Released: Jan 27, 2023

Updates in 22.2.4

Fixes

All WinForms products

• Dock panels do no restore their own location in the End-User Report Designer after switching the Preview tab if 150% scaling is used.
• DocumentPreviewControl - A validation error disables the Reset button.
• DocumentViewer - Wait Form indicator is not shown on loading a datasource.
• Enabling InvariantGlobalization in project settings leads to CultureNotFoundException.
• End-User Report Designer - Restoring a previously deleted GroupHeaderBand does not restore its original Level.
• Export to DOCX - "Can't finish story here" exception occurs after updating to DevExpress.Drawing.
• Export to Microsoft Excel - The "Microsoft Excel 2007" name should be replaced with a more modern name.
• Export to HTML - Watermark is covered by report controls.
• Export To PDF - HelveticaNeue Std Cn is not embedded.
• NullReferenceException occurs on an attempt to open the Expression Editor in Microsoft Visual Studio after upgrading a Microsoft .NET Framework project to v22.2.
• Page Setup Dialog - NullReference exception is thrown when changing margins.
• Project Converter - Certain localized font entries are not updated when updating to DevExpress.Drawing.
• Report Analyzer - XRE081 is reported for XRCrossTab filtered by the Data Range parameter.
• SqlDataSource
  • NullReference exception occurs when omitting XpoProvider from a connection string.
  • RebuildResultSchema throws NullReference if column expressions are used.
• Styles Editor / Formatting Rule Editor - If you enter the Name property of a style letter by letter with a delay, the text will be erased.
• SVG images cannot be parsed when CSS styles contain comments.
• UserControl inheritance does not work as expected in Microsoft .NET 6.
• Microsoft Visual Studio Report Designer
  • Data Source Wizard does not work in Web Site projects.
  • The designer crashes when adding an event handler in a VB.NET project.
• XRCrossTab - Column width may be calculated incorrectly if multiple fields are placed in the columns area.
• XRCrossTab control may cause slowdowns when a report's document is recreated.
• XtraReport - OutOfMemoryException is thrown on rendering an SVG image.

Data Access Library

• MongoDBDataSource - WinForms editors are empty if BindingSource is used as a mediator.
• Query Parameters - Parameter name contains incorrect characters (StoredProcQuery).

DemoCenter (.NET)

• Demo solutions display the "The parent file cannot be found in the project file" build warning.

PDF Viewer

• Preview in the Page Setup dialog appears cropped when using a larger font.
• PDF Viewer smooths the barcode image in a redacted PDF document.

ProjectConverter

• Project Convert - Report files ending with '*g.vb' are skipped during conversion.

Snap

• It is impossible to bind the SNHYPERLINK text field to a parameter.
• Specified font settings are not retained on editing a document when the input language is switched to Hebrew and back.
• Snap Control - An error occurs when a custom class derived from SqlDataSource is used as SnapControl's data source.

XtraBars Suite

• AccordionControl - NullReferenceException occurs when displaying the AccordionControl's Popup Menu if AccordionControl is located in a Beak Form.
• AccordionControl shows groups that contain the invisible items that meet the current filter condition.
• AlertControl shows its alert windows only in the main window in v22.2.
• BarCheckItem is not updated if its settings were modified while this item was invisible.
• BarSubItem - The drop down arrow is scaled incorrectly.
• Controls are incorrectly scaled if LayoutControl is used in XAF applications when the .NET 7 framework is used.
• Dialogs do not use the menu manager assigned to their owner form.
• NullReferenceException is thrown in the CanPressDropDownButton property in v22.2.3.
• PopupContainerControl's binding context changes each time the pop-up is shown/hidden.
• Ribbon page key tips are incorrectly displayed on Microsoft Windows 11 when the WXI Compact skin is used.
• RibbonControl - The page header area is displayed even if it contains no elements.
• RibbonControl with the Simplified style - A black area is drawn when the ShowPageHeadersMode property is set to Hide.
• The AlertControl.Show method throws an exception when the application is running in PerMonitorV2 scaling mode on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 or earlier.
• The ribbon gallery popup is cropped if the WindowsFormsSettings.OptimizeRemoteConnectionPerformance option is enabled.
• Microsoft Visual Studio crashes when StandaloneBarDockControl is added to a form.
• WidgetView
  • A quadruple click on the title of the document panel makes it a floating panel when AllowMaximize is turned off.
  • Minimize animation is shown when AllowMaximize is turned off.

XtraCharts Suite

• ChartBarController switches the view type when a new ChartControl is assigned.

XtraEditors Library

• AlertControl - The CloseReason property value in the FormClosing event handler is incorrect when a form is closed using a button click.
• Alt+Tab Switcher doesn't correctly work with DocumentManager and Mdi.
• BreadCrumbEdit - An incorrect path is shown in the text editor after selecting an element in the dropdown.
• BreadCrumbEdit's value change events fire twice when showing a native MessageBox in their handlers.
• Certain actions in the .NET Windows Forms designer cause the "'Site' must not be null in order to access a required service." error.
• CheckedComboBoxEdit causes an error message in Designer.
• CheckEdit's check box is incorrectly scaled on high-DPI monitors when the WXI Compact skin is selected.
• ColorPickEdit - The Example label does not fit in the Select Color form when the nl localization and the Segoe UI 8.25 font are used.
• ComboBoxEdit with the TextEditStyle property set to DisableTextEditor isn't correctly displayed in the WXI skin when the ReadOnly property is toggled twice.
• Dialogs that are opened right after an Overlay Form is hidden are immediately closed in .NET 6+.
• File Explorer Assistant - Performance issues occur when a remote folder with a large number of items is opened.
• File Explorer Dialogs - Files are not sorted by file type after sorting is applied.
• GridLookupEdit - Text and label overlap in AdvancedMode when AllowHTMLDraw is enabled.
• GridLookUpEdit cannot accept values whose data types do not correspond to the value field type.
• GridLookupEdit does not use a background specified in a custom skin in the HOVER state.
• HTML/CSS templates - Flex layout is incorrectly calculated when the flex-direction CSS property is used and is set to row-reverse.
• HtmlContentControl - NullReferenceException is thrown in the CalcSelectionBounds method.
• HtmlContentControl ignores the size value for the table tag.
• It's not possible to enter Korean characters in XtraOpenFileDialog and XtraSaveFileDialog.
• MagnifierDialog is drawn as a black square in .NET 7.
• Mask settings that were saved in earlier versions cannot be deserialized.
• NullReferenceException is thrown in the UpdateDesignTimeLookAndFeel method at design time.
• Overlay Form is not restored when an owner form is minimized and restored.
• OverlayForm displayed for invisible or partially visible controls.
• Pressing Backspace in an empty lookup editor in AutoSuggest mode with the AllowNullInput setting enabled does not clear the editor's value.
• RepositoryItemCheckedComboBoxEdit incorrectly displays selected values when EditValueType is List.
• StepProgressBar - Icons are not drawn in DirectX.
• System.NullReferenceException is thrown when RepositoryItemCheckedComboBoxEdit is used as an in-place editor.
• TextEdit - Mouse scroll does not spin the value when NullValuePrompt is shown.
• Taskbar overlaps DirectXForm in the maximized state.
• TextEdit does not dispose of its GDI objects after this control is removed.
• The active editor changes its position when FilterEditor is moved to a screen with a different DPI.
• The folder explorer does not correctly work in CheckBoxRowSelect mode.
• The form shadow is shown separately when High DPI is used.
• There is no way to get ComboBox items using an accessible tool while the popup form is not opened.
• ToggleSwitch - Changing GlyphVerticalAlignment property to a value other than Default changes its size.
• TokenEdit
  • First token is always selected when the Left key is pressed in Advanced Mode.
  • Popup menu is cut off and doesn't display all available tokens when a token is selected using the space key.
• XtraMessageBox
  • Accessibility doesn't work in the .NET Core framework.
  • NullReferenceException is thrown in the XtraBaseForm.GetOwnerBounds method.

XtraGantt

• A click on a milestone without moving it changes its date.
• CalcHitInfo method identifies a dependency only if the hit point is directly inside the dependency arrow.
• Chart area is incorrectly exported if the OptionsView.ShowCaption setting is enabled.
• Images from the HtmlImages collection cannot be referenced in items' HTML templates.

XtraGauges Suite

• Gauge Control - Certain gauge elements are incorrectly drawn after changes were made in v22.2.

XtraGrid Suite

• CardView - The Customization Form has an incorrect size when the parent form is scaled to a higher DPI in PerMonitorV2 mode.
• Grid Control
  • A column is inserted at the start of the collection when changing its visibility in Advanced Customization Form.
  • Export to XLSX produces a corrupted file if conditional formatting rules with Color.Transparent are used.
  • The view is reset each time an item is added to RealTimeSource in .NET/.NET Core.
  • GridControl does not export images from the Checked column when these images are set using the image collection.
• GridLookUpEdit - Pressing Up/Down in an in-place TileView while only a single item is filtered results in an exception.
• GridView
  • A newly added column in the Columns collection has a VisibleIndex of 0 after its Visible property is set to true.
  • NullReferenceException is thrown when printing and the AutoZoomDetail property is set to True.
  • Text with some characters is incorrectly pasted from the Clipboard.
• InvalidCastException is thrown if the Sum summary is added to the Uint field.
• ItemsView does not work when it is used as a detail view.
• NavigationPane - There is no capability to select tabs located outside a visible area.
• The active editor changes its position when FilterEditor is moved to a screen with a different DPI.
• The Data-aware export mode cannot export multiline HTML context.
• The folder explorer does not correctly work in CheckBoxRowSelect mode.
• TileView - The :select pseudo-class does not work when the grid is not focused and the ItemAutoHeight option is disabled.
• Using TimeSpan grid summaries may result in an exception.
• WinExplorerView with OptionsImageLoad.AsyncLoad throws InvalidOperationException on scrolling.

XtraLayout Suite

• Controls are incorrectly scaled if LayoutControl is used in XAF applications when the Microsoft .NET 7 framework is used.
• Data Layout Control items generated at design time ignore data annotation attributes.

XtraMap

• Map Control for WinForms - Loading Vector Map via SvgFileDataAdaper makes Synchronization Context hang.
• Map for WinForms
  • It's not possible to track if item editing is canceled by pressing the "Esc" key.
  • StackOverflowException is thrown after rotating MapPolyline and selecting it by using Rectangular Selection.
  • The MapItemEdited event is not fired if PolyLine editing is ended by pressing the "Enter" key.
  • ThrowInvalidOperationException is thrown when an invalid URI is assigned to the Referer property in the WebRequest event handler.

XtraNavBar

• NavBarGroupControlContainer breaks the UI Automation control hierarchy chain.

XtraRichEdit

• Export to HTML - Options.Export.Html.TargetUri property value is ignored on saving a document to HTML.
• Import from RTF - Images are loaded and displayed even if corresponding DocumentCapabilities are disabled.
• Incorrect font size when typing in Hebrew and English.
• RichEdit - The AsyncImageLoading option of the HTML importer is always enabled.
• RichEditControl
  • ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when the Spelling command is executed for each SubDocument in a document.
  • NullReferenceException is thrown on accessing the TopAnchor setting when loading an HTML document.
  • The "Shift cells right", "Insert entire column", and "Insert entire row" commands shift the current cell down instead of applying the corresponding change.
  • The control allows modifying protected ranges when the Track Changes option is enabled.
• Tabbed MDI View - System.Resources.MissingManifestResourceException is thrown on editing an entity if the RichEditControl Home tab is created.
• The Language form slowly opens if the application targets .NET 6.
• UI - Customized styles are incorrectly displayed in the Style gallery and the "Edit Style" form when saving a document to RTF and loading it again.
• Usability - RichEditControl does not have the Right-To-Left mode for the Insert Table window.

XtraScheduler Suite

• ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when the SetVisibleIntervals method is called.
• DateNavigator ignores the UpdateDateTimeWhenNavigating option.
• NullReferenceException is thrown in Scheduler's CalcDefaultTextSize method when SchedulerCellAutoHeightMode is set to Full.
• Scheduler Control - Opening the Mappings Wizard dialog in the .NET form designer freezes the IDE.
• Scheduler Control displays all-day appointments on incorrect days.
• The "Create Custom Appointment Form" command is not available at design time in .NET 6 applications.

XtraSpellChecker

• RichEditControl - ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when the Spelling command is executed for each SubDocument in a document.
• SpellChecker - A word in upper case is not marked as misspelled when the CaseSensitive option is enabled.
• SpellChecker does not update underlining in disabled controls after changing their text.

XtraSpreadsheet

• InvalidCastException is thrown on an attempt to create a specific Column chart.
• SpreadsheetControl
  • A field with the non-enclosed quote includes all remaining fields in a single cell of a CSV document.
  • A visible area is not moved to the selected cell when editing parameters in a formula.
  • ArgumentException is thrown when column widths are calculated on loading a document.
  • ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when specifying an invalid number format.
  • KeyNotFoundException is thrown on executing MailMerge for a document with a custom style.
  • NullReferenceException is thrown when saving a document.
  • Resources are not released when a parent form is disposed of.

XtraTreeList Suite

• TreeList
  • An empty node is not deleted when an end-user displays the Edit Form to add a new node and then cancels changes using the EditFormShowing event.
  • Nodes are collapsed after deleting a record from its data source when a column is sorted in descending order.
• TreeList throws an InvalidPropertyPathException during filtering if a column has an invalid field name.
• TreeListLookUpEdit - The editor is blank until it receives focus if EditValue is assigned in the form's constructor.

XtraVerticalGrid Suite

• PropertyGridControl - Focused records are not drawn correctly when DXErrorProvider is used in PropertyGridControl in Office mode.
• PropertyGridControl does not update the row height based on the content size.
• The selected tab is not highlighted when the Office 2016 Colorful skin is used.
• Vertical Grid causes NullReferenceException under certain circumstances.
• VGridControl
  • The BestFit method incorrectly calculates the column width the first time.
  • The MultiEditorRow caption disappears after project building.