Release History

UI for WPF R2 2019

May 15, 2019

What's New

NEW

• RadWebCam (Beta) - Introduced a new component which can display the video feed from a web camera.
• RibbonView - Implemented support for Simplified Ribbon.
• Introduced new Theming SmartTag that allows setting StyleManager.Theme per control instance through the VisualStudio designer.
• RadTabbedWindow - introduced a new component which is a combination of RadWindow and RadTabControl. It enables browser-like experience and supports runtime adding, reordering, pinning (unpinning), closing of tabs as well as making new windows via dragging tabs out of the window.
• Added Xaml and No Xaml .Net Core version of the predefined Visual Studio Templates (Csharp only) in the Telerik UI for WPF Visual Studio extension.

All Controls

NEW

• Added support for applying a custom text for AutomationProperties.HelpText by setting the UseDefaultHelpText property to false.

CHANGED

• Exposed DisabledOpacity as dynamic palette resource for Windows8, Windows8Touch, Office2013, VisualStudio2013 themes. The DisableOpacity of RangeMiddleThumb is changed from 0.5 to 0.3 in Windows8 Theme. The DisableOpacity of buttons (RadButton, RadSplitButton, RadToggleButton, RadDropDownButton, RadPathButton) is changed from 0.5 to 0.3 in Windows8 Theme. The DisableOpacity of MaskedInput is changed from 0.5 to 0.3 in Window8Theme.

Buttons

FIXED

• The Command is not respected when clicking over the Hyperlink.

Calendar

FIXED

• Multiple month view skips months when navigating.

ChartView

FIXED

• ArgumentException when changing DataPoints runtime and then playing series animation of type ChartRevealAnimation.
• ChartViewToolTipBehavior does not respect ZIndex property of the RadChartView series.

CloudUpload

FIXED

• The tooltip over "UploadedIcon" border is not localized.

Docking

FIXED

• NullReference exception is thrown in a nested docking scenario, when multiple ToolWindiws and switching theme at runtime.
• Title is missing when Pane is added through code at runtime for a second time in an empty PaneGroup.
• Parent window is activated if the pane in the autohide area has a focused input control and the focus is brought to another application.
• Unpinned pane in the right AutoHideArea is resized incorrectly when ShowsPreview of the GridResizer is False.

FileDialogs

FIXED

• OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog, and ExplorerControl do not show folders in Details Layout when file filter is used and the Windows language is different than English.
• With non-English Windows language, the current folder of the dialog changes unexpectedly sometime after load when Initial folder is set to a network folder.
• When file or folder is renamed in the UI, then pressing F2 does not enter the edit mode again.
• Тhe expand arrow is visible in front of empty folders or folders that contain only files.

GridView

NEW

• Introduced SearchMode property that indicates whether an item should match either all, or any of the search terms.

FIXED

• SpreadsheetStreamingExport: The ColumnGroups are exported even though GridView's ShowColumnHeaders property is False.
• An Exception is thrown when opening a window containing a RadGridView (styled in Fluent or Crystal theme) in a different thread.
• An InvalidOperationException is thrown when clicking the Tab key, when all columns are readonly, a new row is added and the NewRowPosition is Bottom.
• An ArgumentException is caught internally when adding columns dynamically to a DataView ItemsSource.
• Cell ContentTemplate set through Style is not respected.
• Cell enters in edit mode when Alt + Space keyboard combination is pressed.
• Cell edit is not committed when moving focus to search panel text box.
• Degraded performance when selection is cleared after the sorting state is changed and new items are selected.
• The GetCellContent method of GridViewExpressionColumn returns null when invoked from a different thread.
• Searching functionality doesn't find numeric values different than Int32 and Decimal.

Map

NEW

• Implemented APIKey property for OpenStreetmapProvider. APIKey is needed for Cycle and Transport modes and can be obtained from Thunderforest.com.

MaskedInput

FIXED

• An exception when clicking a minus key on CurrencyInput with Mask=c9.2 and FormatString=c2.
• The min/max values are not parsed correctly in cultures with comma as decimal separator.
• Small numeric and alphabetical Alt symbols (enabled with pressing Alt + key code) are entered as normal sized letters and numbers in TextInput.

MultiColumnComboBox

NEW

• Introduced SearchMode property that indicates whether an item should match either all, or any of the search terms when AutoCompleteMode is Search.
• Introduced OpenDropDownOnFocus property.

FIXED

• Backwards tab navigation does not work in SearchAutoCompleteBox.
• Forwards tab navigation gets stuck in SearchAutoCompleteBox if the DropDownContentManger is not yet initialized.

NavigationView

FIXED

• The SelectionChanged event is fired when a Selector control is placed inside the Content and changes its selection.

PasswordBox

FIXED

• Escape keyboard key is handled by the control.
• Foreign chars in text appear as "?" when pasted from Clipboard.

PDF Viewer

FIXED

• Checkbox cannot be deselected when the Widget has missing Off state appearance.
• KeyNotFoundException is thrown when recalculating widget appearances.
• ArgumentException is thrown when loading documents with font definition containing .notdef glyph.

PdfProcessing

FIXED

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

PivotGrid

FIXED

• Argument out of range exception when groups are collapsed and the RowSubTotalsPosition is None.

PropertyGrid

NEW

• Implemented AutoExpandGroups property to control groups' initial IsExpanded state.

FIXED

• Cannot edit a selected property definition by directly pressing a keyboard key.
• Custom PropertyDefinition set in the AutoGeneratingPropertyDefinition event is not respected for nested properties.
• Nested properties are not loaded when ComponentType does not match DeclarationType.
• Newly loaded nested property definitions are visible when they don't match the filtering criteria.
• The error tooltip disappears after filtering is applied.
• There is a performance degradation when changing the item of the RPG and PropertySet is used.
• Two tabs are required to navigate between property fields when setting the RenderMode to Hierarchical in Office2013, VisualStudio2013, Green, Office2016Touch, Material, Fluent and Crystal themes.

RibbonView

NEW

• RibbonView - Implemented support for Simplified Ribbon.

FIXED

• TextBlocks placed in QuickAccessToolbar do not respect the theme's foreground color in OfficeBlack, OfficeBlue, OfficeSilver, Summer and Vista themes.

RichTextBox

FIXED

• The cursor moves the first time it blinks after being moved with the keyboard.
• Caret disappears when RenderOptions.EdgeMode is set to 'Alias' on RadRichTextBox's parent
• Entering header and footer cannot be prevented using RadRichTextBox.CommandExecuting event when RadRichTextBox is read-only.
• Importing document with declared font-face, which font-family literal contains asterisk symbol, causes OutOfMemoryException.
• Passing numeric parameter to ChangeFontSizeCommand crashes command binding.
• Setting the vertical-align CSS property with length values leads to InvalidCastException.
• StreamFromUriResolving event is not fired during mail merge.
• Fixed typo in the French localization of the Documents_SpellCheckingDialog_ChangeAll key.
• Fields in the merge result document are set with Code DisplayMode after MailMerge is executed.

ScheduleView

FIXED

• String for "second" in the context of occurrence is not translated correctly in all languages.

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 the one in MS 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 when the source code is rebuilt using VS 2019.

Spreadsheet

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

• 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 when the source code is rebuilt using VS 2019.

TabControl

NEW

• RadTabItems can now be pinned and closed (removed via UI) via pin and close buttons. The feature is supported by TogglePin and Close static UI commands as well as series of tunneling and bubbling events.

TileView

FIXED

• When PreservePositionWhenMaximized is true with items defined in XAML and some of them are Collapsed - the control doesn't behave correctly when changing the maximized item.

VirtualGrid

NEW

• Use the passed QueryableCollectionView in DataProvider instead of creating a new instance.

WatermarkTextBox

FIXED

• Inserting an emoji through the touch keyboard throws exception.

Window

NEW

• Introduced DefaultFocusedButton property of the DialogParameters that will allow defining the defaulf focused button of RadWindow.Confirm.
• The ShowDialog method returns a bool? result now.

WordsProcessing

FIXED

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