Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

v25.1.35
March 15, 2024

Common

  • We no longer provide assemblies for .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1, and 4.6. we recommend using .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later versions.

ContextMenuStripEx

Bug Fixes

  • #I546887 - Now, the ContextMenuStripEx item is visible when font family is changed in HighContrastBlack theme.

Diagram

Bug fixes

  • #I535376 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while saving and loading the diagram when the Model of the Diagram is not defined.

DocIO

Features

  • #I370047, #I515686, #I107555, #I108644, #I116892, #I237097, #I237965, #I257681, #I336732, #F163416 - Now, include \c and \a switches while updating the Table of Contents (TOC) to build table of figures in the Word document.

EditControl

Bug Fixes

  • #I526875 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer thrown when typing Baltic characters in the EditControl using a Norwegian language keyboard.
  • #I547775 - NullReferenceException will no longer thrown when programmatically setting focus to the EditControl and typing characters.

FontComboBox

Bug fixes

  • #I543137 - Now the default height of the FontComboBox control matches that of other ComboBox-related controls.
  • #I544419 - Updated the FontComboBox UI to match SfComboBox for text foreground and dropdown button back color.

MultiSelectionCombobox

Bug Fixes

  • #I539511 - The count value of SelectedItems is now properly updated after removing items from the TextBox while using the display modes Delimiter and Normal.

PDF

Features

  • Added support for remote goto actions in PDF documents.
  • Added support to identify and optimize identical resources when merging PDF documents.
  • #I530228 - Added support for image backgrounds in HTML file to image conversion.
  • #I486375 - Added support for creating accessible PDFs when converting from HTML to PDF formats.

Bug Fixes

  • #I554285 - Fixed an issue where sticky note comments were not being saved properly once the PDF was updated.
  • #I556724, #I555734 - Fixed issue where text extracted from a PDF document was not being returned properly.

Presentation

Features

  • #I520747, #F176520 - Provided APIs to crop pictures in PowerPoint Presentations, similar to the crop options in Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • #I548180 - Provided an API overload ISlides.Add(ISlide clonedSlide, PasteOptions pasteOptions) to add the cloned slide in the PowerPoint Presentation.

RadioButtonAdv

Features

Improved accessibility support for the RadioButtonAdv control.

RibbonControlAdv

Bug fixes

  • #I540069 - Now, The default value of the ToolStripTabItem is 0.
  • #I539163 - Back button of BackStage is now displayed properly in the RibbonControlAdv.
  • #I539162 - The MenuButton text will no longer overlap the QAT button in RibbonControlAdv.
  • #I541111 - System.ArgumentException will no longer occur when switching the RibbonControlAdv theme to HighContrastBlack.
  • #I540088 - The BackStageItem is now properly rendered with the provided ItemHeight when the BackStageItemPlacement is set to Bottom.
  • #I542130 - The text of ToolStripEx is now displayed in the Customize Ribbon dialog of RibbonControlAdv.
  • #I540798 - The RibbonForm text will no longer be cropped in RibbonControlAdv on a 4K monitor.
  • #I550143 - Now, the BackStagePanel will appear properly at 150% scaling.
  • #I552898 - The BackStage color now changes properly when switching themes.

Features

  • #I527198 - Implemented the ButtonBackgroundHovered support for ToolStripButton in Ribbon, thereby we can be able to set separate color for the items that are mouse hover in Office2016 theme.

SfButton

Bug fixes

  • #FB49984 - NullReferenceException will no longer occur when using the FocusedGradientBrush within the SfButton.

SfComboBox

Bug fixes

  • #I524980 - The selected item is now correctly displayed in the drop-down of the SfComboBox control when the system scaling is set to a custom value.
  • #I538419 - Now, the SfComboBox automatically scrolls to the selected item when the dropdown is expanded within the SfDataGrid control.
  • #I543137 - Now the default height of the SfComboBox control matches that of other ComboBox-related controls.
  • #I548863 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown when the last item is selected in SfComboBox with token support, and the SelectAll feature is enabled.
  • #I549749 - Now, selection events are properly triggered when the token mode is enabled in the SfComboBox control.

SfDataGrid

Features

  • #I440742- Now, performance has been improved for scrolling, group expanding, and collapsing operations when the SummaryCalculationMode is set to CalculationMode.OnDemandCaptionSummary.

SplitButton

Features

AccessKey support has been added for the SplitButton control.

Visual Studio Extensions

Features

  • Syncfusion has provided Visual Basic support for the Syncfusion WinForms Template Studio in WinForms applications.

XlsIO

Bug Fixes

  • Argument out-of-range exception thrown when resaving the Excel file in Thai culture is fixed.