Actipro WPF Essentials

A suite of professional user interface controls and components for WPF.

Published by Actipro Software
Distributed by ComponentSource since 2002

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Actipro WPF Essentials Releases

Released: Jun 7, 2019

Updates in 2019.1 build 0681

Features

Ribbon

  • Added virtual Ribbon.CreateContextMenu method that can be overridden to customize a context menu.

Released: May 24, 2019

Updates in 2018.1 build 0676

Features

Docking/MDI

  • Added the DockingWindowDefaultLocationEventArgs.FloatingLocation property that specifies the floating location of the docking window when e.ShouldFloat is set in a DockSite.WindowDefaultLocationRequested event handler.
  • Improved the cleanup of open document references.
  • Improved key processing to allow child controls to handle keys like Esc, thereby preventing the dock site from handling them.
  • Improved the DockSite.PrimaryDocumentChanged event to not fire until the end of a...
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Released: Mar 11, 2019

Updates in 2018.1 build 0675

Features

Actipro Docking & MDI for WPF

  • Added a virtual DockSite.ProcessDockHostKeyDown method that is called when a key is pressed while focus is within a DockHost.
  • Updated AdvancedTabControl to ensure the selected tab remains visible in tab overflow scenarios when the control is resized smaller.

Actipro Editors for WPF

  • Added ColorEditBox.IsInitialValueComparedOnPopup property which determines whether the initial value is compared to the current value on the picker popup.
  • Added ColorPicker...
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Released: Dec 13, 2018

Updates in 2018.1 build 0674

Features

Docking/MDI

  • Added UIA peers for the standard switcher and its items.
  • Updated the Prism integration sample to use Prism 7.1.
  • Updated the workspace's layout logic to account for contained docking window minimum and maximum sizes.
  • Updated floating dock hosts without MDI to use the minimum size of the docked tool windows.
  • Updated layout serialization to save breadcrumb creation times.
  • Improved built-in dock host key handling to use the preview key down event.
  • Improved the can-execute logic...
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Released: Oct 16, 2018

Updates in 2018.1 build 0673

Features

  • Docking/MDI
    • Added automation IDs to all menu items.
    • Improved docking window breadcrumb tracking logic.
    • Improved the implementation of AdvancedTabItem context menu triggers.
    • Improved focus handling when clicking on docking window tabs.
    • Updated TabbedMdiContainer to ensure that activating an already-selected tab makes it fully-visible.
  • Editors
    • Updated MaskedTextBox's regex patterns to support empty strings.
    • Improved clicks on MaskedTextBox's prompt characters to move the selection to the...
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Released: Jul 24, 2018

Updates in 2018.1 build 0672

Features

Docking/MDI

  • Added the 'Close Tab Group' menu item to tabbed MDI document tab context menus.
  • Updated floating dock hosts to support layout serialization of minimized window states.
  • Fixed a focus bug that could occur when there was a floating document without any other documents in the primary dock host.
  • Improved the target size logic of the DockingWindow.MoveToNewHorizontalContainer and MoveToNewVerticalContainer methods.
  • Updated the UIA peers for docking window tabs to provide access to...
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Released: Jun 8, 2018

Updates in 2018.1 build 0671

Features

Docking/MDI

  • Added the DockSiteLayoutSerialization.CanKeepExistingDocumentWindowsOpen property that can be set to true to keep open document windows that were open prior to a document layout deserialization, even if they aren't in the deserialized layout data.
  • Set a default minimum window size DockSite.InitializeFloatingWindow to help prevent Win32 inconsistencies when resizing.
  • Updated TabbedMdiContainer to ensure that activating an already-selected tab makes it fully-visible.

Editors...

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Released: May 17, 2018

Updates in 2018.1

Features

DataGrid

  • Improved how the custom columns for Editors interop with DataGrid commit and cancel value changes.

Docking/MDI

  • Updated tool window context menus to hide the 'Dock as Document' menu item if there is no MDI in the current DockSite.
  • Made various improvements for usage in per-monitor DPI scenarios.
  • Improved docking window container to always select the last active window when the selected window is dragged out.
  • Updated InteropFocusTracking to help ensure that StandardSwitcher...
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Released: Mar 1, 2018

Updates in 2017.2 build 0665

Features

Docking/MDI

  • Updated the docking window container UIA hierarchy to better support Coded UI Test.
  • Updated clicks on auto-hide tabs to focus the tab prior to opening/closing the auto-hide popup.
  • Added the DockSite.AutoHidePopupClosesOnLostFocus property that can be temporarily set to false to prevent an auto-hide tool window's popup from closing while a dialog is displayed.
  • Improved the logic when dragging over linked nested dock sites such that a dock host in the same dock site will be...
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Released: Jan 10, 2018

Updates in 2017.2 build 0663

Features

Docking/MDI

  • Added event that fires whenever the DockingWindow.DockHost property is changed on one or more windows.
  • Improved AdvancedTabControl tab drag handling when there is a single tab.
  • Adjusted how InteropFocusTracking handles mouse clicks on HwndHosts.
  • Improved InteropFocusTracking's handing of HwndHost.GotFocus notifications.
  • Improved InteropFocusTracking's active container tracking during docking window state changes.
  • Improved the drag stop logic to ensure that all docking window...
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