Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v20.3.0.47
September 29, 2022

BannerTextProvider

Bug fixes

  • #I399434 - Hover border color will now be applied to TextBoxExt with the BannerText when Office2019theme is applied.

ComboBoxAdv

Bug fixes

  • #I396564 - There will be no more memory leaks in ComboBoxAdv when using the metro theme.

DocIO

Features

  • Wavy, wavy heavy, wavy double, and double underline styles render as they are in the input Word document during Word to PDF conversion.
  • Preserve Waterfall chart in Word to PDF/Image conversions.

DockingManager

Bug fixes

  • #I387122 - When the document content get focus, the DockControlActivated event will be triggered.
  • #I398603 - DockingManager saves and reloads floating window in absolute position for dualmonitor cases.

MultiColumnComboBox

Bug fixes

  • #I402794 - SelectedValue of MultiColumnComboBox will now be updated when filtering data is used.

PDF

Features

  • #F175439 – Provided support to enable LTV from time stamp server URI.
  • #F176704 – Provided support to get specific revocation status with signature validation options.
  • #I388550 – Provided support to get font details from free text annotation appearance.

Breaking Changes

  • By default, the HTML to PDF converter uses the advanced Chromium blink rendering engine to convert HTML to PDF.
  • IE and WebKit rendering engines are marked as obsolete. WebKit and IE-based HTML to PDF converter NuGet packages are marked as deprecated.
  • A warning message will now be added to the PDF document while converting HTML to PDF using the WebKit rendering engine. You can remove it using a DisableWebKitWarning property.
  • Updated the Newtonsoft.Json package to 13.0.1 for HTML to PDF converter to avoid security vulnerabilities.
  • Modified NuGet package names for HTML to PDF converter; please find the equivalent new package names for the old packages.
Old NuGet Package Name New NuGet Package Name
Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Blink.Net.Core.Linux Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Net.Linux
Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Blink.Net.Core.Windows Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Net.Windows
Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Blink.Net.Core.Mac Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Net.Mac
Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Blink.Net.Core.Aws Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Net.Aws
Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Blink.WinForms Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.WinForms
Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Blink.WPF Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.WPF
Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Blink.AspNet Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.AspNet
Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.Blink.AspNet.Mvc5 Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.AspNet.Mvc5

Bug Fixes

  • #I401102 – Invalid annotation export generated JSON format is now resolved.
  • #I389626 - Form field values are now preserved properly when the font embedded with the string PS/PMST value.
  • #I403467 – The bookmark mapping issue while merging PDF documents is now resolved.
  • #I397797 - The space between text missing issue is now resolved when extracting the text from PDF.
  • #I397908 – Conformance failure is now resolved while converting PDF to PDF/A-1b.
  • #I397566 - Text is now correctly preserved while exporting PDF as an image using ImageExportSettings.
  • #I397189 - Preservation issue no longer occurs while converting the PDF to PDF/A1-b and PDF/A2-b document.
  • #I375314 – KeyNotFoundException no longer occurs while OCRing the particular PDF document.
  • #394556 – Form field bounds are now appropriately set while modifying the existing pdf document.
  • #I386200 – PDF/A3-b Conformance failure is now resolved for a particular PDF document.
  • #I403717 - Replace Image is now working properly for specific PDF documents.
  • #F176704 - The revocation error message is now updated correctly.
  • #I401014 - Exception occurs while flatting the particular document after adding the checkbox field is now resolved.
  • #I397274, #I401301 - Exception no longer occurs when getting fonts details from free text annotation in an existing PDF document.
  • #I394699 - Exception no longer occurs when drawing a nested grid using page graphics with pagination content.
  • #I398528 – Annotation is no longer misplaced after flattening the annotation from the existing PDF document.
  • #F176704 – Signature validation returns incorrect results for a particular signed PDF document is now resolved.
  • #I397452 - The PDF string layout now shows a proper layout of the text with an incorrect size.
  • #I395927 - Form Fields and their values are now preserved correctly after merging a PDF document.
  • #F176582 – Exception no longer occurs while saving the document by enabling EnableXfaFormFill.
  • #I395541 – Exception no longer occurs when getting the border value from loaded square annotation.
  • #I388926 - The digital signature failed issue no longer occurs while getting page layer count from a signed PDF document.
  • #I379333 - Annotation comments are missing after export and import annotation with XFDF format is now resolved.

Presentation

Features

  • #I274283 - Preserve structure tags in converted PDF documents for accessibility (PDF/UA or 508 compliance) support.
  • Preserve Waterfall chart in PPTX to PDF/Image conversions

RibbonControlAdv

Bug fixes

  • #I398984 - When resizing the RibbonForm in the secondary monitor, the bottom of the form no longer has any white space.

SfButton

Bug fixes

  • #I389381 - SystemArgumentException will not be thrown while changing the image of SfButton with an animated GIF for the second time.
  • #I398608 - Designer crash will not be longer thrown when changing the image of the button after copied.

SfComboBox

Bug Fixes

  • #F175517 - DoubleClick event will be triggered when double click action performed in SfComboBox.
  • #I405062 - DropDown of SfComboBox will not close automatically, when watermark text contains in datasource.
  • #I400727 - Combobox dropdown rendering size is now proper when the datasource of DropDownItem is set in the DropDownOpening event.
  • #F176665 - The foreground of the SfComboBox will change when an item is selected.
  • #I398388 - SfComboBox accepts the null value in the AutoCompleteMode property as SuggestAppend when the focus is lost.

SfListView

Bug fixes

  • #I391964 - Text and image will be rendered properly when using image and the AutofitMode.

SplitButton

Bug Fixes

  • #I397285 - Now, we are able to change the image of DropDownItem in the SplitButton to ToolStripItem using the DropDownItemClicked event.

XlsIO

Features

  • #I372558 - Provided support to draw inside horizontal and vertical borders in a worksheet range.
  • #F172476 - Provided support to import HTML table with formulas into Excel worksheet.

Breaking Changes

  • #I372558 - InsideHorizontal and InsideVertical options are included in ExcelBordersIndex enumeration to support inside horzontal and vertical borders in a worksheet range.
  • #F172476 - New enumeration overload HTMLImportOptions with Default and DetectFormulas options is included in ImportHTMLTable method of IWorksheet interface to import html table with formuals into Excel worksheet.