UI for WPF and Silverlight Gain Office 2016 Theme and More

In this R1 2017 release of UI for WPF and UI for Silverlight, we bring great new features and controls, including an Office 2016 theme and VS 2017 support.

Happy New Year and Happy New Version of UI for WPF and Silverlight. With this blog post I will guide you through the most exciting aspects of the first release of the suites for this year.

• Decreased memory usage when navigating through documents with large number of images
• Documents with interactive forms and digital signatures are now visualized in read only state in PdfViewer (available for both WPF and Silverlight).

RadPdfProcessing

The new PdfStreamWriter class allows you to manipulate document pages in existing documents as well as adding additional content. This enables the following scenarios: 

• Merge pages of multiple documents into a single PDF file
• Split pages from existing document and save them as separate PDF files 
• Add new pages created from scratch with PdfProcessing API to existing documents
• Add new content behind or in front of the existing page content. This is useful for adding headers/footers or watermarks to an existing PDF document

RadMap

A couple of months ago Microsoft announced their plans to retire the Bing SOAP web services which RadMap was using internally with its providers. As a result, plenty of applications and controls relying on it will stop working. However, if you are using RadMap, we have got you covered as now we are extending the BingRestMapProvider relying on the Bing’s REST services, to deliver routing, location search and even elevation data both in UI for WPF and UI for Silverlight. On top of that, due to high demand, an option to export the map to an image was also introduced in UI for WPF.

RadPivotGrid

The RadPivotGrid’s LocalDataSource provider allows you to drill down the underlying data under each cell. This lets you get precise information on how it was calculated and precisely which records participated in the calculation (available for both WPF and Silverlight). 

RadRichTextBox

The control now includes built-in support for import of WMF and EMF images.

RadSlider

A ToolTip functionality is now added to RadSlider component. It enables the user to see the value of the slider's thumb while dragging it. In order to enable the ToolTip in the RadSlider component, you can set the AutoToolTipPlacement property (available for both WPF and Silverlight).

RadGridView Enhancements

• A small improvement that helps you see a tooltip when the cell's text exceeds column width has been added
• Now you can change the column index when you ungroup it
• A HighlightTextBlock component is added to GridView's assembly so you can create a custom column with search functionality—a demo can be found here
• We introduced a method for selecting a specific region(s) of cells—Select/UnSelectCellRegion

RadAutoCompleteBox and RadWatermarkTextBox

We prepared and added 2 new demos illustrating to you how RadAutoCompleteBox and RadWatermarkTextBox can be customized to add a Clear Button so you can use them as SearchTextBox control (available for both WPF and Silverlight).  

Learn More

You can read more details about all these features in our Documentation. This release we added also dozens of new demos to illustrate the new functionality and how to achieve more complex scenarios. Try them in our interactive demo application and find more developer oriented examples in the SDK repository. 

In addition, we introduced over 170 improvements in both UI for WPF and UI for Silverlight in this release alone—the full list can be found here.

Feel free to share any comments below. If you have any suggestions or you cannot find the feature or control that you need, feel free to use our Feedback Portals about UI for WPF and Document Processing Libraries. 

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