Released: Feb 1, 2024

Updates in 23.2.4

Fixes

All WinForms products

• "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" error is thrown on opening the form designer if the DevExpress Dashboard/Reporting designer extension is installed in Microsoft Visual Studio 17.9 Preview.
• Export to DOCX - ExportPageBreaks fails for certain band occurrences.
• NavigationPane - The control's width is incorrect when the State property is set to Collapsed in the Visual Studio designer.
• Running Summary - DetailReportBand summary is off by one record (regression).
• SqlDataSource - MySql functions should not be listed among stored procedures in the Data Source Wizard.
• The date range parameter's editor is scaled incorrectly even when the SetPerMonitorDpiAware method is invoked.
• Visual Studio Report Designer - "Could not load file or assembly 'System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter' or one of its dependencies." error occurs on attempt to use a custom control.
• Visual Studio Report Designer - Microsoft.Bcl.AsyncInterfaces cannot be loaded on preview.
• XRCrossTab - Row headers are displayed on subsequent pages after all data cells are printed.
• XRPdfContent - Some files are rendered partially when the Skiaa engine is enabled.
• XtraReport - Text with the < symbol is trimmed in an exported DOCX file when AllowMarkupText is enabled.
• XtraReport - WatermarkCollection.SaveToStream doesn't save child items.

PDF Viewer

• Certain document content is not rendered.
• Certain valid PDFs are recognized as invalid.
• ArgumentException is thrown when an encrypted document is loaded.

XtraBars Suite

• Bar Manager and Toolbar Form - Accelerator keys may be incorrectly displayed or hidden in certain usage scenarios.
• Document Manager - NullReferenceException occurs when another document is selected in the Document Selector dialog.
• NullReferenceException is thrown when PopupMenu is disposed of after this menu is closed.
• Ribbon - Keyboard navigation shortcuts don't work when a document that contains Bar Manager is loaded into Document Manager.
• Ribbon - Pressing the Enter key in an active editor doesn't properly move focus to another control.
• Ribbon - Keyboard navigation can be activated in multiple Ribbon Controls.
• Ribbon - Ribbon page tab overlaps the File menu when RibbonStye is set to OfficeUniversal and the ShowPageHeadersInFormCaption property is enabled.
• Ribbon Control is not fully unmerged if a TabbedView document is closed while the DocumentManager.RibbonAndBarsMergeStyle property is set to WhenNotFloating.
• RibbonPageGroup.AddGroupToToolbar method leads to NullReferenceException when the user clicks on Customize Button in QAT.
• ToolbarForm - Form's icon and text positions are incorrect when the AddedHeight property is used to increase the form caption bar's height.
• ToolbarForm is closed when it is maximized and the form header is clicked in RightToLeft mode.
• Unassigned pages cannot be adjusted in the RibbonControl designer.
• XtraFolderBrowserDialog doesn't display a scrollbar if a selected folder is located on a hidden drive.
• XtraTabbedMdiManager doesn't correctly scale an MDI child form's tab header.

XtraCharts Suite

• Data is lost on enabling the Top N option along with Series Point Sorting.
• Chart item - The underlying ChartControl's XYDiagram2D.RuntimePaneResize option has no effect.

XtraEditors Library

• Changing ImageOptions.ImageList for several SimpleButtons at once crashes Visual Studio.
• DirectX-based forms may consume excessive memory.
• FileExplorerAssistant - GridControl does not update its View when files in the current directory are modified via certain operations.
• Filter Control for MVC - InvalidCastException occurs if the result of the aggregation function is passed as a parameter to a custom function.
• HTML Template Editor does not store the template name in a Microsoft .NET application.
• Incorrect scaling may occur if XtraUserControl is dynamically added to a form on a non-primary monitor in .NET 6+.
• LabelControl - The TextChanged event is raised twice.
• LookUpEdit - System.ArgumentNullException occurs when an item whose ValueMember field contains a null value is selected in multiselect mode.
• NVDA Screen Reader does not read the focused item in ListBoxControl if it's embedded in PopupContainerControl when the user opens it.
• PdfViewer - The document takes a long time to load if the NavigationPanePageVisibility property is set to None or Comments.
• Ribbon page tab overlaps the File menu when RibbonStye is set to OfficeUniversal and the ShowPageHeadersInFormCaption property is enabled.
• SearchControl has an incorrect cursor position in advanced mode.
• StackOverflow exception is thrown when a tool tip uses an HTML and CSS template.
• TablePanel - The AutoSizeDefaultTableElementLength property value affects rows with the Relative size.
• TextEdit does not show the keyboard on a touch device if a password character is used.
• TextEdit may throw NullReferenceException in certain usage scenarios.
• The "The index is out of range" exception is thrown in the FilterControlElementListAccessible.CreateChildrenList method.
• TokenEdit - Tokens have an incorrect size when the TouchUIMode option is not enabled.
• Unable to add a SQL data source in VB.NET projects created via the Template Gallery.
• Workspace Manager - A deadlock may occur during the workspace switching animation when certain (possibly corrupted) XML workspaces are loaded.
• XtraFolderBrowserDialog doesn't display a scrollbar if a selected folder is located on a hidden drive.
• XtraForm is displayed incorrectly when it is shared by Teams.
• XtraMessageBox flickers when the form loses/gains focus.
• XtraMessageBox is scaled incorrectly when High DPI is used.
• XtraMessageBox may be incorrectly sized if its caption's font size is modified via the "size" HTML tag.
• XtraTabControl doesn't select an image from DpiAwareImageCollection according to the current DPI settings.

XtraGantt

• A new dependency cannot be created in the chart area when a task already has one.
• Date Range dialog doesn't open on the second monitor.
• Gantt Control - Chart is not displayed in unbound mode when the parent Form is maximized.
• GanttControl - The top part of the timeline bar may be cut off in Print Preview.
• GanttControl differently calculates its data depending on the used mode.
• Modifications to the e.Appearance parameter of the GanttControl.CustomDrawTimelineTask event are not reset when the event fires again.
• Timeline is not updated when a new task is added.

XtraGrid Suite

• Disabled Cell Behavior - An error is displayed at design time if the data grid doesn't have any columns.
• FileExplorerAssistant - GridControl does not update its View when files in the current directory are modified via certain operations.
• FormatRule cannot be shown if it is disabled before GridControl is initialized.
• Built-in Filter Editor cannot parse the filter criteria generated by the Microsoft Excel Filter dropdown.
• Out-of-the-box drag-drop logic is enabled if the grid is bound to a filtered/sorted DataView.
• GridView - An exception is thrown when an empty GroupOperator is assigned to the view's ActiveFilterCriteria.
• GridView - The error icon has a black box when the same repository item is used in BarEditItem.
• Image Picker does not display project resources marked as "Embedded in .resx" and crashes the IDE if a control is configured when such a project resource is selected.
• ReportGenerator - Group summaries are not aligned with corresponding columns in the resulting report.
• TextEdit may consume excessive memory and CPU resources in Advanced Mode.
• TreeList - The "Unable to cast from DevExpress.Utils.Html.DxHtmlRootElementAccessible to DevExpress.XtraTreeList.Accessibility.TreeListRowAccessibleObject" exception occurs when TreeList loads data.

XtraLayout Suite

• TablePanel - The AutoSizeDefaultTableElementLength property value affects rows with the Relative size.

XtraMap

• Dashboard for WinForms - Map Item - Colors of legend elements are displayed incorrectly.
• Undo operation moves the vector items to an incorrect position.

XtraPrinting Library

• DxGrid for Blazor - An exception occurs after ExportToXlsAsync is called if InvariantGlobalization is enabled.

XtraRichEdit

• The backspace key doesn't remove characters after deleting multiple characters via the Delete key when the Track Changes option is enabled.
• NullReferenceException is thrown when a document with a bitmap image is re-saved.
• A list without a specified numbering format is drawn as a default numbering list.
• A document layout is not refreshed properly when a document is modified and saved.
• A shape overlaps content in a loaded document.
• A table changes its location and its rows are misaligned on loading a document.
• A table merged on two pages displays a duplicate border on the second page.
• Access denied exception occurs after moving a mouse over RichEditControl.
• It's not possible to extract new text during UI Automation testing.
• NullReferenceException is thrown when a control is used as an in-place editor with HTML content.
• The page size indicator does not appear in a ribbon.
• RichEditControl displays an image with its actual size when the "img" HTML tag's width and height properties are set to 0.
• RichEditControl with SpellChecker - ArgumentNullException is thrown when a context menu for a Comment Balloon is shown.
• RichEditDocumentServer - ArgumentException is thrown when loading a document with a field that contains an invalid parameter.
• RichEditDocumentServer - Memory usage increases when a document with images is converted to RTF.
• RichTextEdit - PrintPreview crashes when hyphenation is enabled.
• Shapes - Certain shapes are rendered incorrectly after loading a specific document.

XtraScheduler Suite

• DXOutlook365Sync - Modified event descriptions are not always properly formatted.
• DXOutlook365Sync - The old appointment is loaded from Outlook when the MergeSchedulerAndOutlookAsync method is called after an appointment's modification.

XtraSpellChecker

• ObjectDisposedException is thrown after switching the application skin to the WXI Skin.

XtraSpreadsheet

• An exception occurs after ExportToXlsAsync is called if InvariantGlobalization is enabled.
• NotImplementedException is thrown when certain SVG images are exported to PDF.
• The _xlfn prefix is added to formulas when the Xlsb file is saved and loaded several times.
• The defined name in the name manager form is limited to 31 characters.
• Fill Color command doesn't show the color indicator.
• Format Cells Dialog's layout is incorrect when WXI skins are applied.
• NullReferenceException is thrown when the CustomDrawCell event is handled and a column is deleted in certain cases.
• "A generic error occurred in GDI+" when an "xlsm" document is exported/printed.
• A certain SVG image is not displayed in a document.
• A comment's flag remains visible when merged cells are scrolled to the freeze pane.
• ArgumentException is thrown when an end user inserts a column in a document.
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when cell values are changed in UI in a .NET 8 project.
• Cell gradients are shown and exported with only two stops.
• NullReferenceException is thrown when data for an image field is missing.
• The first defined name is automatically focused when a cell range is selected in the Name Manager dialog.
• Workbook.Merge throws a NullReferenceException when a workbook with a defined name that references a non-existent worksheet is merged.
• The Cell.GetRtfContent method doesn't export manual line breaks.

XtraTreeList Suite

• Images inside the dx-collection HTML tag are not rendered.
• FocusedNodeChanged event is not raised when the last record is removed from the data source.
• TreeList draws incomplete rows when pixel scrolling and fixed columns are used.
• TreeList incorrectly reloads nodes when new data is added at the sorted data source.

XtraTreeMap

• SaveToStream and LoadFromStream methods do not work.

XtraVerticalGrid Suite

• Property Grid Control - An editor assigned in the CustomRecordCellEdit event handler is immediately closed.
• Old rows are not removed when the Retrieve Fields command is executed.