Release History

UI for WinForms R2 2023 (version 2023.2.606)

June 7, 2023

What's new

NEW

• HeatMap: New control.
• Visual Studio 2022 Dark Theme.
• Add the WinForms signed assemblies to the official distribution.
• RadRichTextEditor: Introduce Line Numbering functionality.
• RadScheduler: New and modern appointment styles - As default.

Demo Application

FIXED

• ERP demo uses a new URL for the service now.

FileDialogs

NEW

• Introduce OverwritePrompt property.

Installation and general issues

FIXED

• Created project with VB project templates doesn't build after subscribing to the CalendarUserControl.Load event.

RadBarcodeView

FIXED

• QR version is not encoded properly.

RadDropDownList

FIXED

• Arrow button disappears on RadDropDownList and RadSpinEditor inside TableLayoutPanel when minimizing and restoring to normal state.

RadFilterView

FIXED

• Typo in class name FitlerViewTextCategoryItemCreatedEventArgs.

RadForm

FIXED

• Missing system buttons when MDI child form is minimized.
• Minimizing/Restoring a RadForm increases its size in .NET 7.

RadGridView

FIXED

• The property builder of the designer will not open in OpenEdge environment.
• Sorting through the column header in a group scenario is not working properly.
• GetClipboardContent() method returns null.
• A NullReferenceException is thrown when attempting to clear the filter of a bound BindingSource on a grid with Excel-Like filtering.
• NullReferenceException when setting the grid's ReadOnly property with hidden GridViewCheckBoxColumn.

RadPdfViewer

NEW

• Handled invalid /NULL name encoding for Type1 and TrueType fonts.
• Introduced an option to replace the predefined Standard Fonts.

FIXED

• NullReferenceException when clicking on editable PDFs on textboxes.
• The CurrentPageTextBox does not get the correct theme.
• An ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when importing documents with no page content.
• Wrong rendering of glyphs with a specific Type1 font.
• The position of unsupported annotation is not calculated as expected when its bounding box starts from a position different than 0.
• Some glyph geometries from Type1 fonts are not rendered correctly.
• No images are shown when opening a file on computer with processor with more than 10 logical processors.
• An ArgumentException is thrown when importing .notdef glyph.
• A mispositioned and missing text content with specific documents.
• A file shows blank pages with the latest version.
• Encrypted Hex strings in Bookmark titles are not decrypted on import.

RadRichTextEditor

FIXED

• System.NullReferenceException when printing after pasting into the document.
• The ApplicationMenuStyle and ApplicationMenuAnimantionType properties of the ribbon are hidden.
• InvalidCastException is thrown when importing a document containing multiple unclosed fields.
• Using keyboard selection over several table rows is inconsistent.
• Using advanced selection at line-start upwards select the first word on the initial line.
• Exporting Hyperlink with InlineUIContainer inside it causes StackOverflowException.
• Expanding the table selection with the keyboard leaves the caret behind the selection's edges.
• Copying check box content control with non-default checked/unchecked symbols causes them to reset.
• Annotation markers are not properly deleted when the text ends with at least two zero-width spaces in succession.

RadScheduler

FIXED

• Cursor is not visible while dragging on .Net 6 platform.

RadSpreadsheet

FIXED

• IndexOutOfRangeException when the first column is hidden and perform a left-scroll.

RadTextBox

FIXED

• Font is serialized as null which leads to designer crashing.

RadTreeView

FIXED

• NodeCheckedChanging/ed should use the Unknown action when invoked programatically.

PdfProcessing

NEW

• Introduced public API for setting default stream compression when exporting PDF files.
• Introduced setting in PdfStreamWriter that allows exporting images with no compression.
• Introduced export for standard fonts with custom encoding.

FIXED

• An EndOfStreamException is thrown when importing a document with startxref pointing to the end of the document.
• ImageUtils: MissingMethodException is thrown when using a bigger than 2.0 ImageSharp version.
• The CalGray color space properties are not correctly exported in an array.
• Slow import of documents containing Shadings Pattern and ICCBased ColorSpace.
• IOException is thrown when an object in the cross-reference stream has a negative offset.
• Errors are thrown when validating signed PDF files with VeraPdf and other validators.
• The position of unsupported annotation is not calculated as expected when its bounding box starts from a position different than 0.
• Spaces are displayed as rectangles for some TrueType fonts.
• Glyphs are rendered with different font when trying to create Block with ZapfDingbats.
• Wrongly parsed document content when the indirect object contains more spaces between object number and generation number.
• Wrong encoding is used when the PDF file contains font with custom encoding.
• Some operators cannot be correctly parsed which causes incomplete import.
• Setting a filter on a mask results in an invalid file when exporting.
• A KeyNotFoundException is thrown when there is a symbolic font with predefined encoding.
• A KeyNotFoundException exception is thrown when there are missing characters in the document.
• A KeyNotFoundException exception is thrown with MacintoshNonSymbolic platform type and WinAnsiEncoding.
• An InvalidCastException is thrown when importing documents where the endobj keyword is not on a new line.
• Generated PDF files are not PDF/A compliant according to some validation tools.
• Documents exported with cross-reference stream are invalid.
• An ArgumentException is thrown when trying to clone a document containing SignatureField.
• Applying a wrong default image compression filter leads to a broken PDF file.

SpreadProcessing

FIXED

• Importing an XLS file causes NullReferenceException due to fill color.
• Applying text format to a column also sets the format to the next column.
• Repeating header rows are not imported correctly in some files.
• An InvalidOperationException is thrown in the ValueContextResolver when importing a document that contains conditional formatting.
• Sequence contains no matching element exception is thrown in files containing notes or comments.
• A conditional formatting rule with a custom formula with reference to another sheet is lost when importing a file generated from Microsoft Excel.

SpreadStreamProcessing

NEW

• Introduced support for importing rich text as plain text.

WordsProcessing

NEW

• HtmlFormatProvider: Introduced support for setting color values using the rgb() function. Available in NET 4.5 and above.
• Unify the support of CSS shorthand/longhand properties. Available in NET 4.5 and above.

FIXED

• HTML files encoded with Little Endian could not be imported correctly. Available in NET 4.5 and above.
• PdfFormatProvider: The image in the header is not exported to pdf.
• The forecolor of table cells text is not preserved when exporting to PDF.
• Table row which has defined only 'val' attribute of the 'trHeight' is imported as row with auto height.
• Exporting to PDF documents containing empty table rows results in 0 height of the rows.
• An ArgumentException is thrown due to incorrect measurement of block elements inside TableCell.
• NullReferenceException when importing a watermark with no opacity.
• The mail merge does not work if the template contains a Table of Contents.
• A KeyNotFoundException is thrown when importing an RTF that references a not declared font.
• The header is not imported when it contains a watermark.
• Empty table row is exported to PDF with different height.
• Empty paragraphs at the end of a table cell are ignored on import from RTF.
• Invalid list layout when converting to PDF and the list includes several pages.