Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v14.4.0.15
November 18, 2016

Calculate

Features

  • Provided support for COUNTIFS formula.

Bug Fixes

  • #162765 – Formula with Table Named Ranges are now calculated properly.

  • #165876 - Null reference exception no longer thrown when calculating using VLookUp formula.

  • #163340 – Formula values are recalculated properly while changing the value at runtime after setting UseFormulaValues property as true.

  • #163529 – Formula having Named Ranges enclosed with parenthesis are now calculated properly.

Chart

Bug Fixes

  • #163358 - Custom point is now drawing properly when setting the custom type as PointFollow.
  • #165943 - Chart is now working properly in VC++ designer.

### Features

  • #145614 - Provided support for trackball in chart.

ComboBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #166040 – Now, the drop-down button has same width as like MS ComboBox.
  • #166331- Time taken to load the items in ComboBoxAdv has been reduced.

DateTimePickerAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #166040 - DropDownButton width has been updated based on ComboBoxAdv DropDownButton width.

Diagram

Bug Fixes

  • #163358 - OrgLineConnector is not updated properly while translating the nodes using Translate method is fixed.
  • #164135 - Memory size keep on increasing When dragging the node from the palette is fixed.

Breaking Changes

  • Diagram.Graph’s AppendTransfomChanges method is marked as obsolete. Use AppendTransformChanges method instead.
  • SymbolPalette’s IsUserDefinitedLargeIcon method is marked as obsolete. Use IsUserDefinedLargeIcon method instead.
  • SymbolPalette’s IsUserDefinitedSmallIcon method is marked as obsolete. Use IsUserDefinedSmallIcon method instead.
  • Diagram.OrgLineConnector’s and Diagram .OrthogonalConnector’s MergeSegements method is marked as obsolete. Use MergeSegments method instead.
  • Diagram.LinkManager’s SynhronizeStarted event is marked as obsolete. Use SynchronizeStarted event instead.
  • Diagram.LinkManager’s SynhronizeCompleted event is marked as obsolete. Use SynchronizeCompleted method instead.
  • PaperStandart’s and PaperScaleStandart’s GetStandarts method is marked as obsolete. Use GetStandards method instead.

DocIO

Features

  • #160367 - Added EnableFastRendering property in DocToPDFConverterSettings class for converting Word document to PDF, 30% faster than the previous version.

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

  • #157194 - InvalidOperationException will no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #161613 - Table cell margin is now preserved properly while converting particular Word document as PDF.
  • #164631 - Word document converted as PDF with PDF/A-1b conformance level will meet the adobe preflight PDF/A-1b compliance.
  • #161882, #164782 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #162767, #162891 - AltChunk contents are now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #162848 - Word splitting issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #162851 - Performance has been improved in Word to PDF conversion.
  • #164123 - Images are now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #164110 - Vertical merged cell contents are now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #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.
  • #164220 - Empty paragraph is now preserved properly while resaving a particular Word document as HTML.
  • #164220 - Line spacing is now preserved properly while resaving a particular Word document as HTML.
  • #165376 - Textbox content preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #165645 - Line spacing is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #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.
  • #165192 - Table header row is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #165340 - Word document encryption/decryption is now working properly in FIPS compliance.
  • #164561 - Page and NumPages fields are now preserved properly while re-saving a particular Word document.
  • #165878 - Picture watermark position is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #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.

GridControl

Features

  • Provided support for 2016 Excel like selection frame.
  • Provided support for touch(bubble) selection.

GridGroupingControl

Features

  • Provided support for touch(bubble) selection.
  • #162750, #156263 - Provided support to customize the excel filter icon.
  • #162750, #156263 - Provided support to serialize and de-serialize GridExcelFilter.

Bug Fixes

  • #160810 - The negative numbers are now properly exporting to Excel.
  • #165002 - The error validation message box is no longer shown twice when grid is placed inside the DockingManager.
  • #164611 - Filter icon is now properly displayed when GridExcelFilter is applied.
  • #166290 - The filtered records count is now returning properly while clearing the filter after using custom filter in GridExcelFilter.
  • #165353 - Exception is no longer thrown when data view is used as data source for GridGroupingControl.
  • #165585 - GridGroupingControl is now recognizing properly with Coded UI in VS2013 and VS2015.

GroupView

Features

  • #161472 - Provided support to customize GroupViewItem text horizontal starting position.

Office2010Form

Bug Fixes

  • #164925 - Caption text will be updated properly when WindowState is changed.

PDF

Features

  • #164699 - Support for UPC-A barcode has been added.

Bug Fixes

  • #158424 - Index was outside the bounds of the array exception is no longer thrown, while loading a PDF document.
  • #163672 - Parameter is not valid exception is no longer thrown, while using IE based HTML to PDF converter.
  • #165140 - No duplicate fonts are retrieved from the PDF document.
  • #163906 - Adobe reader exception is no longer thrown, while drawing image in the PDF document.
  • #164547 - Exception is no longer thrown while getting the used fonts from the PDF document.
  • #164832 - Can not find catalog information exception is no longer thrown while loading a PDF document.
  • #163146 - EMF shapes are preserved properly when converting EMF to PDF.
  • #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.
  • #164940 - Image is now preserved properly while converting Presentation to PDF.
  • #164222 - File size of the PDF is now reduced while converting XPS to PDF.
  • #161216 - Extra spaces will never appear between numbers while converting HTML to PDF
  • #157711 - Bold text will never appear as superscript in HTML to PDF conversion.
  • #163976 - File size is reduced while adding time stamp in PDF document.
  • #161590 - Memory leak will never occur while drawing identical image in PDF
  • #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.
  • #163402 - Parameter is not valid exception is no longer thrown while processing OCR.
  • #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.
  • #149661 - Page breaks are now preserved properly in IE Converter.
  • #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.
  • #165726 - NullReferenceException is no longer thrown while retrieving PDF used fonts.
  • #152738 - Images are now preserved properly when converting EMF to PDF.

PdfViewerControl

Features

  • #162668 - Exposed an API to print the page content from the specified location.
  • #163359 - Implemented Mouse Up and Mouse Down events in PdfViewerControl and PdfDocumentView.
  • #165261 - Provided support for hiding vertical and horizontal scrollbars in PDF viewer control.

Bug Fixes

  • #163295 - Bottom of the PDF document will not crop while printing using PDF viewer control.
  • #163134 - Watermark contents will be rendered properly in PDF viewer control.
  • #163082 - Alignment of the extracted texts are preserved properly.
  • #164186 - Image bounds are extracted properly from the PDF document.
  • #164373 - Index out of range exception will no longer occurs while loading PDF document in PDF viewer control.
  • #162675, #165380 - Null reference exception will not throw while loading the PDF document in PDF viewer control.
  • #155421 - Top of the PDF page is not cropped anymore on setting zoom mode to fit page in the PDF viewer control.
  • #164754 - Text contents are copied properly in PDF viewer control.
  • #164850 - Polish characters are copied properly in PDF viewer control.

Pivot Chart Preview

Features

  • Provided support for touch scrolling and zooming.

Bug Fixes

  • #163285 - The legends values are now displaying properly while adding more than one pivot calculations.

PivotGridControl

Features

  • Provided support for 2016 Excel like selection frame.
  • Provided support for touch(bubble) selection.
  • Provided support for touch scrolling.

Bug Fixes

  • #156894,#156895 - Dropdown items in the Filters section of PivotSchemaDesigner is now showing properly.

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.
  • #165340 - Presentation library is now compatible with FIPS(Federal Information Processing Standard).
  • #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.
  • #164260 - Argument exception will be no longer thrown while converting PowerPoint slides to images.
  • #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.
  • #162450 - Chart series colors are now preserved properly while converting the PowerPoint slide to an image.
  • #161690 - Paragraph text with the gradient fill will be preserved properly while converting the PowerPoint presentation to PDF or image.

RibbonControlAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #166784- Now cast exception doesn’t raises when switch between MDI Child.
  • #165142- Tag property will not be overwritten when add or remove the item to QAT.
  • #163079- Now, ToolStripButton image doesn’t cropped in high contrast theme at run time.
  • #156164- Now, ToolStripEx can be resized properly on CollapseBehavior.

ScheduleControl

Features

  • Provided support for touch gestures like in Outlook Calendar.

Bug Fixes

  • #163285 - The date is now properly selected as like Outlook Calendar while switching from one schedule view to another.

ScrollersFrame

Features

  • #163148 - Provided support to customize ScrollersFrame as like in Microsoft Office 2016 application.

SfMaps

Features

  • Provided TileMap Rendering Support
  • Provided GeoJson File Render Support

Spreadsheet

Features

  • Provided Context Menu support for Graphic Cells.

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

  • #162635 - Provided support to display 3D charts.

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

  • Provided support for COUNTIFS formula.

SuperToolTip

Bug Fixes

  • #165689 - GradientBackGround property now working properly.

Features

  • #165751,165874 - Provided support to find, whether it is Active or not.

  • #165690 - Provided support to show SuperToolTip always.

  • #165751 - Provided support to hide SuperToolTip, when it is assigned to particular control

TreeMap

Bug Fixes

  • #164674 - Highlighting treemap item not functioning properly when resizing the application window issue has been fixed
  • #164674 - Need to group children and show captions at each level issue has been fixed.

TreeNavigator

Bug Fixes

  • #166913 - Now, TreeMenuItem Foreground updated properly based on selection change.

  • #165741 - TreeMenuItem Visibility not persisted properly while navigation has been fixed.

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.
  • #162207 - Issue with repeated pages in Excel to PDF conversion has been fixed.
  • #164282 - Exception while converting Excel document with merged cells into PDF is no longer thrown.
  • #164782 - Exception while converting Excel document with pivot source into PDF is no longer thrown.
  • #164782 - Exception while converting Excel document with invalid PrintTitleRows or PrintTitleColumns into PDF is no longer thrown.
  • #164782 - Argument out of range exception while accessing a row beyond the row limit in Excel to PDF conversion is no longer thrown.
  • #166246 - The issue with different margin values in Excel to PDF conversion is fixed.
  • #166144 - Center aligned texts are properly rendered in worksheet to image conversion.
  • #165809 - Charts with single data label is properly converted to image.
  • #164782 - Exception with input string was not in a correct format is no longer thrown while converting an Excel document into PDF.
  • #163682 - Invalid named range exception is no longer thrown while importing data table.
  • #165498 - Argument out of range exception thrown on ImportDataTable() is fixed.
  • #162765 - Incorrect cell values in table ranges on PDF conversion is fixed.
  • #164462 - Issue with image position in Excel to PDF conversion is fixed.
  • #163287 - Column width is preserved properly in Excel to HTML conversion.
  • #162449 - Index out of range exception will not be thrown on chart to image conversion.
  • #162635 - Issues with series name, font size and fill color in Excel chart to image conversion are fixed.