Release History

Fixes and Improvements (v2.9.8.1209)

Report Processing:

• Fixed: Business Object DataSource with nonpublic default constructor is not supported
• Fixed: When a PictureBox is bound to a source returning invalid image data an ArgumentException is thrown.
• Fixed: Incorrect measurement of subreports.
• Obsolete: Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ReportItemBase.ItemCollection. Use Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ProcessingElement.ElementCollection instead.

HTML Rendering:

• Fixed: Group headers and footers inside a SubReport are sometimes displayed twice in HTML Rendering.
• Fixed: Textbox disappears in certain cases in HTML Rendering.
• Fixed: SubReport item Style is not respected in HTML.
• Fixed: Shape items do not render borders in HTML rendering.
• Fixed: Rendering speed issues when using too many docked items.

Image Rendering:

• Fixed: Incorrect output/hang when GroupHeaderSection.PrintOnEveryPage=True + Detail that spans on several pages.
• Fixed: SubReport item does not go on next page even if no content of the subreport fits on current page.
• Fixed: Report items with negative to the parent location are not clipped when rendered with Image rendering extension.
• Fixed: Child item order in the parent's collection is not respected during rendering.
• Fixed: Image rendering is broken if a PictureBox is bound to a field returning null or DBNull.

PDF Rendering:

• Fixed: The PDF Rendering Extension sometimes throws an exception when rendering an image with one of the "Indexed" PixelFormats.
• Fixed: The PDF Rendering extension is not thread-safe, which cause an exception if used in multi-threaded applications.

Excel Rendering

• Fixed: TextBox.TextWrap property is not respected in Excel.
• Fixed: SubReport without a ReportSource causes a StackOverflowException in Excel Rendering.
• Fixed: If the version is TRIAL, the PageHeader's last row is not frozen in Excel as it should be.

Visual Studio Designer

• Fixed: HTML Preview now uses HTML instead of MHTML and is available for users on VISTA/IE7.
• Fixed: Displaying units in the report designer is not quite precise for some unit types - mm, pt, pc.
• Fixed: Report designer allows to copy/paste sections and groups when it should NOT.
• Fixed: Designer breaks after moving from the code pane to the report designer in a split layout.
• Fixed: Setting size 0 for a font throws an exception.
• Fixed: Design time commands (cut, copy, paste, etc.) are active even in Preview mode.
• Fixed: The Label Wizard tries to assign the DetailSection 0 (zero) ColumnCount for some categories such as TANEX and an exception is raised.

Other

• Fixed: Disposing Report Viewer throws an exception while the rendering thread is still active.
• Fixed: The Chart report item does not render correcly axis labels when LabelStep is greater than 1
• Fixed: Crash during backup of the UpgradeWizard.
• Fixed: Made obsolete the explicit cast operator of Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Font to System.Drawing.Font.
• Fixed: NeedDataSource event is not raised when session state mode is SQLServer or StateServer.