Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v16.1.0.32
March 29,2018

Chart

Bug Fixes

  • #197414 - Swapping of high and low data points can be disabled now in range area chart.
  • #198686 - Now, callout label accepts the date-time values as label text.
  • #199715 - The trackball tooltip will not be displayed for empty string.

ComboBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #200913 - ComboBoxAdv height is updated properly when the FlatStyle is set to System.

Common

Breaking Changes

  • #187805 - Syncfusion has provided separate NuGet packages for each .NET Framework version assembly till now. However, this has been changed from this release onwards and now each NuGet package will contain all applicable .NET Framework versions assemblies. Please refer this Knowledge Base article to learn more information about this change.

Diagram

Bug fixes

  • #198075 - When changing the Layer visibility at runtime, node’s visibility not changed is fixed.
  • #198718 - Exception raised when drag and drop the ControlNode from SymbolPalette to Diagram is fixed.
  • #198922 - Exception raised when ungrouping the nested group node is fixed.
  • #71540 - While importing the Visio stencil to diagram, port’s are not getting hidden is fixed.

DocIO

Bug Fixes

  • #197282 - ArgumentException will be no longer thrown while parsing a particular RTF document.
  • #199294 - The character and paragraph properties inherited from source document default formats are now properly imported to destination document.
  • #197763 - Picture effects are now preserved properly while merging a cloned Word document for multiple times.
  • #196839 - Paragraph with “None” list style type is now preserved properly while parsing a HTML format document.
  • #201256, #201364 - Field code is now serialized properly within “instrText” element while opening and saving DOCX format document.
  • #198450, #198489 - FormatException will be no longer thrown while opening and saving a particular DOCX format document.
  • #198653 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will be no longer thrown while updating fields in a particular Word document.
  • #200254 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will be no longer thrown while parsing a particular DOCX format document.
  • #198360 - IndexOutOfRangeException will be no longer thrown while opening and saving a particular Word document.
  • #200327 - Formatting of contents within textbox is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as HTML.
  • #199782 - Font preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular RTF document to Word document.
  • #199747 - No extra characters will be preserved while converting a Word document as RTF.
  • #198068 - Nested body contents are now preserved properly while parsing a particular Word document.
  • #195214 - Paragraph within nested table is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #195214 - Paragraph with keep with next property is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #195214 - Vertically merged cells are now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #196520 - Fields with unknown type are now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #196520, #200771 - List numbering preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #195214 - Table styles are now applied properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #199166 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will be no longer thrown while updating content control text for Word to PDF conversion.
  • #189615 - Shape flip style is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #198450 - Frames are now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #199783 - Watermark image is now preserved properly in the converted PDF when wash out property of the watermark is disabled.
  • #198249 - TOC text color is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #189881 - Text alignment is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #199056 - Preservation issue due to wrapping text around textbox has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #198842 - Footnote preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #197456 - OutOfMemoryException will be no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #198675 - NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #197524 - Hanging issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #196443 - Extra page preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #200936 - Oval shape preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.

DockingManager

Feature

  • #194519 - Provided support to customize the appearance of tab items in dock window of DockingManager.

Bug Fixes

  • #198744 - ActiveTabBackColor and ActiveTabForeColor not applied properly when mouse hover the auto hide tab has been fixed.
  • #193360 - Tabs of Notepad++ flickers when loading the Form which contains DockingManager has been fixed.

EditControl

Bug Fixes

  • #199947 - Application will no longer crash while selecting lines by CTRL + A and deleting the selected lines when the intellisense box is open.
  • #198485 , 199415 - Text overlapping will no longer occurs on pasting multiple lines in EditControl.

GradientPanelExt

Breaking changes

  • The property InnerRectBorderColor is marked as deprecated, please use InnerBorderColor property to set border color for inner rectangle.
  • The property InnerRectBackgroundBrush is marked as deprecated, please use InnerBackgroundBrush property to set background color for inner rectangle.

Bug Fixes

  • #199021 - Provided support to customize the Inner rectangle border thickness.

GridControl

Bug Fixes

  • #198021, #198440 - The DateTime format for the cells are updated properly for the specified range while importing from Excel.

GridGroupingControl

Bug Fixes

  • #199266 - The FieldChooser displays the columns properly when manually added a column collection to the field chooser.
  • #196607 - The cell validation for nested tables is performed properly.
  • #197049 - The ControlValue for cells are updated properly regardless of cell validation.
  • #196536 - The GridExcelFilter is filtering the values based on the DisplayMember using Search textbox.

MainFrameBarManager

Bug Fixes

  • #199182 - BarItem image size will no longer inverted unnecessarily in MainFrameBarManager.

MessageBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #200681 - MessageBoxAdv will no longer allowed to show multiple message box at same time even loaded in ApplicationIdle event.

MetroForm

Bug Fixes

  • #196483 - Size of the MetroForm changed while adding and removing child controls at run time has been fixed.
  • #197078 - Flat look not updated properly when switching between tabbed and normal view has been fixed.

MultiSelectionComboBox

Bug Fixes

  • #199512 - DataSource will be updated properly in the run-time.

Office2007Form

Feature

  • #184959 - Provided support to customize the Caption Bar height.

Office2010Form

Feature

  • #184959 - Provided support to customize the Caption Bar height.

PDF

Features

  • #199403,197452 - Support for adding annotation to the PDF Layers is added.
  • #93029,175644,190033,190937,194794,199329,198104 - Support for converting existing PDF document to PDF/A-1b document is added.

Bug Fixes

  • #198270 - Text preservation issue no longer occurs while converting XPS document to PDF.
  • #200302 - Improved the performance when importing the pages from the existing PDF document.
  • #200680 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when altering the page label of existing PDF document.
  • #200527 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when loading a PDF document with open and repair.
  • #200438 - Same key has already been added exception no longer occurs when loading particular PDF document.
  • #199711 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when importing named destinations from the PDF document.
  • #198565 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when merging the particular PDF documents.
  • #197635 - An error was encountered while retrieving page content exception no longer occurs when adding watermark to the existing PDF document in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.
  • #199398 - URI value from PdfLoadedUriAnnotation is now preserving properly when retrieving the PDF document.
  • #199159 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when importing the pages from the particular PDF document.
  • #198936,198057 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when merging the particular PDF documents.
  • #198683 - Performance has been increased when loading particular PDF document.
  • #198249 - The inner EMF image is preserving properly while converting EMF to PDF.
  • #198498 - Opacity is now properly applying to the flattened annotation.
  • #198487 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when loading the particular PDF document.
  • #198391 - Application crashing issue no longer occurs when performing OCR in multi-threading environment.
  • #198281,198759 - Signature is now valid while adding digital signature to the PDF document in different time zones.
  • #197917 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when drawing HTML text in the existing PDF document.
  • #194851 - Improved the performance while closing the PDF document.
  • #196766,198057,196766 - The document size is optimized when importing the page from the particular document.
  • #197506 - The CreateTemplate method is now working properly in multi-threading environment.
  • #197436 - Argument out of range exception no longer occurs when filling XFA document.
  • #197077,198678 - Cannot find the PDF catalog information exception no longer occurs when loading the particular PDF document.
  • #197123 - PDF form fields are now preserving properly when merging the PDF documents.
  • #196643 - Improved the performance when loading the corrupted PDF documents.
  • #196621 - Improved the performance when splitting a large PDF document.
  • #195214 - Shapes are now preserving properly in PDF while converting EMF document to PDF.
  • #194948 - Improved the performance when creating large PDF document with Hebrew text.
  • #194156 - Image is now preserving properly while converting XPS document to PDF.
  • #194018 - ArgumentException is no longer occurs when flattening a PDF document.
  • #199712 - OutOfMemoryException no longer occurs when providing large input text to QR code.
  • #199907 - The PdfLoadedSignatureField is now loading from the existing PDF document.
  • #177819 - Text extraction is now preserving properly from the existing PDF document.

PdfViewerControl

Features

  • #195228 - Provided support to override toolbar button action in PDF Viewer.

Bug Fixes

  • #197917, #198462 - PDF document will be scaled properly while resizing the document faster.
  • #197787 - Length of the extracted text will be proper while using ExtractText() method multiple times for same page.
  • #197624 - The Parameter invalid exception will not be thrown while extracting the text from the provided PDF document.
  • #199159 - NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown when importing pages from the particular document.
  • #196736 - Identity-H fonts will now be rendered properly in PDF Viewer.
  • #198378 - The memory used for FindText operation in PDF Viewer is optimized.

Presentation

Bug Fixes

  • #198361 - Images are now preserved properly while performing clone and merge in PowerPoint presentation.
  • #199566 - The URL associated with a hyperlink is now preserved properly while re-saving the PowerPoint presentation.
  • #199259 - Application will no longer hang while re-saving the PowerPoint presentation with SmartArt diagrams.
  • #196810 - PowerPoint presentation is no more corrupted while applying slide formatting options.
  • #199260 - NullReferenceException is no more thrown while converting a Presentation slide to image.

RadialGauge

Bug Fixes

  • #199263 - BackColor customization not updated properly in RadialGauge has been fixed.

RibbonControlAdv

Feature

  • #196432 - Provided support to add BackStageTab to the QAT.
  • #199416 - Provided support to hide the separator in the StatusStripEx.

Bug Fixes

  • #199423 - RibbonPanel will not be minimized in the load state when form is closed from BackStage.
  • #199732 - Tabs will now insert in the correct location.
  • #200241 - Border will be rendered properly while hovering RibbonTab in Office2016 style.
  • #199745 - CPU usage will be reduced while adding ToolStripSplitButton/ToolStripDropDownButton to QAT in RibbonControlAdv.
  • #199443 - ToolStripEx size will now be updated correctly based on the visibility of the items in runtime.
  • #197756 - Border will be rendered properly for selected RibbonTab.
  • #198180 - NullReferenceException will no longer occur while creating a MDI Child when RibbonControlAdv presents.
  • #197411 - Property window will now be displayed properly after adding ToolStripSplitButton to the QAT.
  • #196432 - Customize QAT list box item will now be updated properly in the 4K monitor.

ScheduleControl

Bug Fixes

  • #F135371 - Provided the localization support for message boxes.

SfDataGrid

Features

  • #200197 - Provided support to add the different types of columns through designer.
  • #198897 - Provided support for auto generating the complex property type columns.
  • Provided support to add the Summaries (TableSummary and GroupSummary) through designer.

StatusStripEx

Bug Fixes

  • #199416 - StatusStripLabel text will be displayed properly in StatusStripEx.

TabbedMDIManager

Feature

  • #197735 - Provided support to customize the appearance of tab caption and panel in TabbedMDIManager.

Bug Fixes

  • #198384 - Null reference exception will no longer thrown on closing Parent MDIForm in Maximized state.

TabControlAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #198258 - Tab header BorderColor not updated based on the back color of its parent form when TabStyle is 2D and 3D has been fixed.

TreeViewAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #198355 - ToolTip for TreeNodeAdv will be displayed properly on mouse hover.

XlsIO

Features

  • Support is provided for Resize and Offset operations in IRange.

Breaking Changes

  • #198134 - FullFileName property is added in IWorkbook interface.
  • #198663 , * #198664 - IRange and IWorkbook interfaces are implemented with IEnumerable.
  • Resize() and Offset() methods are added in ‘IRange’ interface.

Bug fixes

  • #200525 - Corruption issue while removing last row in a table is fixed.
  • #200090 - Space preservation issue while resaving a binary (XLS) file to xml format (XLSX) is fixed.
  • #198853 - Incremental formula is set properly for formulas with sheet reference.
  • #198385 - Legend color is not set when applied for entire legend collection is fixed.
  • #198849 - Column styles will be moved properly while inserting column in a worksheet.
  • #198858 - File with macros can be saved successfully without any corruption.
  • #198898 - Excel file with external formula reference in data validation can be opened without any exception.
  • #198785 - Find values within range accepts ExcelFindType.Values without any exception.
  • #198289 - Performance issue while opening Excel file with data validation applied on large range is resolved.
  • #198385 - Issue with chart axis font color for binary file is fixed.
  • #158298 - Month and day columns in pivot table can be sorted properly.
  • #197892 - Text gets cropped on CSV to PDF conversion is fixed.
  • #195255 - Performance issue while closing the workbook is fixed.
  • #197896 - Filter icon visibility issue in merged column header is fixed.
  • #197903 - Number formats are preserved correctly without any addition of extra slashes.
  • #198277 - Exception raised while opening the Excel file with date cell type is resolved.
  • #197711 - Exception thrown while saving an XML file having default parent style index to XLSX format is resolved.
  • #135796 - Issue with border of text box shape in worksheet to image conversion is fixed.
  • #197433 - Issue with row height value when changing the system resolution is resolved.
  • #197691 - Issues with Doughnut chart explosion and category values in the data labels in chart to image conversion are fixed.
  • #197106 - Calculated field can be added to more than one pivot table without any file corruption.
  • #196836 - Object reference exception when worksheet has custom property set to null is resolved.
  • #196955 - Chart font color settings are applied properly in chart elements.
  • #158298 – Issue with pivot table field sorting when sort field items are less than the field item count is fixed.
  • #196737 - Worksheet header image can be replaced properly without any variation in image size.
  • #196116 - Image is rendered properly in Excel to PDF conversion when ExportQualityImage property of converter settings is set true.
  • #196502 - Exception while opening an excel fie with empty fill tag is resolved.
  • #191260 , * #196173 - Used range is properly updated while layouting a pivot table.
  • #196117 - Issue with hyperlink added to a cell after adding shape hyperlink is fixed.
  • #195137 , * #196893 - Column text contains DateTime formatted values instead of Date values is fixed.
  • #198849 - Cell data validation is removed properly while copying empty cells.
  • Corruption issue is resolved while copying tables with same name by AddCopy().
  • Performance issue while copying entire column to another range is resolved.
  • Conditional formats are removed from destination range while copying is fixed.
  • Worksheet unused columns are not collapsed in Google Sheets.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while copying tables to existing table ranges.
  • Issue with visibility of zero or negative size values for bubble chart data points in chart to image conversion is fixed.
  • The data points are set with possible ways of on display blank as option in chart to image conversion.
  • Exception while opening Excel file with DDE link formula is resolved.
  • Fixed various issues in CopyTo() and AddCopy() of tables, formulae, ranges, shapes and worksheets.
  • AutoShapes are not re-positioned properly after moving to same or different worksheet using CopyTo() is fixed.