Comprehensive software development toolset for .NET. Latest maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

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

• CodeRush - Improves Clipboard and Selection tools.
• DevExpress ASP.NET - Includes fixes for GridView, HTML Editor and Rich Edit controls.
• DevExpress Reporting - Reporting for all major .NET Platforms including WinForms, ASP.NET and WPF. Latest maintenance release.
• DevExpress WinForms - Includes fixes for Charts, Editors and Grid controls.
• DevExpress WPF - Includes fixes for Grid, Diagram and Scheduler controls.
• DevExpress Windows 10 Apps - Includes fixes for Editors, Grid and Map controls.
• DevExtreme - JavaScript Component Suite. Maintenance release includes fixes for Data Grid, Data Visualization and UI Widgets.
• DevExpress Office File API - Includes fixes for PDF, Spreadsheet and Word Processing controls.

Improves Ribbon, Scheduler and Rich Edit controls.

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• Ribbon - Popup menu separators are not displayed if the Bezier skin is in effect.
• Ribbon - The Application Button's caption is not vertically aligned with tab captions if the ribbon control's Style property is set to a value other than rs2007.

ExpressEditors Library

• TcxCustomDropDownEdit descendants - It is impossible to change the dropdown button's default glyph.
• TcxShellTreeView - In certain cases, an AV occurs on entering the "Documents" folder by using the editor's Path property.
• TdxDBBreadcrumbEdit - Calling the Insert procedure of the editor's underlying data set has no effect.

ExpressEntityMapping Framework

• A type conversion error occurs when obtaining a Firebird database's schema that includes views.
• The "Connection is busy with results for another hstmt" error occurs when accessing a remote SQL Server.
• The session component's Find method returns an entity object that corresponds to a deleted database record.

ExpressLayout Control

• The offset between the bottom border of a layout group and its content is calculated incorrectly in all skins that display the group caption as a separate section.

ExpressLibrary

• Mail Client demo - Scrolling the mail folders list results in incorrect positioning of badge adorners.

ExpressPivotGrid Suite

• An AV occurs when closing an application that displays the Customization Form whose site resides in a layout control.
• TcxDBPivotGrid - Opening a dataset bound to pivot grid fields displayed in the Customization Form doesn't update their captions.
• The locked state image is not displayed for a pivot grid containing grouped fields.

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• Binding the same dataset's lookup field to multiple Data Grid controls simultaneously can result in errors.
• Chart View - The View has an incorrect background color when a skin is used.
• Table and Banded Table Views - A collapsed group is displayed twice if there are no other groups in the View and its OptionsBehavior.FixedGroups property is True.
• Table and Banded Table Views - In-place Edit Form - Switching the form layout from default to custom saves an incorrect root group name in a DFM file.
• Table View - The top unscrollable portion of the View flickers while the content is being scrolled down by more rows than it is currently visible.
• Table View - The View continues to reserve space for the vertical hybrid scrollbar after the control's height is increased to fit View's content vertically if View's OptionsView.ColumnAutoWidth property is set to True.
• The Quick Column Customization popup menu is built slowly in certain cases.
• WinExplorer View - Visual style settings assigned via the View item's Styles.Content property are displayed incorrectly.

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

• Switching the focused column's Options.Focusing property to False doesn't remove focus from this column.

ExpressRichEdit Control

• HTML Import - Tables with non-default alignment are positioned incorrectly.

ExpressScheduler Suite

• Day View - Modern Style - Adjacent sequential events can be displayed as concurrent in certain cases.
• Gantt View - Clicking any expand button in the Tree Browser doesn't switch the expanded state of the corresponding task group.
• Modern Style - The Location and Reminder strings display the ampersand character (&) as an accelerator character in an event's hint window.
• The move event cursor is positioned incorrectly during event drag-and-drop operations.
• TimeGrid View - Modern Style - Event description text goes outside an event cell's boundaries if the View's EventDetailInfo property is True.

ExpressSkins Library

• TdxBarApplicationMenu - Shortcuts on the menu's extra pane are barely distinguishable when using the Bezier skin with certain color palettes.
• The Bezier Skin - The checked state is not displayed for bar items with assigned glyphs if items are listed in a bar subitem.
• The GridLikeControlContentOddColor and GridLikeControlContentEvenColor skin elements are not applied to a UI element whose Styles.UseOddEventStyles property is set to bTrue.
• TheBezier skin - All ExpressQuantumTreeList controls do not display header and band separators.
• TheBezier skin - All resizable popup windows display no Size Grip UI element.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• An AV occurs when sorting empty cells if the default cell style is applied to them.

ExpressVerticalGrid Suite

• The "Stack overflow" exception occurs when the Styles.UseOddEvenStyles property value is bTrue or the Styles.UseOddEvenStyles property value is bDefault and the Styles.ContentOdd or Styles.ContentEven property is assigned.
• An AV occurs on assigning a TcxStyle component to the Vertical grid's Styles.FindPanel property.
• The focus moves to the first row when the mouse pointer enters the row whose Options.Focusing property is False if an end-user drags the mouse from top to bottom while holding down the left mouse button.

Improves Chart, Grid and Excel controls.

Fixes

Chart

• Opacity does not function for ScatterAreaSeries.
• NullReferenceException when getting the StackedColumnSeries default tooltip.
• NullReferenceException encountered when binding data to RingSeries.

Combo

• In UltraCombo if the contents are wider than the dropdown, AutoFitStyle is ignored.

ComboEditor

• Screen reader does not read checked state of checkboxes in dropdown.
• Pressing Alt+F4 on a combo with multiple selection enabled in an MDI form does not close the application.

DataChart

• Showing tooltips on any series the UltraDataChart throws a NullReferenceException.
• NullReferenceException occurs when a tooltip is displayed.
• Background color does not reset to expected color.

DateTimeEditor

• MonthDropDownWithUIPermissions holding onto memory.

DesktopAlert

• The alert caption in UltraDesktopAlert is being cut off and also not align right.

DoughnutChart

• In UltraDoughnutChart on RingSeriesBase we do not have option to set the font.

Editors

• In ultraNumericEditor assigning FormatProvider directly, failing the validation.

Excel

• Unable to load Excel file with page breaks.
• ArgumentNullException thrown when loading an excel file.
• Infragistics.Documents.Excel.FormulaParseException: 'The worksheet range does not specify a second worksheet name.' when opening excel file.

ExplorerBar

• UltraExplorerBar ItemClick event not being fired when setting RightToLeft option.
• UltraExplorerBar RTL - vertical scroll bar space appears to the right and vertical scroll bar been hidden with the group area.

GanttView

• IndexOutOfRangeException when disposing.
• ParentTaskCollection refers to wrong collection when using "Add sub-task" option.

Grid

• When grouping and using an ExpansionIndicator override with connector lines, the lines are rendered incorrectly.
• Clicking on header to sort causes continuous resizing.
• Buttons on few support dialogs are not getting resized to fit the new resource strings when the dialogs are localized.
• The ColumnChooser need a refresh to update the edited column headers.
• Application should not crash when regular expression is passed as custom filter text.
• Error on MultiSelection DropDownList.
• Performance issue when using CalcManager formulas in a grid column whose DataType is Nullable Decimal.
• Using UI automation from Coded Ui does not receive updates of the layout.
• ColumnChooser is not working as a PopupControlContainer.
• Dropdown does not show in specific circumstance.
• Auto sizing with EditorCompoment in UltraGridColumn is not correct.
• The CustomFilterDialog is not scaled properly when DPI is above 100%.
• Cell height is not calculated correctly when using multiline text and enabling icon.
• In right-to-left mode, moving columns behaves incorrectly.

PrintPreviewDialog

• Divide by zero error in print preview dialog with calendar.
• Binding the Tasks to DataTable that has a Constraint raises a InvalidConstraintException when printing.

ProgressBar

• After maximizing a few times the progress bar disappears.

Schedule

• The appointment dialog dropdown doesn't select the time nearest the current value.

Sparkline

• Drawing a Sparkline control immediately after setting the DataSource draws with the old DataSource.

SpreadSheet

• AutoSizing all columns in the Spreadsheet works for all but the last column.
• Text is being cut off from the front.

TabbedMdiManager

• MDI child tabs no longer appear in Inspect util after switching tools in ultratabmanager.

TabControl

• Tab repositioning throws error on non-displayed tabs.

TextEditor

• TextEditor inside UltraControlContainerEditor in the UltraGrid is not displaying the correct text after changing grid datasource.

Toolbars

• Maximized docked form using Office2013 style shows a line from UltraToolbarsDockAreaResizeUIElement.

WinForms

• UltraMonthViewSingle current Week is showing wrong number as 53.

ZoomPanel

• UltraGrid scrollbars are hidden when ZoomFactor is reset to 1.

Improves Data Tree, Schedule and Data Grid controls.

Fixes

WebDataGrid

• When WebDataGrid has a DropDownProvider and is inside a custom control, loading the grid dynamically will cause the drop down items to disappear.
• When WebDataGrid has decimal column that can accept null values and its value is changed from null to 0, the UpdateMethod is not triggered.
• When WebDataGrid has several fixed columns and is opened in Internet Explorer 11, in a browser window that is not maximized, then maximizing the window will cause the browser to stop responding.
• When WebDataGrid has a TemplateDataField column that has a styled TextBox control, then the style of the TextBox control is not preserved after a postback to the server.
• When WebDataGrid is bound to data with a large number of records and VirtualScrolling behavior is enabled, then some of the grid rows cannot be viewed, even using the grid's vertical scroll.

WebDataMenu

• WebDataMenu top level's menu options are not displayed correctly.

WebDataTree

• When WebDataTree control receives focus, then an exception is thrown.
• When WebExplorerBar has template, containing a WebDataTree control, an exception is thrown.

WebUpload

• WebUpload control returns a successful upload message, even if the uploading file isn't written to the server, because the session was lost due to application pool recycle.

WebSchedule

• WebSchedule control doesn’t work when opened in Chrome with zoom level of 110% or more.
• When WebSchedule recurrence meeting is configured, using the Recurrence Dialog window, with options different from the default, then opening this window again will not show the new recurrence configurations.
• WebSchedule Recurrence Dialog window is not opened under an Edge browser.

Includes new controls, designers, and enhancements to C1 Studio Enterprise, Wijmo, and C1 Studio for Xamarin.

Features

• New FlexChart features
  • Added a new Histogram chart type.
  • Added enhancements to animations.
  • Sunburst charts now have new load and update animations
  • Improved the easing functionality on iOS by adding implicit conversion of CAMediaTimingFunction to C1Easing.
• New ComponentOne Input control features
  • Adde AutoCompleteMode property.
  • Adjust both the filter and highlighting behavior of AutoComplete and allows StartsWith, EndsWith, and Contains (Default).
  • Added the ability to use MatchCase or MatchWholeWordflags in AutoComplete.
  • Added ability to clear data from editable input controls with a clear button. It can be toggled with the ShowClearButton property.
  • New Completed Event for Input controls.
  • Added Animation for FullScreenMode.
• ComponentOne CollectionView control
  • Added the ability to use MatchCase or MatchWholeWord flags when filtering. The FullTextFilterSample in FlexGrid101 has been modified to demonstrate this behavior.
• ComponentOne FlexGrid enhancements
  • Added KeyActionTab property for Excel-like tab cycling. This option allows a tab key press to behave the same as in Excel, where a tab will wrap the selection and marquee to the first column of the next row when pressed from the last column of a row.
  • Added customizable selection/context menu.
  • Built in options for actions like Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Undo, and Select All.
  • Can also contain developer customizable actions.
  • Improved the visual quality of FlexGrid grid lines and light and dark themes.
• New Visual Studio for Mac and Entity Framework project templates
  • Added Entity Framework SQLite Template.
  • Uses FlexGrid, CollectionView, and Entity Framework Core with a local SQLite DataBase.
  • Added Visual Studio for Mac templates.
  • Same templates currently in VS 2017 will also be available for Mac (including Entity Framework template).

Adds multi-line editing to FlexGrid, plus support for Excel-like tables in FlexSheet.

Features

New Controls

• Build BI dashboards with Dashboard Layout
  • Embed ComponentOne's data controls and design dynamic screens and business intelligence dashboards with the interactive Dashboard Layout control. You can choose layouts that fit your screen requirements, and built-in features like drag and drop, maximize and restore, save and load layouts, and conversion of existing layouts provide a powerful layout system.
• TabPanel for ASP.NET MVC
  • The TabPanel navigation control, released in Wijmo v1, has now been wrapped for ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core apps. It's a simple, effective navigation control that allows the user to move between refreshed content views. Controls can be embedded into the panels.

Data Visualization Enhancements
FlexChart has added several new charts to the collection of over 80 charts and variations.

• HeatMap chart - This specialized chart represents data values using colors, and is especially useful in plotting large, complex data. Customizations include gradient color scale, gradient color axis, and a discrete color scale.
• New histogram variations
  • Frequency Polygon, a variation of histogram chart where the columns are replaced by a curve that's helpful for comparing multiple sets of data.
  • Gaussian/Bell curve, a bell-shaped curve in histogram chart that shows the probability distribution of a continuous random variable.
  • Cumulative mode, a variation in histogram and Frequency Polygon chart that shows the running total of frequencies on the chart.
• Axis enhancements
  • Automatic AxisGrouping for DateTime axis
  • Expand/collapse axis groups
  • Provision for specifying calendar periods as Major/Minor units
  • Provision for specifying Min/Max axis labels
• Additional enhancements
  • Line Marker: Allows moving/dragging of line markers after its horizontal/vertical positions has been changed
  • FlexChart for WinForms: Improved Area chart performance for large data points in DirectX mode
  • FlexChart for Xamarin improvements
    • Improved iOS animation by adding implicit conversion from CAMediaTimingFunction to C1Easing
    • Improved designer appearance of Sunburst
    • Added Histogram chart
• New overlay in FinancialChart*
  • FinancialChart now supports ichimoku cloud, an overlay designed to tell everything at one glance about the price trend, including its direction, momentum, dynamic support and resistance levels, and even trade signals.

* Available only in ComponentOne Studio and ComponentOne Ultimate.

Platform Enhancements - ASP.NET MVC

• New controls! TabPanel and Dashboard Layout; see above.
• Material Theme Designer Sample
  • This interactive sample allows you to select primary and accent colors for your app, and produces the CSS you'll need to implement the styles for a Material Design app.
• FlexGrid Multi-line editing
  • By setting a column's multiline property to true, you can implement multi-line editing in a single FlexGrid cell. The control now recognizes a newline character (/n), and ALT+ENTER now acts as a line break, as in Excel.
• FlexSheet support for Excel-like tables
  • ASP.NET MVC's lightweight spreadsheet, FlexSheet, now supports Excel-like tables for selected ranges of cells. You can bind data directly to the table in the data source.
• Microsoft SSAS Cube support in OLAP
  • Wijmo's support for SSAS Cubes has come to ASP.NET MVC! The ASP.NET MVC PivotEngine now allows you to connect directly to OLAP cubes provided by SSAS servers. Previously, a DataEngine WebAPI was required to connect to SSAS Cubes, and now that's built directly into the OLAP control. You can continue to use DataEngine WebAPI to analyze very large datasets from varied sources. OLAP control is included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise.
• FlexViewer supports ActiveReports
  • ASP.NET MVC FlexViewer now supports ActiveReports. Set the ActiveReports ServiceURL, FilePath, and ReportName properties in FlexViewer to view ActiveReports. In addition, PdfDocumentSource now supports CFF Fonts. If you have PDF Files that use CFF Fonts, these files will now load correctly in FlexViewer in all platforms.

Adds new HeatMap chart to FlexChart and enhancements to MultiSelect and Expression Editor.

Features

Data Visualization Enhancements
FlexChart has added several new charts to the collection of over 80 charts and variations.

• HeatMap chart - This specialized chart represents data values using colors, and is especially useful in plotting large, complex data. Customizations include gradient color scale, gradient color axis, and a discrete color scale.
• New histogram variations
  • Frequency Polygon, a variation of histogram chart where the columns are replaced by a curve that's helpful for comparing multiple sets of data.
  • Gaussian/Bell curve, a bell-shaped curve in histogram chart that shows the probability distribution of a continuous random variable.
  • Cumulative mode, a variation in histogram and Frequency Polygon chart that shows the running total of frequencies on the chart.
• Axis enhancements
  • Automatic AxisGrouping for DateTime axis
  • Expand/collapse axis groups
  • Provision for specifying calendar periods as Major/Minor units
  • Provision for specifying Min/Max axis labels
• Additional enhancements
  • Line Marker: Allows moving/dragging of line markers after its horizontal/vertical positions has been changed
  • FlexChart for WinForms: Improved Area chart performance for large data points in DirectX mode
  • FlexChart for Xamarin improvements
    • Improved iOS animation by adding implicit conversion from CAMediaTimingFunction to C1Easing
    • Improved designer appearance of Sunburst
    • Added Histogram chart
• New overlay in FinancialChart*
  • FinancialChart now supports ichimoku cloud, an overlay designed to tell everything at one glance about the price trend, including its direction, momentum, dynamic support and resistance levels, and even trade signals.

* Available only in ComponentOne Studio and ComponentOne Ultimate.

Platform Enhancements - WPF

• MultiSelect enhancements
  • Group feature
  • Keyboard support
  • Themes support
  • New AutoCompleteMode and AutoSuggestMode properties
• Expres​​​sion Editor enhancements
  • Added toolbar button for quotes
  • Added the ability to remove items from 'Category Selection' in C1ExpressionEditorPanel
  • Added support for custom functions
• Additional enhancements
  • DataGrid for WPF: Added keyboard shortcut for Cut (Ctrl+X) function in C1DataGrid
  • TreeView for WPF: Added support for external Drag&Drop using and firing standard Drag&Drop events
  • Input​ for WPF: Added a property in C1MenuItem that’s the same as InputGestureText of MS MenuItem
  • PdfDocumentSource now supports CFF Fonts. If you have PDF Files that use CFF Fonts, these files will now load correctly in FlexViewer in all platforms.
  • FlexChart includes new charts mentioned above.

Adds new histogram variations to FlexChart, plus improvements to MultiSelect and Expression Editor.

Features

Data Visualization Enhancements
FlexChart has added several new charts to the collection of over 80 charts and variations.

• HeatMap chart - This specialized chart represents data values using colors, and is especially useful in plotting large, complex data. Customizations include gradient color scale, gradient color axis, and a discrete color scale.
• New histogram variations
  • Frequency Polygon, a variation of histogram chart where the columns are replaced by a curve that's helpful for comparing multiple sets of data.
  • Gaussian/Bell curve, a bell-shaped curve in histogram chart that shows the probability distribution of a continuous random variable.
  • Cumulative mode, a variation in histogram and Frequency Polygon chart that shows the running total of frequencies on the chart.
• Axis enhancements
  • Automatic AxisGrouping for DateTime axis
  • Expand/collapse axis groups
  • Provision for specifying calendar periods as Major/Minor units
  • Provision for specifying Min/Max axis labels
• Additional enhancements
  • Line Marker: Allows moving/dragging of line markers after its horizontal/vertical positions has been changed
  • FlexChart for WinForms: Improved Area chart performance for large data points in DirectX mode
  • FlexChart for Xamarin improvements
    • Improved iOS animation by adding implicit conversion from CAMediaTimingFunction to C1Easing
    • Improved designer appearance of Sunburst
    • Added Histogram chart
• New overlay in FinancialChart*
  • FinancialChart now supports ichimoku cloud, an overlay designed to tell everything at one glance about the price trend, including its direction, momentum, dynamic support and resistance levels, and even trade signals.

* Available only in ComponentOne Studio and ComponentOne Ultimate.

Platform Enhancements - UWP

• MultiSelect enhancements
  • Group feature
  • Keyboard support
  • New AutoCompleteMode and AutoSuggestMode properties
• Expres​​​sion Editor enhancements
  • Added toolbar button for quotes
  • Added the ability to remove items from 'Category Selection' in C1ExpressionEditorPanel
  • Added support for custom functions
• Additional enhancements
  • PdfDocumentSource now supports CFF Fonts. If you have PDF Files that use CFF Fonts, these files will now load correctly in FlexViewer in all platforms.
  • FlexChart includes new charts mentioned above.

Build BI dashboards with the new interactive Dashboard Layout control.

Features

New Controls

• Build BI dashboards with Dashboard Layout for WinForms and ASP.NET MVC
  • Embed ComponentOne's data controls and design dynamic screens and business intelligence dashboards with the interactive Dashboard Layout control. You can choose layouts that fit your screen requirements, and built-in features like drag and drop, maximize and restore, save and load layouts, and conversion of existing layouts provide a powerful layout system.
• New Barcodes in WinForms, WPF, and UWP including:
  • Code 11
  • SSCC 18
  • HIBCode128
  • HIBCode39
  • ISBN
  • ISSN
  • ISMN
  • Iata25
  • BC 412
  • PZN
  • Plessey
  • Pharmacode
  • IntelligentMailPackage
  • Telepen
  • ITF 14

Data Visualization Enhancements
FlexChart has added several new charts to the collection of over 80 charts and variations.

• HeatMap chart - This specialized chart represents data values using colors, and is especially useful in plotting large, complex data. Customizations include gradient color scale, gradient color axis, and a discrete color scale.
• New histogram variations
  • Frequency Polygon, a variation of histogram chart where the columns are replaced by a curve that's helpful for comparing multiple sets of data.
  • Gaussian/Bell curve, a bell-shaped curve in histogram chart that shows the probability distribution of a continuous random variable.
  • Cumulative mode, a variation in histogram and Frequency Polygon chart that shows the running total of frequencies on the chart.
• Axis enhancements
  • Automatic AxisGrouping for DateTime axis
  • Expand/collapse axis groups
  • Provision for specifying calendar periods as Major/Minor units
  • Provision for specifying Min/Max axis labels
• Additional enhancements
  • Line Marker: Allows moving/dragging of line markers after its horizontal/vertical positions has been changed
  • FlexChart for WinForms: Improved Area chart performance for large data points in DirectX mode
  • FlexChart for Xamarin improvements
    • Improved iOS animation by adding implicit conversion from CAMediaTimingFunction to C1Easing
    • Improved designer appearance of Sunburst
    • Added Histogram chart
• New overlay in FinancialChart*
  • FinancialChart now supports ichimoku cloud, an overlay designed to tell everything at one glance about the price trend, including its direction, momentum, dynamic support and resistance levels, and even trade signals.

Platform Enhancements - WinForms

• FlexGrid Dynamic Grouping
  • Dynamic grouping automatically sorts the data, splits it into groups, and adds collapsible group rows above or below each group. The group rows may include aggregate values for one or more columns. Grouping can make this data easier to understand, navigate, and analyze. You can add grouping using the new GroupDescriptions property.
• FlexGrid Group Panel
  • Dynamic grouping was expanded to include a Group Panel control, which enables run time grouping in FlexGrid. You can drag column headers into the panel to create groups, drag groups to new positions, and use the context menu to collapse all, expand all, or clear grouping.
• FlexGrid star-sizing
  • The latest version of the FlexGrid control for WinForms adds a powerful and convenient feature that has been available in other versions of the FlexGrid for quite a while: star-sizing. Star-sizing allows you to specify the width of a column with respect to the total width available.
• MultiSelect enhancements
  • MultiSelect now supports an Auto Suggest Mode and AutoCompleteMode feature that helps users search an item in the MultiSelect. The AutoSuggest mode has three options: Default, StartsWith and Contains. The AutoCompleteMode has Suggest, Append and SuggestAppend options.
• Scheduler includes table view and agenda view
  • Scheduler's new samples include Office 2016 table and agenda views. TableView displays appointments in a table view that can be grouped, sorting, or filtered as specified by the developer or end user. It's similar to the Outlook 2016 List and Active views
  • AgendaView displays appointments grouped by date in a table view where a single table row represents a single appointment. Users can edit appointments by double-clicking on an appointment and opening the EditAppointment dialog. This view is always sorted by dates in ascending order, and doesn’t have row or column headers.
• Additional enhancements
  • FlexPivot* includes new ShowAS functions that improve compatibility between cross-platform FlexPivot implementations.
  • Barcode additions mentioned above .
  • PdfDocumentSource now supports CFF Fonts. If you have PDF Files that use CFF Fonts, these files will now load correctly in FlexViewer in all platforms.
  • FlexChart includes new charts mentioned above.

* Aavailable only in ComponentOne Studio and ComponentOne Ultimate.

Adds new Dashboard Layout control, new charts, grid enhancements and more.

Features

New Controls

• Build BI dashboards with Dashboard Layout for WinForms and ASP.NET MVC
  • Embed ComponentOne's data controls and design dynamic screens and business intelligence dashboards with the interactive Dashboard Layout control. You can choose layouts that fit your screen requirements, and built-in features like drag and drop, maximize and restore, save and load layouts, and conversion of existing layouts provide a powerful layout system.
• TabPanel for ASP.NET MVC
  • The TabPanel navigation control, released in Wijmo v1, has now been wrapped for ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core apps. It's a simple, effective navigation control that allows the user to move between refreshed content views. Controls can be embedded into the panels.
• New Barcodes in WinForms, WPF, and UWP including:
  • Code 11
  • SSCC 18
  • HIBCode128
  • HIBCode39
  • ISBN
  • ISSN
  • ISMN
  • Iata25
  • BC 412
  • PZN
  • Plessey
  • Pharmacode
  • IntelligentMailPackage
  • Telepen
  • ITF 14

Data Visualization Enhancements
FlexChart has added several new charts to the collection of over 80 charts and variations.

• HeatMap chart - This specialized chart represents data values using colors, and is especially useful in plotting large, complex data. Customizations include gradient color scale, gradient color axis, and a discrete color scale.
• New histogram variations
  • Frequency Polygon, a variation of histogram chart where the columns are replaced by a curve that's helpful for comparing multiple sets of data.
  • Gaussian/Bell curve, a bell-shaped curve in histogram chart that shows the probability distribution of a continuous random variable.
  • Cumulative mode, a variation in histogram and Frequency Polygon chart that shows the running total of frequencies on the chart.
• Axis enhancements
  • Automatic AxisGrouping for DateTime axis
  • Expand/collapse axis groups
  • Provision for specifying calendar periods as Major/Minor units
  • Provision for specifying Min/Max axis labels
• Additional enhancements
  • Line Marker: Allows moving/dragging of line markers after its horizontal/vertical positions has been changed
  • FlexChart for WinForms: Improved Area chart performance for large data points in DirectX mode
  • FlexChart for Xamarin improvements
    • Improved iOS animation by adding implicit conversion from CAMediaTimingFunction to C1Easing
    • Improved designer appearance of Sunburst
    • Added Histogram chart
• New overlay in FinancialChart
  • FinancialChart now supports ichimoku cloud, an overlay designed to tell everything at one glance about the price trend, including its direction, momentum, dynamic support and resistance levels, and even trade signals.

Platform Enhancements

WinForms

• FlexGrid Dynamic Grouping
  • Dynamic grouping automatically sorts the data, splits it into groups, and adds collapsible group rows above or below each group. The group rows may include aggregate values for one or more columns. Grouping can make this data easier to understand, navigate, and analyze. You can add grouping using the new GroupDescriptions property.
• FlexGrid Group Panel
  • Dynamic grouping was expanded to include a Group Panel control, which enables run time grouping in FlexGrid. You can drag column headers into the panel to create groups, drag groups to new positions, and use the context menu to collapse all, expand all, or clear grouping.
• FlexGrid star-sizing
  • The latest version of the FlexGrid control for WinForms adds a powerful and convenient feature that has been available in other versions of the FlexGrid for quite a while: star-sizing. Star-sizing allows you to specify the width of a column with respect to the total width available.
• MultiSelect enhancements
  • MultiSelect now supports an Auto Suggest Mode and AutoCompleteMode feature that helps users search an item in the MultiSelect. The AutoSuggest mode has three options: Default, StartsWith and Contains. The AutoCompleteMode has Suggest, Append and SuggestAppend options.
• Scheduler includes table view and agenda view
  • Scheduler's new samples include Office 2016 table and agenda views. TableView displays appointments in a table view that can be grouped, sorting, or filtered as specified by the developer or end user. It's similar to the Outlook 2016 List and Active views
  • AgendaView displays appointments grouped by date in a table view where a single table row represents a single appointment. Users can edit appointments by double-clicking on an appointment and opening the EditAppointment dialog. This view is always sorted by dates in ascending order, and doesn’t have row or column headers.
• Additional enhancements
  • FlexPivot includes new ShowAS functions that improve compatibility between cross-platform FlexPivot implementations.
  • Barcode additions mentioned above .
  • PdfDocumentSource now supports CFF Fonts. If you have PDF Files that use CFF Fonts, these files will now load correctly in FlexViewer in all platforms.
  • FlexChart includes new charts mentioned above.

WPF & UWP

• MultiSelect enhancements
  • Group feature
  • Keyboard support
  • Themes support (WPF only)
  • New AutoCompleteMode and AutoSuggestMode properties
• Expres​​​sion Editor enhancements
  • Added toolbar button for quotes
  • Added the ability to remove items from 'Category Selection' in C1ExpressionEditorPanel
  • Added support for custom functions
• Additional enhancements
  • DataGrid for WPF: Added keyboard shortcut for Cut (Ctrl+X) function in C1DataGrid
  • TreeView for WPF: Added support for external Drag&Drop using and firing standard Drag&Drop events
  • Input​ for WPF: Added a property in C1MenuItem that’s the same as InputGestureText of MS MenuItem
  • PdfDocumentSource now supports CFF Fonts. If you have PDF Files that use CFF Fonts, these files will now load correctly in FlexViewer in all platforms.
  • FlexChart includes new charts mentioned above.

ASP.NET MVC

• New controls! TabPanel and Dashboard Layout; see above.
• Material Theme Designer Sample
  • This interactive sample allows you to select primary and accent colors for your app, and produces the CSS you'll need to implement the styles for a Material Design app.
• FlexGrid Multi-line editing
  • By setting a column's multiline property to true, you can implement multi-line editing in a single FlexGrid cell. The control now recognizes a newline character (/n), and ALT+ENTER now acts as a line break, as in Excel.
• FlexSheet support for Excel-like tables
  • ASP.NET MVC's lightweight spreadsheet, FlexSheet, now supports Excel-like tables for selected ranges of cells. You can bind data directly to the table in the data source.
• Microsoft SSAS Cube support in OLAP
  • Wijmo's support for SSAS Cubes has come to ASP.NET MVC! The ASP.NET MVC PivotEngine now allows you to connect directly to OLAP cubes provided by SSAS servers. Previously, a DataEngine WebAPI was required to connect to SSAS Cubes, and now that's built directly into the OLAP control. You can continue to use DataEngine WebAPI to analyze very large datasets from varied sources. OLAP control is included in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise.
• FlexViewer supports ActiveReports
  • ASP.NET MVC FlexViewer now supports ActiveReports. Set the ActiveReports ServiceURL, FilePath, and ReportName properties in FlexViewer to view ActiveReports. In addition, PdfDocumentSource now supports CFF Fonts. If you have PDF Files that use CFF Fonts, these files will now load correctly in FlexViewer in all platforms.

Improves Spreadsheet and Word Processing APIs.

Fixes

Spreadsheet Document API

• DevX Issue with loading and saving an Excel doc containing ActiveX objects saved out of Excel 2007.
• Documents with charts cannot be exported to PDF under Azure.
• Grouped pivot table fields with dates are sorted incorrectly.
• Maximum and minimum axis values are incorrectly calculated for Radar and Scatter Line charts.
• NullReferenceException occurs on an attempt to clear specific document content.
• Shape content is inverted in a specific imported document.

Word Processing Document API

• Column widths are incorrectly calculated for a table in the specific OpenXml document.
• RichEditDocumentServer does not load a CSS file if the link tag in the loaded Html file does not have the type attribute.
• The RichEditDocumentXpfPrinter class generates a printed document without text.

Improves WinForms exporting to PDF and DOCX files, plus ASP.NET and WPF updates.

Fixes

ASP.NET Web Forms

• ASPxDocumentViewer - Extra icons are shown on the viewer's surface if the 'accessibilityCompliant' option is set to true.
• ASPxWebDocumentViewer does not load a report after the upgrade from v17.2 to v18.1.
• The DevExpress.Web.Reporting NuGet package does not contain the DevExpress.XtraReports.v18.1.Web.Azure assembly.

WinForms

• An unhandled exception is thrown when Entity Framework returns DBNull.Value.
• An unhandled exception is thrown when Entity Framework returns DBNull.Value when legacy data bindings are used.
• Bindings To Expressions Converter - Arguments of an aggregate function in a formatting rule are incorrectly converted to an expression.
• CachedReportSource - PdfOutOfMemoryException is thrown when a document with a lot of images is built.
• Content Editing in Print Preview - XRCheckBox - A check mark is not completely drawn on the first mouse click.
• Document Viewer - The ArgumentOutOfRange exception is thrown when a large document is scrolled.
• Documentation - The ReportStorageExtension.AfterGetData method has an incorrect description.
• End-User Report Designer - Highlighted code blocks are barely visible (the Bezier skin issue).
• End-User Report Designer - When a control is copied and pasted via hotkeys, its Z-order has the lowest value.
• Export to DOCX - A table's content is stretched to a page width since the table columns do not have fixed width.
• Export to PDF - AcroForm fields' tab ordering sequence is incorrect.
• Export to PDF - Check Box is editable in PDF when set to Read Only before exporting to PDF.
• Export to PDF - Red X is exported to a PDF document when EditOptions.ID contains a period.
• Expression Bindings - An exception that is thrown when accessing a property does not break the report creation process.
• Expression Editor - Hidden Field is visible within an autocomplete window.
• Expressions - NullValueText is not taken into account when a summary expression returns an empty value.
• Filtering - Data is not filtered correctly when grouping is applied to a XRChart control report.
• InvalidCastException is thrown when viewing a report with bindings to abstract properties.
• NullReferenceException occurs on an attempt to change the border style in the SDI Ribbon Report Designer.
• Report Designer - A report is marked as changed after switching to Preview mode and back if ReportUnit is tenths of a millimeter and margins are set to 100.
• Report Designer - The FilterString editor should not alter original field names.
• Scripting - An incorrect chart's Diagram property is suggested in Intellisense (Visual Studio IDE).
• Subreports - Provide a way to check the source report's row count before printing a subreport.
• The DevExpress.XtraReports.v18.1.Service assembly is not available on the NuGet feed.
• XRChart - A chart is not displayed in a report if its series is filtered.
• Datasource components are not accessible in report scripts as private fields.

WPF

• DocumentPreviewControl does not display a document if two monitors are used.
• Serialization - The NullReferenceException occurs on an attempt to save a report with the XRCrossBandLine report control.
• WPF Report Storage does not resolve subreports nested with more than 2 hierarchy levels.

Improves Charts, DataEditors, GridView, Reports and Spreadsheet controls.

Fixes

ASP.NET Web Forms

• All ASP.NET Controls
  • ASPxBinaryImage, ASPxImageZoomNavigator, ASPxImageGallery - The "This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms" error occurs in these controls.
  • Documentation - The description of how HTML and Callback compression work together is not clear.
  • How to apply a global theme to a certain page using the web.config file.
  • Visual Studio 2017 performance is slow if a complex page with numerous editors is saved on the Source view.
• ASPxCardView
  • It is not possible to create DataItemTemplate for a specific column using a designer.
• ASPxDataEditors
  • ASPxButtonEdit - The NullText and Text properties are swapped after a request to the server if the NullText property is set on a callback.
  • ASPxCheckBox - Toggle Mode - The control is rendered incorrectly when the Accessibility feature is used.
  • ASPxComboBox - A drop-down list flickers on scrolling if its items have different height.
  • ASPxComboBox - The "Cannot read property 'toString' of null" error occurs on an attempt to add an item with a null column value on the client side if EncodeHtml is disabled.
  • ASPxCombobox - The last item is hidden or partly invisible in the dropdown in a certain scenario in version 18.1.3.
  • ASPxComboBox, MVC ComboBox - Accessibility - The HelpText element is not represented in the editor "aria" attributes ("aria-describedby" or "aria-labelledby").
  • ASPxTokenBox - The onscreen keyboard is not always shown when the control is focused on iOS devices.
• ASPxGridView
  • ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs in a grid bound to ObjectDataSource if e.Cancel is enabled in the Selecting event handler and the data source's SelectParameters are not set.
  • Batch Edit - Vertical scrolling does not work properly when tabbing through editable cells.
  • Batch Editing - Extra space is added to the bottom of the grid in IE in Windows 7 when Virtual Scrolling is used.
  • Columns flicker after a group row is expanded.
  • The control does not preserve its focused row after a postback under certain conditions if the ProcessFocusedRowChangedOnServer property is set to true and the EnableCallBacks property is set to false.
  • The server-side ContextMenuItemClick event does not fire if no rows are present.
  • The 'TypeError: Cannot read property 'OnInput' of null' error occurs after an upgrade to version 18.1.
  • Validation of external editors is triggered on clicking the OK button in the header filter.
  • Documentation - Improve the example in the ASPxGridView.GetRowValues method description.
  • Documentation - Update the Values property description in the ASPxGridViewHeaderFilterEventArgs Members article.
  • Documentation - WebDataSelection.SelectRowByKey - Add a note that a key object should be valid.
  • Documentation ASPxTextEditBase - Add information that client-side validation doesn't support the Lookbehind regular expression type.
• ASPxHtmlEditor
  • A numbered list changes its position on a form if it is switched to unnumbered.
  • Setting StylesButton.Native to True causes rendering error.
• ASPxPivotGrid
  • ASPxPivotGrid does not provide methods to convert value indices from custom popup menu items to row and column indices.
  • Prefilter - The list of available values is not updated after changing the target field.
• ASPxQueryBuilder
  • "The type 'DevExpress.Xpo.Helpers.IConnectionPage' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced" error is displayed when the OpenConnection method is called.
  • Data Model - The "Group by" statement is lost upon saving results in Query Builder.
• ASPxRichEdit
  • A document size and time to process the document are significantly increased when a document state provider is implemented for working with RichEditControl documents.
  • An error occurs on an attempt to insert a bookmark, header or footer if ReadOnly is enabled.
  • Merge fields' values are not displayed in the print preview if a document is not bound to a data source.
  • Numbered/bullet list formatting is not removed when the built-in Clear Formatting ribbon item is clicked.
  • Table indent is not saved after re-opening a document.
  • The built-in Cut and Copy ribbon items are always disabled in IE.
  • "The given key was not present in the dictionary" error occurs if a document contains a checkbox.
• ASPxScheduler Suite
  • Days are shown in the incorrect order after switching resources in the WorkWeek view.
  • If an internal Data Navigator has the "Tokens" mode, the "HttpUnhandledException" error occurs.
  • Several default shortcuts are described incorrectly in the documentation.
  • NullReferenceException is raised while rendering the Scheduler control when the BoldAppointmentDates option is disabled for the DateNavigator control.
  • Resource color schemas are not applied to ASPxScheduler resources if resources are reloaded on a callback and client rendering is enabled.
• ASPxSpreadsheet
  • The page hangs when switching sheets in a certain document in Edge.
  • Documentation - Add a topic regarding the use of charts in ASPxSpreadsheet.
• ASPxTreeList
  • Data binding to a large data source is slow after the upgrade from version 17.1.
  • NullReferenceException is thrown during the export when the ShowPager mode is used and SettingsExport.ExportAllPages is set to "true".
• Navigation, Layout & Multi-Purpose Controls
  • ASPxFileManager - How to change the caption of the Details View's command column.
  • ASPxFileManager - The "Filter by" input window is disabled if a selected folder contains only subfolders.
  • ASPxFileManager Documentation - Add information that a custom file provider's GetFiles method may be called twice when switching folders.
  • ASPxFormLayout with the Adaptive Grid layout - The JavaScript "this.GetMainElement is null" error occurs if ASPxFormLayout is hidden on a callback.
  • ASPxFormLayout/FormLayout - Describe LayoutItem's Caption property when LayoutItem is located in TabbedLayoutGroup.
  • ASPxMenu - ASPxComboBox's dropdown is trimmed when it is displayed inside a popup menu.
  • ASPxPanel - The Collapse functionality doesn't work if the panel's content has the float style.
  • ASPxSplitter - The splitter's pane separator moves automatically on page load in IE11 if its pane's AutoWidth is set to true and Bootstrap styles are registered on the page.
• XtraCharts Suite
  • A vertical line is not shown in a Line Series if Axis X or Y is reversed.
  • Axis Labels - Multi-line text is overlapped in SVG render mode.
  • WebChartControl - Designer is automatically closed on an attempt to create a new series.
  • WebChartControls - The ObjectSelected event is raised on the server side even if e.processOnServer = false.
• XtraReports Suite
  • ASPxDocumentViewer - Extra icons are shown on the viewer's surface if the 'accessibilityCompliant' option is set to true.
  • ASPxWebDocumentViewer does not load a report after the upgrade from v17.2 to v18.1.
  • The DevExpress.Web.Reporting NuGet package does not contain the DevExpress.XtraReports.v18.1.Web.Azure assembly.

ASP.NET MVC

• MVC CardView
  • Documentation - Add a note that the ExportRenderBrick event can be used only in certain cases.
• MVC Data Editors
  • Calendar - It is impossible to select several dates on Macs using the Cmd + left mouse button shortcut.
  • ComboBox - The CustomFiltering delegate should return void.
  • Documentation - Describe specifics of displaying custom model errors in the ValidationSummary extension.
  • ListBox - Search doesn't work when the callback mode and multiple selection are enabled.
• MVC GridView
  • Batch Edit - The "Input string was not in a correct format" or the "Unexpected 'x' at 0" error occurs on an attempt to update the grid with the BinaryImage column.
  • Data Annotation attributes are not applied when columns are generated automatically.
  • Filtering settings cannot be saved in a customization dialog under certain conditions.
  • The "Clear Sorting" menu item should not be shown for grouped columns.
  • The SelectCheckBoxPosition property isn't applied to the Select All checkbox in the header.
  • Themes are not applied using the ASP.NET mechanism.
• MVC HtmlEditor
  • A bullet list is not removed when the 'Bullet List' button is pressed twice.
• MVC Navigation, Layout & Multi-Purpose Extensions
  • FormLayout is rendered incorrectly if it is placed into a template and its settings are defined using FormLayoutSettings that are bound to a model.
  • PopupControl - The Callback mode does not work when the popup contains a form.
• MVC Pivot Grid
  • Cell values are not completely shown during the export.
• MVC QueryBuilder
  • Web Report Designer - The Landscape option is not taken into account after the PaperKind is changed.
• MVC Report
  • ASPxWebDocumentViewer - A DOCX file is loaded into the XRRichText control incorrectly.
  • Chart Designer - The ValueDataMember.Weight property value is not serialized for Bubble Chart.
  • DocumentViewer - A cascading parameter's lookup is not populated with data according to initial parameter values in case of viewing a remotely created report.
  • DocumentViewer - The IndexOutRange exception is thrown on an attempt to navigate in a specific report.
  • HTML5 Document Viewer - A new window opened when the export button is pressed is not closed in Firefox.
  • HTML5 Document Viewer causes "The size of message property 'jsonArguments' exceeds the limit of '32767' bytes." on Azure environment that auto scales.
  • Mobile Document Viewer - Search results' zooming level is reset once the search results are scrolled.
  • The "Can't resolve 'X' in 'Y' Module not found" error occurs on publishing the Reporting Angular Application CTP.
  • Web Report Designer - The XRPivotGridField.UnboundExpressionMode property is missing.
  • Web Report Designer - "Cannot read property 'reject' of undefined" error is thrown when the save operation is canceled by using the ReportSaving event handler.
  • Web Report Designer - A fully qualified class name of a custom control is displayed in the Properties Panel.
  • Web Report Designer - No error is displayed in the browser's console if the getDesignerModelAction action returns invalid JSON data.
  • Web Report Designer - The ReportOpened event is not fired when the report designer loads a bound report.
  • Web Report Designer - The SubReport control does not show an intersecting warning.
  • Web Report Designer / Query Builder - Sorting by a joined column creates CustomSqlQuery and makes the query uneditable.
• MVC RichEdit
  • There is no corresponding option to disable field update.
  • Documentation - Add a note about a way to send a request to the server to the RichEditExtension.SaveCopy help topic and other topics dedicated to RichEdit's static methods.
  • It is impossible to remove a subitem from DropDownItem.
  • It's impossible to work with a document if an exception occurred on a callback.
  • Scrolling to the corresponding element is not performed when switching between occurrences in the built-in search.
• MVC Scheduler
  • Scheduler with DateNavigator - It's not possible to change months/years using the corresponding standard buttons if months are shown in several rows after the upgrade to v18.1.

ASP.NET Bootstrap

• Bootstrap CardView
  • It's impossible to set an Edit Form template if the edit mode is PopupEditForm.
  • The BootstrapCardViewLayoutGroup.Items collection is marked as an "unknown" element in a page markup and is not available in VS Intellisence.
• Bootstrap Charts
  • BootstrapPieChart is not rendered on the page after an update to 18.1.4.
• Bootstrap Data Editors
  • BootstrapListBox - The ItemTemplate property doesn't work.
  • BootstrapTagBox - The ClientEnabled property has no effect.
• Bootstrap GridView
  • Provide accessibility for the Page Size Item element.
  • The popup edit form loses its overlay under certain conditions.
• Bootstrap Navigation, Layout & Multi-Purpose Controls
  • BootstrapFormLayout - A selected BootstrapComboBox value is reset on postbacks.
  • BootstrapPopupControl - The control is shown at an incorrect position when the MinHeight and ScrollBars properties are specified.
• Bootstrap Scheduler
  • The HtmlTimeCellPrepared event is not raised.

ASP.NET Core Bootstrap

• .NET Core/ASP.NET Core Bootstrap
  • ASP.NET Core Bootstrap - Binding CheckBox to dynamic property fails.
  • Bootstrap ASP.NET Core - It is not possible to select DbContexts and Models using the Insert DevExpress Bootstrap Core Controls wizard.
  • The "Found 2 elements with non-unique id" error occurs in Chrome version 63 if more than one form elements and the password input are used.
• Editors (ASP.NET Core Bootstrap)
  • BootstrapComboBox for ASP.NET Core - The "Index out of range" exception is thrown if the request contains a parameter with the same name as BootstrapComboBox' name.
  • BootstrapTagBox - The setSelectedIndex/getSelectedIndex and setSelectedItem/getSelectedItem methods work incorrectly.
  • BootstrapTimeEdit - Client-side sender object is not correct when the time edit is used as a part of BootstrapDateEdit only.
  • BootstrapUploadControl shows the file dialog twice on phones when the text box is hidden.
• GridView (ASP.NET Core Bootstrap)
  • The grid freezes on loading after an Ajax callback is called to an edit form with a combobox.
  • There is no API to get a visible row index for a row.
  • Export - How to set the SheetName and change header colors in the resulting XLSX file.
  • The "An bootstrap builder with X name already rendered" error occurs when using the EditForm template.
  • BootstrapGridView loaded using jQuery.ajax - Paging doesn't work.
• Layout (ASP.NET Core Bootstrap)
  • The "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: input" error occurs on an attempt to bind an item to a nested field of the model's complex field.
• Project Templates
  • The Bower packages are not restored.
• Scheduler (ASP.NET Core Bootstrap)
  • BeginCallbackEventArgs.customArgs is not available.

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

Fixes

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

• CodeRush - Improves Code Formatting and Code Actions.
• DevExpress ASP.NET - Improves Charts, DataEditors, GridView, Reports and Spreadsheet controls.
• DevExpress Reporting - Improves WinForms exporting to PDF and DOCX files, plus ASP.NET and WPF updates.
• DevExpress WinForms - Improves Bars, Charts, Editors, Grid, Pivot Grid, Reports and Scheduler controls.
• DevExpress WPF - Improves Bars, Charts, Grid, Pivot Grid, Ribbon, Rich Edit and Scheduler controls.
• DevExpress Windows 10 Apps - Improves Editors, Grid and Layout controls.
• DevExtreme - Improves Data Grid, Data Visualization, Pivot Grid and Scheduler controls.

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

Fixes

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

• CodeRush - Improves Code Formatting and Code Actions.
• DevExpress ASP.NET - Improves Charts, DataEditors, GridView, Reports and Spreadsheet controls.
• DevExpress Reporting - Improves WinForms exporting to PDF and DOCX files, plus ASP.NET and WPF updates.
• DevExpress WinForms - Improves Bars, Charts, Editors, Grid, Pivot Grid, Reports and Scheduler controls.
• DevExpress WPF - Improves Bars, Charts, Grid, Pivot Grid, Ribbon, Rich Edit and Scheduler controls.
• DevExpress Windows 10 Apps - Improves Editors, Grid and Layout controls.
• DevExtreme - Improves Data Grid, Data Visualization, Pivot Grid and Scheduler controls.
• DevExpress Office File API - Improves Spreadsheet and Word Processing APIs.

Enhances Tablix performance with larger datasets, plus improves Textbox borders in Section Reports.

Features

• Enhanced Tablix performance with larger datasets.
• Improved Textbox borders in Section Reports.
• Maintain controls on drag/drop to report header in RDL reports
• Improved load time when "PrintAtBottom" of "GroupFooter" is set to true.
• Improved querying tables in Visual Query Designer.
• Improved dataset field expressions validation when using XML datasource.
• Improved memory consumption of Section Reports exported to PDF.

Fixes

• Resolved Internal InvalidCastException on PDF export of RDL reports.
• Fixed incorrect result on previewing RichTextBox.
• Fixed issue with text fields adding an extra space.
• Fixed issue with TextBox’s content being different in PDF when TextJustify is set to Auto or Distribute.
• Resolved issue with hyperlinks working incorrectly in Viewer with RightToLeft Layout.
• Fixed different output of "FormattedText".
• Fixed alignment issues of second+ page in detail row.
• Fixed OutOfMemoryException when exporting section report (containing images) to Excel.
• Resolved issue with Hebrew characters becoming left to right when exporting to PDF.
• Resolved memory issue on creating new report object in Designer.

All graph layout classes now contain a method that runs layout calculations in the background.

Features

MindFusion.Diagramming for WPF

• Non-blocking layout methods - All graph layout classes now contain an ArrangeAsync method that runs layout calculations in the background.
• Layout improvements
  • The KeepLinkShapes property lets you preserve the initial Shape value of links when LinkType is set to Cascading.
  • Set the ConsiderNodeShapes property to align link end points to non-rectangular node borders.
• PathFinder improvements
  • Imprvoed the speed of FindAllCycles and EnumAllCycles methods.
  • FindAllCycles and EnumAllCycles no longer report mirrored versions of cycles in undirected mode.
• Export Excel files - The ExcelExporter class exports diagrams to Excel Open XML Format (XLSX) files. Diagrams are exported as Excel AutoShape drawings.
• Export improvements
  • Visio2013Exporter processes link arrowheads.
  • Visio2013Exporter preserves the diagram Z order.
  • Visio2013Exporter exports link Text and Labels.
  • Visio2013Exporter exports Image of ShapeNode objects.
• VirtualizingDiagram improvements - VirtualizingDiagram can now contain nodes of different types.
• Overview improvements
  • The boolean FitAll has been replaced by a ScaleMode enumeration property. It implements a third scaling mode where overview's scale stays fixed and ignores a diagram's zoom level.
  • If AllowZoom is enabled, users can zoom the diagram by resizing the overview's viewport tracking rectangle.
• Miscellaneous
  • The LinkTextEdited event is now raised when a LinkLabel has been edited.
  • LinkPadding property added to LayeredLayout specifies how much space to leave between links when LinkType is set to Cascading.
  • GridAlignPoint property specifies which point of a node should snap to a point of the alignment grid.
  • Z order of ContainerNode's children is now local to the container.
  • The Compact method moves nodes as far possible to the top or left sides of diagram without changing their initial relative positions.
  • The ExtendSelection element lets users select items with lasso rectangle without deselecting old ones.
  • Set KeepInsideDiagram property to prevent users from dragging multiple selection outside of diagram boundaries.
  • ImagePadding property of ShapeNode, TableNode and Cell lets you set padding space between element's borders and the contained Image.
  • Visio2013Exporter now applies the TextVerticalAlignment property of nodes.
  • Improved GridRouter routes when connected nodes are close to each other.
  • ContainerNode Add overload enables resizing child nodes proportionally to their container.
  • The LinkLabel Visibility property lets you hide labels temporarily.

MindFusion.Spreadsheet for WPF

• Autofiltering - Worksheets now support autofiltering.
• Localization - The standard forms form the MindFusion.Spreadsheet.Wpf.StandardForms.dll assembly can now be localized for German, Spanish, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese.
• Grouping and Outlining - Rows and columns can now be grouped.
• New Events - Several new events have been added to the WorkbookView class: ColumnGroupCollapsed, ColumnGroupExpanded, ColumnOutlineLevelToggled, RowGroupCollapsed, RowGroupExpanded, and RowOutlineLevelToggled.
• Miscellaneous
  • The ExcelImporter class now exposes a ReadConditionalFormats property, which can be used to prevent importing of conditional formats.

MindFusion.Keyboard for WPF

• Key improvements
  • The UnicodeKey class can send any Unicode symbol as input to target text controls.
  • The IsPressed property is set to true while a key is pressed down by the user, allowing for data triggers in Xaml templates to change appearance of pressed keys.
  • Values of Content property of RegularKey can now be sent to external processes.
• Keyboard improvements
  • A new Windows10 color scheme added to MindFusion.UI.Wpf.ColorSchemes.
  • The SetKeyLabels method lets you override labels of keys for a given language.
• Active window tracking
  • The control updates its layout immediately when a window with a different current language activates.
  • Pressing a key no longer activates last target window, which was necessary when keyboard is used as a popup inside application but led to activation flickering. Set the new PreventActivation property instead to disable the keyboard's popup window from activating altogether.
• Miscellaneous
  • Move multiple selected keys in keyboard creator.
  • Various keyboard creator fixes.

Improves the data grid, editor, map and scheduler controls, plus enhances the printing system.

Fixes

Express Install

• Disable DevExpress-dependent packages to avoid package version conflicts in the IDE.

ExpressEditors Library

• cxMRUEdit - The glyph provided by the Properties.ButtonGlyph property is painted on the dropdown button instead of the ellipsis button.
• TcxDBSpinEdit bound to an FMTBcd field incorrectly displays its value if the FormatSettings.DecimalSeparator setting differs from the system's decimal separator.
• TdxUIAdornerManager - It is impossible to assign content to a guide adorner's callout popup via the AControl parameter of the TdxGuideGetCalloutPopupControl procedural type in C++Builder.
• The focused editor doesn't have a blue border in Windows 10.

ExpressExport Library

• Table and Banded Table Views - The ExportGridTo~ procedures add an empty column to the left of the exported content if check boxes are positioned in the column header or row indicator in web-style row selection mode.

ExpressLayout Control

• DevExpress data-aware editors flicker in response to refreshing their bound dataset.

ExpressMap Control

• The actual zoom factor value can be less than 1 in certain cases if the OptionsBehavior.Animation property is set to True.

ExpressPivotGrid Suite

• An AV occurs on calling the pivot grid's RestoreFrom~ methods to restore the layout of grouped fields.
• The "Control has no parent window" exception occurs when undocking a dock panel that displays the Customization Form.
• The EVariantTypeCastError exception occurs when the TcxPivotGridDrillDownDataset component creates a dataset for a linked pivot grid whose grouped field's Properties property is set to TextEdit.

ExpressPrinting System

• Export to PDF - Fonts are scaled twice if the system DPI setting does not match 96.
• FlowChart Report Link - The report contains only the objects that the control currently displays.
• Large images are not printed.
• PDF Viewer Report Link - The Print dialog's "Current Page" option prints the currently previewed page instead of the currently active page in a document.
• SpreadSheet Report Link - A long text string in a row's last data cell doesn't continue on another page.
• TeeChart Report Link - Chart content is cropped if the control's parent form is displayed on a monitor whose DPI exceeds 96.
• Text reports are generated very slowly with high DPI settings (more than 96).
• The Print Preview dialog is incorrectly scaled at high DPI settings (more than 96).
• The report's page header and footer are scaled incorrectly in the Print Preview dialog if the system DPI differs from 96.

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• Content scrolling produces painting artifacts in Hybrid scrollbar mode.
• Server Mode - FireDAC connection - Storing an image into a BLOB field in a MS Access database results in the field's data corruption.
• Table and Banded Table Views - A fully collapsed root level group is displayed twice if there are no other groups at the root level in the View and its OptionsBehavior.FixedGroups property is True.
• Table and Banded Table Views - The group row collapse routine attempts to raise the OnGroupRowCollapsed event for a different row or group row instead of the collapsed group row if it merges with another group row as a result.
• The ApplyBestFit method incorrectly sizes column headers if a skin whose Common.Header skin element includes ContentOffsets values that are greater than 2 is applied.

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

• Compiling the cxTLExportLink unit for an application's release version displays the H2443 hint about the TdxFastObjectList.GetItem function.
• Export - Elements are incorrectly arranged if the Find Panel is displayed.
• Selecting a node using the keyboard scrolls the focused node into view if the tree list's OptionsSelection.CellSelect property is set to False and the Options.Focusing property of columns is set to True.
• TcxDBTreeList - Inserting a node whose index field value is not unique causes the "Duplicates not allowed" exception but doesn't keep the node in edit mode.
• TcxDBTreeList - Posting changes to a node in edit mode doesn't update the icon displayed by the node indicator's cell.

ExpressRichEdit Control

• Inserting a symbol using the "Symbol" dialog causes the "Invalid class typecast" error in an application built with runtime packages.
• Saving a document to a TXT file doesn't convert non-breaking spaces to spaces.
• The control does not load external images in a document loaded from an HTML file if there are parameters in image source URLs.
• The control replaces "en dash" with "en space" characters in a document loaded from an RTF file.

ExpressScheduler Suite

• Day View - Modern Style - Two successive events are displayed as concurrent in certain cases.
• The control repeatedly invokes an event's Reminder window if it was closed by clicking the Close button or pressing the Esc key.
• TimeGrid View - Modern Style - The caption and location strings of an event are invisible if the event's description text is omitted and the View's EventDetailInfo property is True.

ExpressSkins Library

• A Ribbon form's border thickness is calculated incorrectly when certain skins are in effect.

ExpressSpellChecker

• Clicking a cxMemo control on an MDI child form causes an AV if the spell checker's CheckAsYouTypeOptions.Active property is set to True in Hybrid scrollbar mode.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• Certain cells are not pasted from Excel using the clipboard.

ExpressVerticalGrid Suite

• Releasing a cxVerticalGrid control whose Customization Form is displayed can result in a memory leak.

Adds compatibility for Lazarus, plus updates to Report Workshop.

Features

• TRichView 17.5
  The following sets of components are ported to Lazarus:
  • TRichView.
  • RichViewXML.
  • Parsers for HunSpell and ASpell.
  • RvHtmlImporter.
• Report Workshop 1.9.1
  • Added a new TRVReportDxMemDataProvider component.
    It allows building master-detail reports on data from TdxMemData data sets (TdxMemData is included DevExpress VCL).

Adds new localization support for the Report Server Web Manager.

Features

• New
  • Localization support for the Report Server Web Manager
• Improved
  • CAL users can now be deleted
  • Aria labels now include the time part where applicable
  • Improve Conditional Formatting editor UX on multiple items selection

Fixes

• Server
  • A server error occurs when creating data alert or scheduled task in report server
  • CAL users can now be deleted
  • It is possible to create user with the same name as an existing disabled user
  • Username validation should be case insensitive
  • Create new task from Reports view has no client side validation for task name
  • Disabled users cannot be enabled or modified
  • Failure to send activation link for new user is not handled properly
  • Logo with tall image pushes the viewer down and makes its bottom part invisible
  • Page loader is not used in some cases
  • Report Designer download link path is not resolved correctly
  • Save changes button in Configuration section is hard to discover
  • Scheduling view does not display the creator of the task in Activity view
  • Users with readonly permissions may open the edit dialog
  • Whitelabeling color picker is hard to click
  • Whitelabeling color slider is hard to click
  • Whitelabeling does not affect the task/alert enabled indicator
  • "No access mode selected" warning is not relevant
  • Cannot delete a scheduled task or a data alert that uses a mail template with subject value that contains < or > characters
• Designer
  • SqlDataSource Calculated fields do not appear in the data explorer
  • An error occurs when adding new child group to a row header group of CrossTab if there are merged cells in adjacent group
  • Can't add new parameter in Web Service Data Source Wizard after error
• Processing
  • Indented and justified text inside HtmlTextBox is not layout correctly
  • Non-informative exception is thrown when the Graph item fails to resolve its data
  • PictureBox value defined as a relative path in declarative report definition is not resolved correctly
  • Processing never finishes when report parameter's AvailableValues.Filters use nonexistent report parameter
• Excel Rendering
  • A GDI error occurs when rendering report with image on Azure
• Word Rendering
  • PageSettings.Landscape property is not respected for reports with shorter width
  • When PageSetting.ContinuousPaper is True the paper size is not respected
• PowerPoint Rendering
  • A GDI error occurs when rendering report with image on Azure
• Preview
  • All dynamic class names should start with trv-
  • FullPage/PageWidth button state is not visually toggled when in PageWidth state
  • Invocation of isExceptionOfType function should happen via utils object
  • PictureBox value defined as a relative path in cs/vb report definition is not resolved correctly in Web apps
  • Table of contents is overlapped by vertical and horizontal scrollbars on hover
  • Toolbar buttons selected state is missing