Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v18.4.0.30

December 17, 2020

Common

Features

Syncfusion Windows Forms Controls now support .NET 5.0.

Calculate

Bug Fixes

#305440 – The IFERROR function returns the proper result with infinity value.
#254953 – The DATEDIF function now returns the proper result with the Y unit.

CheckBoxAdv

Bug fixes

#297889 - When using the theme created by ThemeStudio after AutoSize is enabled, the RadioButtonAdv and CheckBoxAdv controls are now rendered properly.

ColorPickerUIAdv

Bug fixes

#297643 - More color window of ColorPickerUIAdv now display properly on extended monitor when dpi aware is enabled.

Diagram

Bug Fixes

#295690 – Now text edit event issue resolved.
#295944 – Now we can able to control the interaction through constraints property.
#300687 – Issue on SizeToContent API is now resolved.

DocIO

Features

#299656 - Added support to customize track changes revision bars and content colors in Word to PDF conversion.
#297755 - Added support to preserve simple markup track changes in Word to PDF conversion.
#281634, #268872 – Added support to access metadata properties in DOCX format Word document.
#291705, #295027 – Added support to preserve Spanish list numbering in Word to PDF conversion.

Breaking Changes

LocaleIDs enumeration is moved from Syncfusion.DocIO to Syncfusion.Office namespace.

Bug Fixes

#295922 - Bookmarks are now added properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#295809, #295808 - Pagination issue will no longer occur while converting a Word document to PDF.
#297287 - Improved the track changes balloons rendering algorithm in Word to PDF conversion.
#297451 - List numbering is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#297181 - Hanging will no longer occur while converting a Word document to PDF.
#294479 - Paragraph with deletion revision is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#294479 - Page border is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#295809 - Table is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#295917 - Gutter position is now used properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#294479 - Shape is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#293792, #293746 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while converting a Word document to PDF.
#294683 - The System.FormatException will no longer be thrown while converting a Word document to PDF.
#297287 - The IndexOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while converting a Word document to PDF.
#293689 - Paragraph alignment is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#293366, #297796, #295118, #295806 - Hanging will no longer occur while converting a Word document to PDF.
#290028, #292914 - Table row is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#292975 - Chart is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#294253 - Table is now properly preserved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#253061 - Text is now preserved properly while opening an RTF format Word document.
#298703,#298816, #298598 - The KeyNotFoundException will no longer be thrown while open and saving a Word document.
#298174, #296029 - The ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while opening a Word document.
#294479 - List numbering is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#260100 - Field is now unlinked properly while calling Unlink() method.
#295763 - The performance issue has been resolved while opening a RTF format document.
#293751 - Custom shape is now properly included in the unsupported element’s warning messages while converting a Word document to PDF.
#294603 - List numbering is now preserved properly while calling UpdateTableOfContents() method.
#295123 - List value is now preserved properly in WordPad while converting HTML to RTF format document.
#293261 - The screen tip text is now parsed properly while opening a DOCX format document.
Image color is now preserved properly while open and saving a Word document.
#294151 - Nested bookmarks contents are now preserved properly while removing a bookmark contents.
#293447 - Revision details are now cloned properly while importing a Word document.
#293895 - The FormatException will no longer be thrown while opening a Word document.
#293580 - Hyperlink display text is now preserved properly while opening a RTF format document.
#293578 - Merge field names are now retrieved properly while calling GetMergeFieldNames() method.
#293338 - The hanging issue will no long be occur while calling AcceptChanges() method.
#293610 - GridBefore value is now calculated properly while opening a RTF format document.
#288073 - Field is now preserved properly while resaving Word2003 Open XML format document.
#292280 - Table is now preserved properly while converting RTF to DOCX format document.
#291705 - List numbering is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to Text file.
#290028 - Table border size is now preserved properly while resaving a DOCX format document.
#290664 - Paragraph text is now preserved properly while converting DOC format document to PDF.
#291306 - Custom document properties are now updated properly while calling UpdateDocumentFields() method.
#290352, #297287 - The InvalidOperationException will no longer be thrown while opening a word document.
#288916 - Table width is now preserved properly while converting Word document to PDF.
#298598 - Table width is now preserved properly while converting a HTML to DOCX format document.
#305899 – Picture with delete revision is now preserved properly in balloon while converting a Word document to PDF.
#305867 - Paragraph is now aligned properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#305899 - TOC navigation is now working properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#297287 - The IndexOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while converting a Word document to PDF.
#304601 - Group shape is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#301700 - Image is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#301409, #300989 - Bullet list is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#301645 - Shape is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#F159386 - Transparent text color is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#F159392 - Image is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#292280 - Table is now aligned properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#300367 - Image is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#298337 - Textbox is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#299037 - Image is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#295809 - Text is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#298337 - Hanging issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#283819, #303971 - Table is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#305693 - Symbol is now preserved properly while resaving a DOCX format document.
#305525 - Reject changes is now working properly while calling RejectChanges() method.
#303649, #304097 - Comments are now preserved properly while resaving a Word document.
#304462 – The IndexOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while resaving a Word document.
#303677 - Shape is now preserved properly when resaving the Word document.
#301989 – Textbox is now preserved properly while resaving a Word document.
#301989 – Image is now preserved properly while resaving a DOCX format document.
#301621 – Text is now preserved properly while converting a DOCX format document to HTML file.
#299649 – The ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while opening the RTF format document.
#300525 – The InvalidOperationException will no longer be thrown while opening Word document with comments.
#298582 - Alternate chunk content is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#295016 - Text is now preserved properly while converting a HTML file to DOCX format document.
#298707 - Bullet list is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#298409 - Table column is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#294151, #300732 - Nested bookmarks are removed properly while calling Remove(Bookmark) method.
#291877 - Heading numbering is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#283819 - Table is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.

DockingManager

Bug fixes

#296738,#296943 - ArgumentException no longer occurs when changing the visual style from Metro to office2007.
#F155697 - Now, MetroTheme applied for AutoHide tabs context menu on Mouseover.

EditControl

Bug fixes

#295045 - Unnecessary empty lines will no longer appear, when string built by StringBuilder then AppendLine is used and assigned it to EditControl text.

GroupBar

Bug Fixes

#304257 - The ForeColor of the controls within the NavigationPopup is now properly updated in the GroupBar.

MainFrameBarManager

Bug fixes

#302101 - ObjectDisposed Exception will no longer occur in MainFrameBarManager when changing the activeWindow with auto merging.

MultiColumnTreeView

Bug fixes

#304565 - Now, the text alignment is changed properly in node sub items.

PDF

Features

#89583, #179673, #254148 ,#F155343 – Added support for adding/modifying the JavaScript action in existing PDF document.
#140911, #229773, #277893 – Added support for Ean13 and Ean8 barcode in PDF library.
#198566 – Added support to get the page index of bookmark.
#292446 – Added support for scaling option in HTML to PDF conversion with Blink rendering engine.
#291878 – Added support for BoundsCollection for PdfTextMarkupAnnotation.
#295115 – Added support for text direction in PdfFreeTextAnnotation.
Added appearance support for PdfPolylineAnnotation.

Bug Fixes

#305321 – NullReferenceException will no longer occurs when getting PdfForm from particular PDF document.
#304513 – Invalid cross reference table exception will no longer occurs when loading particular PDF document.
#304959 – Label from meta data will be preserved properly when adding security to the PDF document.
#304340 – Text will be redacted properly in tagged PDF document.
#301374, #304610 – PdfDocument will no longer corrupted when flatten the PdfForm.
#293563, #304898 – Contents will be preserved properly while converting PPTX to PDF.
#300098 – Font will be replaced properly in particular PDF document.
#302381 – Exception will no longer occurs while OCR with latest tesseract binaries.
#301843 – PdfAnnotation thickness will preserved properly when export and import annotations.
#301942 – Exception no longer occurs while importing pages from particular PDF document.
#302269 – Signature details will be updated properly in PDF document.
#301776 – Signature validation mark will be preserved properly.
#301370 – PdfDocument will no longer corrupted when converting PDF to PDF A1B conformance.
#295864 – Exception no longer occurs when converting Word document to PDF in multithreading.
#300643, #297535 – Contents will be preserved properly when converting EMF to PDF.
#296508 – Hyperlinks will be added properly when adding inside the PdfGrid with different page size.
#300185 – PdfGridLayout will be return proper bounds when adding PdfGrid to the PdfPage.
#291934 – Memory will be disposed properly when adding and removing PdfRubberStampAnnotation.
#299509 – File path will be added properly in PdfFileLinkAnnotation.
#298059 – Contents will be preserved properly while adding PdfRedactionAnnotation to the PdfPage.
#299187 – PDF conformance will be preserved when converting PDF to PDF A3B conformance.
#298968 – PdfLayers will be preserved properly when adding layers to PDF document.
#298568 – Annotations will be preserved properly when export, import and flattening it.
#297943 – ArgumentOutofRangeException will no longer occurs when converting Word to tagged PDF.
#262648 – Contents will be preserved properly when creating PDF in multi-threading.
#294252 – PdfMetafile will be preserved properly with the specified bounds.
#295920 – Page number will be preserved properly when merging PDF documents.
#294988 – PdfRubberStampAnnotation appearance will not change when editing with PDF viewer.
#292489 – PdfHTMLTextElement will return proper PdfLayoutResult.
#294252 – Images will be preserved properly when converting EMF to PDF.
#292865 – PDF/UA complaint will be validated properly in PAC3 tool.
#293788 – PdfCheckBoxField will be preserved properly when resaving the document.
#293316 – DataMatrix barcode will be preserved properly.
#293249, #293784 – PdfGridCell text will be preserved properly when exporting DataGrid to PDF.
#291767, #292452 – Images will be preserved properly in HTML to PDF conversion.
#296815 – PDF document will be OCRed properly for large PDF document.
#291177 – Exception no longer occurs when converting PDF to PDF A1B.
#294944 – Annotations will be preserved properly when export and import.
#293701 – NullReferenceException no longer occurs when getting the text from PdfLoadedTextBoxField.
#294353, #291232 – Bookmark text will be preserved properly when saving the PDF document.
#296895 – ArgumentNullException no longer occurs when merging PDF document.
#294995 – InkAnnotation will be exported properly in German culture.
#295703 – NullReferenceException no longer occurs when decrypt the PDF document.
#294723 – PdfComboBoxField value will be flatten properly in a PDF document.
#295148 – PdfXfaForm will be filled properly with given data.
#293908 – NullReferenceException no longer occurs when merging the PDF documents.
#293401 – PdfRectangleAnnotation will be preserve properly while flatten the annotations.
#291957 – Content will be preserved properly when compressing the PDF documents.
#F158748 – ArgumentOutOfRangeException no longer occurs while saving particular PDF document.
#F159147 – Signature will be validated properly with particular PDF document.
Text size will return properly when getting text size from PdfLoadedFreeTextAnnotation.
Exception will no longer occurs when adding custom metadata to PDF document.

PdfViewerControl

Features

#I295512 - Provided the GoToBookMark API in PdfViewerControl for navigating to the location specified in the document bookmark.

Bug Fixes

#I297001 – The password request dialog will now appear when loading password-protected PDF documents from the code behind.
#I297562, #I300941 – The page contents are now printed properly in the specific printers.
#I301474 – Memory consumption is now optimized for finding a text from the PDF document using the PdfLoadedDocument.
#I301547 – Memory leak is no longer occurs when finding a text from the PDF document using the PdfLoadedDocument.
#I302362 – The System.ArgumentException is no longer thrown when extracting images from the PDF document in a multithreading environment.
#I301760 – Contents of the PDF document are now rendered properly using the SfPdf rendering engine.
#I297378 – Text is now extracted properly from the PDF document.
#I304849 – Text bounds are now obtained properly from the PDF document.
#I294666 – Images are now exported properly from the PDF document.
#I300790 – All the text occurrences are now properly found in the PDF document.
#I300309 – The System.NullReferenceException is no longer thrown when exporting the PDF pages as images.
#I297417 – The application is no longer crashes when loading the PDF documents continuously.
#I293205 - The images present in the PDF pages are now extracted properly.
#I294258 – The System.NullReferenceException is no longer thrown when extracting the text from the PDF pages using the PdfLoadedDocument.
#I294666 – Images are now extracted properly from the PDF pages in a multithreading environment.
#I294264 – The text is now extracted properly from the PDF file

Presentation

Features

#229361, #290868, #293563 - Provided support to preserve a gradient line while converting a PowerPoint presentation to PDF/Image.
#290868 - Provided support to preserve a gradient fill with transparency while converting a PowerPoint presentation to PDF.
#291946 - Provided support to add and edit a language of PowerPoint TextPart.

Bug Fixes

#281066 - Justification is now applied properly while converting a PowerPoint presentation to PDF.
#294617 - Placeholder text color is now preserved properly while converting a PowerPoint presentation to Image.
#293204 - PowerPoint document is no longer corrupted while removing a master slide.
#299090 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while opening the PowerPoint presentation with vertical curved list SmartArt.
#299498 - The ArgumentException will no longer be thrown while opening the PowerPoint presentation in parallel thread.
#301380 - Line width is now applied properly while converting a PowerPoint presentation to Image.
SlideSizeType property is now working properly, when PowerPoint slide size type is Wide Screen.

RadioButtonAdv

Bug Fixes

#297889 - The RadioButtonAdv and CheckBoxAdv controls were rendered correctly when the theme generated by ThemeStudio and enabled the AutoSize property.

RibbonControlAdv

Features

Similar to the new Office product, RibbonControlAdv is now available in a simplified layout mode. Only with the frequently used commands the simplified ribbon will occupy less space (a single line). For the best user experience, other commands are placed below overflow button.
Provided the event support to notify the DisplayOption changed in RibbonControlAdv.

Bug Fixes

#291229 - Flashing will no longer occur when selecting the tab while merging using RibbonPanelMergeContainer.
#295767 - In High DPI scaling, now the QAT window has not even been clipped.
#298446 - The ribbon tabs loaded properly after opening the designer in the NetCore framework.
#300727 - Themes were applied properly when setting the MenuButtonVisible property in RibbonControlAdv as False.
#301364 - Exception will no longer occurs in RibbonControlAdv when editing the designer.
#301364, 303646 - Exception will no longer occurs when closing the RibbonControlAdv.
#302292 - Now the height of the BackStageTab and BackStageButton have been properly changed in BackStage.
#304144 - The ToolStripEx with ToolStripSplitButton has been rendered properly for Office theme in high DPI.

SfComboBox

Bug fixes

#298434 - Image or text will not be truncated in SfCombobox when image added through ImageList.
#298277 - Exception will not be thrown while binding empty collection as datasource for SfComboBox.

SfDataGrid

Features

#F154707 - Support has been provided autofit height for GroupDropAreaItem.
#292904 - Support has been added to show tooltip for empty cells.

Bug Fixes

#F159307 - In DetailsView, columns are now editable when AllowEditing is specifically enabled for those columns.
#277205 - Grid is now rendered properly in RightToLeft mode when vertical scroll bar is enabled while expanding details view.
#304700 - Serialization and deserialization is now working properly for GridDateTimeColumn.
#299042 - Table summary values are now calculated properly for dynamic data source bind collection in DataGrid.
NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while typing any value in the filter row cell if AllowEditing and ShowFilterRowOptions property of the column is disabled.

SfDateTimeEdit

Bug fixes

#290657 - Now, AllowNull value will not change unnecessarily.

SpellCheckerAdv

Bug Fixes

#293650 - Now, suggestion is updated properly when dictionary is loaded using DictionaryPath property.

TabControlAdv

Features

#300903 - Selected tab item will now be checked in the dropdown of TabControlAdv.

TreeViewAdv

Bug fixes

#302373 - Now, Horizontal scrollbar will appear properly on setting the Custom control for TreeNodeAdv.
#303644 - Exception will no longer occur while expand all the nodes with custom themes.

XlsIO

Features

#299160 - Support has been provided to export data from Excel worksheet to data table with an event.
#F158836 - Support has been provided to preserve value types while importing data from a data table to an Excel worksheet.

Breaking Changes

#283371 - LongDash, LongDashDot, and LongDashDotDot line patterns are added in the ExcelChartLinePattern enum.
#F158836 - The ImportDataColumn() method supports importing DataColumn from DataTable into a worksheet with preserve type option.

Bug Fixes

#292282, #F157287 - CopyTo method now copies Excel table styles if copied from second row or more.
#292271 - Exception is no longer thrown if all the table rows are deleted.
#293903 - Exception is no longer thrown when converting the Excel file to PDF.
#295621 - Defined name value with more characters is now working proper without exception.
#294651 - Exception is no longer thrown while converting Excel file to PDF with conditional formats.
#287586 - Name of a pivot table data field is now correct in Excel to PDF conversion.
#293247 - Inserting a new row preserves the number format in the existing table.
#292312 - Exception is no longer thrown while inserting rows above sparklines.
#296469 - Conditional format is now correct while changing thread culture.
#291424 - Column width is now set correctly while updating styles to entire column.
#294893 - Exception is no longer thrown while parsing the Excel document with pivot table.
#293348 - DateTime format is now proper when accessing Range.DateTime property.
#293903 - Exception is no longer thrown when formula contains an unknown name in Excel to PDF conversion.
#292625 - Page numbers are now rendered in the correct format when header/footer text contains page number and plus sign.
#292241 - Rich-text is now applied to tables during Excel to PDF conversion.
#292697 - Exception is no longer thrown while converting Excel chart to image with polynomial trend line series.
#294223 - Axis line is now rendered correctly in chart to image conversion.
#279738 - Image position is no longer changed while inserting more rows.
#295748 - Exception is no longer thrown while resaving the Excel document to HTML.
#297992 - Comments are now cleared properly while using clear option.
#295301 - Corruption no longer occurs on resaving the Excel file that contains invalid pivot item value.
#298342 - Performance on saving a big file with pivot table is now improved.
#299505 - Conditional format is now applied properly when using copy style in template marker.
#301859 - ApplicationName in Built-in document properties is now parsed and serialized properly.
#298772 - Conditional format formula is now correct while saving the Excel document.
#292312 - Corruption no longer occurs while opening the file using Excel 2013.
#283371 - Provided long dash line types in chart line pattern enum.
#292360 - Excel file with incorrect active cell is no longer corrupted on resaving.
#304378 - Exception is no longer thrown while converting the Excel file with conditional formats to PDF.
#303693 - Vba project’s sheet objects are now cleared properly when removing the worksheets.
#301367 - Hyperlink is now correct while changing the system culture in Excel to PDF conversion.
#294378 - Cell border under the image is no longer missed in Excel to PDF conversion.
#300422 - DataPoint font size and value axis alignment are now proper in chart to image conversion.
#F157299 - Mixed data type values are exported with proper format while exporting worksheet to data table.
#F157772 - Line series are no longer missed in Excel to PDF conversion.
#F157287 - Corruption no longer occurs when copying worksheets from multiple workbooks.
#F158875 - Data is now correct while importing nested object collection.
Category axis label text is now rendered properly in chart to image conversion.
Hyperlinks in shapes are no longer removed while resaving the Excel document.
Chart title area rendering is now proper in Excel to PDF conversion.