Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v16.2.0.46
July 30, 2018
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Chart

Bug fixes

  • #207328 – Trendlines are now being rendered properly for the points with unequal intervals.
  • #207328 – Polynomial trendline is now being rendered properly.

CheckBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #208399 - Back color is now serialized in designer and applied in run time.

ColorPickerUIAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #207642 - Size of the control is maintained properly when it is created programmatically.

ComboBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #208746 - NullReferenceException will not be thrown when it is placed inside Modal dialog.
  • #207936 - MaxDropDownItems will now work properly.

ComboBoxBase

Bug Fixes

  • #207326 - Text is updated properly at startup before opening popup.

Diagram

Bug fixes

  • #204841 - Node’s rendering helper is not updated properly when the node’s AllowMoveX/AllowMoveY property set to false and dragging the node..
  • #207738 - When selecting the multiple nodes with connectors and dragging the selected objects, selection rectangle is not updated properly is fixed.
  • #206593 - Exception raised when establishing connection with the group node as connector should be a child of the group node and perform Ungroup functionality is fixed.

DocIO

Features

  • #205783, #F138587 - Added Rotation property in WPicture class.

Bug Fixes

  • #209648 - Tab characters are preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #204167, #209881 - InvalidOperationException will be no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #204167, #209881 - IndexOutOfRangeException will be no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #208660, #206994, #204167 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will be no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #208268 - Paragraph spacing is now preserved properly when replacing content in table cell for a particular Word document.
  • #F138091 - Table header is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #207657 - Word document will be no longer corrupted when inserting image in a particular Word document.
  • #208020 - paragraph spacing is preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #208046 - Multi column is now preserved properly in Word Perfect Office Viewer while resaving a particular Word document as RTF.
  • #207861 - Word document will be no longer corrupted in Microsoft Word 2007 application while resaving a particular Word document.
  • #207772 - Image position is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #207653 - Text shading is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #207619, #205309 - Table is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #204167, #209881 - Performance has been improved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #204167, #209881 - StackOverflowException will be no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #205919 - Image size is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as RTF.
  • #206868 - Bookmark hyperlink is now navigate properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #206703, #203618 - Word document will be no longer hangs while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #206993, #203639 - NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #206485 - Table splitting issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #206496, #205904 - Content control content is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #206202, #205099, #208898 - List number is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #205329, #209408, #203051 - Word document will be no longer hangs while updating document fields in a particular Word document.
  • #205631, #205309 - Text wrapping issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #205633 - NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while parsing a particular Word document.
  • #205309 - Table cell text preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #205309 - Table position issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #205250 - InvalidOperationException will be no longer thrown while parsing a particular RTF format document.
  • #205188 - StackOverflowException will be no longer thrown while updating document fields in a particular Word document.
  • #202856 - TOC preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as HTML.
  • #204774 - NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while deleting bookmark content in a particular Word document.
  • #204774 - Bookmark content is now deleted properly in a particular Word document.
  • #204542 - TextBox is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #204342 - Paragraph spacing is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #202253 - OutOfMemoryException will be no longer thrown while parsing a particular Word document.
  • #180963, #193566 - Font preservation issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #205322 - Chinese characters are preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #208059 - MAX field is now properly skipped from updating error result while updating fields in a particular Word document.

DoubleTextBox

Bug Fixes

  • #208432 - ContextMenuStripEx will now be displayed when assigned to the control.

EditControl

Bug Fixes

  • #208280 - Height of the EditControl not updated properly while applied custom configuration and enabled single line mode has been fixed.
  • #210095 - Application will respond properly even intellisense loaded with more items in EditControl.

GridControl

Features

  • #F136912 - Provided COUNTIFS formula support.
  • #205228 - Provided support to localize the static strings in Copy and Fill Series and Find and Replace features.

Bug Fixes

  • #207351 - The AllowProportionalColumnSizing property is now working properly when the RowHeader column is in hidden state.
  • #204845,#205087 - Column widths are now exporting properly to Excel when the grid has hidden columns.

GridGroupingControl

Bug Fixes

  • #208730 - Sorting is now working properly in the ComboBox column when the FilterMode is DisplayText.
  • #F136476 - Blanks static text in the GridExcelFilter pop-up is now localized.

MessageBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

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

MultiSelectionComboBox

Bug Fixes

  • #137477 - VisualItem fore color can be customized using VisualItemForeColor property.

PDF

Bug Fixes

  • #209067 - XML files are now importing properly as form fields.
  • #209067 - Drop-down form fields are now exporting properly as XML files.
  • #209809 - “Unable to decrypt document without ID” exception will no longer occur when decrypting the PDF documents.
  • #209809 - “Catalog is not present” exception will no longer occur when loading the PDF documents.
  • #209809,207003 - “Password is incorrect exception” will no longer occur when loading the PDF documents.
  • #205727,199398 - URI value from PdfLoadedUriAnnotation is now retrieving properly from the PDF document.
  • #205636 - “Index out of range exception” will no longer occur when loading the PDF documents.
  • #206504 - Imported document size is not increased if the source document contains hyperlinks.
  • #204160 - Content is now preserving properly when adding large text to a PdfGrid cell in landscape page.
  • #206944 - PDF signature appearance is updating properly when using appearance graphics.
  • #209484 - “Null reference exception” will no longer occur when accessing layer of the PDF document.
  • #204266 - Incorrect layer behavior and syntax issues in Preflight when creating layers in PDF document are now fixed.
  • #207003 - “Index and length must refer to a location within the string” exception will no longer occur when loading the PDF documents.
  • #206043 - The blank page will no longer be created when rotating the PDF documents.
  • #205034 - Preservation issues will no longer occur when adding layers with overlay to PDF documents.
  • #208125 - “Argument Out Of Range exception” will no longer occur when importing pages from the PDF documents.
  • #206826 - All the form fields are now preserving properly when merging the PDF documents.
  • #206864,209809 - Hanging issues will no longer occur when importing pages form the PDF document.
  • #208472 - PDF document corruption issue will no longer occur when merging the PDF documents.
  • #209467 - “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” exception will no longer occur when loading the PDF documents.
  • #206344 - Text box fields are now preserving properly when flattening the PDF documents.
  • #207010,206810 - Null reference exception will no longer occur when appending the PDF documents.
  • #204640 - “Can’t convert to rectangle” exception will no longer occur when flattening the PDF documents.
  • #210823 - Null reference exception will no longer occur when performing ExportAsImage operation.
  • #204392 - The exact OCR error message is now displayed in case of OCR failure.
  • #207441 - “Null reference exception” will no longer occur when converting Word document to PDF with PdfXConformance.
  • #202700 - Bullets in the Word document are now preserving properly when converted to PDF.
  • #208145 - The header in the Word document is now preserving properly when converted to PDF.
  • #207105 - No extra figured tags are added when converting HTML to tagged PDF.
  • #207447 - Hyperlinks are now preserving properly when href contains hash tag in HTML.
  • #205172 - RTL text is now preserving properly when converting Word document to PDF.

PdfViewerControl

Bug Fixes

  • #207210, #209611 - Contents of the PDF document are now printed in correct position with the Pdfium rendering engine.

Presentation

Bug Fixes

  • #204936 - Table styles are now preserved properly while converting a PowerPoint presentation to PDF.
  • #204936 - Text colors are now preserved properly while converting a PowerPoint presentation to PDF.
  • #204936 - Font styles are now preserved properly while converting a PowerPoint presentation to PDF.
  • #205737 - Text orientation in SmartArt nodes are preserved properly while converting a PowerPoint presentation to image.
  • #205502 - Application will no longer hang while re-saving the PowerPoint presentation.
  • #205217 - NullReferenceException is no more thrown while converting a Presentation slide to PDF.

RibbonControlAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #209118 - Disable state is drawn for ToolStripSplitButtonEx.
  • #209118 - Selected state is not maintained after focus is lost for ToolStripSplitButtonEx.
  • #208996 - Backstage button color will now work in Office2016ColorTable.
  • #207412 - NullReferenceException will no longer occur in RibbonForm when backstage is null.
  • #207141 - Menu color is applied for Menu button in Office2016 style.
  • #196632 - Performance has been improved for Office2016 style.
  • #205847 - Tabs with same name will be merged and also can be added separately by disabling MergeDuplicateTab property.

SfDataGrid

Features

  • #207569 - Provided support to enable or disable the text in the header cell of GridCheckBoxColumn.
  • #207707 - Provided CollectionChanged event support for SelectedNodeEntries collection.
  • #F138058 - Provided Serialization and Deserialization supports for GridImageColumn and GridComboBoxColumn.

Bug Fixes

  • #F138365 - Select rows were:, AND, OR, and Done static strings in Excel-like filter control are now localized using the resource (.resx) file.
  • #F138581 - Filtering is now applied properly when changing the DataSource with AutoGenerateColumnsMode.SmartReset mode.
  • #210482 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown in the searching operation when dynamically changing the DataSource.

SfForm

Bug Fixes

  • #210073 - Objects are now disposed properly when resizing the form.

TreeNavigator

Bug Fixes

  • #208183 - Horizontal scrollbar is visible only when the text exceeds the control size.

TreeViewAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #206492 - Scrolling will now work properly after deleting a node.
  • #206423 - Clicking a node does not goes into editing mode.
  • #209955 - Provided support to collapse a particular node.

XlsIO

Bug fixes

  • #209729 - Null reference exception thrown while adding marker variable with copy style argument is resolved.
  • #209443 - Null reference exception thrown while copying empty worksheet range is resolved.
  • #209443 - Shape is not copied properly to another range while clearing range is fixed.
  • #209538 - Cell value is rendered properly in Excel to PDF conversion.
  • #208893 - Transparent image background in rendered properly in PDF conversion.
  • #208554 - Application exception ambiguity conflict between Microsoft Common Object Runtime Library and Syncfusion.Compression NuGet package is resolved.
  • #207203 – Random exceptions on accessing RTFText property multiple times is resolved.
  • #208141 - Exception thrown while converting chart with range collection is resolved.
  • #208122 - Exception thrown while opening a file with empty RTF text is resolved.
  • #207732 - Argument exception thrown while opening a workbook of strict XML type is resolved.
  • #207940 - Null reference exception raised while invoking auto fit columns on cells containing formulas is resolved.
  • #207176, #210642 - Issue with conditional formats on a newly created worksheet is fixed.
  • #207151 - Exception is no longer thrown while saving the workbook created using AddCopy().
  • #206271 - Corruption issue while resaving the file with query table is resolved.
  • #206070 - Formats are preserved correctly while saving XML file as XLSX.
  • #205858 - Table formula with column name in dimension format can be set properly.
  • #204936 - Legend alignment can be achieved properly regardless of axis labels in Chart to Image conversion.
  • #204815 - Exception raised while opening Excel file having the style count greater than maximum unique styles is fixed.
  • #204483 - XML exception raised while opening a binary file with duplicate schema is resolved.
  • #204511 - FindAll() returns expected value when ExcelFindOptions is not provided.
  • #204932 - Exception raised while setting Fill property for un-supported chart types on opening Excel file is resolved.
  • #204742 - Data connection parameters tag is now serialized while resaving the Excel file.
  • #204130, #204484 - Exception thrown while parsing hyperlink in merged cells is resolved.
  • #203365 - Conditional formats are properly copied while add copying the worksheet.
  • #203557 - File corruption issue while generating worksheet from data table is resolved.
  • #203396 - File corruption while removing comments with picture from worksheet is resolved.
  • #202487 - Exception is no longer raised while parsing invalid reference to chart series name.
  • #204134 - Incorrect chart name retrieved for binary file is fixed.
  • #207784 - Exception raised while copying custom functions to a different workbook is resolved.
  • #205835 - Exception raised while cloning the workbook with conditional formats is resolved.
  • Exception will no longer be thrown while applying template marker using IWorksheet.Workbook property
  • Issue with shape color in Excel to PDF conversion is fixed.
  • Auto filter issue while setting IconSet conditional formatting with NoIcon is resolved
  • Issue with data labels in Chart to Image conversion is resolved.