Essential Studio for Windows Forms Release Notes

ButtonEdit

Bug fixes

  • #I713743 - ButtonAdvBorderStyle.None now removes the child button’s border in ButtonEdit for styles Office2007,Office2010 and Office2016.

Diagram

Bug fixes

  • #708616 - Resolved the issue where unwanted lines appeared in Symbols when loaded from a Visio file.
  • #703610 - Improved the scrolling functionality to work properly across different scaling values.
  • ControlNodes will now serialize properly in XML Serialization.

DocIO

Features

  • #I84570, #I149806, #I73532, #I104716, #I105049, #I109548, #I119864, #I124725, #I130014, #I137039, #I137196, #I323992, F165479, F168737, #I652765, #I658111 - Provided support to create and remove editable ranges in protected DOCX format documents.
  • #I635778, #I214139, #I665210, #I624912, #I583370, #F141869, #FB26929 - Added support to create list number formats including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and Thai in DOCX format documents and preserve them during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
  • #I376950, #I411898, #I465126, #I679498, #I297755, #I301645, #I307279, #I349118, #I176036, #I184228, #I216695, #I331649, #I680106, #I86205, #I107655, #I182993, #I201718, #I209411, #I225246, #I311779, #I317812, #I345122 - Added support to preserve shape fill formats such as gradients, transparency, and pattern fills during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
  • #I70284, #I144361, #I160658, #I188244, #I201718, #I202261, #I206374, #I212424, #F137571 - Recolor effects like grayscale, sepia, and color tone adjustments are now preserved during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.
  • #I293751, #I310315, #I337547, #I367467, #I469762, #I496627, #I650620, #F176420 - Drawing canvas and its contents are now preserved when converting Word documents to PDFs and images.
  • Font substitution is now supported inside charts, allowing users to configure fallback fonts when the original fonts are unavailable during Word to PDF and image conversions.
  • Provided fallback font support for Unicode characters in charts to preserve multilingual content during Word-to-PDF and image conversions.

Breaking Changes

  • Changed the default Word-to-PDF rendering mode to fast rendering to improve performance, making the EnableFastRendering property true by default.

DockingManager

Bug fixes

  • #I711465 - The bottom content of the Floating Window now displays correctly when the window is maximized by dragging it to the top of the screen.
  • #I707553 - When loading the saved Docking layout the floating window now displays properly even after rearranging the monitor layout in Windows display settings.
  • #I720903 - Floating Window now restore properly when using PerMonitorV2 DPI awareness in a multi-monitor setup.
  • #I723385 - Floating Window now restore correctly to their respective monitors after loading a saved layout in Docking Manager with a three-monitor setup.
  • #I734377 - Header text will no longer reset to its default value when loading a new header with custom header text into the SfNavigationDrawer control.

PDF

Features

Presentation

Features

  • Font substitution is now supported inside charts, allowing users to configure fallback fonts when the original fonts are unavailable during PowerPoint to PDF and image conversions.
  • Provided fallback font support for Unicode characters in charts to preserve multilingual content during PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions.

RibbonControlAdv

Bug fixes

  • #I704285 - Unexpected separators will no longer be displayed in the Ribbon header when AutoSize is disabled for all tab items in Office2016 and Touch styles.
  • #I732797 - NullReferenceException will no longer occur when saving the layout in RibbonControlAdv.

SfButton

Bug fixes

  • #FB66395 - BackColor and FocusedBackColor of SfButton is applied properly when applying theme using the exported theme assembly from Theme Studio.
  • #I958210 - Transparent BackColor is now applied correctly to SfButton when the color is set to transparent.

SplitContainerAdv

Bug fixes

  • #I721747 - Resolved issues where the Smart Tag was not displayed and Visual Studio crashed when using SplitContainerAdv inside TabControlAdv or RibbonControlAdv in the designer.

Spreadsheet

Bug Fixes

  • #I725272 – Now, an ArgumentException will no longer be thrown when loading an Excel file with conditional formatting and formula conditions that reference an external workbook in SfSpreadsheet.

TabControlAdv

Bug fixes

  • #I710523 - The TabPage background in TabControlAdv now updates correctly when the Office2016DarkGray theme is applied using SkinManager.
  • #I720148 - Visual Studio Designer will no longer hang when switching tabs after adding a TabControlAdv inside a Microsoft TabControl in .NET Core projects.

XlsIO

Features

  • Auto Fill and Fill Series support is provided to programmatically populate Excel cell ranges based on patterns, sequences, or trends, minimizing manual input.

Bug Fixes

  • #I735455 - Cell value is accurately returned by the Range.Value property when the number contains high-precision digits.
  • #I737657 - The IsFiltered property is updated properly when clearing a filter contains equal to operator.
  • #I736030 - Hyperlinks are removed properly when performing clear operations in worksheet range.

Test Results

Component Name Test Cases Passed Failed Remarks
Calculate 131 131 0 All Passed
CheckBoxAdv 108 108 0 All Passed
CombinedControls 296 296 0 All Passed
ComboBoxAdv 288 288 0 All Passed
DateTimeEdit 122 122 0 All Passed
DockingManager 1616 1616 0 All Passed
EditControl 301 301 0 All Passed
GridControl 891 891 0 All Passed
GridGrouping Control 115 115 0 All Passed
GridGroupingControl 1437 1437 0 All Passed
Grouping 183 183 0 All Passed
Grouping Control 113 113 0 All Passed
RibbonControlAdv 1063 1063 0 All Passed
SfDataGrid 835 835 0 All Passed
TabbedMdiManager 465 465 0 All Passed
TabControlAdv 709 709 0 All Passed
TreeViewAdv 270 270 0 All Passed
DocIO 16780 16780 0 All Passed
PDF 14032 14032 0 All Passed
Presentation 52029 52029 0 All Passed
XlsIO 21839 21839 0 All Passed