Release History

UI for WinForms R2 2019 (version 2019.2.508)

May 15, 2019

What's New

NEW

• File Dialogs - Open File Dialog, Save File Dialog and Open Folder Dialog, all of which are fully themable delivering consistent look and feel across the application.
• Simplified Ribbon - the Simplified layout in RadRibbonBar allows a more compact look and UX which will resize dynamically.
• RadDomainUpDown - combination of a text-box and a pair of up and down arrow buttons to navigate through a predefined list of items.
• RadFormConverter is now exposed inside the form`s smart tag allowing an easier conversion between MS and RadForms.
• Implemented Visual Studio Templates that target .NET Core.

RadGridView

NEW

• The new row message should be displayed when there is no rows in the grid. New property added: radGridView1.MasterTemplate.SelectNewRowAsCurrent.

FIXED

• Search text box doesn't handle all key strokes when you enter a long search pattern.
• Alternating row color does not work with hidden rows.
• Cells collection TableSearchRow_SearchProgressChanged event args is null.
• OnNotifyPropertyChanged(string propertyName) does not call base.OnNotifyPropertyChanged(string propertyName).
• NullReferenceException when setting the TableElement.PageViewMode to Backstage or NavigationView.

RadMultiColumnComboBox

NEW

• RadMultiColumnComboBox - expose an API for using a custom RadGridView control in the popup form. Exposed GridViewHostItem.

FIXED

• MultiColumnComboBox clears selection when leaving the control if filtering was used.

Theming

FIXED

• Performance issue in container controls while painting the shadows.

RadCommandBar

FIXED

• The toggle button orientation is not respected when the command bar is inside a RadSplitContainer.
• Saved layout is not restored correctly on High DPI.

RadPdfViewer

FIXED

• Blank pages appear when scroling fast in a large document. Fixed by introducing property AsyncRender which enables or disables the async rendering of pages and new property CachePaint which enables or disables the cached painting of pages.
• The bookmarks do not work as expected.

RadRibbonBar

FIXED

• Windows 8 theme missing the IsSelected state set on the RadGalleryItem. Also fixed for multiple other themes.
• Scrolling buttons of gallery element do not work from collapsed group.
• Paint problem when RadRibbonBar.Expanded=false and opening a dialog (FileFolderDialog) form on RibbonBarButton.

RadListControl

NEW

• Extend the CreatingVisualListItemEventArgs so that they have information about the data item.

FIXED

• Exception while performing drag-and-drop with multiple items.

RadListView

FIXED

• The group item does not display the image when there is no text.
• The current column is not cleared when there is no items with the Fluent theme.

RadTextBoxControl

FIXED

• When added to a RadPageViewPage, the control`s caret is not visible after calling the control`s Select method in the SelectedPageChanged event of the page pageview.

RadMaskedEditBox

NEW

• New RadMaskedEditBoxElement Click EventHandler.
• New RadMaskedEditBoxElement property: EnableClickSelectionStart (Enables the SelectionStartMouseClick functionality)
• New RadMaskedEditBoxElement property: SelectionStartOnMouseClick (The selection start will be moved to this position when EnableClickSelectionStart is enabled)
• New RadMaskedEditBoxElement property: SelectionLengthOnMouseClick (The selection length will be set to this value when EnableClickSelectionStart is enabled)

FIXED

• The AutoSize property does not work as expected.
• Users are not allowed to enter more one numeric digit with mask "N".

RadPageView

FIXED

• Navigation view doesn't display the title of the selected page when loading the form.

RadRichTextEditor

FIXED

• The Code Block style does not work.
• Entering header and footer cannot be prevented using CommandExecuting event when RadRichTextEditor is read-only.

RadSpreadsheet

FIXED

• Some text is clipped although there is enough space to be displayed.

RadTreeView

FIXED

• Right clicking on empty, white space, crashes the application.
• Improve the performance of the control while expanding or scrolling a tree with many nodes.

RadChartView

NEW

• Add an API to apply settings on the Pen object used to paint the line of the ChartTrackballController. New event added in the ChartTrackballController class: controller.PenInitialized.

FIXED

• MajorStep is not respected for the horizontal axis.
• After setting the PanZoomMode property of the ChartPanZoomController to Both, the Zoom gesture results in an exception.
• The CartesianPlotBandAnnotation is not painted correctly on an axis with scale breaks.

RadDiagram

FIXED

• Exception when calling the BringIntoView method with an enabled zoom animation.

RadRangeSelector

FIXED

• Setting the same RadChartView object as an AssociatedControl causes the range selector to go in an invalid state.

RadMessageBox

FIXED

• HTML-like-text-formatting problem.

RadDock

FIXED

• The controls are enlarged when showing the auto-hide popup on HDPI display.
• Incorrect behaviour with anchors Left | Top | Right | Bottom set to a control in an auto-hide window.
• The floating window type is not correct when docking forms and user controls.
• Incorrect docking guides are show when the MainDocumentContainerVisible property is set to false.
• In a DPI-aware application on Windows 10 the dock windows are down-scaled once floated.

RadImageEditor

FIXED

• Automatic zoom works only when "Auto" is typed in, and even then zoom is not updated on resize.
• The "Accept" and "Cancel" buttons are not visible when cropping.
• Expose a public CurrentImageChanged event to track changes of the image.

RadTrackBar

NEW

• Added RangeValueChanged event notifying that a range start or end has changed.

RadMap

FIXED

• MapCallouts are not hit-tested correctly.

RadForm

FIXED

• The text of the form is cut off on the left side if the form is maximized and the icon is not visible.

RadTabbedForm

FIXED

• Exception in the Visual Studio designer after changing the Text property of a tab using the Collection Editor.

RadSplitContainer

FIXED

• Incorrect splitter position after releasing the mouse on 125% DPI.

RadScheduler

FIXED

• The OffsetView method with a 0 step always returns the current month view.

RadControls

FIXED

• The anchors does not work on HDPI.

WordsProcessing

FIXED

• UriFormatException is thrown when importing HTML content containing embedded images with leading white spaces.

SpreadProcessing

NEW

• Provided API for enforcing the use of only FIPS 140-2 complaint hashing algorithms.
• Added support for Line series charts with Markers - they can be created with charts dialog, in code, or from xlsx file import.
• Added support for Scatter and Bubble charts - they can be created with Charts Dialog, in code, or via import from xlsx file.

FIXED

• ArgumentException is thrown when importing documents containing empty values.
• Round function returns different values than excel.
• Changing the format of cells which hold the values for the value axis does not redraw the chart.
• NullReferenceException is thrown when pasting in a protected sheet.
• Print/PrintPreview displays charts in an incorrect arrange location.
• VerificationException (operation could destabilize the runtime) is thrown in VS 2019.

PdfProcessing

FIXED

• ArgumentException is thrown when importing FormFields several times.
• InvalidOperationException is thrown when importing document with missing EOF marker.

Breaking Changes

FIXED

• RadDropDownButtonElement: The type of the BorderElement property is changed from RadElement to BorderPrimitive.
• RadRibbonBar - Changed element hierarchy in Buttons Container. More information at the following KB: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/knowledge-base/ribbonbar-design-time-exception