Improves RadScheduler, RadChartView, RadMap, RadMaskedEditBox, RadTreeView and PdfProcessing.

Features

• RadScheduler
  • Option to specify how the appointments are sorted in month view.
• RadChartView
  • Implement LassoSelection controller.
• RadMap
  • Add ViaWaypoints support.
  • Add option to create custom tile elements in the MapVisualElementFactory.
  • LocalMapProvider should allow specifying the TileSize.
• RadMaskedEditBox
  • Add a property that indicates whether all required inputs have been entered into the input mask (MaskCompleted ).
• RadTreeView
  • Add the option to add a root node via the context menu.
  • RadBreadCrumb - expose a new mode which will perform a selection in the associated tree view upon clicking on the action part of the split button.
• PdfProcessing
  • Implemented logic to handle invalid PDF documents which content streams contain concatenated "q" and "Q" graphic state operators.

Fixes

• RadForm
  • Size is increased when reopening the designer and a Material theme is applied.
• RadCalendar
  • The row headers border is still visible if the ShowOtherMonthsDays property is set to false in the VisualStudio2012LightTheme.
• RadChartView
  • Incorrect points are selected with the LassoSelectionController.
• RadCheckedDropDownList
  • ArgumentOutOfRangeException when you dock the control inside TableLayoutPanel.
• RadCommandBar
  • Exception when removing an item and loading the layout.
• RadDateTimePicker
  • The PM/AM part is changed when pressing non-numeric key in the hour part.
  • Time part is not selected any more with the mouse once the AM/PM part has been selected.
• RadDiagram
  • Add an option to change the default RadDiagramShapes with custom ones.
• RadDropDownList
  • SelectedIndexChanging event is fired multiple times when you use MouseWheel and cancel the event.
  • Incorrect selection of items with duplicated text but different values when opening and closing the popup with the keyboard.
  • The selected index is not cleared when the SelectedValue does not exists in the data source.
• RadGanttView
  • Exception when TimelineRange is DayHalfHours and the range is smaller than one day.
• RadGridView
  • ViewChanged event is not fired when single group is expanded.
  • NullReferenceException when GridViewCheckBoxColumn.EnableHeaderCheckBox is true for the child template and the master level is self-reference.
  • The AlternatingRowColor is wrong when some rows are styled.
  • Having groups, filters, sort descriptors and search query in the GridViewSearchRowInfo may leave the grid in an invalid state.
  • Visible rows are not checked in the filter popup of the Excel-like filtering.
  • Wrong parts of the text are highlighted by the search functionality if you type extremely fast.
  • The GridViewSpreadStreamExport class and its RunExportAsync method may result in incorrect exported cells of a decimal column with a custom ExcelExportType.
  • The column chooser is not scaled with application that support HDPI.
  • Property Builder is closed automatically when you change to ColumnsGroupViewDefinition for the child template.
  • Indicate errors example shows incorrect red border around a valid value.
• RadGroupBox
  • Set shape to the header is not applied properly.
• RadLayoutControl
  • Define a back color set on the RootElement in the Windows8 theme.
• RadMultiColumnComboBox
  • When added to a TableLayoutPanel and the Dock property is set to Fill, the control is shrunk.
• RadPdfViewer
  • Loading new document while loading operation is still pending should stop the current operation and start the new one.
  • The Highlighted path is painted over the text and the text is not visible.
• RadPopupEditor
  • The popup is incorrectly sized when the DropDownSizingMode is set to none.
• RadPropertyGrid
  • Title in the help element is hidden when you set the HelpElement.MinSize property.
  • Unhandled exception in the control if you try to create a Font object with a negative size.
  • RadRange attribute is not respected.
• RadRibbonBar
  • Tabs cannot be switched with a single click at design time.
• RadRichTextEditor
  • Missing localization strings for some parts of the UI.
  • The text is unreadable with the FluentDark theme.
  • Fluent theme is not properly applied to the RichTextEditorRibbonBar.
  • InsertCaptionDialog shows "radRichTextEditor1" text in the textbox.
  • Inserting a large image exceeding the bounds of the viewport in the DocumentLayoutMode.Flow should display the horizontal scrollbar.
  • NullReferenceException is thrown when calling PrintPreview after an watermark is inserted in web layout mode.
  • PrintPreview dialog is automatically closed if you added a watermark in web layout mode.
  • Exception in an Office Add-in environment while importing an HTML document with images loaded from URLs.
• RadSpellChecker
  • The standard ContextMenuStrip is not shown after performing a spellcheck with the control.
• RadSpinEditor
  • The CausesValidation property set on the control should propagate to the internally hosted text box.
• RadTextBox
  • The text box is not resized according to the font when it is placed inside TableLayoutPanel at design time.
• RadTextBoxControl
  • NullText should be shown even if the control is focused and the text is empty.
• RadTreeView
  • The HideSelection property doesn't work.
  • Auto-scroll is not working while dragging a node.
  • RadTreeNode.TreeView is null for the nested nodes.
  • The filter predicate should be called on all nodes in the tree when custom filtering is used.
• Trackbar
  • RadTrackBar - the TrackBarRangeElement should be painted black in the TelerikMetro theme in the MouseOver element state when the control is oriented vertically.
• UI for Winforms
  • RadChat and RadImageEditor - links to the documentation in the smart tag`s action list and in the QSF examples are not redirecting correctly.
• VSB
  • Visual Style Builder should be made DPI-aware.
• SpreadProcessing
  • Pasted value has incorrect formatting when the source has formatting on the entire column.
• PdfProcessing
  • Transparency is lost on import when the graphic state does not specify the alpha source.
  • Corrupted document after export because of missing FunctionType PDF property.
  • InvalidCastException when importing DeviceN color with integer components.

Includes improvements to the data grid and PdfProcessing, plus other minor fixes.

Features

• Common
  • The embedded jQuery is replaced with 1.12.4 due to incompatibilities between the previous 3.3.1 and the MS AJAX framework and its __doPostBack() method
• Grid
  • Unified printing experience across browsers - a new dialog is always opened whose print command is executed
• PdfProcessing
  • Implemented logic to handle invalid PDF documents which content streams contain concatenated "q" and "Q" graphic state operators.

Fixes

• Common
  • Getting WebResource.axd not found error (404) when searching for Outlook, Telerik, Vista or Windows7.sprite.grid.png
• Ajax
  • jQuery button click in RadAjaxPanel under FireFox in R2 2018 causes TypeError: access to strict mode caller function is censored
• AutoCompleteBox
  • Dropdown extends to the left and screen boundary detection to the left does not work in R2 2018
• DropDownList
  • Cannot postback under Firefox in R2 2018, TypeError: access to strict mode caller function is censored is thrown
• FileExplorer
  • Cannot rename files under Firefox in R2 2018, TypeError: access to strict mode caller function is censored is thrown
  • Cannot upload files in R2 2018 under Firefox, TypeError: access to strict mode caller function is censored is thrown
• Grid
  • Grid Client printed file does not load in Chrome 60+
• ListBox
  • Server events are not raised under Firefox in R2 2018 (selection, reorder, transfer, drag-and-drop, etc.), TypeError: access to strict mode caller function is censored is thrown
• PdfProcessing
  • Transparency is lost on import when the graphic state does not specify the alpha source.
  • Corrupted document after export because of missing FunctionType PDF property.
  • InvalidCastException when importing DeviceN color with integer components.

  SearchBox

  • Cannot fire OnSearch under Firefox in R2 2018, TypeError: access to strict mode caller function is censored is thrown
• SpreadProcessing
  • Pasted value has incorrect formatting when the source has formatting on the entire column.
• Window
  • Window's size is decreased on every opening
• Wizard
  • Cannot change step with a postback under Firefox in R2 2018, TypeError: access to strict mode caller function is censored is thrown

Multiple improvements for Kendo UI, Telerik UI, plus new Border and ComboBox controls for Xamarin.

Features

Telerik DevCraft UI R2 2018 SP1 release includes the following updates:

• Kendo UI + Telerik UI for ASP.NET (MVC & Core), PHP, JSP R2 2018 SP1 - Adds new features to ButtonGroup, Grid, MultiSelect, PDF Export and Radial Gauge.
• Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX R2 2018 SP1 - Includes improvements to the data grid and PdfProcessing, plus other minor fixes.
• Telerik UI for Silverlight R2 2018 SP1 - Includes improvements to DomainDataSource, PDF Viewer and PdfProcessing.
• Telerik UI for WinForms R2 2018 SP1 - Improves RadScheduler, RadChartView, RadMap, RadMaskedEditBox, RadTreeView and PdfProcessing.
• Telerik UI for WPF R2 2018 SP1 - Includes improvements to PDF Viewer, PdfProcessing, TreeList and VirtualGrid.
• Telerik UI for Xamarin R2 2018 (2018.2.821.250) - Adds new Border and CheckBox controls, plus improvements to DataGrid.

Adds improvements for Kendo UI, Telerik UI and Reporting, plus new Border and ComboBox controls for Xamarin.

Features

Telerik DevCraft Complete R2 2018 SP1 release includes the following updates:

• Kendo UI + Telerik UI for ASP.NET (MVC & Core), PHP, JSP R2 2018 SP1 - Adds new features to ButtonGroup, Grid, MultiSelect, PDF Export and Radial Gauge.
• Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX R2 2018 SP1 - Includes improvements to the data grid and PdfProcessing, plus other minor fixes.
• Telerik UI for Silverlight R2 2018 SP1 - Includes improvements to DomainDataSource, PDF Viewer and PdfProcessing.
• Telerik UI for WinForms R2 2018 SP1 - Improves RadScheduler, RadChartView, RadMap, RadMaskedEditBox, RadTreeView and PdfProcessing.
• Telerik UI for WPF R2 2018 SP1 - Includes improvements to PDF Viewer, PdfProcessing, TreeList and VirtualGrid.
• Telerik UI for Xamarin R2 2018 (2018.2.821.250) - Adds new Border and CheckBox controls, plus improvements to DataGrid.
• Telerik Reporting R2 2018 SP1 - Adds localization for the HTML5 report viewer template plus other improvements and bug fixes.

New controls added to Telerik UI for Xamarin, plus updates to Kendo UI, Telerik Report Server and more.

Features

Telerik DevCraft Ultimate R2 2018 SP1 release includes the following updates:

• Kendo UI + Telerik UI for ASP.NET (MVC & Core), PHP, JSP R2 2018 SP1 - Adds new features to ButtonGroup, Grid, MultiSelect, PDF Export and Radial Gauge.
• Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX R2 2018 SP1 - Includes improvements to the data grid and PdfProcessing, plus other minor fixes.
• Telerik UI for Silverlight R2 2018 SP1 - Includes improvements to DomainDataSource, PDF Viewer and PdfProcessing.
• Telerik UI for WinForms R2 2018 SP1 - Improves RadScheduler, RadChartView, RadMap, RadMaskedEditBox, RadTreeView and PdfProcessing.
• Telerik UI for WPF R2 2018 SP1 - Includes improvements to PDF Viewer, PdfProcessing, TreeList and VirtualGrid.
• Telerik UI for Xamarin R2 2018 (2018.2.821.250) - Adds new Border and CheckBox controls, plus improvements to DataGrid.
• Telerik Reporting R2 2018 SP1 - Adds localization for the HTML5 report viewer template plus other improvements and bug fixes.
• Telerik Report Server R2 2018 SP1 - Adds new localization support for the Report Server Web Manager.

Adds compatibility with DevExpress XAF 18.1.5

Features

• This version of Xafari works with DevExpress XAF 18.1.5.

Improves VerticalGrid, Spreadsheet and Rich Edit controls.

Fixes

• All WinForms Controls
  • AdornerUIManager - Guides are drawn off screen.
  • In version 18.1.5 the quality of SVG images has deteriorated.
  • SvgImage - Child elements do not take a parent's Display attribute into account.
  • The Bezier palette - Different names in the palette selector and palette gallery.
  • The Visual Studio crashes when Project Settings are applied if the App.config file is created and is not included to the current project.
  • When "Apply To All States" in the "Icon SVG Palette Editor" is clicked, plain colors are displayed instead of "SVG Palette Colors".
  • XtraFolderBrowserDialog - The SelectedPath property is not updated when creating and renaming a new folder.
• MVVM Framework
  • Add the capability to bind commands on LayoutControlGroup's CustomHeaderButtons.
• PDF Viewer
  • Rendering - Images are blurred at some zoom levels.
• WinForms Demos
  • RibbonSimplePad demo - NullReferenceException occurs when Application Button is hovered in the TabletOffice style.
• XtraBars Suite
  • AccordionControl Hamburger Menu - Elements are not aligned correctly when using an image.
  • A transparent control flickers when it resides in a RibbonForm.
  • AccordionControl - Group text is cut off when the group is hovered.
  • AccordionControl - Incorrect text color when the Office palette is applied.
  • Add the capability to show the menu list in the RibbonControl designer in the alphabetical order.
  • AdornerUIManager - An exception is thrown when a form is closed.
  • After upgrading to 18.1 from 17.2, RibbonPage captions aren't displayed entirely on monitors with 100 DPI when ForceTextRenderPaint is invoked.
  • AlertControl - GDI objects leak after AlertForms dispose in Windows 10 1803.
  • ApplicationButton overlaps the RibbonPage header on monitors with 250 DPI.
  • BarManager - A bar located within StandaloneBarkDockControl has incorrect height on 150% DPI.
  • BarManager - Bar items cannot be clicked if a bar is located on a custom Customization Form.
  • BarManager - BarItems cannot be deleted in the PopupMenu's designer.
  • BarManager - GDI Objects leaks when clicking and hovering over the bar menu.
  • DocumentManager - The label fore color changes when a document is floated and the skin is Office 2016 Dark.
  • DocumentViewer  - It should be possible to delete this component after creating its Ribbon interface.
  • FlayoutPanel is shown at a wrong location when switching an active document.
  • FlyoutDialog - Shading does not change the size when the owner form resizes.
  • HamburgerMenu - ScrollBar isn't hidden when the popup form is closed.
  • Memory leak in the Bezier skin when using SkinRibbonGalleryBarItem.
  • Minimized RibbonControl does not show its popup when a form is maximized and the taskbar is hidden.
  • NativeMDIVeiw - Provide a public way to maximize its documents.
  • RibbonControl - BarItem is not shown in the popup form when the OfficeUniversal style is used.
  • RibbonControl - The ApplicationIcon property is not in effect when the TabletOffice style is applied.
  • RibbonControl height is incorrect when the supportedOS id is set to Windows 10 in the app.manifest file.
  • RibbonMiniItems are not clickable after reopening the parent form.
  • Setting the RecentButtonItem visibility does not update BackstageView when BackstageView is not shown.
  • SvgImage is not scaled if BarCheckItem is located in a menu.
  • Text is incorrectly drawn in OverlayForm after applying a hotfix.
  • The BarItem image does not take the AppearanceDisabled.ForeColor property into account.
  • The Bezier - Lines are not drawn in non-default palettes when high DPI is used.
  • The form's shadow flickers when BackStageView is shown and then hidden.
  • The OfficeNavigationBar editor resets item names when you reorder items in the designer.
  • Unable to add buttons to a derived CustomizationControl class in 18.1.4.
• XtraCharts Suite
  • A legend is displayed at an incorrect position if a custom localization is used.
  • Cannot show a form with XtraChart in a new Thread after Update from 17.2 to 18.1.
  • Chart Control unexpectedly displays decimal numbers in X axis labels when the AutoGrid option is disabled.
  • ChartControl not animating when ForceDirectXPaint is used.
  • Documentation - The ColorDataMember property is not described.
  • The diagram layout is incorrect when the chart is embedded in the DocumentManager container and the DirectX rendering mode is enabled.
  • The NullReference exception is raised after changing the Series visibility when the ChartControl is bound to the PivotGridControl.
  • Unhandled error occurs when opening the Form with ChartControl linked to PivotGridControl in certain situations.
• XtraEditors Library
  • XtraDialogs - By default all items are displayed in XtraLarge mode.
  • XtraDialogs - Provide the capability to specify the default view mode.
  • An incorrect modal form is displayed when a WaitForm is displayed.
  • BreadCrumbEdit - The editing mode is turned off on typing a back slash by using the German keyboard.
  • CalendarControl - CellStyleProvider does not operate properly when the RowCount and ColumnCount properties are greater than one.
  • CalendarControl - InactiveDaysVisibility.FirstLast no longer working correctly.
  • CheckEdit's keeps the Pressed state if the next control is focused when the Space key is held down.
  • DateEdit - Scroll animation appears even if scrolling should not occur.
  • DropDownButton - An opened DXPopupMenu is shown again on clicking a combo button if BarManager or RibbonControl is placed onto a form.
  • EditorButton - The EnableImageTransparency property doesn't make a glyph transparent.
  • FluentDesignForm - A tooltip is not shown for BarButtonItem located in a title bar.
  • FluentDesignForm - An exception is thrown after removing Hamburger Menu.
  • FlyoutDialog - It is impossible to click buttons using Space.
  • FolderBrowserDialog - The "Path does not exist" error occurs when the DialogStyle property is set to Wide.
  • GridControl - Animation is not running when images are loaded asynchronously and the Bezier skin is applied.
  • Hyperlinks are not clickable when XtraMessageBox.AllowHtmlText is set to true.
  • ListBoxControl - A selected item is not highlighted when a control is disabled.
  • LookUpEdit scrolling doesn't work in Windows 7.
  • MRUEdit deletes the last inputted Korean symbol.
  • PictureEdit throws ArgumentException when zooming and scrolling in certain cases.
  • PopupContainerEdit's height is incorrect when AllowHtmlDraw is enabled and HtmlImages are set.
  • RepositoryItemColorPickEdit incorrectly calculates the popup size if the Flat style is used.
  • SimpleButton does't handle a mnemonic letter witn AllowHTMLDraw = True.
  • SVGImageCollection does not add images from project resources that have the Public access modifier.
  • The font name is not visible in the drop-down list in the Font dialog when McSkin is used.
  • TimeSpanEdit draws an incorrect number of minutes/seconds values in the TouchUI popup if the increment differs from the default value.
  • XtraForm - Icon is not changed when modified in the FormPainter.GetIcon method.
  • XtraMessageBox content is truncated when the ~ForcePaint method is invoked.
  • XtraOpenFileDialog - The active view is changed when switching between folders.
  • XtraOpenFileDialog opens a library in Windows as a file.
  • XtraOpenFileDialog opens a file from an incorrect path.
• XtraGrid Suite
  • AdvBandedGridView - The AllowMultilineHeaders property is not taken into account on printing.
  • An exception is thrown once a user changes the auto filter row's initial filter condition.
  • An exported Excel document with many links is opened with a warning message.
  • Data Source Configuration Wizard does not allow to use LINQ to SQL model files in Visual Studio 2017.
  • Export to Excel consumes much memory when EntityServerModeSource is used.
  • WinExplorerView used as a detail view doesn't show a tab header.
  • GridView - A null value prompt is not shown after text is cleared in the Find Panel.
  • GridView - Japanese translations are missing for particular elements.
  • GridView - NullReferenceException is thrown when a document is created using PrintableComponentLink.
  • NullReferenceException is thrown on exporting RepositoryItemCheckEdit with CheckStyle set to UserDefined if corresponding check images are not set.
  • NullReferenceException occurs when the "Clear Filter" menu item is clicked in AutoFilterRow.
  • The error tooltip ignores the DefaultErrorImageOptions settings.
  • TileView - Text changes on hovering when DirectX hardware acceleration is enabled.
  • WinExplorerView - Incorrect results are highlighted when search is performed using FindPanel.
  • WinExploringView - A hovered item is still hovered when the mouse leaves GridControl.
• XtraLayout Suite
  • The context menu is not clickable at design time.
  • The LayoutControlInternalException is thrown when a LayoutControlGroup.Visibility is LayoutVisibility.Never.
  • TextEdit width is incorrectly restored in LayoutControl when WorkspaceManager is used.
• XtraMap
  • An unhandled exception occurs when refreshing the Map storage data in certain situations.
  • Choropleth Map is exported empty in medium trust mode.
  • Exceptions in the D3DRenderer.RenderImage method are raised on specific machines after updating an item collection.
  • HitTesting works incorrectly in the Cartesian Map after adding a new VectorItemsLayer.
  • It is impossible to get the coordinates of MapRectangle corners.
  • It is impossible to resize Dots using the Transform command.
  • It is impossible to resize the Editor Panel.
  • It is impossible to customize shape title appearance in the FileDataAdapterBase.ItemsLoaded event handler.
  • NullRefferenceException occurs in MapControl with a custom projection in certain cases.
  • The InitialMapSize property works incorrectly when a tile layer is used.
  • The map control does not update an element's shape after a corresponding SqlGeometryItem.WktString property has been changed.
  • The System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException occurs in MapControl in certain cases.
  • The SystemOutOfMemory exception is raised if a map is frequently zoomed in and out.
  • Usability - There is no capability to apply a custom geometry template with different geometry data.
  • WMS Provider - An unhandler error occurs when rendering map data in certain situations.
• XtraPivotGrid Suite
  • ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs in the CustomCellDisplayText event handler when PivotGridControl's data source is empty in certain cases.
  • Binding to certain XPO properties does not work if the LegacyOptimized data processing engine is used.
  • Make the PivotGridDragManager.DoDragDrop method virtual.
  • Multiple duplicated queries are executed if a pivot grid loads data from the EF data source using BindingSource.
  • OLAP - The PivotField.GetDisplayText method does not return correct values if the OlapFilterByUniqueName option is enabled.
  • The "child generated no items" error occurs in certain cases.
  • The DataSourceChanged event is raised in version 18.1 even when the control does not have any data source.
  • An editor button is shown for an unfocused cell while a focused cell does not show any button.
  • The PivotGridField.EmptyValueText property is ignored.
  • The PivotGridFieldOptions.OLAPUseNonEmpty property is not effective in certain situations.
• XtraPrinting Library
  • A transparent shape is exported to PDF with the White background color.
  • DocumentViewer - Russian Localization - A typo in the progress popup caption.
  • Print Dialog - The ArgumentOutOfRange exception is thrown upon clicking the "Print" button.
  • The Page class should expose the PaperKind property.
• XtraReports Suite
  • Documentation - Add information about XRCossBandLine's limitation.
  • End-User Report Designer - The old Report Wizard produces a broken report layout for the "Justified" style.
  • Export to PDF - Wrapped text is truncated in the produced document.
  • It is impossible to change a band's size using the 'Shift + Down Arrow' and 'Shift + Up Arrow' hotkeys.
  • Rendering - Text in the XRLabel control rotated to angle of 90, 180, 270 degrees is rendered incorrectly.
  • Report Designer - "Custom" option is displayed withing the LineStyle property's drop down but cannot be used.
  • Script Editor - An error indication is not removed after an error was resolved and the script code was validated.
  • RichText - Spacing between list items is different in Print Preview.
  • XtraReport - Changing the document scale factor in the AfterPrint event handler truncates the document.
  • XtraReport.ExportToMail -  The XRPictureBox.Sizing mode is not preserved in Outlook.
• XtraRichEdit
  • '726' is not a valid value for 'LogPosition'.
  • A bulleted/numbered list is moved outside RichEditControl's visible area after clicking the Tab key for several times.
  • A hyperlink is corrupted after resaving a specific Doc file twice using RichEditControl.
  • An unhandled exception is thrown after typing a value larger than Int32.MaxValue into the "Insert Table" or "Split Cells" dialog.
  • An empty cell is entirely selected when performing a Tab navigation in a table.
  • Document Variables are incorrectly exported into DOC format.
  • HTML Import - "LI" tags are not rendered correctly in RichEditControl after installing a hotfix.
  • Hyperlink Dialog - Mnemonics are missing in certain localizations.
  • InvalidCastException is thrown on showing the Search and Search and Replace dialogs.
  • Last paragraph content is incorrectly deleted with the Backspace key when the entire paragraph is selected.
  • RichEditControl scrolls documents to the section's first page after pressing the Esc key for the text box located in the document header.
  • Text around a Floating Picture is wrapped differently in the RichEditControl in comparison to MS Word.
  • The "Continue previous list" option in the "Bullets and Numbering" dialog works incorrectly.
  • The "Find and Replace" dialog incorrectly highlights the search result if the search string is found at the end of a merge field.
  • The character background overlaps the comment range background color.
  • The language is undefined for the last empty document paragraph.
  • The numbering is cleared for the newly inserted table row and for the row where the caret was initially located after invoking the "Insert Above" command.
  • Unchecking the "Underline words only" option in the Font dialog does not always result in clearing the formatting from the selected range.
  • Usability - There is no public API to access a hyperlink created for a floating image.
• XtraScheduler Suite
  • An appointment has an incorrect TimeZone when SchedulerDataStorage is used.
  • Custom images cannot be rendered in the DayViewTimeCells.CustomDrawAppointment event handler using the e.Cache.DrawImage method.
  • GanttView - Not all grid lines are scaled on 200 DPI screens.
  • An error occurs when the Resources.DataMember property is set after the Resources.DataSource property.
  • Issue with Flyout ForeColor with Dark Themes and Agenda Views.
  • SchedulerDataStorage - Appointments are not deleted in the database when the TableAdapter.Update method is called.
  • The Appointment Flyout is not hidden when SchedulerControl is not focused.
  • Subject label overlaps resources' ListBox on the Reminder Form when the subject text is long and contains new lines.
  • XtraScheduler's Appointment Resize cursor is not shown for certain themes.
• XtraSpellChecker
  • An exception occurs on checking hyperlink URL spelling when the Check As You Type spell checking mode is enabled.
  • SpellChecker has a memory leak when it operates in Check As You Type mode with RichEditControl.
• XtraSpreadsheet
  • Serious performance penalties when performing "Fill Right".
  • A cell cannot be moved after opening a cell editor for a cell with a formula that contains a reference to a non-visible cell.
  • A cell with multiple formatting copied from a MS Excel document cannot be pasted to SpreadsheetControl.
  • An additional page is added to the printed document after adding a header.
  • Borders settings specified for a cell range are not applied to rows inserted inside this range.
  • Cell and Array formulas don't update cross sheet references.
  • Conditional formatting rules' order is changed after copying-pasting rows.
  • Formulas are incorrectly evaluated after sorting data by values.
  • Index and length must reference a location in the string error in XtraSpreadsheetControl.
  • Non-volatile custom functions are recalculated on hiding/showing columns/rows.
  • NullReferenceException is thrown on loading a document with slicers.
  • SpreadsheetControl does not raise the ActiveSheetChanged event when clicking a hyperlink referring to another worksheet.
  • SpreadsheetNameBoxControl still locked after Cancel CellBeginEdit.
  • The ActiveSheetChanged event isn't raised when the active worksheet is changed via the Activate dialog.
  • The ClipboardDataPasting event is raised when the copying/pasting operation is performed in the same document.
  • The conditional formatting icon is incorrectly scaled on printing.
  • The Name Conflict dialog is displayed when a formula with a defined name is copied from the Formula bar and pasted into a worksheet cell.
• XtraTreeList Suite
  • Filter Editor - Not expected scrollbars are visible when the UseWindowsXPTheme property is true.
  • IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown on minimizing a form with TreeList that has a fixed band.
  • The MoveNextVisible and MovePrevVisible methods do not work after a user changes a focused node using the keyboard.
  • Incorrect node order if the e.Cancel parameter is set to True in the BeforeDropNode event handler.
  • Incorrect content alignment when dragging a node with StateImage.
  • IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown when the root node is expanded if the Caramel skin is used.
  • Repository items are marked as unused in the TreeList designer after re-opening the control form at design time.
  • TreeList custom drawing Graphics and GraphicsCache differences.
  • TreeListDesigner is unexpectedly closed on selecting the TreeLine item in the Appearances tab.
• XtraVerticalGrid Suite
  • Grid and Tree lookups are invisible after migration to version 18.1.4.
  • A bound property setter is called twice in OfficeView when SpinEdit is used for editing and the Enter key is pressed.
  • An empty string is automatically replaced with a type name.
  • Enum localization is not taken into account.
  • OfficeView - Decimal properties are incorrectly set using editors.
  • RepositoryItemHyperLink has an incorrect ForeColor when it is used as an in-place editor in VGridControl.
  • Cell text is shifted when BorderStyle is set to NoBorder.

Improves Data Editors, GridView and Rich Edit controls.

Fixes

ASP.NET Web Forms

• All ASP.NET Controls
  • ASPxComboBox - The value is not set in Firefox when form auto-filling is used.
  • IntelliSense for Client API is not working in version 17.2.6.
• ASP.NET Demos
  • The DevAV Customers demo does not work in VB.NET.
• ASPxCardView
  • Visual Studio crashes on an attempt to add a custom command button using a designer.
• ASPxDataEditors
  • ASPxComboBox - The control should prevent changing the selection on callbacks sent to scroll and filter data.
  • ASPxComboBox with multiple columns and custom filtering - If the first row in the data source contains an empty string, this string rewrites another string value.
  • ASPxComboBox with null text - It's possible to enter any text even if such an item doesn't exist.
  • ASPxFilterControl - The "Expression can't be displayed as tree" error can occur and prevent saving of technically valid criteria on the Text tab.
  • ASPxHiddenField - The "Empty key" exception is uninformative and is not thrown immediately on an attempt to add a value with an empty property name.
  • ASPxSpinEdit - The editor's size differs with enabled and disabled AccessibilityCompliant in certain themes.
• ASPxGridView
  • Documentation - The ASPxGridView.GetRowValues method gets data from RowCache and doesn't perform implicit data binding for an unbound grid .
• ASPxHtmlEditor
  • The actual CSS class name is not displayed in the "Apply CSS" combo box correctly when the caret is located in a span tag.
• ASPxRichEdit
  • "Cannot read property 'getLogPosition' of null" error occurs while selecting a text in a document containing a table which is located on separate pages.
  • Indentation of list items becomes incorrect after formatting is removed.
  • It's not possible to add a numbered list inside a multi-level bullet list.
  • Several page rows are rendered within one line in some scenarios.
  • The client-side "insertHtml" command does not work properly.
  • The InsertRtf method execution causes exceptions for certain content.
  • Carriage return is incorrectly displayed on Mail Merge.
• ASPxScheduler Suite
  • "Visible Interval" string is calculated incorrectly for the ASPxViewVisibleInterval control when this control is located within the ASPxScheduler templates and the OptionsAdaptivity.Enabled property is false.
  • The ActiveView.GetResources method returns an incorrect list of resources in the FetchAppointments event handler.
  • The Appointment Edit Form has an incorrect width when the exception is shown.
  • ASPxScheduler performance is significantly reduced while refreshing ASPxScheduler content in the IE browser.
  • The "Cannot read property 'storageManager' of null" error occurs on changing the Appointment Form editors if the form is invoked for a hidden ASPxScheduler instance and a View Model API is used to customize the form.
• ASPxThemeBuilder
  • Icons are not shown after an upgrade from version 17.2 to version 18.1 in a custom theme when Accessibility is enabled.
• ASPxTreeList
  • Batch Editing - The number of items in InsertNodes is not correct when ASPxTreeList is bound on each request.
  • Batch Editing - The Command column changes its position if several child rows are created.
  • Collapsed nodes get automatically expanded when collapsing a node after filtering.
  • ASPxTreeList in Batch Edit mode - One unnecessary new row is added when an image of CommandColumn's button is clicked.
  • ASPxTreeList in Batch Edit mode - The command button position is incorrect if the SettingsResizing.ColumnResizeMode property is set to 'Control'.
  • ASPxTreeList in Batch Edit mode - The CommandColumn buttons have an incorrect position if the horizontal scrollbar is shown.
  • ASPxTreeList with an enabled scroll bar flickers on column resizing in IE11.
• ASPxVerticalGrid
  • The control's rendering speed is slow if batch edit mode is used.
• Navigation, Layout & Multi-Purpose Controls
  • ASPxButton - The button is rendered without styles if EnableTheming=false.
  • ASPxDateEdit - A popup border is not hidden in Safari if a page is zoomed.
  • ASPxFormLayout - Visual Studio is crashed if the ColumnSpan property of SpanRule is larger than the ColumnCount property of the corresponding LayoutBreakpoint.
  • ASPxImageGallery - Images in Full Screen mode are invisible or misaligned in Chrome on Android devices.
  • ASPxImageGallery - The Close button is rendered incorrectly on mobile devices under certain circumstances.
  • ASPxPopupMenu - Calling the SetVisible method takes much time if a menu contains lots of items.
  • ASPxTokenBox - The "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error occurs on an attempt to perform a callback when ASPxTokenBox is located in a ribbon item template.
  • ASPxUploadControl - Drag-and-Drop functionality doesn't work in Safari.
• NuGet Packages
  • NuGet Packages - The "DevExpress.XtraCharts.v17.2" reference in web.confing is not updated after installing the "DevExpress.Web.Visualization" package.
• XtraCharts Suite
  • ChartControl - Certain arguments are shown as DateTime values in the Qualitative scale when points are created dynamically.
  • Documentation - Add a note that WebChartControl supports the right-to-left mode to the Right to Left Support article.
  • Web Chart Designer crashes when adding an annotation.
  • WebChartControl - Crosshair is rendered at an incorrect position when moving the popup with a chart and a hotfix for version 18.1.4 is used.
• XtraReports Suite
  • HTML5 Document Viewer - Watermarks assigned to report pages are ignored when the report is previewed (the same watermark image is displayed for all pages).
  • Web Report Designer - The OnServerError callback should  work when the designer is loaded for the first time.

ASP.NET MVC

• MVC Data Editors
  • ButtonEdit - The "Cannot read property 'getAttribute' of null" error occurs when AccessibilityCompliant is enabled.
  • ComboBox - The "Cannot read property 'context' of null" error occurs if the LoadDropDownOnDemand property is set to true.
  • ComboBox - The Clear button is not working when LoadDropDownOnDemand is true and value is zero.
  • DropDownEdit - Input element text is passed to the controller on an attempt to submit an editor value set by SetKeyValue.
  • DropDownEdit - Input element text rather than a value is used for client validation.
  • TokenBox - Incremental filtering works incorrectly if callbacks are enabled and NullText is set.
• MVC GridView
  • "Unable to cast object of type DevExpress.Web.GridViewToolbarItem to type DevExpress.Web.Mvc.MVCxGridViewToolbarItem" exception is raised while rendering MVC GridView with custom toolbar items.
  • The "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." error occurs on an attempt to add the second toolbar to the grid in version 18.1.5.
  • Accessibility - The group context menu doesn't work in IE when the "shift+F10" key is used.
  • GridView does not provide a method to specify a group row footer template.
  • GridView with Responsive Layout - An unnecessary space is displayed between a field name and its colon.
• MVC Navigation, Layout & Multi-Purpose Extensions
  • ASPxFormLayout/FormLayout - It is not possible to recalculate the control layout using the AdjustControl function when the size of inner controls is changed.
  • Collapsible Panel - The inner controls' Init event is raised before the panel is expanded after updating to 18.1.
  • Menu - A submenu item position is not correct when a wide border is defined for a root item in Chrome and Firefox.
• MVC QueryBuilder
  • Query Builder does not work after deployment since incorrect routing is used.
• MVC Report
  • A custom criteria function is not available in the Web Report Designer's Data Source Wizard.
  • Angular 6 CLI Report Designer project - The Ace editor theme is missing (theme-dreamweaver.js).
  • DocumentViewer - The remote document report "DOCX" export option returns a PDF file with DOCX extension.
  • HTML5 Document Viewer - An integer parameter's value cannot be changed when its default value is negative.
  • Reporting Angular (CTP) project template - Not found error (404) is thrown when trying to access HTML5 Document Viewer and the application is hosted on IIS within a virtual folder.
  • Web Report Designer - A margin is resized instead of a control if you are trying to resize/move a control placed near the page's margin.
  • Web Report Designer - A previewed report's summary is incorrectly calculated when the report's parameters are submitted for the second time.
  • Web Report Designer - CalculatedFields are not shown for collections without subelements after upgrading to 18.1.
  • Web Report Designer - Subreport's Parameter Binding context menu is opened downwards and cut when there is no enough space.
  • Web Report Designer - The client-side ComponentAdded event handler is not triggered after a cell a row, or a column was added to an XRTable control.
  • Web Report Designer - XRTable cell snapping is not accurate.
  • Web Report Designer / Query Builder - Sorting by a joined column creates CustomSqlQuery and makes the query uneditable.
  • Web Report Designer tries to access MVC controllers by using incorrect URLs when the backend is hosted on IIS within a virtual folder.
  • WebReportDesigner - There is no way to change the RotationDirection of RadarDiagram in ReportDesigner's Chart designer.
• MVC RichEdit
  • It is not possible to insert a table into a page header/footer.
  • RichEdit with the SqlOfficeStateProvider - The "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." exception is thrown if the edited document contains a footer, a header, and an image inside the header.
• MVC Scheduler
  • Appointments disappear in the "ASPxScheduler - Editing" demo after creating a multi-day appointment.
  • MVCxScheduler - The ResourceID property value can be obtained by using the SchedulerExtension.GetAppointmentsToInsert method.
• MVC Spreadsheet
  • The ClipboardDataPasted and ClipboardDataPasting events aren't raised.

ASP.NET Bootstrap

• Bootstrap CardView
  • Error message covers the entire card when ASPxCardView is placed near the control.
• Bootstrap Charts
  • Points are not shown in BootstrapChartAreaSeries with Point.Visible enabled.
• Bootstrap Data Editors
  • BootstrapCombobox throws an exception in the internal client-side GetLoadingOffsetElement() method if LoadDropDownOnDemand is enabled.
• Bootstrap GridView
  • It is impossible to get the root item text using the GetText method.
• Bootstrap Scheduler
  • There is no capability to select several cells in a view and create a new appointment for a selected interval on touch devices.

ASP.NET Core Bootstrap

• Bootstrap ASP.NET Core Template - A link to a non-existing file is added to the layout view.
• BootstrapGridView for ASP.NET Core - Insert Controls Wizard - Incorrect controller and action names are added to the AddRow route action.
• The CustomJSProperties event is not available in Bootstrap ASP.NET Core controls.
• CardView
  • EndlessPagingMode is visible and available for the control.
• Charts
  • It is not possible to bind the chart to a list of objects.
• GridView
  • "Cannot read property 'isCallback' of undefined reference" error occurs while editing GridView with TagBox column (18.1.5).
  • BootstrapGridView bound to the model with the "Required" Data Annotation attribute - The corresponding editor doesn't have the required mark and the ErrorMessage property is ignored.
  • The "The collection with type='Pager' already exists" error occurs after loading the grid via the jQuery.load and jQuery.post methods.
  • Documentation - The code in the CustomSummaryCalculate event description is not working without EnableRowsCache property.
• Layout
  • The TabPosition method cannot be used for a tabbed layout group.
• Navigation
  • BootstrapPageControl for ASP.NET Core - It's not possible to update BootstrapPageControl using an AJAX request.
• Scheduler
  • A custom edit form never opens in the demo.
  • It's impossible to update and appointment via EditForm.
  • There is no capability to restrict operations with appointments using the "AllowAppointment...." events.

Improves Scheduler, Map and Grid controls.

Fixes

• All WPF Controls
  • The InvalidCastException occurs in certain scenarios when the Deployment Tool is launched.
• Data-Aware Export
  • Grid - Group summaries aren't aligned under columns when bands exist.
• DXBars for WPF
  • A click on the window title bar doesn't close BarSubItems' popup.
  • BarSplitButtonItem in ActAsDropDown mode doesn't invoke bound commands starting with 18.1.5.
  • BarSplitButtonItem's pop-up is closed when an inner control is clicked.
  • Provide the capability to delete BarItems using the Customization Window at runtime.
  • The NotSupportedException occurs in Visual Studio 2010 with version 18.1.4.
• DXCharts for WPF
  • Animation does not work with the BarSeries3D chart.
  • Automatic Scale Breaks don't work with the Range Bar series view.
  • Chart Designer - Unable to assign a secondary axis to a Series.
  • Colorizer - The initial Series point color is set incorrectly in certain situations.
  • Crosshair disappears after switching chart panes.
  • Line Series is rendered slowly and with artifacts at big zoom levels after upgrade.
• DXControls for WPF
  • AppBarButton's glyph is cut on monitors with High DPI settings.
  • Size properties (Width, Height, Max/MinWidth, etc.) defined in FlyoutControl are not taken into account by its popup.
• DXDiagram for WPF
  • Connectors with the same begin and end items have the same DataContext.
• DXDocking for WPF
  • Docked panels are not resized correctly in certain scenarios.
  • DockLayoutManager crashes with InvalidOperationException when its visibility changes in certain cases.
  • Setting DockPane's BorderBrush property doesn't work after the update to version 16.2.
  • Setting the AllowDockToCurrentItem property to "False" disables the reordering functionality.
  • The TabBackgroundColor property doesn't change the bottom line when a window is inactive.
  • Сlosed panels in DockLayoutManager are not restored correctly.
• DXEditors for WPF
  • A DX theme is not properly applied to standard ProgressBars.
  • CameraControl - The colon symbol is missing in the Desaturate label in the Settings window.
  • ComboBoxEdit with ValueMember and EditValue binding to a non-nullable enum property causes a memory leak.
  • ComboBoxEdit's incremental search isn't reset when the ItemsSource property is reassigned.
  • ComboBoxEdit's value cannot be changed if the editor is populated with ComboBoxEditItems after updating to 18.1.5.
  • DateEdit does not reset the EditValue property to null if the AllowNullInput property is set to True and the current text is deleted using the Backspace or Delete keys.
  • DateEditCalendar does not calculate its size correctly in some themes after switching to .NET Framework 4.7.
  • HyperLinkEdit - The foreground color is shown incorrectly for different EditModes in themes such as Office2016White and Office2016Black.
  • PopupColorEdit - How to remember colors chosen last time.
  • ProgressBarEdit - A part of the editor text is of an incorrect color when it is in ScrollViewer.
  • RangeControl - The start week day is incorrect when using the WeekIntervalFactory.
  • RangeControl not selecting correct data range.
  • The Left padding is missing in LookUpEdit when its StyleSettings is set to SearchTokenLookUpEditStyleSettings.
  • The LongestTextFormat property of WeekIntervalFactory is empty.
  • The right border is not shown in ComboBoxEdit when the control occupies all the available space of its container.
  • The right border thickness is incorrect in editors with the DropDown button.
  • ToggleSwitchEdit - The IsReadOnly property does not work.
  • UnauthorizedAccessException is raised in CameraControl when the "Allow apps to access your camera" option is disabled.
• DXGrid for WPF
  • CellTemplateSelector's SelectTemplate method is called two times for each cell in a row with modified data.
  • Conditional formatting animation effects are shown for incorrect rows after scrolling the grid control.
  • Data update animation is shown for incorrect rows if DataUpdateFormatCondition is not added to the FormatConditions collection.
  • DependencyObjectExtensions.DataContext is not defined in GridColumns when a Band's ColumnsSource property is used in a certain scenario.
  • ExpressionEditorControl's window does not inherit the applied theme.
  • Extra space is shown under CardView's header when GroupPanel is hidden.
  • Grid - An error tooltip doesn't disappear after a cell value is corrected.
  • GridColumn.CellTemplate's ToggleButton command not executed after horizontal grid scrolling.
  • GridColumn's sort indicator isn't updated when GridControl is bound to InfiniteAsyncSource and the SortFieldName property refers to another field.
  • GridControl - Columns are reordered after clicking a column header if the GridColumn.VisibleIndex property was changed.
  • GridControl - FormatExceptions are thrown once the Column Chooser is shown if FrameworkElement.LanguageProperty metadata is overridden.
  • GridControl doesn't properly update all column properties when columns are generated using ColumnsSource.
  • GridControl doesn't reflect external updates if a cell belongs to a focused row and a sorted column.
  • GridControl isn't correctly measured when grouped and located in ScrollViewer.
  • GridControl removes predefined columns if the data row object's properties are marked with the DisplayAttribute.GroupName property.
  • NullReferenceException is raised on debugging in Visual Studio when the Live Visual Tree is used.
  • NullReferenceException occurs on setting the DetailDescriptor property while master rows are sorted and expanded.
  • TableView - The last row becomes selected when SelectionRectangle is used in an empty data area.
  • The CardHeaderTemplate binding to the Data property doesn't work in v18.1.4.
  • The first card is empty when CardView is used with the Instant Feedback sources.
  • The TableView.ExportToXlsx method doesn't support IconSetFormatCondition with optional icons.
  • WPF GridControl - NullReferenceException is thrown when using the INotifyDataErrorInfo interface.
• DXMap for WPF
  • Items in the SVG file created using the VectorLayerBase.ExportToSvg method have an incorrect position: shifted out to the top.
  • Usability - An unhandled exception occurs when Map Control cannot create a local cache for internet resources.
  • WMS Provider - It is impossible to render child layers in certain situations.
• DXPivotGrid for WPF
  • Binding exceptions are raised if PivotGridControl.Fields are updated inside BeginUpdate/EndUpdate method calls.
  • CellFormat in not applied correctly when the CustomCellDisplayText event is handled in certain cases.
  • It is impossible to increase the last row height.
  • It is impossible to restrict changing column width and row height separately.
  • The BestFit method causes NullReferenceException with BestFitArea = Cell in certain cases.
• DXPrinting for WPF
  • CompositeLink printing - the PivotGridControl layout and printing appearance are not preserved.
• DXPropertyGrid for WPF
  • Cell editors for properties with objects that cannot be converted to a string are read-only after upgrading to version 18.1.4.
  • PropertyGridControl does not consider ICollectionView to be a collection when it's assigned to the SelectedObjects property.
  • PropertyGridControl doesn't allow clearing a nullable property.
• DXRibbon for WPF
  • BarButtonItem.ItemClick is raised when the back button in BackstageViewControl is clicked.
  • RibbonGalleryBarItem's width doesn't increase when RibbonControl is resized.
• DXRichEdit for WPF
  • CheckBox borders are too thick in the exported PDF document.
  • Export to PDF - Empty paragraphs are not preserved.
  • Line breaks are not preserved when saving a document to HTML if a line with a line break is followed by an empty line with a paragraph mark.
  • The assertion error occurs on an attempt to create a DocVariable field with a specific name.
  • The Page Number popup's text cannot be localized.
• DXScheduler for WPF
  • Appointments are shown in all resources on a Drag-and-Drop operation.
  • Calendar hides Recurring Appointment if it has a deleted exception.
  • NullReferenceException is raised in SchedulerControl when a collection bound to ResourcesSource is modified in the VisibleIntervalsChanged event handler.
  • NullReferenceException is raised when a reminder is added to a recurrent appointment's occurrence.
  • SchedulerControl bound to XPCollection displays an appointment multiple times after moving this appointment.
  • SchedulerControl doesn't track changes of time zone settings in an operation system.
  • SchedulerControl windows do not inherit their theme from the main window.
  • StackOverflowException exception occurs on editing recurrence settings.
  • Support Office Scroll - It is impossible to drag and drop an appointment to a resource that is out of sight.
  • The IsVerticalScrollSnappingEnabled and IsHorizontalScrollSnappingEnabled properties are not supported in all views.
  • Time indicator is misaligned when zooming in TimelineView.
• DXSpreadsheet for WPF
  • ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs on modifying document content after hiding a column with merged cells.
  • CSV Import - The delimiter character is not taken from the current SpreadsheetControl.Options.Import.Csv.Culture property.
  • SpreadsheetControl does not show a scrollbar with the ScrollBarMode mode set to "TouchOverlap".
• DXTreeList for WPF
  • An exception is thrown when columns are removed programmatically.
  • An exception occurs on dragging multiple rows after the ItemsSource collection has been updated.
  • ArgumentNullException is raised in TreeListControl when null is added to the source.
  • Hierarchical template TreeListView - a drop operation is not allowed after ItemsSource is repopulated.
  • TreeListView - ScrollBarCustomRowAnnotation is not updated after expanding a node when the AutoExpandAllNodes property is set to True.
  • TreeListView - The CanSelectRow and CanUnselectRow events are not raised when the Shift+Arrow or Ctrl+A key combinations are used.
• DXWizard for WPF
  • The KeyNotFoundException is raised when SelectedIndex is set at design time on the application run.
• MVVM Framework
  • Release the memory of a viewmodel created (used) by MIF.
  • MatchesRule isn't triggered for simply nullable properties with the default "null" value.
• PDF Viewer for WPF
  • PdfViewerControl crashes the application when loading an invalid document in asynchronous document loading mode.
• Scaffolding Wizards
  • ScaffoldingWizard generates non-compilable code if an entity class name is [Error].
• Theme Designer
  • A custom theme throws IOException at runtime.
  • Theme Designer crashes after double-clicking DXWindow in the preview and selecting any color.
• Windows UI
  • A click on HamburgerSubMenuNavigationButton doesn't invoke the bound command until the flyout is open.
  • HamburgerMenu performs navigation to the same view on synchronization.
• XtraReports Suite
  • DocumentPreviewControl - Provide a way to keep the internal document model when the control is loaded.
  • Documentation - Describe limitations of a remote document.
  • WPF Report Designer - The Fields and Variables items are not visible in the Expression Editor when the expression binding is being edited.

Improves Pivot Grid, Scheduler and Data Grid controls.

Fixes

DevExtreme (HTML JS)

• Data Grid
  • A nested group is not aligned properly on being expanded and collapsed if the autoExpandAll option is disabled.
  • A Tabbed item that resides in the Popup Editing Form is not hidden at runtime in an Angular app.
  • Column headers are not aligned with data cells if columns don't occupy the whole widget width and columnAutoWidth is enabled.
  • Content is rendered partially when rowRenderingMode is set to virtual and scrolling mode is set to infinite.
  • Editor that resides in a cell template does not allow typing text when it is selected using a double-click in IE 11.
  • Filter Panel displays the "Is Any Of 'undefined'" string if the "Any Of" operator is applied for a lookup column.
  • Filter Row - The caret automatically goes to the start after typing in IE.
  • Grouped rows are rendered incorrectly when the rowAlternationEnabled option is enabled.
  • It is impossible to get groupIndex in the calculateCustomSummary callback function.
  • Records are rendered incorrectly when using knockout components within cell templates.
  • Scroll bar position is reset after scrolling if there is a DevExtreme widget on a page.
  • The Between filter does not work if a column uses calculateCellValue and the dataField property is not defined.
  • The column reordering is slow in IE/Edge.
  • The filter operations list in the Filter Row is not adjusted if the column's data type is changed at runtime.
  • The filter popup scrolls the page.
  • The filter row editor loses its focus when a filter is applied and the filter panel is visible.
  • The first cell is not highlighted if the Tab key is pressed first.
  • The onRowUpdating event is raised twice for a Boolean column if eventArgs.cancel is true.
  • The rowUpdating event is not raised for all updated rows the first time.
  • Virtual scrolling works in Chrome only.
  • DataGrid displays an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar if columnAutoWidth and columnHidingEnabled are set.
  • DataGrid displays lookup filter row data confusingly when FilterBuilder uses the not-equals filter.
  • DataGrid has an incorrect layout after resizing columns with multi-row headers.
  • DataGrid sometimes scrolls to the top when a user moves a scroll bar to the bottom.
  • DataGrid, TreeList - Initial width of a column with the specified minWidth value can be less than this value when the width value is specified in percents.
  • A rendering issue occurs on grouping the grid if it uses the virtual scrolling feature.
  • Error row is not shown if the showColumnHeaders option is false.
  • Filter "Is Not Blank" doesn't work when Filter Builder is enabled.
  • TabPanel items are not rendered after upgrading to 18.1.4 in a master-detail layout.
  • The horizontal scroll bar is not responding correctly when the DataGrid container is resized in Chrome.
• Data Visualization
  • Chart - Export to PDF produces a low quality document that cannot be opened in Adobe Acrobat Document.
  • Chart - An Axis label's opacity option cannot be set to 0.
  • VectorMap - It's impossible to import the parse method in a modular application.
  • VectorMap - Order of layers after resetting the layers array option is modified.
• DevExtreme Core
  • A material theme doesn't work properly with SPA-framework.
  • Popup - The multi-slot transclusion causes the $compile:noslot error.
  • The "Expected 3-4 arguments, but got 1 error" message is received when using the events.off method.
• DevExtreme Demos
  • Documentation - The ActionSheet target option refers to the missing 'position' option.
• Pivot Grid
  • Visualization problem on Microsoft Edge.
  • PivotGrid shows metadata fields in FieldChooser.
  • PivotGrid sorts numeric columns incorrectly.
• Scheduler
  • Documentation - Add a note that the dx ready event should be used to apply bindings.
  • The onContentReady function is not called if the dataSource option is not initialized.
  • Actual width controlled by dx-scheduler-cell-sizes-horizontal cannot be set to less than 48px and depends on the crossScrollingEnabled option.
  • Excess gap at the bottom.
  • Group cells have incorrect height in the timeline day view in IE11.
  • Header cells are missaligned in the timelineWeek view if cellDuration is large.
  • How to avoid multiple reloading when several properties are changed.
  • The "Cannot set property 'top' of undefined" error occurs when navigating between months if UTC +9:30 ACST Australian Central Standard Time is set.
  • Scheduler incorrectly calculates the startDate option for a recurring appointment.
  • Scheduler renders appointments incorrectly when the cellDuration option has certain values.
• Tree List
  • Performance in IE/Edge is slow on expanding or selecting nodes when a data source contains several thousands of records.
• UI Widgets
  • ColorBox - The "RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded" error occurs if editAlphaChannel is true and the value option doesn't have an alpha channel.
  • DataGrid - A filter row works incorrectly for numeric columns under certain circumstances.
  • DateBox - A validation message does not disappear after clicking a selected valid date.
  • DateBox - Case sensitive date must be inputted if the display format is set.
  • Documentation - Describe the showDropdownButton option for the Tagbox widget.
  • dxNumberBox - A selected number is not replaced with a new one.
  • dxNumberBox - It is impossible to enter the "-" sign in Firefox.
  • dxSelectBox does not scroll to the selected item after the search.
  • List - Searched text is lost if typed between requests to the server when searchTimeout is set.
  • NumberBox - Placeholder does not disappear when using mouse wheel or arrows.
  • SelectBox - The Clear button is not hidden when being clicked and the drop-down list is opened.
  • SelectBox hides its drop-down window automatically when the focusStateEnabled option is set to false and the searchEnabled option is set to true.
  • Slider - a value is jumping.
  • TabPanel - Page scrolls to top when a header filter is clicked.
  • Tabs - Provide the “noDataText” configuration property.
  • TreeView - The root node's intermediate state is not shown during filtering.
  • TreeView throws the "The 'company_1' key value is not unique within the data array." Error.
  • UI WIdgets - The e.event option returns undefined in the onValueChanged event handler if the Clear button is clicked.

DevExtreme (ASP.NET MVC)

• Data Grid
  • DataGrid that resides in a detail template of another grid does not apply validation rules based on Data Annotations attributes.
  • The grid does not save changes on pressing Enter in IE 11 and MS Edge in cell editing mode.
• IDE Integration
  • "Add DevExtreme to project/Upgrade Devextreme resources" is missing in Visual Studio 2017 ( version 15.8.1 ) for MVC Core projects.
  • Errors on adding DevExtreme to an existing ASP DevExpress MVC project.
  • MVC - .NET framework version selector appears when a .NET core project template is selected.
• Pivot Grid
  • Column headers are shifted after scrolling in IE11 and Edge if scrolling.useNative is "true".

Comprehensive software development toolset for .NET and JavaScript. Latest maintenance release.

Fixes

DevExpress has released a maintenance update across their entire product range.

• CodeRush - Improves Code CleanUp and Code Coverage.
• DevExpress ASP.NET - Improves Data Editors, GridView and Rich Edit controls.
• DevExpress Reporting - Improves HTML5 Document Viewer and Web Report Designer.
• DevExpress WinForms - Improves VerticalGrid, Spreadsheet and Rich Edit controls.
• DevExpress WPF - Improves Scheduler, Map and Grid controls.
• DevExtreme - Improves Pivot Grid, Scheduler and Data Grid controls.

Comprehensive software development toolset for .NET and JavaScript. Latest maintenance release.

Fixes

DevExpress has released a maintenance update across their entire product range.

• CodeRush - Improves Code CleanUp and Code Coverage.
• DevExpress Office File API - Improves Snap Report, Spreadsheet and Word Processing APIs.
• DevExpress ASP.NET - Improves Data Editors, GridView and Rich Edit controls.
• DevExpress Reporting - Improves HTML5 Document Viewer and Web Report Designer.
• DevExpress WinForms - Improves VerticalGrid, Spreadsheet and Rich Edit controls.
• DevExpress WPF - Improves Scheduler, Map and Grid controls.
• DevExtreme - Improves Pivot Grid, Scheduler and Data Grid controls.

Includes 16 new components including Avatar, Diagram, Document editor, Pivot grid, Rich text editor and more.

Features

• Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
• New components
  • Avatar - Avatars are icons or figures that represent a particular person. They are developed as pure CSS components and support popular media formats like images, SVG, font-icons, and letters.
  • Badge - The badge is a notification component developed in pure CSS that can be used to alert users about new or unread messages, notifications, and additional information about content.
  • Button group - The button group is a pure CSS component that groups a series of buttons together vertically or horizontally. It supports single and multiple selection behaviors.
  • Color picker - The color picker lets users pick a color either by selecting color values or by adjusting them. It supports RGB (red, green, and blue), HSV (hue, saturation, and value), and hex color codes.
  • Diagram - Used to build visual representations of information. It can also be used to create diagrams like flow charts, organizational charts, mind maps, and BPMN diagrams either through code or a visual interface.
  • Document editor - The document editor component is used to create, edit, view, and print Word documents in web applications.
  • Heat map - The heat map control is used to visualize two-dimensional data in which the values are represented in a color gradient or as fixed colors.
  • Pivot grid - The pivot grid is a multidimensional data visualization component built on top of relational data sources.
  • Range navigator - The range navigator provides an intuitive interface for selecting a smaller range from a larger collection.
  • Rich text editor - The rich text editor component is a WYSIWYG editor that provides the best user experience for creating and updating rich text content.
  • Smith chart - A Smith chart is a data visualization tool used for high frequency circuit applications. It contains two sets of circles to plot the parameters of transmission lines.
  • Sparkline - A sparkline is a very small chart, typically drawn without axes or coordinates, that conveys information to the user in a small space.
  • Switch - The switch component lets users toggle between checked and unchecked states.
  • Toast - A toast is a small container in which users can show single or multiple informative lines with actions.
  • Tree map - The tree map is used to visualize hierarchical data in the form of nested rectangles. The area of each item is calculated based on its corresponding numeric value.
  • Theme studio - Theme studio is a new web-based tool that can be used to customize component themes. It supports importing and exporting customized themes, and filtering to select which components to change.
• Chart
  • Scrollbar - Scrollbar support has been provided to zoom and pan the chart.
  • Histogram - Chart provides options for histogram series type.
  • Pie grouping - Now, pie slice in the accumulation chart can be grouped based on data count.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in the Word document are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
• Grid
  • Multidelete - Now multiple records can be deleted from grid at a time. Enable multiselection to select multiple records and use the toolbar delete button or the Delete key to remove multiple records.
  • Server-side Data Operation - DataOperations class has been added, which helps you perform server-side actions such as paging, sorting, searching, and filtering.
• List view
  • UI virtualization - Loading only visible list items in a view port. This helps improve list view performance when loading a large number of items. The list items are updated dynamically while users scroll the list.
• Maps
  • Animation on zooming - Provided smooth transition support for zooming of layers.
  • Title trim - Provided support to trim the map title when it exceeds the available width.
  • Print and Export - Provided support for printing and exporting maps.
• Essential PDF
  • RTL text - Add RTL text to PDF documents.
  • Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
  • Document time stamps - Add time stamps to PDF documents without using certificates.
  • Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
  • Auto resize the text of text box fields - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
  • Add annotations to the PDF layers.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
  • PowerPoint to PDF conversion in Azure platform - Support to convert PowerPoint presentations to PDF in Azure platform.
• Schedule
  • Multiple resources - Multiple resources and grouping support has been added to view and manage events of multiple users on the same page.
• Grouping
  • Timescale - An enhanced option provided to allow users to change or hide the time interval duration on schedule as per their application requirement.
• Slider
  • Slider limits - Set min and max values to limit which values can be selected within the range.
  • Drag interval - Enables users to interact with a range slider by dragging the range bar.
• Uploader
  • Chunk upload - This feature breaks a large file into small chunks, and uploads them to the server in a sequential order using asynchronous mode.
• Essential XlsIO
  • DataTable support in .NET Core 2.0 - Essential XlsIO now supports importing and exporting data from DataTables in ASP.NET Core 2.0.
  • Group shape support - Essential XlsIO now allows multiple shapes to be grouped into a single shape, which allows shape settings to be applied to all the shapes in a group at once.
  • Pivot table layout enhancement - Essential XlsIO now supports additional layout options to repeat data of specific fields or all the fields.
  • Excel chart styles - Essential XlsIO now supports quickly changing the chart style by setting the style ID between 1 and 48. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Essential XlsIO now allows blank cells to be skipped when copying data from a source range to a destination range.

Adds new multidimensional data visualization component built on top of relational data sources.

Features

• Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
• New components
  • Avatar - Avatars are icons or figures that represent a particular person. They are developed as pure CSS components and support popular media formats like images, SVG, font-icons, and letters.
  • Badge - The badge is a notification component developed in pure CSS that can be used to alert users about new or unread messages, notifications, and additional information about content.
  • Button group - The button group is a pure CSS component that groups a series of buttons together vertically or horizontally. It supports single and multiple selection behaviors.
  • Color picker - The color picker lets users pick a color either by selecting color values or by adjusting them. It supports RGB (red, green, and blue), HSV (hue, saturation, and value), and hex color codes.
  • Diagram - Used to build visual representations of information. It can also be used to create diagrams like flow charts, organizational charts, mind maps, and BPMN diagrams either through code or a visual interface.
  • Document editor - The document editor component is used to create, edit, view, and print Word documents in web applications.
  • Heat map - The heat map control is used to visualize two-dimensional data in which the values are represented in a color gradient or as fixed colors.
  • Pivot grid - The pivot grid is a multidimensional data visualization component built on top of relational data sources.
  • Range navigator - The range navigator provides an intuitive interface for selecting a smaller range from a larger collection.
  • Rich text editor - The rich text editor component is a WYSIWYG editor that provides the best user experience for creating and updating rich text content.
  • Smith chart - A Smith chart is a data visualization tool used for high frequency circuit applications. It contains two sets of circles to plot the parameters of transmission lines.
  • Sparkline - A sparkline is a very small chart, typically drawn without axes or coordinates, that conveys information to the user in a small space.
  • Switch - The switch component lets users toggle between checked and unchecked states.
  • Toast - A toast is a small container in which users can show single or multiple informative lines with actions.
  • Tree map - The tree map is used to visualize hierarchical data in the form of nested rectangles. The area of each item is calculated based on its corresponding numeric value.
  • Theme studio - Theme studio is a new web-based tool that can be used to customize component themes. It supports importing and exporting customized themes, and filtering to select which components to change.
• Chart
  • Scrollbar - Scrollbar support has been provided to zoom and pan the chart.
  • Histogram - Chart provides options for histogram series type.
  • Pie grouping - Now, pie slice in the accumulation chart can be grouped based on data count.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in the Word document are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
• Grid
  • Multidelete - Now multiple records can be deleted from grid at a time. Enable multiselection to select multiple records and use the toolbar delete button or the Delete key to remove multiple records.
  • Server-side Data Operation - DataOperations class has been added, which helps you perform server-side actions such as paging, sorting, searching, and filtering.
• List view
  • UI virtualization - Loading only visible list items in a view port. This helps improve list view performance when loading a large number of items. The list items are updated dynamically while users scroll the list.
• Maps
  • Animation on zooming - Provided smooth transition support for zooming of layers.
  • Title trim - Provided support to trim the map title when it exceeds the available width.
  • Print and Export - Provided support for printing and exporting maps.
• Essential PDF
  • PDF to PDFA-1b - Convert existing PDF documents to PDFA-1b documents.
  • Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
  • Document time stamps - Add time stamps to PDF documents without using certificates.
  • Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
  • Auto resize the text of text box fields - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
  • Add annotations to the PDF layers.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
  • PowerPoint to PDF conversion in Azure platform - Support to convert PowerPoint presentations to PDF in Azure platform.
• Schedule
  • Multiple resources - Multiple resources and grouping support has been added to view and manage events of multiple users on the same page.
• Grouping
  • Timescale - An enhanced option provided to allow users to change or hide the time interval duration on schedule as per their application requirement.
• Slider
  • Slider limits - Set min and max values to limit which values can be selected within the range.
  • Drag interval - Enables users to interact with a range slider by dragging the range bar.
• Uploader
  • Chunk upload - This feature breaks a large file into small chunks, and uploads them to the server in a sequential order using asynchronous mode.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - Essential XlsIO now allows multiple shapes to be grouped into a single shape, which allows shape settings to be applied to all the shapes in a group at once.
  • AutoShape support in Excel-to-PDF conversion - Excel documents with AutoShapes can now be converted to PDF.
  • Pivot table layout enhancement - Essential XlsIO now supports additional layout options to repeat data of specific fields or all the fields.
  • Excel chart styles - Essential XlsIO now supports quickly changing the chart style by setting the style ID between 1 and 48. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Essential XlsIO now allows blank cells to be skipped when copying data from a source range to a destination range.

Adds right-to-left (RTL) support to Chart legends and tooltips, plus Word to PDF conversion enhancements.

Features

• Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
• Chart
  • RTL support - Right-To-Left (RTL) support has been provided for legend, tooltip, and zooming toolkit in chart.
  • Label rotation based on text-anchor - Chart provides support for rotating axis label with the text-anchor as start.
• Diagram
  • Automatic LineRouting - Support has been added to automatically reroute the line around the nodes obstructing the line.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in Word documents are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
• Maps
  • Toggle Legend - Provided support to toggle visibility of shapes/bubbles on legend item click.
• Essential PDF
  • PDF to PDF/A-1b - Support has been provided to convert existing PDF document to PDF/A-1b document.
  • Custom metadata - Support has been provided to add custom metadata to the PDF document.
  • Document timestamp - Support has been provided to add timestamp to the PDF document without using certificate.
  • Digital signature flatten - Support has been provided to flatten the digital signature fields in the existing PDF document.
  • Auto resize the text of text box field - Support has been provided to automatically resize the text of the text box field.
  • Adding annotation to the PDF layer - Support has been provided to add annotation to the PDF layer.
• Pivot Chart
  • Multiple Axes - You can split the pivot chart and its area into multiple panes to draw multiple series with multiple axes.
• Pivot Client
  • Calculated Members - Users can now frame a dynamic dimension or measure using the existing ones along with a simple calculation at runtime.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
  • PowerPoint to PDF conversion in Azure platform - Support to convert PowerPoint presentations to PDF in Azure platform.
• Tree Map
  • Change initial rendering level - Provided support to render the tree map from any level instead of the first level.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - XlsIO now allows grouping multiple shapes into a single grouped shape. This is used to apply shape settings to all the shapes in a group at the same time. All grouped shapes can be ungrouped at once or a specific shape can be ungrouped.
  • AutoShapes support in Excel to PDF conversion - Excel documents with AutoShapes can now be converted to PDF.
  • Pivot Table layout enhancement - Supports additional layout option to repeat data of specific fields or all fields.
  • Excel chart styles - By setting the style ID between 1 and 48, the chart style can now be changed easily. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Skips blank cells while copying data from source range to destination range.

Image Editor adds Custom views, DocIO now supports Strict Open XML format, plus new RTL support in PDFs.

Features

• Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - XlsIO now allows grouping multiple shapes into a single grouped shape. This is used to apply shape settings to all the shapes in a group at the same time.
  • Pivot Table layout enhancement - Supports additional layout option to repeat data of specific fields or all fields.
  • Excel chart styles - By setting the style ID between 1 and 48, the chart style can now be changed easily. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Skips blank cells while copying data from source range to destination range.
• Essential DocIO
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
• Image Editor
  • Custom view - Custom views can be added as annotations over an image. They can be resized and positioned anywhere on an image.
  • Toolbar height customization - Toolbar item height, icon height, and text height can be customized.
  • Font family - Text annotations can be customized to use any desired font family.
  • Stroke thickness and opacity customization - The image editor control supports customizing the stroke thickness and opacity of circle, rectangle, arrow, and path annotations.
• Essential PDF
  • RTL text - Add Right-To-Left (RTL) text to PDF documents.
  • Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
  • Document timestamp - Add timestamp to PDF documents without using certificates.
  • Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
  • Auto resize the text of text box fields - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
  • Add annotations to the PDF layers.
• PDF Viewer
  • Form filling - This feature allows the users to edit, save, and print the existing form fields present in a PDF document.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
• Carousel
  • Load more - Instead of loading all items on initial load, the collection is split by a specified count value and only the first set is added in the carousel view.
  • UI virtualization - Maintains only the items in the view port in the carousel view.
• Gantt
  • Holidays support - Highlight holidays in the Gantt chart.
  • Automatic validation - Adjust the task’s start and finish dates automatically based on the dependencies and holidays in Gantt.
  • Lead and lag support - Provide lead and lag values for dependent tasks.
  • Task relationship editing - Edit and delete relationships from the Gantt chart.
  • Masked Edit - Support has been provided for optional, negative lookahead, and positive lookahead regular expressions.

New diagram control helps users build visual representations of information, plus RDL Report Designer.

Features

• Report Designer - The report designer component supports creating and editing RDL reports. Using the report designer, users can transform data into meaningful information and visualize it.
  • Provides a wide range of data sources.
  • Supports rich selection of report elements.
  • Provides parameters to filter out data.
  • Supports customization of report elements and management of images.
  • Built-in expression editor and query designer for customizing data and queries.
• Chart
  • RTL support - Right-To-Left (RTL) support has been provided for legend, tooltip, and zooming toolkit in chart.
  • Label rotation based on text-anchor - Chart provides support for rotating axis label with the text-anchor as start.
• Diagram
  • Automatic LineRouting - Support has been added to automatically reroute the line around the nodes obstructing the line.
• Calculate
  • Excel-like array formula calculation - Calculate supports array formula calculation like Excel. An array formula is a formula that performs multiple calculations on one or more items in an array. Sample formula: {=A1:A5*B1:B5}
  • Excel-like table-structured references - Calculate supports table-structured formulas for formula calculation like Excel. A range of cells in a spreadsheet table can be referenced as a table reference.
  • New COUNTIFS formula - Calculate supports new COUNTIFS Excel formula. The CountIfs formula returns a number of cells that satisfy a set of given criteria.
• Maps
  • Toggle Legend - Provided support to toggle visibility of shapes/bubbles on legend item click.
• Pivot Chart
  • Multiple Axes - You can split the pivot chart and its area into multiple panes to draw multiple series with multiple axes.
• Pivot Client
  • Calculated Members - Users can now frame a dynamic dimension or measure using the existing ones along with a simple calculation at runtime.
• Tree Map
  • Change initial rendering level - Provided support to render the tree map from any level instead of the first level.

Essential JS 2

• New components
  • Avatar - Avatars are icons or figures that represent a particular person. They are developed as pure CSS components and support popular media formats like images, SVG, font-icons, and letters.
  • Badge - The badge is a notification component developed in pure CSS that can be used to alert users about new or unread messages, notifications, and additional information about content.
  • Button group - The button group is a pure CSS component that groups a series of buttons together vertically or horizontally. It supports single and multiple selection behaviors.
  • Color picker - The color picker lets users pick a color either by selecting color values or by adjusting them.
  • Diagram - The Essential JS 2 diagram component is used to build visual representations of information.
  • Document editor - The document editor component is used to create, edit, view, and print Word documents in web applications.
  • Heat map - The heat map control is used to visualize two-dimensional data in which the values are represented in a color gradient or as fixed colors.
  • Pivot grid - The pivot grid is a multidimensional data visualization component built on top of relational data sources.
  • Range navigator - The range navigator provides an intuitive interface for selecting a smaller range from a larger collection.
  • Rich text editor - The rich text editor component is a WYSIWYG editor that provides the best user experience for creating and updating rich text content.
  • Smith chart - A Smith chart is a data visualization tool used for high frequency circuit applications. It contains two sets of circles to plot the parameters of transmission lines.
  • Sparkline - A sparkline is a very small chart, typically drawn without axes or coordinates, that conveys information to the user in a small space.
  • Switch - The switch component lets users toggle between checked and unchecked states.
  • Toast - A toast is a small container in which users can show single or multiple informative lines with actions.
  • Tree map - The tree map is used to visualize hierarchical data in the form of nested rectangles. The area of each item is calculated based on its corresponding numeric value.
  • Theme studio - Theme studio is a new web-based tool that can be used to customize the Essential JS 2 component themes. It supports importing and exporting customized themes, and filtering to select which components to change.
• Chart
  • Scrollbar - Scrollbar support has been provided to zoom and pan the chart.
  • Histogram - Chart provides options for histogram series type
  • Pie grouping - Now, pie slice in the accumulation chart can be grouped based on data count.
• Grid
  • Multidelete - Now multiple records can be deleted from grid at a time. Enable multiselection to select multiple records and use the toolbar delete button or the Delete key to remove multiple records.
• List View
  • UI virtualization - List items by loading only visible list items in a view port. This helps improve list view performance when loading a large number of items. The list items are updated dynamically while users scroll the list.
• Maps
  • Animation on zooming - Provided smooth transition support for zooming of layers.
  • Title trim - Provided support to trim the map title when it exceeds the available width.
  • Print and Export - Provided support for printing and exporting maps.
• Schedule
  • Multiple resources - Multiple resources and grouping support has been added to view and manage events of multiple users on the same page.
  • Timescale - An enhanced option provided to allow users to change or hide the time interval duration on schedule as per their application requirement.
• Slider
  • Slider limits - Set min and max values to limit which values can be selected within the range.
  • Drag interval - Enables users to interact with a range slider by dragging the range bar.
• Uploader
  • Chunk upload - This feature breaks a large file into small chunks, and uploads them to the server in a sequential order using asynchronous mode. The chunk upload comes with pause, resume, retry, and cancel options.

Adds macOS support for the chart, data grid and list view controls, plus 5 new controls and many enhancements.

Features

Xamarin.Forms

• Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
• From this release onwards, the localization procedure for the controls has been simplified to use .resx files to provide localized text in .NET Standard projects. Localized text is no longer required in platform-specific projects. However, if you are already following a platform-specific approach, it will continue to work.
• Provided macOS support for the chart, data grid, and list view controls.
• Syncfusion project templates have been integrated with Visual Studio to quickly create Xamarin.Forms applications with the required Syncfusion components.
• Toolbox support has been provided to easily initialize and configure Syncfusion components in XAML.
• New Segmented Control - The segmented control lets users choose from a linear set of two or more segments, each functioning as a button.
• New Combo Box - The combo box is a text box component that allows users to type a value or choose an option from a list of predefined options.
• New Check Box - The check box is a selection control that allows users to select one or more options from a set. It has three states: checked, unchecked, and indeterminate.
• New Radio Button - The radio button is a selection control that allows users to select one option from a set. It has two states: checked and unchecked.
• New Tab View - The tab view control provides a simple and intuitive interface for tab navigation in your mobile application that allows users to explore and switch among different views.
• Carousel
  • Load more - Instead of loading all items on initial load, the collection is split by a specified count value and only the first set is added in the carousel view.
  • UI virtualization - Maintains only the items in the view port in the carousel view.
• Chart
  • macOS support in Xamarin.Forms (Preview) - The chart now supports the macOS platform in Xamarin.Forms.
  • Date-time category axis support - The new date-time category axis allows users to plot date-time values without a visual gap between two data points.
  • Different shapes in scatter series - Added support for different shapes in scatter series. The available shapes are cross, diamond, ellipse, hexagon, inverted triangle, pentagon, plus, rectangle, and triangle.
  • Group small data points into “others” category in pie and doughnut series - Pie and doughnut charts with too many small slices look cluttered. To overcome this, an option has been provided to merge small slices into a single slice based on a threshold value.
  • Add text to the center of doughnut chart - Text can be added to the center of a doughnut chart to show information about the data.
• Data Form
  • Password editor - Password editor support enables user verification.
• Data Grid
  • macOS support in Xamarin.Forms (Preview) - The data grid control for Xamarin.Forms is now available for the Mac OS platform with all the existing features.
  • Key navigation support for Xamarin.Forms.UWP - Navigate through grid rows with all built-in selection modes in the UWP platform for a better, native experience.
  • Other enhancements - Autogenerate numeric columns, picker columns, and date-time columns.
• Diagram
  • Bezier curve - Bezier curve can be modified using the two control points provided on the connector’s selector.
  • Orthogonal segment modifier - Now, orthogonal line segments can be modified by the handler provided on the connector’s selector.
  • Grid lines and Snap to grid - Nodes can be aligned easily using grid lines and snap to grid support.
  • Dynamic drawing tool support - Provided support to draw text nodes as well as connectors on the diagram area, dynamically.
  • Mind map style - Now, it is easier to apply styles to shapes and connectors branch wise or level wise in mind map. Shape types and connector types can also be modified.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in the Word document are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
    • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
    • HTML import - Essential DocIO now allows you to import HTML files.
• Image editor
  • Custom view - Custom views can be added as annotations over an image. They can be resized and positioned anywhere on an image.
  • Toolbar height customization - Toolbar item height, icon height, and text height can be customized.
  • Font family - Text annotations can be customized to use any desired font family.
  • Stroke thickness and opacity customization - The image editor control supports customizing the stroke thickness and opacity of circle, rectangle, arrow, and path annotations.
• List View
  • Support for macOS (Preview) - Provides support for macOS with existing features along with key navigation.
  • Key navigation in UWP - Process list view item selection using the keyboard.
  • Load more at top - Load more items in at the top of the list view manually.
  • Scroll to particular position - Programmatically scroll through list view items to a specific location like the start, center, and end.
  • Localization - Localize the Load More text from PCL/.NET Standard.
• Maps
  • Online tile map providers support - Feature that allows tile map providers such as OpenStreetMap and Bing maps to visualize satellite, aerial, street map, or other kinds of imagery tiles without using any shapes files.
• Navigation Drawer
  • Multiple drawers - The navigation drawer now supports two drawers that can be placed in any of the four sides and can have different content based on requirement.
• Essential PDF
  • RTL text - Add RTL text to PDF documents.
  • Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
  • Document timestamp - Add timestamp to PDF documents without using certificates.
  • Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
  • Auto resize the text of text box fields - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
  • Add annotations to the PDF layers.
• PDF Viewer
  • Free-text annotation - Support for free-text annotation allows the user to add text annotations in a PDF document. The annotation’s color, font size and text content are customizable.
  • Shape annotation - Support for shape annotation allows the user to add Rectangle, Ellipse and Line annotations in a PDF document. The annotation’s color, thickness, and opacity are customizable.
• Pop-up Layout
  • Slide-on-right and slide-on-bottom animation - Animate the pop-up view to slide on right and slide on bottom when opening or closing the pop-up.
  • Other enhancements
    • Display the pop-up without parent in any existing application on the fly.
    • Display the pop-up at an absolute position from the target view when showing it relative to another view.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation Support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
• Schedule
  • Appointment drag and drop - Reschedule appointments using drag and drop operations.
  • Time zones - Display appointments created in various time zones in the specified time zone.
  • Agenda view - Display selected date appointments below the month view.
  • Month cell templates - Customize the month cell view using month cell templates and a template selector.
  • Partial hours - Set partial working hours, start hour, and end hour according to your requirements.
  • Localization-  Localize custom text from PCL/.NET Standard.
• Sunburst Chart
  • Drill-down support - Feature that provides a drill-down option with animations for visualizing large sets of data in a minimal data view.
  • Selection support - Highlight or select sunburst segments.
  • Animation support - Animate the chart when it is first shown.
  • Tooltip support - Display segment information as a tooltip while tapping the segment.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - XlsIO now allows grouping multiple shapes into a single grouped shape. This is used to apply shape settings to all the shapes in a group at the same time.
  • Pivot Table layout enhancement - Supports additional layout option to repeat data of specific fields or all fields.
  • Excel chart styles - By setting the style ID between 1 and 48, the chart style can now be changed easily. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Skips blank cells while copying data from source range to destination range.

Xamarin.Android

• New Segmented Control - The segmented control lets users choose from a linear set of two or more segments, each functioning as a button.
• New Combo Box - The combo box is a text box component that allows users to type a value or choose an option from a list of predefined options.
• New Check Box - The check box is a selection control that allows users to select one or more options from a set. It has three states: checked, unchecked, and indeterminate.
• New Radio Button - The radio button is a selection control that allows users to select one option from a set. It has two states: checked and unchecked.
• Carousel
  • Load more - Instead of loading all items on initial load, the collection is split by a specified count value and only the first set is added in the carousel view.
  • UI virtualization - Maintains only the items in the view port in the carousel view.
• Chart
  • Attribute support for designing in AXML files - The chart component can be added to an AXML file, but series and data sources for a chart should be configured from C# code. To fill the gap between the design experience of other views and the chart, attributes will be exposed for customizing some essential elements from an AXML file.
  • Date-time category axis support - The new date-time category axis allows users to plot date-time values without a visual gap between two data points.
  • Different shapes in scatter series - Added support for different shapes in scatter series. The available shapes are cross, diamond, ellipse, hexagon, inverted triangle, pentagon, plus, rectangle, and triangle.
  • Group small data points into “others” category in pie and doughnut series - Pie and doughnut charts with too many small slices look cluttered. To overcome this, an option has been provided to merge small slices into a single slice based on a threshold value.
  • Add text to the center of doughnut chart - Text can be added to the center of a doughnut chart to show information about the data.
• Data Form
  • Password editor - Password editor support enables user verification.
• Data Grid
  • Multicolumn grouping - Group by one or more columns programmatically to organize data in a hierarchical tree structure based on identical values a column.
  • Group summaries - Display the summary information of each group for the entire group summary row or for individual cells at the bottom of each group. The data grid also allows you to add multiple group summary rows.
  • Other enhancements - Autogenerate numeric columns, picker columns, and date-time columns.
• Diagram
  • Bezier curve - Bezier curve can be modified using the two control points provided on the connector’s selector.
  • Orthogonal segment modifier - Now, orthogonal line segments can be modified by the handler provided on the connector’s selector.
  • Grid lines and Snap to grid - Nodes can be aligned easily using grid lines and snap to grid support.
  • Dynamic drawing tool support - Provided support to draw text nodes as well as connectors on the diagram area, dynamically.
  • Mind map style - Now, it is easier to apply styles to shapes and connectors branch wise or level wise in mind map. Shape types and connector types can also be modified.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in the Word document are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
  • HTML import - Essential DocIO now allows you to import HTML files.
• Image editor
  • Custom view - Custom views can be added as annotations over an image. They can be resized and positioned anywhere on an image.
  • Toolbar height customization - Toolbar item height, icon height, and text height can be customized.
  • Font family - Text annotations can be customized to use any desired font family.
  • Stroke thickness and opacity customization - The image editor control supports customizing the stroke thickness and opacity of circle, rectangle, arrow, and path annotations.
• Maps
  • Online tile map providers support - Feature that allows tile map providers such as OpenStreetMap and Bing maps to visualize satellite, aerial, street map, or other kinds of imagery tiles without using any shapes files.
• Navigation Drawer
  • Multiple drawers - The navigation drawer now supports two drawers that can be placed in any of the four sides and can have different content based on requirement.
• Essential PDF
  • RTL text - Add RTL text to PDF documents.
  • Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
  • Document timestamp - Add timestamp to PDF documents without using certificates.
  • Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
  • Auto resize the text of text box fields - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
  • Add annotations to the PDF layers.
• PDF Viewer
  • Free-text annotation - Support for free-text annotation allows the user to add text annotations in a PDF document. The annotation’s color, font size and text content are customizable.
  • Shape annotation - Support for shape annotation allows the user to add Rectangle, Ellipse and Line annotations in a PDF document. The annotation’s color, thickness, and opacity are customizable.
• Pop-up Layout
  • Slide-on-right and slide-on-bottom animation - Animate the pop-up view to slide on right and slide on bottom when opening or closing the pop-up.
  • Other enhancements
    • Display the pop-up without parent in any existing application on the fly.
    • Display the pop-up at an absolute position from the target view when showing it relative to another view.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation Support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
• Schedule
  • Appointment drag and drop - Reschedule appointments using drag and drop operations.
  • Time zones - Display appointments created in various time zones in the specified time zone.
  • Agenda view - Display selected date appointments below the month view.
  • Custom appointments - Bind a business object to an appointment by mapping its fields, such as start time, end time, subject, notes, and recurrence.
  • Partial hours - Set partial working hours, start hour, and end hour according to your requirements.
• Sunburst Chart
  • Drill-down support - Feature that provides a drill-down option with animations for visualizing large sets of data in a minimal data view.
  • Selection support - Highlight or select sunburst segments.
  • Animation support - Animate the chart when it is first shown.
  • Tooltip support - Display segment information as a tooltip while tapping the segment.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - XlsIO now allows grouping multiple shapes into a single grouped shape. This is used to apply shape settings to all the shapes in a group at the same time.
  • Pivot Table layout enhancement - Supports additional layout option to repeat data of specific fields or all fields.
  • Excel chart styles - By setting the style ID between 1 and 48, the chart style can now be changed easily. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Skips blank cells while copying data from source range to destination range.

Xamarin.iOS

• New Segmented Control - The segmented control lets users choose from a linear set of two or more segments, each functioning as a button.
• New Combo Box - The combo box is a text box component that allows users to type a value or choose an option from a list of predefined options.
• New Check Box - The check box is a selection control that allows users to select one or more options from a set. It has three states: checked, unchecked, and indeterminate.
• New Radio Button - The radio button is a selection control that allows users to select one option from a set. It has two states: checked and unchecked.
• Carousel
  • Load more - Instead of loading all items on initial load, the collection is split by a specified count value and only the first set is added in the carousel view.
  • UI virtualization - Maintains only the items in the view port in the carousel view.
• Chart
  • Date-time category axis support - The new date-time category axis allows users to plot date-time values without a visual gap between two data points.
  • Different shapes in scatter series - Added support for different shapes in scatter series. The available shapes are cross, diamond, ellipse, hexagon, inverted triangle, pentagon, plus, rectangle, and triangle.
  • Group small data points into “others” category in pie and doughnut series - Pie and doughnut charts with too many small slices look cluttered. To overcome this, an option has been provided to merge small slices into a single slice based on a threshold value.
  • Add text to the center of doughnut chart - Text can be added to the center of a doughnut chart to show information about the data.
• Data Form
  • Password editor - Password editor support enables user verification.
• Data Grid
  • Multicolumn grouping - Group by one or more columns programmatically to organize data in a hierarchical tree structure based on identical values a column.
  • Group summaries - Display the summary information of each group for the entire group summary row or for individual cells at the bottom of each group. The data grid also allows you to add multiple group summary rows.
  • Other enhancements - Autogenerate numeric columns, picker columns, and date-time columns.
• Diagram
  • Bezier curve - Bezier curve can be modified using the two control points provided on the connector’s selector.
  • Orthogonal segment modifier - Now, orthogonal line segments can be modified by the handler provided on the connector’s selector.
  • Grid lines and Snap to grid - Nodes can be aligned easily using grid lines and snap to grid support.
  • Dynamic drawing tool support - Provided support to draw text nodes as well as connectors on the diagram area, dynamically.
  • Mind map style - Now, it is easier to apply styles to shapes and connectors branch wise or level wise in mind map. Shape types and connector types can also be modified.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in the Word document are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
  • HTML import - Essential DocIO now allows you to import HTML files.
• Image editor
  • Custom view - Custom views can be added as annotations over an image. They can be resized and positioned anywhere on an image.
  • Toolbar height customization - Toolbar item height, icon height, and text height can be customized.
  • Font family - Text annotations can be customized to use any desired font family.
  • Stroke thickness and opacity customization - The image editor control supports customizing the stroke thickness and opacity of circle, rectangle, arrow, and path annotations.
• Maps
  • Online tile map providers support - Feature that allows tile map providers such as OpenStreetMap and Bing maps to visualize satellite, aerial, street map, or other kinds of imagery tiles without using any shapes files.
• Navigation Drawer
  • Multiple drawers - The navigation drawer now supports two drawers that can be placed in any of the four sides and can have different content based on requirement.
• Essential PDF
  • RTL text - Add RTL text to PDF documents.
  • Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
  • Document timestamp - Add timestamp to PDF documents without using certificates.
  • Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
  • Auto resize the text of text box fields - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
  • Add annotations to the PDF layers.
• PDF Viewer
  • Free-text annotation - Support for free-text annotation allows the user to add text annotations in a PDF document. The annotation’s color, font size and text content are customizable.
  • Shape annotation - Support for shape annotation allows the user to add Rectangle, Ellipse and Line annotations in a PDF document. The annotation’s color, thickness, and opacity are customizable.
• Pop-up Layout
  • Slide-on-right and slide-on-bottom animation - Animate the pop-up view to slide on right and slide on bottom when opening or closing the pop-up.
  • Other enhancements
    • Display the pop-up without parent in any existing application on the fly.
    • Display the pop-up at an absolute position from the target view when showing it relative to another view.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation Support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
• Schedule
  • Appointment drag and drop - Reschedule appointments using drag and drop operations.
  • Time zones - Display appointments created in various time zones in the specified time zone.
  • Agenda view - Display selected date appointments below the month view.
  • Custom appointments - Bind a business object to an appointment by mapping its fields, such as start time, end time, subject, notes, and recurrence.
  • Partial hours - Set partial working hours, start hour, and end hour according to your requirements.
• Sunburst Chart
  • Drill-down support - Feature that provides a drill-down option with animations for visualizing large sets of data in a minimal data view.
  • Selection support - Highlight or select sunburst segments.
  • Animation support - Animate the chart when it is first shown.
  • Tooltip support - Display segment information as a tooltip while tapping the segment.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - XlsIO now allows grouping multiple shapes into a single grouped shape. This is used to apply shape settings to all the shapes in a group at the same time.
  • Pivot Table layout enhancement - Supports additional layout option to repeat data of specific fields or all fields.
  • Excel chart styles - By setting the style ID between 1 and 48, the chart style can now be changed easily. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Skips blank cells while copying data from source range to destination range.

PDF viewer adds layer support, Tree Grid adds built-in row drag and drop support.

Features

• Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
• Tree Grid
  • Built-in row drag and drop - Support has been added for dragging and dropping rows within a tree grid or between two tree grids. This feature also allows the dragging of rows from and to any other control.
• PDF Viewer
  • Layer support - The layer support in PDF viewer allows the user to toggle the visibility of individual and groups of layers in the PDF document to view, print, save, and export as images.
• Diagram
  • Separator support for context menu.
  • Undo and redo support for connector, annotation, and port editing.
  • Undo and redo can be performed for custom actions.
  • Selection-based zooming support.
  • Printing enhancements
    • Quality improvement.
    • New dialog to control page size, margins, and orientation.
    • Headers and footers.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - XlsIO now allows grouping multiple shapes into a single grouped shape. This is used to apply shape settings to all the shapes in a group at the same time.
  • AutoShapes support in Excel to PDF conversion - Excel documents with AutoShapes can now be converted to PDF.
  • Pivot Table layout enhancement - Supports additional layout option to repeat data of specific fields or all fields.
  • Excel chart styles - By setting the style ID between 1 and 48, the chart style can now be changed easily. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Skips blank cells while copying data from source range to destination range.
• Essential PDF
  • PDF to PDF/A-1b - Convert existing PDF documents to PDF/A-1b documents.
  • Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
  • Document timestamp - Add timestamp to PDF documents without using certificates.
  • Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
  • Auto resize the text of text box fields - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
  • Adding annotation to the PDF layers.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in the Word document are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
• Syntax Editor
  • Print and preview - Print the documents loaded in the syntax editor. Display a print preview to review the documents and customize the page settings before printing.
  • Masked Edit - Support has been provided for optional, negative lookahead, and positive lookahead regular expressions.
• Pivot Grid
  • Excel-like Layout - Users can now visualize the pivot grid’s appearance to be similar to the grid in Microsoft Excel.
  • Keyboard Accelerator Support - Allows users to interact with the built-in dialog windows and context menus by using access keys.
• Gantt
  • Seconds support - Provides support to visualize tasks in terms of seconds in the chart.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.
• Report Designer
  • Localization enhancements - Improvements have been made to the report designer resources for localizing all static content, including: report item wizards, data creation dialogs, property dialogs, context tab, property grid, report data pane, and expression editor.
• Accordion
  • Appearance enhancements - Built-in themes such as Office 2016-inspired themes, Metro, and Blend have been included to change the appearance of the control.

New data grid with master-detail view and cell merging, plus new List View and Combo Box controls.

Features

• Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
• New Combo Box - The combo box is an enhanced control that displays a list of items in a drop-down, allowing users to select one or more items.
• New List View - The list view control displays a collection of items with a check box next to each one. The items can be sorted, grouped, and filtered easily.
• Data Grid
  • Master-details view - Bind any data source with the master-details relationship. It displays related records in a nested hierarchical grid under the parent records. Users can define the relation for hierarchical view by using the GridViewDefinition.
  • Cell merging - Merge the cells programmatically by using the QueryCoveredRange in data grid. It merges the cells in either a horizontal or vertical direction with similar or dissimilar data.
  • Busy indicator - This feature allows you to display the busy indicator for data operations such as data loading, sorting, grouping, and filtering.
  • Font orientation - This feature allows you to rotate the text in the cells to any degree.
  • Combo box column type - New combo box column type support has been provided to change the cell values based on the data source bound in the combo box.
  • Multiselect combo box filter row editor - Filter more than one value which are equal to the selected items of multi select combo box filter row editor.
  • Combo box filter row editor - Filter a value which is equal to the selected item of combo box filter row editor.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - XlsIO now allows grouping multiple shapes into a single grouped shape. This is used to apply shape settings to all the shapes in a group at the same time.
  • AutoShapes support in Excel to PDF conversion - Excel documents with AutoShapes can now be converted to PDF.
  • Pivot Table layout enhancement - Supports additional layout option to repeat data of specific fields or all fields.
  • Excel chart styles - By setting the style ID between 1 and 48, the chart style can now be changed easily. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Skips blank cells while copying data from source range to destination range.
• Essential PDF
  • PDF to PDF/A-1b - Convert existing PDF documents to PDF/A-1b documents.
  • Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
  • Document timestamp - Add timestamp to PDF documents without using certificates.
  • Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
  • Auto resize the text of text box field - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
  • Adding annotations to the PDF layers
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in the Word document are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
• Grid Grouping Control
  • Event to customize the data bar cells - The grid grouping control supports customizing the minimum and maximum values for specific data bar cells based on the record values by using an event.
  • ICustomTypeDescriptor binding support - The grid grouping control allows the adding or removing of visible columns in grid view at runtime by using the ICustomTypeDescriptor interface.
• DockingManager
  • Tab customization - The DockingManager now allows you to customize the tab header appearance by changing the background and foreground for active and inactive tabs.
  • Ribbon - Ribbon customization and Quick Access Toolbar windows combine into a single dialog like in Office Ribbon. We have also provided an option to hide application icons as well as tab scrolling support when more ribbon tabs are present in ribbon.
• Syntax Editor
  • IntelliSense enhancements - IntelliSense popup appearance and size based on filtered items have been improved similar to Visual Studio.
  • Localization - Now, all static texts used in built-in dialogs of EditControl can be localized.
• Pivot Grid
  • Save and Load - Users can easily save and load the pivot grid control’s report and settings anytime in either XML or stream format.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.