Essential Studio for WPF Release Notes

v20.4.0.38
December 21, 2022

Common

.NET 7 support

Our controls are compatible with the latest .NET 7.

Windows 11 light and dark themes

New Windows 11 light and dark themes support provided for WPF Syncfusion and framework controls.

Breaking changes

  • We have removed the support for .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0 from this version.

ComboBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #I420059- NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown when selecting the item.

DocIO

Features

  • #I249958 – Convert the Word document to a Markdown file.
  • #FB-38025 – Preserve new line characters in the table of contents entries of the Word document.

EditControl

Bug Fixes

  • #I419407 - Now, the Undo action working properly after inserting the multi-line text through the InsertText method in EditControl.

Gantt Control

Enhancements

  • #I353908 - Now, the duration and finish date of the task will be updated by considering the start date when importing and exporting Gantt.

SfKanban

Bug fixes

  • #F179159 - Now, there will be no more memory leaks in the Kanban control.
  • #FB38774 - Now, the new window is shown properly on top when we open a new window using the click the event of MenuItemAdv with the win32api helper method.

PDF

Breaking changes

  • Updated the Newtonsoft.Json package to 13.0.2 for HTML to PDF converter to avoid security vulnerabilities.
  • By default, the HTML converter uses 2000 milliseconds AdditionalDelay for the conversion.
  • By default, the HTML converter uses 40 as PDF page margin for the HTML to PDF conversion.
  • Changed the default value of Viewport size from 1024x0 to 1920x0.

Bug Fixes

  • #I351114 - Hanging issue no longer occurs while creating the QRBarcode with Arabic text.
  • #I419248 - The ExtractText returning incorrect coordinate bounds is now resolved.
  • #I419825 - The formatting exception when getting color from the specific free text annotation PDF document is now resolved.
  • #I423210 - Unable to edit the XMP Metadata no longer occurs in a specific PDF document.
  • #I421277 - OCSP information not embedded while enabling LTV for a specific certificate is now resolved.
  • #I420411 - The flattened annotations not located properly in the specific PDF document is now resolved.
  • #I418723 - The argument exception no longer occurs while compressing a specific PDF document.
  • #I418031 - Find text failure for the text containing numbers with hyphens is now resolved.
  • #I415562 - The out of Memory exception no longer occurs when performing extract text for a particular PDF document.
  • #I415274 - Export annotation as XFDF not working properly for a specific PDF document is now resolved.
  • #I420973 - The ink annotation not preserved properly while flattening a specific PDF document is now resolved.
  • #I421396 - The exception no longer occurs when providing an invalid check digit value to the Ean13 Barcode.
  • #I421642 - The layer subject is no longer changed after merging a PDF document.
  • #I421061 - The image size not reduced properly while compressing a specific PDF document is now resolved.
  • #I421114 - The preservation issue no longer occurs while drawing the nested grid in a PDF document.
  • #I420853 – Converting a specific Document to PDF results in large-size output is now resolved.
  • #I418989 - The textbox multiline preservation issue no longer occurs in a specific PDF document.
  • #I417772 - The extraction failure no longer occurs when extracting attachments from a PDF document.
  • #I415576 - The hanging issue no longer occurs when performing signature validation for a particular PDF document.
  • #F176704 - The incorrect signature validation results no longer occur while validating the signature.
  • #I419079 - The conversion failure when converting XPS to PDF no longer occurs in a particular XPS document.
  • #I412677 - The preservation issue no longer occurs when converting XPS to a PDF document.

PdfViewerControl

Features

  • Provided support for ARM64 architecture, with this feature PDF Viewer control can be used in applications that target ARM64 architecture.

Bug Fixes

  • #I418599 – The EnableRedactionMode will now work properly.
  • #I415374 – System.NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown when saving the lower version PDF documents.
  • #I414792 – Redaction will now work properly in PDF documents when reopening the PDF document.

Breaking Changes

  • The Scroll Helper buttons are added in the PdfViewerControl default toolbar, in order to prevent the toolbar to get wrapped.

Presentation

Features

  • #I285034, #I300854 – Apply highlight color to a text in the PowerPoint Presentation.
  • #I396782, #I421732 – Find the first occurrence or all occurrences of a text in the entire PowerPoint Presentation or specific slide.
  • #I400759 – Provided an API to recreate nested metafile images while converting a PPTX format to PDF.

Breaking Changes

  • In earlier releases, the given System.IO.Stream instance as a parameter to Open methods was disposed of internally. From this release onwards, Presentation.Open(Stream) and Presentation.Open(Stream, String) methods will not dispose of the specified stream instance. The user has to take care of its disposal in their application.
  • The below listed APIs has been moved to Syncfusion.Presentation.
Name Type Old Namespace New Namespace
TransitionEffect Enum Syncfusion.Presentation.SlideTransition Syncfusion.Presentation
TransitionEffectOption Enum Syncfusion.Presentation.SlideTransition Syncfusion.Presentation
TransitionSpeed Enum Syncfusion.Presentation.SlideTransition Syncfusion.Presentation
ISlideShowTransition Interface Syncfusion.Presentation.Interfaces Syncfusion.Presentation

Ribbon

Bug Fixes

  • #I417913 - The BackStage BackButton cropping issue will no longer occur.

SfDataGrid

Bug fixes

  • #I414541 - The DataGrid.HeaderTemplate content is no longer updated improperly while scrolling the column horizontally.
  • #I415357 - When using different formats with different shortdate settings, the value of the GridDateTimeColumn now changed properly.

SfDiagram

Bug fixes

  • #I421377 - Now, the Node and Connector drop indicator style will be applied properly to the existing diagram elements when an element is dragged from the stencil and interacts with it in preview mode.
  • #I422909 - Now, the ItemSelectedCommand will only be triggered once when dragging and dropping a node from the stencil.

SfMaps

Bug fixes

  • #I405306 - The ShapeLayer will not be cropped when adding it in the TileViewControl.

  • #I404549 - Tiles will be positioned correctly at around zoom level 3 when zooming out from the 19th level.

SfRichTextBoxAdv

Bug Fixes

  • #I424078 - Font size is now proper on saving the document and opening it again.
  • #I418984 - The color value in R-G-B-A format is now preserved properly while opening HTML.
  • #I421100 - Exception is no longer thrown on opening HTML containing an image tag with no source.
  • #F178556 - The last line can be scrolled up and viewed completely.
  • #I417689 - Exception is no longer thrown on loading and exporting HTML containing hyperlink with empty screen tip.
  • #I418748 - Added support to auto-correct web URL and mail id while inserting hyperlink.
  • #I417862 - Text moved to next line properly on pressing enter key on the HTML.
  • #I413273 - The next character of a hyperlink is not deleted on removing the hyperlink.
  • #I418696 - Exception is no longer thrown on removing hyperlink.

SfScheduler

Breaking Changes

  • Now, the month view will not navigate to the previous or next view when selecting the leading or trailing dates.

Bug fixes

  • #I423499 - Now, the day view will render correctly when navigating through the CellDoubleTapped event.

SfSkinmanager

Bug fixes

  • #FB39070 - PasswordBox disabled state UI was now updated properly as like TextBox disabled state UI in Fluent themes.

SfSpreadsheet

Bug Fixes

  • #I417812 - Cell content and hyperlink text will now aligned properly and hyperlink text size will increased when zooming SfSpreadSheet.

SfSurfaceChart

Bug fixes

SfTextInputLayout

Bug fixes

  • #I405332 - When unfocusing the control, the Hint label will not overlap with ComboBox text if a value out of its list is set.

  • #I398581 - The Hint label will not be cropped when the ContainerType is Outlined.

SfTreeView

Bug Fixes

  • #I418722 - Selection will now updated properly based on the IsSelectedPropertyName value even if the selection is cleared before changing the IsSelected property value.

  • #FB38843 - Order of the items will no longer get reversed when drag and dropping multiple selected items.

TabControlExt

Bug Fixes

  • #I419431- Performance issue will no longer occur when TabItems are in Multiline and placed left or right.
  • #I416631 - No more binding error occurs while adding tab items in ThemeStudio themes.

TileView

Bug Fixes

  • #F178311 - When one “TileViewItem” is maximised, the state of the other “TileViewItem” will be properly updated.
  • #F178355 - TileViewItems will be updated properly when scrolling the Minimized items using scrollbar.

Visual Studio Extensions

New Feature

  • #FB39233 - Provided the .NET 7.0 support to the Syncfusion WPF Project Template, Item Template, and Reference Manager.

Breaking changes

  • Removed the .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.0 support in WPF Project Template, Item Template, and Reference Manager.

XlsIO

Breaking Changes

  • #F178313 - Remove method is added under IPivotFilters interface to remove existing filters in the pivot field.