

Features

  • #156894 - Provided support for updating PivotChart data while updating the values in underlying datasource.
  • #157031 – Provided support for sorting the PivotAxis and PivotLegends programmatically.
  • #157031 – Provided support for event to handle or listen the action performed through PivotSchemaDesigner.

Bug Fixes

  • #156894 - PivotChart is now working properly while adding the empty values in PivotLegend
  • #157031 - The performance has been improved while reloading the PivotChart using ReloadChartData method.

PivotGridControl

Bug Fixes

  • #156894,#156895 - ShowSubTotal and ShowGrandTotal are working properly while changing the pivot schema.
  • #156894,#156895 - Invalid format exception is no longer thrown while adding empty FilterExpression in PivotGrid.
  • #156894 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while adding complex items in filter area of PivotGrid.
  • #156894,#156895,#157031 - Filtered items are now checked properly in filter dropdown UI while adding the FilterExpression programmatically.
  • #157031 - The PivotGridControl is now working properly after applying filter from PivotSchemaDesigner.
  • #157031 - Argument out of range exception is no longer thrown while updating PivotGrid after setting EnableUpdating as true.
  • #157031 - Expand or Collapse button is now displaying properly while refreshing the PivotGrid.
  • #157031 - GrandTotals are rendered properly without any flash while refreshing the PivotGrid.
  • #157031 - DeferLayout option in PivotSchemaDesigneris now working properly.
  • #159514 - The cell values of PivotGrid are now properly updated after changing the EnableUpdating property.

Predictive Analytics

Features

  • #160092 - Added support for K-Nearest Neighbors model.

Presentation

Features

  • #159550 - Support for marking PowerPoint presentations as final, making it non-editable, was now added.
  • #137837, #159731, #160172, #160129 - Support was now added to include and remove the OLE Objects in PowerPoint presentation
  • #158245 - Support was added to modify the slide layouts in PowerPoint presentation

Breaking Changes

  • The property Masters was now added into IPresentation interface
  • The property Final was now added into IPresentation interface
  • The property LayoutSlides was now added into IMasterSlide interface
  • The method Add was now added in ILayoutSlides interface
  • The method Add was now added in ISlides interface
  • The method AddOleObject was now added in IShapes interface

Bug Fixes

  • #159312 - PowerPoint presentations will be no longer corrupted while resaving
  • #159550 - The video files will be now preserved while resaving the PowerPoint presentations
  • #159309 - PowerPoint presentations will be no longer corrupted while cloning the slides containing comments
  • #157762, #160677 - The existing paragraph font size is now retrieved properly while loading the PowerPoint presentations
  • #157742 - The font size for the contents within table is now retrieved properly while loading the PowerPoint presentations
  • #160677 - The “FontName” of the paragraph is now retrieved properly while loading the PowerPoint presentations
  • #160677 - The “HorizontalAlignment” value of the shapes are now retrieved properly while loading the PowerPoint presentations
  • #160677 - The “VerticalAlignment” value of the shapes are now retrieved properly while loading the PowerPoint presentations
  • #157132 - The “Null Reference Exception” will no longer be thrown while parsing PowerPoint slides containing charts
  • #162341 - Null reference exception will be no longer thrown while merging a cloned slide to another presentation
  • #161913 - The SmartArt diagrams will be now preserved properly while cloning a PowerPoint slide
  • #160507 - Text positions are now preserved properly while performing Presentation to PDF conversion
  • #159565 - Chinese content is now preserved properly while performing Presentation to PDF conversion
  • #157742 - The page numbers are now preserved properly while performing Presentation to PDF conversion

RadioButtonAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #162722 - Focused style applied properly while moving focus to the control using Keyboard.

RibbonControlAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #163067 - Issue with TabItem Background in High Contrast theme has been fixed.
  • #162015 – Ribbon border disappears when maximizing the window has been fixed.
  • #143929, 156460 - Now, Text is rendered properly in ToolStripButton with 125 % scaling.
  • #160455 – Now, Visibility of the ToolStripButton in QAT has been changed properly while open and close the BackStage.

RibbonForm

Bug Fixes

  • #162904 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while setting display to 125 % scaling.
  • #162237 – Now the RibbonForm icon is rendered properly as like standard form
  • #161853 – Now the text is rendered properly in 125 % scaling

ScheduleControl

Bug Fixes

  • #161634 - The performance has been improved while switching the schedule views to Day or WorkWeek from any other schedule views.

SplitButton

Bug Fixes

  • #162695 - Now, Button click event fires while clicking the drop down arrow.

Spreadsheet

Features

  • #160476 - Provided support to suppress the alert or warning messages.

  • Provided support to show the busy indicator while importing the workbook.

  • Provided support for 6 new Excel 2016 functions.

Bug Fixes

  • #161096 - Exception no longer thrown while importing the Excel workbook with Blank conditional formatting rule.

StatusStripEx

Bug Fixes

  • #161408 - Now, StatusStripEx item visibility updated properly when SizingGrip value is updated.

SuperToolTip

Bug Fixes

  • #161574 - Tooltip location changed properly based on Dynamic display location property.

TabControlAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #163240 - Child control gets resized automatically when placed inside the TabControlAdv has been fixed.
  • #160166 - Now, TabPageAdv Background applied properly in designer based on ThemeEnabled property.

TreeNavigator

Bug Fixes

  • #161999 - Now, Foreground applied properly based on ForeColor property.

TreeViewAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #162793 - Null Reference Exception will no longer thrown in TreeViewAdv when used as ComboDropDown PopupControl.
  • #162304 - Scrolling problem with TreeViewAdv has been resolved.
  • #162544 - Now, IntermediateCheckColor property worked properly in Metro Style.
  • #162105 – Now TreeNodeMouseClick will trigger properly, when Mouse right click occurs on TreeNodeAdv.

XlsIO

Features

  • Support for Excel 2016 charts is provided.
  • Support for Excel to ODS export is provided.
  • Support for adding and modifying hyperlink to shapes is provided.

Breaking changes

  • The properties IsBinningByCategory, HasAutomaticBins, NumberOfBins, BinWidth, UnderflowBinValue, OverflowBinValue are now added in IChartCategoryAxis interface.
  • The property SetAsTotal is now added in IChartDataPoint interface.
  • The property ParetoLineFormat is now added in IChartSerie interface.
  • The properties TreeMapLabelOption, ShowConnectorLines,ShowMeanLine, ShowMeanMarkers, ShowInnerPoints, ShowOutlierPoints, QuartileCalculationType are now added in IChartSerieDataFormat interface.
  • The properties Shape and AttachedType are now added in IHyperLink interface.
  • The method Add is now added in IHyperLinks interface.

Bug fixes

  • #F125604, #162915 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while opening an Excel file containing rich-text.
  • #154153 - Issues with custom gradients are fixed.
  • #155434 - Argument out of range exception is no longer thrown while importing data table with DDE link formula.
  • #157638 - Issue with missing of sorted values in the created document is fixed.
  • #158543 - Formatting issue in copied worksheet when using Workbook.AddCopy in XLS format is fixed.
  • #159946 - Issue with borders in Excel to PDF conversion is fixed.
  • #160686 - Unexpected token exception is no longer thrown while accessing cell with formula.
  • #160819 - Issue with Base64 image saving is fixed in HTML conversion.
  • #160819 - Issue with contents visibility in HTML conversion is fixed.
  • #160845 - Issue with starting point of line series is fixed in chart to image conversion.
  • #160845 - Dashed lines are preserved in chart to image conversion.
  • #160845 - Issue with marker color is fixed in chart to image conversion.
  • #160845 - Issue with chart series gap width is fixed in chart to image conversion.
  • #160845 - Issue with chart series color is fixed in chart to image conversion.
  • #160845 - Issue with line series position is fixed in chart to image conversion.
  • #161243 - Image outside the used range is not drawn on Excel to PDF conversion is fixed.
  • #161590 - Memory consumption issue in Excel To PDF is fixed.
  • #161932 - Argument out of range exception raised while opening Excel document with conditional number formats is fixed.
  • #162065 - CSV file is preserved proper in Dutch culture.
  • #162324 - XML exception raised while parsing AutoFilters is resolved.
  • #162324 - XML exception raised while parsing image information of a chart is fixed.
  • #162419 - Issue with row and column values of selection range is fixed.
  • #162449 - Issue with chart series data labels in chart to image conversion is fixed.
  • #162601 - Issue with copying DataValidation is fixed.
  • #162844 - Index out of range exception thrown while setting empty value to range of cells is resolved.
  • #163029 - Argument exception is no longer thrown while inserting a row.
  • #163051 - Issue with merged cells in Excel to PDF conversion is fixed.
  • #163119 - Duplicate replacement issue when value to be replaced is enclosed in square bracket using Replace method is fixed.
  • #163450 - Unknown exception thrown while auto fitting rows for multiple worksheets is resolved.
  • #163544 - DateTimeModified field is empty on compression is fixed.

XpTaskBar

Bug Fixes

  • #160609 - XPTaskBarItem will be rendered properly when Office2007Theme is updated