Essential Studio for Xamarin.Forms Release Notes

v15.4.0.20
December 27,2017

SfChart

Bug Fixes

  • #192745, #192623, #193132, #193536 – Null exception will no longer thrown while adding stacking series with other combination of chart series.

  • #190182 – Object disposed exception will no longer thrown while setting binding context as null for strip lines.

  • #192080 – System.Argument exception will no longer thrown while updating the data dynamically in DateTimeAxis.

  • #193615 – ArgumentOutOfRange exception will no longer thrown while navigating the chart page.

  • #194950 – Chart background color issue has been fixed in GetStream method.

DocIO

Features

  • #192592 - Added option to import styles with new unique name, if style exist in destination document with same name and different type.

Breaking Changes

  • The property ImportStylesOnTypeMismatch was added to the IWordDocument interface.

Bug Fixes

  • #190591 - DOC format document opens properly after modifying the protection type from ‘AllowOnlyFormFields’ to other types for a particular Word document.
  • #194503 - Owner information is now set properly while merging comment from source to destination document.
  • #192944 - CustomDocumentProperties with whitespace values are parsed properly in a particular Word document.
  • #191534 - PAGE and NUMPAGES fields are preserved properly while converting a particular RTF Word document as DOCX.
  • #189597 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException and NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while deleting and accessing a bookmark content from a particular Word document.
  • #190880 - The resultant Word document is no longer corrupted after updating the UpdateDocumentFields for a particular Word document.
  • #190024 - Images are removed properly while clearing the Word document elements.
  • #191067 - StackOverflowException will be no longer thrown while loading a particular Word document.
  • #189874 - Memory leak issue has been resolved while saving a particular Word document as RTF document (multiple times).
  • #188568 - Print Layout view is now preserved properly while opening/printing resultant RTF document in Microsoft Word 2016.
  • #190621 - NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while opening a particular Word document.
  • #189655 - Bullet size is now preserved properly while merging a particular Word document elements.
  • #189185 - BuiltinDocumentProperties (Company,manager) are parsed properly while opening particular DOC format document.
  • #188296 - OutOfMemoryException will be no longer thrown while updating document fields for a particular Word document.

PDF

Bug Fixes

  • #192637 - NullReferenceException no longer occurs when removing a page from the particular PDF document.
  • #190237 - System not support exception no longer occurs when merging the PDF document with digital signature.
  • #190870 - Text preservation issue is no longer occurs while drawing existing template into another page.
  • #189471 - Empty PdfColor is now retrieving as the background color of PdfLoadedTextBoxField which has no background color.
  • #189756 - Out of range exception is no longer occurs while drawing JPEG image to PDF document.
  • #191567 - Null reference exception is no longer occurs while reading existing combo box values.
  • #187013 - PDF layers count is now retrieving properly while loading an existing document.
  • #190046 - PdfTextMarkup annotation fore color is now preserving properly.
  • #191487 - Form fields data is preserving properly after adding the signature certificate to PDF document.
  • #194078 - OnInstantiate property in 3D annotation is now working properly.
  • #193908 - NullReferenceException no longer occurs when drawing a string to the PDF document.

Presentation

Bug Fixes

  • #193673 - Image in a PowerPoint slide is no longer replaced by another image while applying PictureFill in the same slide.

SfAutoComplete

Feature

  • #191429 - Focus method and Completed event support has been provided in SfAutoComplete.

Bug Fixes

  • #193687 - Now, Font family is working fine in android platform.
  • #194379 - Now, Custom Filter is Working fine in SfAutoComplete control.
  • #194398 - Now, Selection change is Working fine When click on Done button.

SfCalendar

Bug Fixes

  • #193634 – Now,Pixel border is working fine and border color appeared
  • #182948 - Custom Calendar InlineView is appeared properly in Android.
  • #132525,#187232 - Now,NullableSelectedDate is working fine when it is defined in the constructor.
  • #185932 - Vertical and Horizontal scrolling is working fine while selecting MinDate (today date) after selecting date.
  • #182948 - Custom inline view is visible properly.

SfCircularGauge

Bug Fixes

  • # 191800 – Circular Ranges will render properly for all platforms in StackLayout.

  • # 192373,194720,194804,194100 – Application crash and NullReferenceException will no longer be occur, when disposing SfCircularGauge object.

  • # 191486 – NewLine character inside scale LabelPrefix property is working properly in Forms.Android.

  • # 191179,193382 – Range will render if StartValue and EndValue are same as scale values.

Features

  • # 193825 – Provided FontFamily and FontAttributes support for Headers and Scales.

SfDataGrid

Bug fixes

  • #192197 - Row drag and drop does not work in iPhone 6 physical device when Swiping is enabled has been fixed.
  • #192381 - Records has been scrolled upto 25 records for single mouse wheel in UWP has been fixed.
  • #193459 - GridCell style does not render properly while reusing the GridTextColumn and GridNumericColumn has been fixed.
  • #194514 - Current cell not getting end edit while tapping outside of the SfDataGrid in UWP has been fixed.
  • #134737, 134918 - ScrollToRowIndex is not working in Xamarin.Forms.UWP when using GridTemplateColumn issue has been fixed.
  • #177747 - Entire SfDataGrid control is loaded into the edit view while we edit and rotate the view to landscape orientation has been fixed.
  • #190983 - SfDataGrid does not show the correct columns while reset the columns in runtime has been fixed.
  • #190376 - SfDataGrid column not drawn while changing the orientation to landscape issue has been fixed.

Enhancements

  • #192413 - Support for binding support to the SelectedItems has been provided.
  • #192768 - Support for accessing SfDataGrid.SelectedItems within QueryCellStyle event has been provided.
  • #190910 - Support for handling the QueryRowDraggingReason.DragEnded when we drop a row without changing the record index has been provided.

SfImageEditor

Bug Fixes

  • #194554 – Now, Java.Lang.Object exception will not be thrown in SfImageEditor.
  • #193557,193518 – Now, “cannot able to access the dispose object” exception will not be thrown in SfImageEditor.
  • #194591 – ImageEditor will not get crashed while adding arrow shapes even after the device culture has been changed to other than English.
  • #193625,195027 – Image from the stream will not take more image size than the original image.
  • #193304 – Now, image will be rendered properly with the retrieved stream from ImageSaving argument.
  • #192051 – Now, ImageEditor will not throw unhandled exception when loading stream as ImageEditor source.
  • #192860 – Now, toolbar visibility will work properly.
  • #192949 – Since Assets Library Framework is deprecated from iOS 9.0, PHPhotoLibrary has been used to save image to gallery.

SfLinearGauge

Bug Fixes

  • # 191858 – Bar Color property is working properly in Forms.Android

SfListView

Enhancements

  • #194531,135032 - Provided support to drag and drop the item using mouse in UWP.

Bug Fixes

  • #192746 - Groups will be collapsed and expanded properly either programmatically or by tapping the group header.

SfMaps

Bug Fixes

  • # 192599 – USA shapefile will render properly in navigation page for Forms Android Platform.

SfNavigationDrawer

Bug Fixes

  • #194324 - Object Disposed exception will be no longer thrown while changing the internal property is Enabled.
  • #193429 - Drawer content view is scrolling perfect when using SfListView.

SfNumericTextBox

Bug Fixes

  • #194616 – Now,Numeric text box is working fine no long exception will occur while changing the value = “ “.
  • #192626 – Roundoff value should be properly updated correctly by using maximum decimal digits field.
  • #192531 – Numbers converted into Exponential form by using Big decimal type
  • #192472 – Now,Value property is working properly by changing the parser mode value.

SfNumericUpDown

Bug Fixes

  • #194306 - Now,UPDown Button color is working fine in SfNumericUpDown.
  • #194340 - Now,Maximum number decimal digits property is working fine even if the step value is defined
  • #191483, #193981 - Now,Numeric up down control is working fine in the list view.
  • #193484 - Now,NumericUPDown control working fine even setting the maximum decimal digits to zero.
  • #191785 - Now,Background color as transparent is working fine when click on the up down button.

SfPicker

Bug Fixes

  • #194587- Now, Picker header color gets applied by changing header background color value.
  • #194751 - Now, Picker header color gets applied by changing header background color value.
  • #194590 - Now, Picker footer does not cropped is working fine by changing picker footer height.
  • #193788 - Custom image is appear on

SfPullToRefresh

Bug fixes

  • #191710, 193124 - Bottom to top scrolling not working while loading Xamarin.Forms.ListView as SfPullToRefresh.PullableContent has been fixed.
  • #193271 - Master details page not working when SfPullToRefresh is loaded with nested layouts has been fixed.

SfRadialMenu

Bug Fixes

  • #194622, #134976 - Now,SfRadialMenu control occupies full screen on absolute layout.
  • #193027 - RadialMenu navigation is working properly in SfRadialMenu control.
  • #193027 - Radial menu item opened on the last is working fine in forms.android.
  • #193027 - SfRadialMenu background color property is working fine when it is on binding.
  • #192852, #193532 , #194288 - Now,open Property is working correctly.

SfRangeSlider

Bug Fixes

  • #194054 - Now, Is Enabled Property is working fine in Xamarin.UWP.
  • #193288, #134650 - SfRangeSlider control is working fine by value changed event called in value changed property.

SfRating

Bug Fixes

  • #194226 - Now, Image does not crop while using enable auto request and width request API.

SfRotator

Bug Fixes

  • #132076 - Now, Rotator Item contents is visible When using item source property in SfRotator.

SfSchedule

Bug Fixes

  • #193128- Now, appointments will be arranged properly while adding dynamically in Xamarin.Forms(iOS)
  • #193307 - Now, custom appointment value will be known in CellTapped event in Xamarin.Forms(iOS).
  • #193101 - Now, on double tapping recurrence event,pop up will not appear in Xamarin Forms(UWP).
  • #193427- Now, yearly recurrence appointment will be rendered properly in schedule.
  • #192879 - Now, schedule month view swipe will work properly when added in tabbed page in Xamarin.Forms(Android).
  • #193486 - Now, NonAccessibleBlocksCollection when set in XAML will work properly.

Features

  • Support for header tapped and view header tapped events have been provided.

XlsIO

Features

  • #189521 - Support to get cell’s precedents and dependents is provided.

Breaking Changes

  • #189521 - GetDependents(), GetPrecedents() methods are added in IRange interface to get cell’s precedents and dependents.
  • #192482 - ‘RangeIndexerMode’ is added in ‘IApplication’ interface to include indexer behavior of Interop.
  • IWorksheet interface is implemented with IEnumerable.

Bug fixes

  • #194119 - Exception is no longer thrown while using Syncfusion.Drawing in Portable platform.
  • #192673 - NameSpace issue will no longer occur while using file attributes with compression portable.
  • #194195 - Corruption issue while add copying the worksheet with JPG image is resolved.
  • #190466 - Cell value with thousand separator is now properly detected as number in German culture.
  • #192875 - Performance issue while converting Excel document with embedded fonts is fixed.
  • #193873 - Excel workbook with duplicate comments can be resaved successfully without corruption.
  • #193832 - File name with space is truncated in HTTP response is resolved.
  • #192726 - Issue with DisplayText property when cell formulas involve TODAY() function is fixed.
  • #193646 - Freeze panes is now properly updated while deleting row.
  • #193315 - Exception is no longer thrown while setting calculated column formula using table from another worksheet.
  • #192964, #192961 - Binary Excel document with improper column value for image can be opened successfully without exception.
  • #192558 - Issue with hyperlink address is changed on resave is resolved.
  • #192558 - Borders and text alignment are copied properly between workbooks.
  • #191260 - Pivot table layout is improper while having one or more fields with same name is fixed.
  • #191561 - Application hangs while setting ShowTotals to false for the table having hyperlink is fixed.
  • #192241 - Issue while adding multiple SVG images to an Excel document is fixed.
  • #191657 - Formatting issue while add copying the worksheets is fixed.
  • #191673 - Hanging and corruption issues while resaving binary Excel document with rich text stream record is fixed.
  • #191958 - Issue with table header cell string while accessing ‘DisplayText’ is fixed.
  • #191745 - Issue with group shapes hyperlinks on resave is fixed.
  • #191723 - Chart number formats will be preserved properly on resave.
  • #189288 - Issue with row height for different font sizes is fixed.
  • #191316 - Issue with template marker default variable type action is fixed.
  • #188006 - Border line style issue while getting cell style is resolved.
  • #190663 - Template marker performance is improved while copying conditional formats.
  • #190031 - Excel document without table name can be opened successfully without argument exception.
  • #190343, #191860 - Formula with external workbook reference value is incorrect on resave is fixed.
  • #189712 - ArgumentOutOfRange exception while copying cells between different workbooks is fixed.
  • #190381 - Excel document no longer gets corrupted while creating chart with EnterDirectValues().
  • #190229 - Decimal separator is now recognized properly while setting formula in Czech and German cultures.
  • #190232 - Issue with display text when the number formats ends with white-space is fixed.
  • #189693 - Excel document is no longer corrupted when creating new sheets in macro-enabled workbook.
  • #189681 - Excel document with empty preset dash value can be opened without XML exception.
  • #189308 - Issue with cell styles and formatting applied to the excluded hidden ranges is fixed.
  • #189191 - InvalidOperation exception is no longer thrown while saving Excel.
  • #191133, #194961 - Excel document is no longer corrupted while resaving Excel document with pivot table.
  • #194356 - Excel document gets corrupted while downloading XlsIO resaved file from Internet Explorer browser is fixed.
  • Issue with RefersToRange for table named ranges is fixed.
  • Image class conflict between Compression and XlsIO is resolved.
  • Issue with position of dynamically added combo boxes in first column is fixed.
  • Excel document with Scatter chart can be resaved properly.
  • Embedded chart with image format header/footer can now be viewed without corruption and exception.
  • Issue with incorrect row count in table column formula is fixed.
  • Image from embedded chart header/footer can be accessed now.
  • Corruption issue when resaving Excel document with continuous external named ranges is fixed.
  • Corruption issue when resaving Excel document with charts is fixed.