Released: Nov 17, 2016

Updates in 16.1.8

Features

• Visual Studio 2017 RC support.
• All WinForms Controls
• TaskbarAssistant
  • Provide the capability to show a custom tooltip for a JumpListItemTask object.
• XtraMap
  • Add the ImageLayer.EnableAntialiasing property.
• XtraRichEdit
  • Provide the capability to write the \plain attribute for \listtext when exporting a document to RTF.
  • XtraRichEdit - Provide API to underline only words.
  • Provide a way to specify the default tab stop width programmatically.
  • Provide the capability to modify the header and footer offset by using the Page Setup dialog.
• XtraTreeList Suite
  • TreeList - Mark the CreateBand method virtual and TreeList.Options~ with the XtraSerializableProperty arrtibute.

Fixes

XtraBars Suite

• DocumentManager - PageGroup cannot be shown if the ShowCaption property is set to False.
• BarManager - The NullReferenceException occurs on dragging a bar.
• TileControl - Border lines are drawn over tiles when scrolling.
• FlyoutPanel - The BeakForm that contains a focused control goes behind the owner form when clicking outside the panel.
• BackstageViewControl - Canceling a close operation in the OnClosing method changes a form state to Minimized while a maximized BackstageViewControl is shown.
• RibbonForm - A minimized form is not restored from a task bar when BackstageViewControl is shown.
• DocumentManager - Enabling the DocumentManager.ShowThumbnailsInTaskBar property causes performance issues.
• RibbonQuickAccessToolbar is truncated when the contextual ribbon tab is open.
• RibbonMiniToolbar cannot be closed by using the Esc key when its PopupMenu property is null.
• RibbonForm - Sometimes a form becomes transparent and only a border is shown.
• RibbonControl - The exception fires when BarEditItem with RepositoryItemToggleSwitch is added at design time.
• RibbonControl - An item cannot be shown after it is hidden using the customization and is then restored from the layout.
• SuperToolTip is not shown for BarEditItem located within RibbonStatusBar.
• The BarHeaderItem.Appearance.FontSizeDelta property doesn't work.
• The Adorner class from XtraBar set explicitly deletes a window region.
• The main form becomes visible for a moment when it is being closed using the Close method and BackStageView is shown.
• PopupMenu - The last item is never shown on scrolling a long popup menu.
• XtraDocking - The Application.UseWaitCursor property value is ignored after changing the DockPanel visibility.
• TabForm - DockPanel overlaps a child control shown within a tab page.
• An unhandled exception occurs while RibbonForm is being opened.
• RecentItemControl - The Font property is lost after a propject is run.

XtraCharts Suite

• The NullReferenceException is raised on adding series to the chart if ToolTipController is used.
• Chart Designer doesn't save colorizer settings.
• The default ResolveOverlappingMode does not work properly if a chart's width is changed.
• Data aggregation - Monday is always used as the first day of the week regardless of the current locale settings.
• Gantt Chart - Task arrow links are shown below point bars.

XtraDiagram

• DiagramControl throws XmlException after loading an SVG shape with a DTD element.
• A diagram item cannot be properly deserialized if its ID contains a dot.

XtraEditors Library

• GridLookupEdit - IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown on form initialization when GridLookUpEdit's DataSource is empty and ValueMember is set to a value of type different than string.
• XtraMessageBox  - The "¿" symbol is missing in the description if the Html string is used.
• CameraControl - The "Cannot use the device, as it is already in use in another application" message is shown.
• PictureEdit - The zoom functionality does not work properly when touch gestures are used.
• TokenEdit - The scrollbar is corrupted when tokens are added at the form's start up.
• SimpleButton wraps HTML text incorrectly.
• PictureEdit - The Null Reference Exception occurs on an attempt to use touch gestures when the editor is empty.
• CalendarControl displays text using CurrentCulture instead of CurrentUICulture.
• CameraControl - AccessViolationException is thrown when Logitech camera is used.
• SplashScreenManger - WaitForm is shown above all windows if its parent form is a MDI container.
• FilteringUIContext - The same captions are generated for two Boolean properties.
• ToolTipController - The interaction of the AutoPopDelay and CloseOnCLick properties.
• SimpleButton - A button does not have correct size if the AutoSize option is enabled before the button obtains a parent control.
• ColorPickEdit - A dialog for "More Color..." does not have a proper size on Japanese system.
• Expression edit dialog buttons are corrupted when custom skins are used.
• RepositoryItemRatingControl - There is no way to set a custom rating range.
• The Window region is explicitly deleted in the ShadowWindow class.
• XtraMessageBox - The XtraMessageBoxArgs.Showing event is raised after calculating message bounds.
• DXEditMenuItem - A redundant indent appears while a menu item caption is not set.
• PictureEdit - A context button does not become visible after setting the ContextItem.Visibility property.
• TextEdit - IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown when a specific RegEx mask is used.
• XtraForm - The ArgumentOutOfRange exception triggers if the form starts maximized and the MaximumSize property is set.

XtraGrid Suite

• Data-Aware Export - Multiline summaries are not exported.
• GridControl - NullReferenceException is thrown when exporting a grid in data-aware mode if a column with an in-place LookUpEdit contains null display values.
• XtraGrid - The use of GridLookUpEdit in the Auto Filter Row leads to incorrect search results.
• Cell's accessible object is not read correctly on navigating between cells using the Tab key.
• GridControl - Hidden BandedGridView columns are shown in the resulting Excel file when DataAware export is used.
• If FormatConditionRuleDataBar is applied to a GridView column, the rule's Appearance settings aren't completely taken into account when GridView is exported to Excel.
• LayoutView - Filter Panel is rendered incorrectly if the LayoutView.OptionsMultiRecordMode.MultiRowScrollBarOrientation property is set to Vertical.
• Format Conditions - Columns are not available if AllowFilter is disabled.
• XtraGrid - Selection cannot be dragged by the last selected row when OptionsSelections.MultiSelectMode = CellSelect.
• Navigation in Excel documents created using the GridControl export does not work correctly.
• Grid - Columns are exported in black if a transparent color is used in GridColumn.AppearanceCell.BackColor.
• TileView - The scrolling feature is disabled after the TileViewItem.Appearance property is set in the TileView.ItemClick event handler.
• XtraGridControl - IndexOutOfRangeException after the GridColumn.AppearanceCell.TextOptions.Trimming property was set to EllipsisPath for a column with Russian letters.
• BandedGridView - A group row text is centered according to the whole grid width, not the width of a group row.
• GridControl - A fixed column text is overlapped by a neighboring column that is being scrolled.

XtraLayout Suite

• The SimpleButton does not resize correctly in UserControl that is located in LayoutControl.
• LayoutControl - Closing a Form by clicking a group header button causes NullReferenceException.
• A customization form is hidden when switching to the main Windows screen.

XtraMap

• The shapefile projection *.PRJ is not loaded.
• OpenStreetMap provider - The Reset option behavior for theTileUriTemplate property in design mode is not correct.
• MapControl - Items added to InformationLayer using a double-click are not removed after the ClearResults method call.
• Export to Shp - Incorrect attribute values are generated if an attibute value exceeds 255 characters.
• The 'Incorrect Dbf File Format' exception is raised on loading shapefiles with dbf fIles.

XtraPivotGrid Suite

• It is impossible to calculate Unbound Expressions using aggregate functions.
• The PivotFieldDisplayTextEventArgs.CreateDrillDownDataSource method raises an unclear exception if the filter popup is being populated.
• Data Aware Export - Pivot Grid applies an incorrect date-time format for month values.

XtraPrinting Library

• Export to Excel - TimeSpan formatting is not preserved.

XtraReports Suite

• Subreport images are not updated in a master-detail report with filtering on the server side.
• DocumentPreviewControl displays report preview incorrectly on high-dpi devices after Windows 10 Anniversary update.
• Export to PDF - Incorrect document bookmarks lead to the OutOfRange exception.
• WebDocumentViewer - It is impossible to translate the "Loading..." message through the UpdateLocalization method facilities.
• DocumentPreviewControl - "Sequence contains no elements" error on CopyCommand.
• The DocumentPreviewControl.DocumentChanged event is raised when a document isn't yet loaded.
• An exception is thrown on a print preview when the DrillDownControl property is set to a control located in SubBand.
• DocumentPreviewControl - Certain items in the PDF export dialog are missing German translation.
• ASPxDocumentViewer - Previewed report is cut in case if 125% zooming is enabled in Windows.

XtraRichEdit

• The RichEdit control incorrectly saves an RTF document with Unicode symbols if a document is created by an end-user whose system name contains Unicode symbols.
• The RichEdit control removes information about a font size from a RTF document if the font size equals the default RTF font size 12 points.
• The last paragraph in the <li> tag has an incorrect indent when opening an HTML file in RichEditControl.
• A TableCell with an embedded picture is not correctly moved to the next page when its content overlaps the bottom page border.
• ToggleFontUnderlineCommand and ToggleFontDoubleUnderlineCommand commands operate incorrectly when the "Underline Words Only" underline style is applied to the edited document range.
• An incorrect level type is set after importing an Rtf document containing lists in the old format.
• Extra paragraphs are incorrecty added to table cells after re-assigning the WordMLText property value.
• The "Change background color" dialog containing a color pick editor is scaled incorrectly on high DPI.
• The RichEdit control incorrectly recognizes a custom table style.
• The context menu can be opened for the table preview in the Modify Style dialog which was invoked for the table style.
• Styles - The "Modify Table Style ->Paragraph" dialog does not show values from an ancestor table style by default.
• Editing (inserting) a textbox results in incorrect raising the FinishHeaderFooterEditing event.
• System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when scrolling a specific DOC file.
• TextBox is lost when loading a specific DOC file.
• XRRichText - Chinese Characters have incorrect vertical alignment.
• RichEditControl goes into an infinite loop when loading a document that contains fields formatted in a specific way.
• Bulleted Lists inserted into table cells are not correctly aligned when exporting a document to HTML.
• The RichEdit control requires much time for loading a specific HTML file.
• The zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ) character isn't interpreted by RichEditControl.
• System.NullReferenceException is thrown when loading a specific DOC file.
• A font name declared for the <body> tag is not taken into account while loading an HTML document with an external CSS file.
• An exception occurs on importing a specific floating table.

XtraScheduler Suite

• An appointment's background color is calculated incorrectly when "dark" skins are used in an application.
• It is impossible to preview the Agenda view in SkinEditor.
• The SchedulerHeader.Interval value is incorrect when the HeaderCaptionServiceWrapper.GetHorizontalWeekCellHeaderCaption method is invoked for the Agenda view.

XtraSpellChecker

• An exception is thrown in the DevExpress.XtraSpellChecker assembly.
• SpellChecker has a memory leak when it operates in Check As You Type mode with RichEditControl.

XtraSpreadsheet

• Cells of the previously loaded document stay in memory until a new document is completely loaded.
• The Spreadsheet control freezes an application when a large number of defined names is inserted into the document.
• The SpreadsheetControl in-place editors do not receive keyboard input right after being activated.
• A custom editor's TextEditStyle property is ignored when a cell editor is activated by pressing a key.
• SpreadsheetControl's parser processes UI formulas using an incorrect decimal symbol after an API method is executed.
• A Drop Down button displayed within cells in case of an applied filter is rendered incorrectly on high DPI.
• NullReferenceException is thrown after unhiding a column if there are hidden rows in a document.
• NullReferenceException is thrown if data validation criteria refer to cells from a worksheet that does not exist.
• The "Can't lookup vml shape" exception is thrown when loading an XLSX file that contains several comments related to the same cell.
• The "Can't lookup vml shape" exception is thrown when loading an XLSX file that contains comments.
• System.NullReferenceException is thrown on an attempt to get access to the Cell.Precedents or Cell.Dependents properties if a cell contains external references.
• Cell formatting is lost on copying/pasting cells in case custom styles are applied.
• The Formula property of a merged range does not return the formula set for the merged range.
• Certain commands (e.g., PageSetupMorePaperSizes) cannot be replaced with a custom command using ISpreadsheetCommandFactoryService.
• Modifying the ActiveWorksheet.ActiveView.Zoom property doesn't change worksheet zoom in a specific document.
• The Condition Formatting is not printed if the range name was specified in the formula of ConditionalFormattingValue.
• "This operation is not allowed in merged cells" error is shown on an attempt to enter a range formula for a selected range containing merged cells.
• A document containing a multi-line text with leading spaces is incorrectly printed/exported to PDF.
• Pressing the 'F4' key doesn't switch a reference type for the first entry in an array.
• The PrintOptions.CenterHorizontally and CenterVertically options are not taken into account for the page border.
• The range is filled with the black color in SpreadsheetControl when the FillColor property is set to Color.Empty or Color.Transparent.

XtraTreeList Suite

• Using the XPO upcasting syntax in the TreeListColumn.FieldName property may cause the InvalidCastException under certain circumstances.
• TreeList - Setting the Cancel property to true does not work and the OldCellData property returns an incorrect value for a bound check box column in the IVirtualTreeListData.VirtualTreeSetCellValue method.
• TreeList - Format rules created in code change their names if they are modified by using Rules Manager.
• TreeList - The column visible width is reset if a column is dropped from the column chooser.

XtraVerticalGrid Suite

• TrackBarControl - An exception is thrown in the RepositoryItemTrackBar.ConvertEditValueToValue method when an edit value cannot be converted to a numeric type.
• PropertyGridControl - A value of a complex property is not updated when an object is changed outside the control.
• VGridControl - It is possible to navigate through records when the ScrollVisibility property is set to ScrollVisibility.Never.
• VGridControl - A row height is incorrect when a multiline text is shown.
• PropertyGrid - Manipulation of the row visibility is still broken after an update to 16.1.
• PropertyDescriptorControl - The caption color is not displayed as bold.