Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v16.2.0.50
August 28, 2018
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Calculate

Bug Fixes

  • #F138844 - Issue in calculation of Math.Pow operation has been fixed.
  • #211036 and #212009 - Issue in calculation of VLOOKUP formula when using lookup range as entire column in CalcEngine has been fixed.
  • #168981 - Issue in parsing the LOOKUP formula combined with operators and unary minus has been fixed.

Chart

Bug fixes

  • #212933 – Now, custom point text is rotated from its center
  • #212464 – Trackball line is now working properly for categorical axis
  • #211782 - Unnecessary borders will not appear when copying or saving the chart

ColorPickerUIAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #210579 , #209653 - StackOverFlow exception will no longer throws when the scaling is set to 125% and control will be displayed properly.

DocIO

Bug Fixes

  • #209408 - If field result is now properly updated while updating document fields in a particular Word document.
  • #208463 - Paragraph tags are properly created while converting a particular Word document as PDF with accessibility.
  • #211412, #212690 - OutOfMemoryException will be no longer thrown while performing Find & Replace functionality for a particular Word document.
  • #210863, #211412 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will be no longer thrown while calling the FindAll() API for a particular Word document.
  • #208450 - Table border is now preserved properly while converting a particular RTF document as PDF.
  • #205945 - Word document will be no longer hangs while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #211046 - The nested AutoNum field is now properly skipped while updating its container field.
  • #208117 - Hanging issue has been resolved while updating fields in a particular Word document.
  • #211709 - Style attribute is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as HTML.
  • #210867 - List number is now restarted properly on importing contents with ImportOptions as ListRestartNumbering and saving the resultant document as DOC format.
  • #209964 - List style is now preserved properly for the first paragraph inserted to a bookmark using Bookmark Navigator.
  • #204947 - Text wrapping issue has been resolved while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #206374 - Content control content is now preserved properly while converting a particular Word document as PDF.
  • #207193 - The first dot(.) character of a paragraph within a table containing decimal tab stop position is now automatically justified like tab (\t) character while converting Word document as PDF.

DockingManager

Bug Fixes

  • #211187 - Null Reference Exception will no longer occur on closing all MDIChild forms in DockingManager.
  • #209639 - Splitter BackColor will updated properly in DockingManager even we set the MetroSplitterBackColor before apply Metro theme.

SyntaxEditor

Bug Fixes

  • #212434 - NullReference exception will no longer occur when click on UserMargin of empty line in SyntaxEditor.
  • #210095 - Unwanted empty lines will no longer added on creation of SyntaxEditor.

GridGroupingControl

Bug Fixes

  • #181506 - The unenclosed expression with internal functions returns the computed value properly.

MetroForm

Bug fixes

  • #211261 - ControlBox buttons not visible in maximized state of MDIChildForm has been fixed.

PDF

Bug Fixes

  • #207834 - Null reference exception thrown while loading some PDF documents is now fixed.
  • #210943 - String not recognized exception will no longer thrown when loading some PDF documents.
  • #210828 - Corruption issue after signing the PDF document is now fixed.
  • #211845 - SelectedIndex property issue in PdfLoadedRadioButtonField is now fixed.
  • #208585 - Form fields are not duplicated when loading and saving the PDF document.
  • #208463 - Underline text tags are preserved as figure will no longer occur when converting Word to PDF.
  • #210703 - Null value returns from the LinePoints property will no longer occur in PdfLine Annotation.
  • #210779 - Null reference exception will no longer occur when filling the form fields in the PDF document.
  • #210590 - Custom metadata set property are now properly working in the PDF document.
  • #211089 - Appearance are now preserved properly for selected item in the PdfLoadedComboBoxField.
  • #207022 - The text of multiline XFA text box field is now wrapping properly.
  • #208909 - Null reference exception will no longer occur when converting HTML to PDF.
  • #211011 - HTML to tagged PDF conversion will be preserved properly.
  • #211008 - HTML converter will no longer hang when converting HTML to tagged PDF.
  • #204693 - The orientation value set in the image properties is now detected and rendered properly when drawn to the PDF page.

PdfViewerControl

Bug Fixes

  • #205411, #206198: InvalidOperationException will no longer be thrown when extracting images from the PDF document.
  • #206178: The memory used for exporting pages from the PDF document using Pdfium rendering engine is now optimized.

Presentation

Bug Fixes

  • #209572 - Bullets are now preserved equivalent to the PowerPoint document while converting a PowerPoint slide as image.
  • #211236 - Rotated group shapes are now preserved equivalent to the PowerPoint document while converting a slide as image.
  • #209550 - Object reference exception will no more thrown while loading a PowerPoint document created with XMLPowerTools.
  • #211236 - Individual shape bounds within the group shapes are now updated to the properties while loading a PowerPoint document.
  • String format exception will no more thrown while creating animations in Afrikaans culture.
  • Access violation exception will no more thrown while re-saving a PowerPoint document with same file name.

RibbonControlAdv

Features

  • #210174 , #209207 - Resetting the QAT items will now load the default QAT items.

Bug Fixes

  • #212075 - Default BackStage image will not be shown when BackStageViewNavigationButtonImage property is set.
  • #209760 - ToolStripGallery will no longer flicker when adding and clearing items in it.
  • #210174 - BackStageItems in QAT will now navigates to BackStage after Resetting the QAT items.

ScheduleControl

Bug Fixes

  • #208820 - The ItemChanging and ItemChanged events will be triggered when dismissing the events using Alert window.

SfComboBox

Bug Fixes

  • #F139146 -The check state is updated properly for checked items in the multiple selection combo box while adding the checked items programmatically.

SfDataGrid

Bug Fixes

  • #212203 - Localization is applied to static strings of SfDataGrid for Visual Basic project.
  • #211921 - The FilterChanging and FilterChanged events will be raised when clicking Clear button in the GridFilterControl.
  • #212828 - SelectedIndex will be properly set after Deserialization.
  • #F139001 - Key navigation is properly skipped for hidden columns.
  • #F136950 - The null reference exception will no longer be thrown when pressing Tab key in GridCheckBoxColumn and GridComboBoxColumn.

Sparkline

Bug fixes

  • #212548, #213115 – Now, the point with highest value in column type sparkline is rendered properly

SplashPanel

Bug Fixes

  • #211107 - Slide animation will work properly when DesktopAlignment is set to Custom.

SplitContainerAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #F138829 - Preview of splitter size not updated based on splitter width in vertical orientation has been fixed.

TabbedGroupedMDIManager

Bug fixes

  • #F139113 - Close button in the tabs of TabbedGroupedMDIManager not user friendly to close the tabs has been fixed.

TabControlAdv

Bug fixes

  • #211807 - Designer crash will no longer occur while open the smart tag with Office2010Style TabControlAdv.

TextBoxExt

Bug Fixes

  • #210672 - FocusBorderColor property will work when the style is set to Default.

TreeViewAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #212061 - Designer crash will no longer occur when loading the TreeViewAdv as PopupContainer to other controls.

XlsIO

Breaking Changes

  • #207306 - DetectMixedValueType enumeration is added for detecting mixed data typed column values while exporting to DataTable.
  • #203029 – TypeMismatchOnExport event and ExportEventArgs class are added in IApplication interface to notify the user about the mismatch between cell type and property type while Exporting data to CLR Objects.

Bug fixes

  • #211514 - NullReferenceException thrown while opening a file in multi-thread environment is fixed.
  • #210082 - Exception thrown while copying an Excel document to another document with named range and saving is resolved.
  • #210172 - Conditional format formulas applied to ConditionValue property are now properly updated in advanced conditional formats.
  • #210172 - Image protection in XLS documents will not be removed after resave.
  • #209739 - Exception thrown while parsing workbook with empty styles is resolved.
  • #209443 - Merged cells are now properly copied to another range during CopyTo() method.
  • #138492 - Issue with ListOfValues property in Data Validation is fixed.
  • #208900 - Invalid operation exception is no longer thrown in Excel to PDF conversion of an Excel document with charts.
  • #211825 - Exception thrown while converting an Excel file to PDF with styles is resolved.
  • #210068 - Shrink to fit now works proper in Excel to PDF conversion.
  • Shape text position will be proper in Excel to PDF conversion when horizontal flip is applied.
  • Number formats are returned proper while parsing.
  • Image will no longer be saved into local storage while converting the Excel workbook to HTML stream.
  • Print area is cleared properly when PrintArea is set to null.
  • Out of Memory Exception thrown while parsing a CSV file with large number of rows is fixed.
  • Issue with clearing Rich-Text and its formatting is resolved.