Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v20.2.0.36
June 30, 2022

AutoComplete

Bug Fixes

  • #F173949 - Column header will now align properly based on RTL.
  • #I382810 - The PossibleMatch value in the AutoCompleteMatchItemEventArgs will be based on the MatchingColumn property.

Calculate

Bug Fixes

  • #FB35074 - When the named range contains a cell range with ParseArgumentSeparator, the calculation engine now returns the correct calculated result.
  • #I375519 - RemoveAt, Remove, Add, and Insert methods will no longer throw SystemArgumentExceptions.

ComboBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

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

Diagram

Bug fixes

  • #I383101 - Now, the text alignment will be applied properly for the nodes in the Diagram Builder application.
  • #I382562 - Now, the flow shapes will be resized properly.

DocIO

Features

  • #FB28877- Insert text wrapping break in a Word document.
  • #I61189, #I244076 – Customize the mail merge execution to start a new page for each group of records in a Word document.
  • #I343315 – Access or set the internal margins for shapes in the Word document.
  • #I315632 – Create a Waterfall chart in the DOCX format document.
  • DotDotDashHeavy, DottedHeavy, and Thick underline styles render as they are in the input Word document during Word to PDF conversion.

Bug Fixes

  • #I380680, #I381402 - Bookmark content is now deleted properly while calling DeleteBookmarkContent API.
  • #I379675 - The IndexOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while deleting the bookmark content.
  • #I379146 - Map chart is now preserved properly while resaving a DOCX format document.
  • #I378787 - Shape border is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
  • #I376761 - Table is now preserved properly while resaving a DOC format document.
  • #I375541 - TextBox line join type is now preserved properly while converting a DOCX document to PDF.
  • #I376003 - Words and characters counts are now updated properly while calling UpdateWordCount API.

DockingManager

Bug Fixes

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

EditControl

Bug fixes

  • #I376626 - Text is now aligned properly when setting Courier New 9pt font in EditControl.
  • #I377441 - Unhandled exception will no longer occur while pressing the right arrow key in context choice controller without selected item in EditControl.
  • #I379857 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer occur while selecting all text and pressing any keys in block selection mode of EditControl.
  • #I378365 - ContextChoiceSize property now works properly in EditControl while changing at runtime.

GradientPanelExt

Bug Fixes

  • #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.

MetroForm

Features

  • Provided support to have rounded corners on Windows 11 OS.

MultiColumnComboBox

Bug Fixes

  • #F173506,F173957 - After the text has been cleared, there won’t be any more TargetParameterCountExceptions when selecting a different option in the MultiColumnComboBox.

Office2007Form

Features

  • Provided support to have rounded corners on Windows 11 OS.

Office2010Form

Features

  • Provided support to have rounded corners on Windows 11 OS.

PDF

Features

  • Added a PDF/A-4 conformance creation and conversion support.
  • #I381316 - Added support to create, edit, and remove watermark annotations.
  • Added a high-level API to convert images to PDF documents.
  • Added support to create, edit, and remove the rich media annotations.
  • #F174432 - Added support to get the timestamp certificate from the signature validation result.
  • #I364032 - Added support to flatten annotations without calling the save method.
  • #I360243, F174432 - Added support to get the detail of the signature’s validity from the PdfSignatureValidationResult.
  • Added the property changed event support for the annotations.
  • Added support to split a PDF document by fixed and custom ranges.
  • #373919 - Updated the latest version BlinkBinaries which includes fixes and security updates in the HTML to PDF.
  • #118797 - Added support for the Image OCR to a PDF document and the PDF A document.

Bug Fixes

  • #I380779 - The PDF form field visibility is not working properly from an existing PDF document.
  • #I384734 - The Preservation issue no longer occurs while adding Unicode characters to the PDF form fields.
  • #I385168 - The orientation is properly preserved while trying to import the rotated PDF pages to a new pdf document.
  • #I382887 - The invalid cross-reference table exception will no longer occur while merging a PDF document.
  • #I381950 - The widget annotation properly shows in viewers after merging the cropped PDF documents.
  • #I382355 - A fatal error will no longer occur while opening a PDF document with open and repair mode.
  • #I381563 - An exception will no longer occur when reusing the input stream without closing a PDF document completely.
  • #I380561 - The dropdown field values are imported properly with the dynamic xml file.
  • #F175170 - The PDF signature validation passed when verifying digitally signed with the ECDSA-SHA256 algorithm.
  • #I379400, I380182 - The preservation issue will no longer occur while adding the image into the signature appearance and draw position.
  • #I380425 - The shape is preserved properly while converting the Presentation to a PDF document.
  • #I378529 - The preservation issue will no longer occur after rotating the document and adding a stamp to a PDF document.
  • #I369183 - The rotation is considered while creating a template from the rotated PDF document.
  • #I385801 - The document corruption issue will no longer occur while modifying a specific Pdf document.
  • #I380301 - The runtime and preservation issue will no longer occur when flattening the form field in a particular PDF document.
  • #F35262 - The PdfGrid is preserved properly at the bottom while adding the header and footer.
  • #I383513 - The acrobat reader recognized the required mark fields for the text box and list box created using the PDF library.
  • #I386166 - The incorrect field name exception will no longer occur when trying to receive the value from the newly added form field.
  • #I381517 - Now, the border width is set properly to the textbox field.
  • #I382945 - The invalid type cast exception will no longer occur while retrieving the newly added form fields.
  • #I381698 - The preservation issue will no longer occur after filing the back color to the combed text box field in a PDF document.
  • #I379204 - The preservation issue will no longer occur while filling the text box field on a particular PDF document.
  • #I379233 - Shapes are properly drawn with the transparent color using PdfPen.
  • #I372110 - The Pages are properly added when you collect the page record collection from the loaded PDF document.
  • #I374592 - The bookmark child is not exported multiple times while splitting a PDF document.
  • #I372759 - The numeric format is considered when filling a text form field in a PDF document.
  • #I371581 - The annotations will be active after flattening annotations in the specific PDF documents.
  • #I374556 - The PdfGrid borders are preserved properly while setting the pagination bounds.
  • #I375568 - Now, shapes are filled properly with transparent brush colors.

PdfViewerControl

Bug Fixes

  • #I382017 – The GoToPageAtIndex method is now working properly, even if the PDFViewer contained forms.
  • #I378076 – The password window now works properly in the hosted sample.

Presentation

Bug Fixes

  • #I380434 - Line spacing is now applied properly while converting a PowerPoint presentation to PDF.

RadialSlider

Bug Fixes

  • #I373909 - RadialSlider in Frame mode, will now render properly based on Font specified.
  • #I376124 - RadialSlider UI issue will no longer occur when StartAngle and EndAngle is not between 0-360.

RibbonControlAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #I356312, #I373005, #I373129 - The designer will no longer crash when loading RibbonControlAdv in Visual Studio 2022.
  • #I374710 - The Designer in ribbon control will load properly.
  • #I373343 - The application will no longer crash when the file menu is clicked.

SfComboBox

Bug Fixes

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

SfDateTimeEdit

Bug Fixes

  • #F175097 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown when setting culture as “ar-sa”.
  • #FB31419 - The CalendarFontIcon’s size and padding will be more similar when SfSkinManager and Default themes are applied to the control.

SfForm

Features

  • Provided support to have rounded corners on Windows 11 OS.

SfListView

Bug Fixes

  • #I377805 - There won’t be any more NullReferenceExceptions after clicking the ComboBox in the DataGrid.

SfSmithChart

Features

  • #I364294, FB11350 - Provided support to render the chart series based on the data index without sorting the data by adding ArrangeByIndex property in SfSmithChart.

TabControlAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #I371389 - The separator alignment problem will no longer occur when RotateTextVertical and ShowSeparator property values are true.

Visual Studio Extensions

Bug Fixes

  • #FB34591 - The project creation issues have been fixed in Syncfusion Winforms project template for Visual Studio 2010.

XlsIO

Breaking Changes

  • #I375327 - IsSerializePivotCache boolean property is added in IPivotCache interface to save pivot cache when required.
  • #I376580 - Changed the visibility of the CompoundFileException class from internal to public to catch the exception in the try-catch block.

Bug Fixes

  • #I382987 - The application hanging issue while opening the Excel document with whitespace in drawing XML element is fixed.