Xceed Business Suite for WPF 2017 v1

Xceed DataGrid for WPF

• The Windows 10 theme is now available for the TreeGridflowView view.
• Greatly improved performance when selecting many ranges of rows.
• Greatly improved performance when deselecting many ranges of rows.
• Improved UI Automation. Scroll bars are now part of the DataGridControl’s children when accessing them via UI Automation.
• StatRow can now automatically detect statistical functions and associate them to StatCells.
• It is now possible to show Statistics within a group header through the new StatGroupHeaderConrol class without having to retemplate the group header.
• Horizontal mouse wheel scrolling is now supported, either when the “ctrl” key is pressed or when there is no vertical scrollbar.
• A default ForeignKeyConverter is now assigned to a ForeignKeyConfiguration at construction. This now reproduces the same behavior a ForeignKeyDescription has.
• Column.GroupConfiguration is now considered when searching for a GroupConfiguration for a DataGridGroupDescription that is defined on a DataGridCollectionView.
• AutoCreateForeignKeyDescriptions on DataGridCollectionView/Source is now correctly evaluated before creating descriptions.
• A column that references indexers can now be correctly sorted.
• Cell editors are now properly displayed when scrolling, in accordane to the value set on the CellEditorDisplayConditions property on DataGridControl or ColumnBase.
• A System.FormatException is no longer thrown when using a default cell editor on a column having a converter that may change the type of the returned value.
• A StackOverflowException is no longer thrown while updating the layout when no data source is set on the grid.
• A trial license key is now generated when installing NuGet packages under Visual Studio 2015 and up.
• An MVVM sample is now provided to show how to use Xceed DataGrid for WPF with this programming pattern.
• The ForeignKeyConfiguration class now inherits from Freezable, and can have its properties be the target of a binding through DataContext in XAML, which enables MVVM scenarios.
• The DetailConfiguration class now inherits from FrameworkContentElement, and can have its properties be the target of a binding through DataContext in XAML, which enables MVVM scenarios.
• CurrentItem and CurrentColumn on DataGridControl are now DependencyProperties, and as such can be bound in an MVVM scenario.
• The ItemsSourceName property on DataGridControl is now a DependencyProperty, enabling it to be the target of a binding, including in an MVVM scenario.
• A new DependencyProperty, CurrentColumnFieldName, has been added on DataGridControl, so the CurrentColumn can be easily set in an MVVM scenario.
• Using a filter expression in a foreign key column FilterCell (using a TextBox as opposed to a ComboBox) now correctly filters items.
• It is now possible to synchronize the selected items of the DataGrid from the ViewModel (MVVM), by setting the SelectedItemsSource property of the DataGridControl to a notifying collection.

Xceed Toolkit Plus for WPF

• All the toolkit’s controls now support UI Automation.
• Major update to DataGrid control providing significantly improved performance, reliability and functionality.
• In PropertyGrid, searching propertyItem names in expandable Properties is now available.
• In TokenizedTextBox, the event ItemSelectionChanged is now raised when TokenizedTextBox.SelectedItems adds or removes items(visually or in code-behind).
• In the Windows 10 theme, windows will now have the proper default Foreground brush.
• In PropertyGrid, the new property IsExpanded on CategoryDefinition can now be used to define the expanded/collapsed status of a category at loading time.
• In PropertyGrid, using the attribute “RefreshProperties” on a property and modifying this Property, will now refresh the PropertyGrid and restore the categories states (expanded/collapsed).
• In Chart, a binding on the Area.Title property will now work if the Chart is located in a DataTemplate.
• In MaterialTabControl, when space is limited, the MaterialTabItems will no longer be displayed on multi-lines. Instead, you will now be able to scroll between tabitems.
• In MaterialSlider, setting the orientation to vertical and modifying the thumb’s position will no longer crash or set a wrong final position.
• In PropertyGrid, Advanced option icons will now be visible when using multi-selected objects.
• In MessageBox, setting the owner with a window handle is now possible when using the new public methods “Show”.
• In CollectionControl, when the ItemsSource is null and items are added to a new list, changes will now be persisted.
• In CollectionControl, when the ItemsSource is null and items are added to a new array, changes will now be persisted.
• In PropertyGrid, the new event IsPropertyExpandable will now be raised for every PropertyItem in order to set the expandable status of each propertyItem.
• In AvalonDock, an AutoHide LayoutAnchorable will now always appear on top of other controls.
• In Zoombox, the viewbox factor will now be properly updated when the content of the zoombox changes its size.
• In Wizard, the “Cancel” button is now on right as in standard controls. Also, the “Finish” button will now appear in place of the “Next” button when the property “CanFinish” becomes true.
• In DateTimePicker, modifying the date will now keep the previously set time.
• In RichTextBox, binding the Text property one-way will now work as expected.
• In DropDownButton and SplitButton, the new property DropDownContentBackground can now be used to set the popup content’s Background.
• In ColorCanvas, omitting the ‘#’ character while setting a new Hexadecimal color will no longer reset to the old color. Instead, the ‘#’ will automatically be applied.
• In ColorCanvas, ByteUpDowns are now used to edit the ARGB values.
• In AvalonDock, LayoutAnchorables can now be closed when their CanClose property is set to true. Or, they can now be hidden when their CanHide property is true.
• In AvalonDock, pinning a LayoutAnchorable to a LayoutAnchorSide will no longer crash after loading a Layout.
• In AvalonDock, Deserializing a layout with AutoHidden LayoutAnchorables will no longer crash.
• In AvalonDock, un-hiding a LayoutAnchorable after deserialization will no longer make the Layoutanchorable disappear.
• In PropertyGrid, the new property ShowHorizontalScrollBar can now be set to show/hide the horizontal scrollbar.
• In ColorPicker, the new property DisplayColorTooltip can now be set to show/hide the popup preset color name tooltips.
• In PropertyGrid, properties of type TextBlock will now use a characterEllipsis text trimming.
• In CollectionControlDialog, cloning an object with no default constructor and clicking the Cancel button will no longer crash.
• In ColorCanvas, the conversion RGB to HSV is now correctly done.
• In DropDownButton, setting an ItemsControl as the DropDownContent will now show its items.
• In Magnifier, the new method “Freeze” is now available to stop/restart the magnifier from following the mouse position.
• In PropertyGrid, the propertyItem names that passes the filter will now be highlighted in yellow.
• In PropertyGrid, exceptions will no longer be thrown when trying to get the type of the editor attribute.
• In PropertyGrid, resetting a value will now be possible when the DefaultValue attribute is used.
• In DateTimePicker, TimePicker and DateTimeUpDown, clicking the spinner buttons will now immediately update the “Value” property.
• In CollectionControlDialog, opening a 2 dimensions array will no longer cause a crash.
• In CollectionControl, a TargetParameterCountException will no longer be thrown when the ItemsSource is a Collection of Collections.
• In AvalonDock, using a style selector (property DockingManager.LayoutItemContainerStyleSelector) with the DockingManager.DocumentsSource property will now apply the desired style.
• In AvalonDock, resizing a LayoutAnchorable after a theme change will no longer cause a crash.
• In AvalonDock, using a FloatingWindow will no longer display only parts of the content.
• In CollectionControl, modifying a value in a multi-dimensional array will no longer cause a crash or resets to a value of 0.
• In CollectionControl, cancelling the edition on multi-dimensional arrays will now work by reverting the values.