ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2022 v2

WinForms

• Microsoft .NET 6 Accordion (beta), List and Sizer Controls - The Accordion control is a compact interface to help expand and collapse a specific view from a stacked list of views. You can style the panes or customize the header for a modern look and feel. This control fills the gap created by .NET 4.5.2 NavBar and OutBar controls which were not ported to .NET 6. C1List, C1 Combo, C1Sizer, and C1SizerLight controls have also been migrated to .NET 6.
• .NET Framework 4.8 Controls - Since Microsoft has discontinued support for .NET Framework 4.5.2, this release adds a new .NET Framework 4.8 version of every ComponentOne WinForms control. You can access the 4.8 libraries from nuget.org or install from the C1ControlPanel. Applications targeting .NET 4.6.2 or 4.7.1 can continue using the .NET 4.5.2 controls. GrapeCity will keep adding new features and controls to both .NET 4.5.2 and 4.8 versions for the foreseeable future.
• FlexGrid Multi-Range Selection - FlexGrid now supports multiple range selections, allowing users to select multiple ranges by ctrl-clicking and dragging on the grid. Set the SelectionMode property to MultiRange to enable this feature. Like Microsoft Excel, export and clipboard operations only work for multi-range selections if all selected ranges refer to the same column range or the same row range.
• FlexChart Ribbon Toolbar - FlexChart for WinForms now has a ribbon-based toolbar in addition to the classic toolbar already available. The toolbar lets end-users customize the chart at runtime. The new ribbon UI gives you the option to visualize the toolbar with the latest Microsoft Office 365-based UI. This toolbar can be set at design time using the context menu.
• Autogenerate TreeView from DataSet - When working with a DataSet containing related tables, the C1TreeView control can now automatically generate KeyField and ParentKeyField properties from relations in the DataSet. This helps with hierarchical displays of the tables by setting the datasource and DataMemberPath properties.
• FlexReport Designer ServiceNow Provider Integration - You can now create reports directly from ServiceNow entities using the ComponentOne FlexReport Designer. The provider is available when selecting your datasource in the report wizard. To connect to your ServiceNow instance, provide the OAuth details in the connection string. You can build the connection string using the property window.
• Ribbon Gallery Resizing - You can now set the MinVisibleItems property of the ComponentOne Ribbon gallery (RibbonGallery) to specify the minimum number of items visible when the ribbon is resized.

WPF

• Display up to a Billion Rows in FlexGrid - In the .NET 6 WPF FlexGrid when working with large data sets, there are two important considerations: memory footprint and scrolling performance. A dataset with one billion records could take up to 8 GB of memory, so it requires a data virtualization solution, such as ComponentOne DataCollection.
• Skeleton Loading in FlexGrid - Also improved the FlexGrid UI to handle the scrolling performance for any number of rows. Optimized cell rendering to overcome large offset issues present in WPF for displaying and arranging elements with large numbers. To aid in loading large, virtual data sets, this release introduces Skeleton Loading in the .NET 6 WPF FlexGrid. This is a common technique to show placeholders before the data is loaded on demand.
• System Theme for .NET 6 - The new WPF “System” theme uses system colors and other specific design elements so that you can deliver applications that adapt to your users' preferences. It supports sharp corners on Microsoft Windows 10 or rounded corners on Windows 11, a new look for checkboxes on Windows 11, and other system colors used by the end, such as high contrast.
• MultiMonth Calendar for .NET 6 - The WPF Calendar control gains support for displaying multiple months in a single view. This is useful for selecting date ranges that span more than one month.
• GanttView for .NET 6 - The WPF GanttView control has been ported to .NET 6, allowing developers to deliver Microsoft Project-like scheduling functionality in their desktop applications.

Blazor

• FlexGrid Column and Selection Menus - FlexGrid for Blazor now has built-in column menus to sort, filter, group, and resize columns. Users can invoke the menu by clicking on the ellipses button beside the column name. When users select any row\column on the grid, they can open a selection menu using the context menu. The selection menu provides clipboard operations such as cut, copy and paste.
• FlexChart Export to Image - FlexChart for Blazor can be exported to an image in PNG, JPG, or SVG format using the SaveImage method. The SaveImage method takes a parameter for ImageFormat where the image type can be specified.

ASP.NET MVC

• FlexSheet HTML and Precision Support - FlexSheet now supports saving Microsoft Excel files with HTML entities. On the client side, the convertHtmlEntities property defines the conversion behavior for HTML entities such as """, "<", ">" and "&" when exporting. Also, the CalculationPrecision property gets or sets the number of digits after the decimal point for rounding when calculating FlexSheet formulas.
• FlexGrid Excel RTL Export - FlexGrid for ASP.NET MVC supports exporting to XLSX with right-to-left content. HTML accommodates RTL with the 'dir' attribute. Setting 'dir' to 'rtl' or 'ltr' on any element causes the element's content to flow from right-to-left or vice versa. The exported file content will change direction based on the FlexGrid control dir attribute.

Data Services

• JSON Provider Data Streaming - Connect to large JSON datasets using the JSON DataConnector for ADO.NET without impacting memory. The provider now streams JSON data with a document data model instead of loading everything to memory. This greatly improves the performance when working with large datasets. For example, you can use the CursorCollectionView (part of C1DataCollection) and the JSON DataConnector to bind a large JSON dataset to FlexGrid to stream and display millions of records immediately.
• DataCollection Real-time data updates - Get real-time data updates to your data-aware controls using the ComponentOne DataCollection library. The C1DataCollection now comes with a client-side C1ProxyDataCollection and server-side C1DataCollectionHub libraries that use Signalr to communicate. The server-side C1DataCollectionHub serves data and notifies the client C1ProxyDataCollection for real-time updates. This feature can be integrated in Blazor, WinForms, or XAML platforms.
• Azure Pipelines Licensing Support - Azure Pipelines automatically build and test code projects to make them available to others.