Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v21.1.35
March 23, 2023
We are pleased to announce that we have updated the versioning system of Essential Studio to a semantic format that provides greater clarity and consistency in versioning, making it easier for users to understand the significance of each Syncfusion release.

The new format consists of three components: Major, Minor, and Patch.

Format: Major.Minor.Patch
Example: 21.1.35

We believe that this change will enable our users to track and manage updates to our components effectively. We are excited to see how it enhances their experience.

Common

Breaking changes

We have discontinued support for .NET Framework versions 2.0 and 3.5.

DocIO

Features

  • #I427722, #I433286 - Convert a Markdown file to a Word document.
  • #I197763, #I227388, #I229518, #I298464, #I407308, #I437210 - Find elements in a Word document based on specified properties and their corresponding values.
  • #I425049 - Apply built-in table style as base style for a custom table style in a Word document.

Breaking Changes

  • From this release onwards, we no longer ship or support versions compatible with .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.5. Therefore, we strongly recommend upgrading to a higher version of .NET Framework, .NET 6.0 or 7.0. You can find the migration guide if you prefer to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET Core or .NET 5.0/6.0/7.0
  • #I424520 - An InvalidOperationException will be thrown when attempting to remove built-in styles from a Word document.

DockingManager

Bug fixes

  • #I422450 - The floating Window can now be closed when it is placed on the Secondary Monitor.

GridGroupingControl

Bug fixes

  • #I396391 – Memory leak with GridGroupingControl and its items has been cleared.

PDF

Breaking changes

Features

  • Added support to get and set custom properties in the form fields.
  • Provided support to add an image in the center of QRCode in PDF and Image.
  • #F179088 – Provided support for retrieving custom images from rubber stamp annotations.
  • Provided support for importing and exporting annotations with an appearance in JSON format.
  • #I420880 – Provided support for adding TrueType fonts with full embedding.
  • Provided support for extracting accessibility tags from the PDF documents.

Bug Fixes

  • #I437729 - Form fields are not preserved properly after converting PDF to PDF/A is now resolved.
  • #I425746 - Text extraction with line collection returns incorrect results for the specific document is now resolved.
  • #I436823 - Null reference exception no longer occurs when performing OCR for a specific PDF document.
  • #I438154 - “Parameter is not valid” exception occurs while performing redaction in a specific PDF document is now resolved.
  • #I438711 - Incorrect rendering no longer occurs while converting specific XPS files to PDF.
  • #I438588 - Text no longer breaks when saving a PDF with certain compression options enabled.
  • #I440543 - Text clipping no longer occurs when drawing the PDF grid with specific padding.
  • #I441813 - Unable to remove pages from the section of the PDF document is now resolved.
  • #I442052 - Invalid font style is no longer returned while extracting text lines from the PDF document.
  • #I440951 - The file size is now reduced properly during long-term verification with an external signature.
  • #I443203 - The unwanted characters are no longer returned during text extraction from the PDF documents.
  • #I437304 - Preservation issue no longer occurs while setting and flattening numeric values in the text box field.
  • #I436739 - Font color is not applied properly to the text box field items is now resolved.
  • #I438772 - Radio button field is now flattened properly in a specific PDF document.
  • #I440678 - PDF signature validation time taken is now reduced while validating the signature.
  • #F180498 - “IsLTVEnabed” no longer returns incorrect results while verifying signature validation for specific PDF documents.
  • #F180445 - “IsValid” API is not working properly in “TimeStamp” for invalid URIs is now resolved.
  • #I441102 - Fixed an issue where invalid revocation names were being displayed in the VRI dictionary when creating a long-term validation PDF.

Presentation

Breaking Changes

  • From this release onwards, we no longer ship or support versions compatible with .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.5. Therefore, we strongly recommend upgrading to a higher version of .NET Framework, .NET 6.0 or 7.0. You can find the migration guide if you prefer to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET Core or .NET 5.0/6.0/7.0

RibbonControlAdv

Bug fixes

  • #I435163, #I435192 - Ribbon panel can now be visible when added at runtime.
  • #I418474 - No more blank space will be shown when resizing the ribbon control in dualmonitor.
  • #I430670 - BackStageTab and BackStageButton are aligned properly while using image.

SfComboBox

Bug fixes

  • #I439247 - Token item will now be properly aligned while using MaximumSize.

SfDataGrid

Bug fixes

  • #I439975 - Now, Changes to the DataSource of the BindingSource will be properly updated to the DataGrid.

SfDateTimeEdit

Bug fixes

  • #F180420 - When the focus is lost ,The previous null value will be updated instead of current date being automatically updated.
  • #I427460 - Value can be set to null by programatically.

SfRadialSlider

Bug fixes

  • #I428912 - When StartAngle is 360, the radial slider will not crash when moving in the CounterClockwise direction.

Visual Studio Extensions

New Feature

We’ve updated the release versioning system to a semantic format which provides greater clarity and consistency in versioning, making it easier for users to understand the significance of each release for our Syncfusion NuGet packages and extension utilities such as WindowsForms Template Studio, Reference Manager, ItemTemplates, and Troubleshooter. This new format consists of three components: Major, Minor, and Patch. We believe that this change will enable our users to track and manage updates to our utilities.

XlsIO

Features

  • Provided support for creating and modifying table slicers.
  • Date occurring conditional formatting is now supported in Excel to PDF conversion.
  • Linear and Radial gradient fill for cells and shapes are now supported in Excel to PDF conversion.

Breaking Changes

Bug Fixes

  • #F180523 - Text color applied through RGB value in HTML String is now applied properly while resaving the Excel document.

XpToolBar

Features

The Office2019Colorful and HighContrastBlack themes are now available for the XpToolBar control.