Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v20.1.0.48
April 12, 2022

ComboBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #I370268 - Based on items added to or removed from the DataSource, the DropDownHeight will be changed.

DocIO

Features

  • #I368275 - Provided an API to convert Word document to HTML with Word compatibility.

Bug Fixes

  • #F172876 – Content control is now preserved properly while resaving a DOCX format document.
  • #I369614 - Font size is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
  • #I371158 - Text is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
  • #I372034 – A Picture inside a frame is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.

DockingManager

Bug Fixes

  • #I370536 - The layout of the serialized Float window will be loaded properly, after locking and unlocking using LockHostFormUpdate.

GradientPanelExt

Bug Fixes

  • #I369812 - The GradientPanel will render properly when setting GradientStyle as PathRectangle and PathEllipse.
  • #I369188 - Controls of GradientPanelExt will no longer be overlapped when adding control through designer.

IntegerTextBox

Bug Fixes

  • #I366397 - Culture not supported exception will no longer be thrown in IntegerTextBox when the machine has en-GB culture and deployed with en-US culture.

PDF

Features

  • #I361979 - Added support to load items from the existing signature field.
  • #I368179 - Added support to detect if the document signature is signed with a timestamp alone.
  • #I370995 - Added support to add line indent to the first line of the text.

Bug Fixes

  • #I372396 - XML XPathException will no longer occur when loading and saving the PDF document.
  • #I373194 - Argument exception will no longer occur when inserting a page from one document into another document.
  • #F173841 - Grid Cell overlapping issue will no longer occur when drawing a PDF grid with a nested grid on a multi-page document.
  • #I369816 - Memory consumption issues will no longer occur when getting the form fields font repeatedly.
  • #I370457 - PDF pages are now shown properly after merging or appending multiple PDF documents into one PDF.
  • #I371079 - Index out of bounds exception will no longer occur when verifying the Digital signature.
  • #I366088 - PdfCertificate is now created without any delay with X509Certificate in an Offline environment.
  • #I372318 - The parent bookmarks are now removed from the PDF document without any issues.
  • #I372076 - The Destination page index is now retrieved properly for loaded named destinations.
  • #F173683 - Loaded annotation is now retrieved properly while using its name.
  • #I372976 - The check box border width can now be accessed properly without any issues in the PDF document.
  • #I373386 - Font height is now updated properly while creating a new TrueType font with the existing TrueType font.
  • #I372361 - Hyperlinks now works properly while converting conformance PDF to PDF A2B document.
  • #I370979 - There is no longer a hanging issue when calling the redact method on a specific PDF document.
  • #I371416, #I370670 - An exception will no longer occur when merging the document with other PDF documents.

Presentation

Bug Fixes

  • #I367799 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while opening a PowerPoint presentation with customized SmartArt.
  • #I366014 – The Anchor center is now applied properly while converting a PowerPoint presentation to PDF.

SfComboBox

Bug Fixes

  • #I371314 - When the ComboBox is clicked, the ValueMember will be updated without any problems.

SfDataGrid

Bug fixes

  • #SF368353 - Enter key now works properly in the SfDataGrid, when the Form is handled for the AcceptButton.
  • #SF363931 - Now, execution of SfDataGrid no longer stops or hangs, when invoking the Application.DoEvents method with master-details view.

SfDateTimeEdit

Bug Fixes

  • #I364947 - DateTimeEdit allows to edit value field when Value is Null.

SfForm

Bug Fixes

  • #F173576 - The TitleBarTextControl will no longer be hidden, when SfForm’s WindowState is set to Maximized on initial loading.

SfListView

Bug Fixes

  • The NullReferenceException will no longer occur when MouseHover on header/footer of the SfListView.

SpellCheckerAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #I368594 - The SpellCheckCompleted event is triggered when there are no errors found.

XlsIO

Bug Fixes

  • #I371006 - The value of Boolean formula in an Excel cell is now exported properly to the data table.
  • #I372439 - The Stack overflow exception thrown while parsing a cell formula that refers to another worksheet cell has now been resolved.
  • #I371321 - Application hanging while opening an Excel document having a picture with an empty blip fill element has now been resolved.
  • #I371872 - Application hanging while opening an Excel document having a picture with an empty non visual XML element is now resolved.
  • #I371443 - Chinese text is now rendered properly in the worksheet to image conversion.
  • #I373897 - Exception is no longer thrown while loading data into a template marker with no value for some objects.
  • #I371810 - The Unhandled exception thrown while opening an Excel document with the CONCAT formula has now been resolved.
  • #I369588 - The Index out of range exception thrown while converting the chart with unequal category and value axis external ranges to the image has now been resolved.
  • #I372512 - Scatter chart dash line pattern is now proper in chart to image conversion.
  • #I372437 - Picture shapes with rotation are now rendered properly in Excel to PDF conversion.
  • Chart trendline data label formatting is now applied properly in xlsx files.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while converting an Excel document to PDF with an empty shared string.
  • Exception is no longer thrown while converting the Excel documents to PDF with pivot filter types.