Essential Studio WPF - Release Notes 6.3.0.5

Version Changed

• Versioning has been changed from 1.3.0.x to 6.3.0.x for all WPF products to enable them to be at the same level as the Windows Forms and ASP.NET components.

New Features

• Beta version of Grid control added.

• Please refer to the design document accessible from the dashboard for more information about using this beta version.

DockingManager

New Features

• Provision to define the states of Dock window.

• Improved Visual styles and new Office 2007 Black and Silver themes.

• New properties to customize the look and feel of Docking Windows.

• DockingWindow resizing issue with the parent's size has been fixed.

• Class reference included.

Gallery

New Features

• New properties to customize the look and feel of the Gallery control.

• SelectedItemEvent issue in Gallery had been fixed.

Ribbon

New Features

• Office2007 Gallery support has been added.

• Gallery Items filtering support has been added.

• All Ribbon items can be used separately out of RibbonControl.

• Completed XBAP support.

• Improved Quick Access Toolbar and Application Menu behavior.

• Added new Ribbon SplitButton.

• Office2007 look and feel for standard controls (when added to Ribbon) with active color scheme support.

• Listing Ribbon and AppMenu items in QAT customization dialog box has been implemented.

• Multiline text support implemented for MenuItem.

• Header support for application menu items has been implemented with Icon Bar.

• RibbonPage control has been implemented

• Class reference improved.

TreeViewAdv

New Features

• Multiple selection support.

• Multiple items drag and drop support.

• UIVirtualization Enabled.

• Fake Drag Indicator support to simulate the drag and drop operations.

• Multiple Tree nodess drag and drop support.

• images for Expanded and Collapsed States can be added.

• images can be displayed to the left and right of the TreeView nodes.

• Customizable look and feel with support to apply custom templates.

• Animations for Expand and Collapse operations with controllable Animation delay.

• Sort items (Asc/ Dec) in the TreeViewAdv.

• Inline editing support at runtime.

• Drag and Drop issues has been fixed.

• Events for TreeViewItemAdv edit mode has been implemented.

• Class reference improved.

IntegerTextBox

New Features

• Supports Int64 datatype values.

• DataModeling support.

• Ability to set minimum and maximum values.

• Different backgrounds for Negative and Positive values.

• NumberGroupSeparator and NumberGroupSizes support.

• Customizable look and feel with custom template support.

• Visual Styles and Themes support.

• Class reference included.

DoubleTextBox

New Features

• Supports double datatype values.

• DataModeling support.

• Ability to set minimum and maximum values.

• Different backgrounds for Negative and Positive values.

• NumberGroupSeparator and NumberGroupSizes support.

• NumberDecimalSeparator and NumberDecimalDigits support.

• Customizable look and feel with custom template support.

• Visual Styles and Themes support.

• Class reference included.

PercentageTextBox

New Features

• DataModeling support.

• Ability to set minimum and maximum values.

• Customizable look and feel with custom template support.

• Visual Styles and Themes support.

• Class reference included.

Clock

New Features

• Hand Dragging support.

• Properties for customizing the look and feel.

• Visual Styles and Themes support.

• Class reference included

CalendarEdit

New Features

• New Visual Styles are added to the library.

• Current Date selection made easy.

DateTimeEdit

New Features

• Watch field added to select time easily.

• Provision to select Empty date.

• New Visual Styles are added to the library.

• Class reference included

GroupBar

New Features

• Improved Performance.

• Provision to set Auto Height and Width.

• Improved Context menu options.

• Improved Class reference

• Control State Serialization issues has been fixed.

• Context Menu items issues has been fixed.

AutoComplete

New Features

• Designer Support for Expression Blend.

TaskBar

New Features

• Added new Visual Styles and Themes.

FontListBox

Fixes

• Fixed Exception Handling for corrupted font files.

• Class reference included

ColorPicker

New Features

• Eyedropper tool to select colors easily.

• Improved Control layout.

• New Visual Styles and Themes support.

• Class reference included.

• HSV values are made editable.

NumericUpDown

New Features

• New Visual Styles and Themes support

New Features

• Improved performance.

• Multiple axes support.

• LINQ Support.

• Supports multiple ChartLegends.

• Segment Labels support for Pie, Doughnut, Pyramid and Funnel chart types.

• Ability to display desired segments for Pie, Doughnut, Pyramid and Funnel chart types.

• Extended chart zooming support.

• Mouse events implemented for chart series.

• Runtime customization support for gridlines and striplines.

• Issues related to IsLogarithmic property has been fixed.

• Improved class reference

API Changes

• ChartSeries.Label property has been implemented to set the Label for the Series in the ChartLegends.

• Indexed property in the ChartAxis class has been made internal.

New Features

• Enabled PDF library support for WPF.

New Features

• Enabled XlsIO library support for WPF.

New Features

• Enabled DocIO library support for WPF.