Release History

UI for Silverlight R2 2016

May 3, 2016

All Controls

NEW

• Introduced a mechanism that allows changing the application theme at design-time when using implicit styles.

FIXED

• VS2015 hangs when many UserControls are included in the solution and the Telerik schema is declared.
• ChildrenOfType throws ArgumentNullException whenever one of the children is null.

CHANGED

• Input Controls: MouseOver brush is not the correct color in Windows8Touch theme.

AutoCompleteBox

FIXED

• RadAutoCompleteBox does not respect TabIndex property.

Buttons

FIXED

• RadDropDownButton and RadSplitButton's popup has wrong foreground when its content is set through the DropDownContent property.
• Focus, MouseOver and MouseOverChecked BorderBrushes are not consistent with those in other controls for Windows8Touch theme.

Calculator

FIXED

• Doing any calculation in the display box of RadCalculatorPicker breaks its synchronization with drop-down RadCalculator.

Calendar

FIXED

• Enabled calendar buttons can't be selected when DayTemplateSelector that sets template with IsEnabled = False is set at runtime.

ChartView

FIXED

• Legend marker has no color when there are no bars in the BarSeries.

CollectionNavigator

FIXED

• A custom command provider cannot be defined in XAML for RadCollectionNavigator and RadCollectionEditor.

ComboBox

FIXED

• Coded UI Builder crashes when trying to get a child of RadComboBox when AutomationMode.Basic and ExtensionsCore dll are used.
• Background of noneditable RadComboBox is not respected in Windows8Touch theme.
• Editable RadComboBox has incorrect background in disabled state for Windows8Touch theme.
• The HelpText of RadComboBoxItem automation peer is always "RadComboBoxItem".

ContextMenu

FIXED

• RadContextMenu causes a memory leak.

DateTimePicker

FIXED

• DateTimePicker's popup bottom border is not consistent in Transparent theme.
• Cannot record Coded UI action on RadDateTimePicker.
• RadDateTimePicker is not located correctly by Coded UI when placed in RadDocking.

Diagrams

FIXED

• RadGeometryDropDownButton's popup is inconsistent in all themes.
• Wrong container state is produced when drag-dropping group of nested containers.

Docking

NEW

• Allow writing custom save/load layout logic.
• The built-in Save/Load layout functionality works when there are custom RadPaneGroup, RadPane and RadSplitContainer instances added to the control.
• Provided a way to persist properties to the auto generated RadSplitContainer, RadPaneGroup and ToolWindow instances.
• Improved built-in Save/LoadLayout functionality: - Added two new events – ElementLayoutSaving and ElementLayoutCleaning; - Improved other events’ arguments;

FIXED

• ToolWindow is flickering when from FloatingDockable is made FloatingOnly through the context menu.
• The ToolWindow is getting cut off when the MinHeight and MinWidth are set through Style.
• Tab keyboard navigation does not work correctly in nested RadDocking scenarios if a ScrollViewer is present in a RadPane's content.
• NullReferenceException is thrown when closing a RadPane group from its AutoHideArea if there are no pinned RadPanes.

DragDrop Manager

FIXED

• Drag operation cannot be performed inside a Popup defined in the code.
• Drag is still possible after AllowCapturedDrag's value is changed to false through binding.

GanttView

NEW

• Made accessible and customizable the ScrollSettings which are used to determine the built-in auto scrolling.
• Provided a way to disable horizontal scrolling when the selected GanttTask changes.

FIXED

• Row/Column is misplaced when Ganttview.ScrollingService.ScrollIntoView(item, ScrollSettings) with ScrollPosition.Center is called.
• The Width property of ColumnDefinitionBase class cannot be bound due to incorrect property definition.

GridView

NEW

• Introduced IsLightweightModeEnabled property of GridViewComboBoxColumn. Its default value is False. When set to True, the new lightened lookup logic is triggered, thus the performance of the column is significantly increased.
• Exposed TextWrapping, TextAlignment, TextTrimming and TextDecorations properties for GridViewHeaderCell and HeaderTextWrapping, HeaderTextAlignment, HeaderTextTrimming and HeaderTextDecorations properties for GridViewColumn.
• Introduced ValidationType property that indicates what type of validation input should be processed (INotifyDataErrorInfo, IDataErrorInfo, DataAnnotations).

FIXED

• Data in group rows is not exported if RadGridView has group descriptors of type GroupDescriptor.
• AlwaysVisibleRow part disappears after a new item is added and a RowStyle is applied explicitly.
• An exception is thrown on binding to an empty collection with items of abstract class.
• RadGridView commits edit when new items are added to the bound collection and AlternationCount property is set.
• Infinite Layout Cycle when GridView is placed in RowDetails.
• On window resize, GridView is scrolled to the top when it is placed in a ColumnDefinition with Width="Auto" and GroupRenderMode is Flat.
• StackOverflow exception is thrown when one of the columns has SortMemberPath property set to a dynamic property that is not displayed in another column.
• ColumnGroups are misaligned when set at run-time and there are frozen columns, which are initially set.
• Copying items with unicode characters does not paste all of them.
• Setting ShowGroupPanel to "False" results in a Top margin of 4px in VisualStudio2013 theme.
• Border is not correct when FilterRow is on, SelectionMode is Multiple and there is SelectColumn in Windows8 and Windows8Touch themes.
• NullReferenceException is thrown in GetCellsForExporting method when exporting and EnableColumnGroupsVirtualization is set to False.
• Having a two-way bound GridViewComboBoxColumn may result in infinite loop of getting-setting the bound property value.
• Having a two-way bound column may unnecessarily update its bound property when loading a virtualized cell.
• HierarchyExpandButtonStyleSelector is not updated once the condition is changed.
• HierarchyExpandButton's style is not updated when the SelectStyle method of a HierarchyExpandButtonStyleSelector returns null.
• Adding ColumnGroups while expanding ChildTableDefinition is not reflected by the UI.
• TextTrimming property of GridViewColumn is not copied when CopyPropertiesFrom method is used.
• Nested column groups are not displayed in some scenarios, when UI virtualization is enabled.
• Editing of DLR properties does not update the bound value correctly.
• InvalidOperationException is thrown when expanding a row with nested GridView with column groups.
• Style targeting TextBlock and applying TextAlignement property is not respected in GridViewHeaderCell element.
• Pasting in empty RadGridView is not possible.

CHANGED

• GridViewCell.PrepareCellProperties() is now open for access and modification in the scope of derived classes (access modifier is changed to protected internal virtual).
• The Xlsx and Pdf members of ExportFormat enum are obsoleted as they are not used.

Heatmap

FIXED

• Cell labels are positioned incorrectly when there are empty cells.
• Cell labels are rendered incorrectly when changing values dynamically.

ListBox

FIXED

• The first item gets selected after filtering when CollectionViewSource is used and the IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem is set to False.
• IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem is not considered when ItemsSource is CollectionView.
• Missing TemplateBinding property for BorderBrush in the ControlTemplate of RadListBoxItem in VisualStudio2013, Office2013 and Green themes.

Map

NEW

• Exposed "Clusters" property in VisualizationLayer. This is read-only list of all currently available ClusterData objects in the layer.

MaskedInput

FIXED

• Zero digit is not properly inserted after the decimal point in no-masked NumericInput / CurrencyInput.
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown on paste when the masked input is unloaded and loaded again.
• Caret does not move properly in MaskedTextInput with InputBehavior Replace when the pressed key's symbol is the same as the symbol next to the caret.

MS Controls

FIXED

• Indeterminate Checkbox validation border is misaligned .

NumericUpDown

FIXED

• RadNumericUpDown within GridView is not updating its value when TAB key is pressed.

OutlookBar

FIXED

• Missing top border in minimized area for ToggleButton in Office themes, Expression Dark, Green, Transparent, Summer, Vista, and Windows7 themes.

PanelBar

FIXED

• Changed margin of HeaderItems and SubItems to 1px in the Office2013 theme.

PDF Viewer

NEW

• Reduced memory usage by improving and decreasing page caching.
• Introduced FormatProviderSettings.ReadAllAtOnce property. When applied, the document stream is copied into a memory stream used by PdfViewer, so the document stream could be closed.

FIXED

• Erroneous font accent translation is applied to glyphs which causes text clipping or displacement.
• PDFViewer does not display all text in a document when referencing glyph id with non-defined glyph name in WinAnsiEncoding.
• A blank page might be displayed instead of successfully rendering document page due to concurrency issues when using two or more RadPdfViewers in one user control.
• Images decoded with LZWDecode are visualized with artefacts or distorted.

PdfProcessing

FIXED

• TextFragment does not respect general graphic state content stream operators which results in glyphs drawn with too thick brush.
• Import throws NotSupportedException when the document contains annotations from unsupported types.
• Encoding JPEG image after decoding another JPEG image results is writing wrong JFIF marker data.
• When inserted after a line break, the whitespace character is positioned on the previous line, instead on the line after the line break.

PivotGrid

NEW

• Added IgnoreNullValues property, which provides an option to exclude null values in aggregates.

PropertyGrid

NEW

• Introduced support for collection indexer binding.

RadialMenu

NEW

• Added NavigateBack command used for navigating back to the previous RadRadialMenuItem.

RibbonView

NEW

• Improved the KeyTips to close the RadRibbonDropDown/Split buttons popups when the KeyTips are deactivated.

CHANGED

• Backstage now supports HeaderBackground property for Background of BackstageItems and Background property for the Backstage Content.

RichTextBox

NEW

• Added thermometer, parameter and analyses words to the default en-US dictionary.
• Introduced support for laying out section content to several columns.
• Introduced column break which inserts break in the current column and transfers the text to the next column in a section.

FIXED

• 'Find next error' stops working if the current incorrect word is followed by a punctuation sign.
• InvalidCastException is thrown during measuring of document when last document element is not Span.
• TableStylesGallery items are not updated when the borders of the corresponding table styles are modified.
• When table without preferred width is copied from RadRichTextBox and pasted to MS Word or Outlook, the pasted table is not displayed.
• HTML format provider skips the import of nested list levels.
• Memory leak when changing AssociatedRichTextBox of RadRichTextBoxRibbonUI.
• HtmlFormatProvider creates an invalid document when row span value is greater than the number of the following rows.

ScheduleView

NEW

• Provided an option to render bigger elements in the CurrentTimeIndicator ControlTemplate.
• Implemented a way to stretch the CurrentTimeIndicator through the whole RadScheduleView area through the new CurrentTimeIndicatorLocation dependency property.
• Added touch support for selecting a slot range.

FIXED

• CurrentTImeIndicator in TimeLineViewDefinition overlaps TimeRulerGroupItem's border in Office themes.

SpreadProcessing

NEW

• Introduced Headers and Footers functionality which allows adding rich text content in the page margins, visible when exporting or printing a document.

FIXED

• Exported XLSX documents cannot be imported with OpenOffice and on MAC (Numbers application).

Spreadsheet

NEW

• Introduced Headers and Footers functionality which allows adding rich text content in the page margins, visible when exporting or printing a document.

FIXED

• When the decimal separator is inserted from the numpad, it is inserted with selection and further typing overwrites it.

TabControl

FIXED

• The top border of the control is missing when the TabStripPlacement is set to Left.

TileView

NEW

• Implemented touch swipe scrolling functionality.

TimeBar

NEW

• Implemented an ActualVisiblePeriodRangeChanged event that is raised when the actual visible period range changes.
• Implemented an ActualSelectionChanged event that is raised when the actual selection changes while the user is dragging the mouse.

FIXED

• InvalidOperationException is thrown when tapping outside the application while the mouse left button is pressed into TimeBar.

Timeline

NEW

• Implemented an ActualVisiblePeriodRangeChanged event that is raised when the actual visible period range changes.

ToolBar

CHANGED

• Several ToolBar styles and templates are renamed due to inconsistency or too generic names which may lead to exceptions: ToolBarTextBlock renamed to ToolBarTextBlockStyle.
  • ToolBarTextBox renamed to ToolBarTextBoxStyle.
  • ToolBarTextBox_Expression renamed to ToolBarTextBoxStyle.
  • ToolBarCheckBox renamed to ToolBarCheckBoxStyle.
  • ToolBarButton renamed to ToolBarButtonStyle.
  • ToolBarRadioButton renamed to ToolBarRadioButtonStyle.
  • ToggleButton renamed to ToolBarToggleButtonStyle.
  • ToolBarRadButton renamed to ToolBarRadButtonStyle.
  • ToolBarRadToggleButton renamed to ToolBarRadToggleButtonStyle.
  • ToolBarRadRadioButton renamed to ToolBarRadRadioButtonStyle.
  • ToolBarRadDropDownButton renamed to ToolBarRadDropDownButtonStyle.
  • ToolBarRadSplitButton renamed to ToolBarRadSplitButtonStyle.
  • ToolBarDropdownButton renamed to ToolBarDropdownButtonTemplate.

TouchManager

NEW

• Exposed public properties for the settings of the TouchManager: DragStartDistance, PinchStartDistance, SwipeInertiaDuration, SwipeInertiaDuration, TapTime, MultiTapTime, TapVicinity, MultiTapVicinity.

TreeView

FIXED

• When Tab Navigation is used focus goes inside RadTreeView instead of the first item for Windows8Touch theme.
• PreviewEditStarted event has incorrect parameters when handled.
• PreviewEditStarted is fired more than once in scenario with nested treeview items.

Window

FIXED

• RadWindow is sized to the values of MaxWidth and MaxHeight when they are set and SizeToContent is true.