Release History

UI for Xamarin R2 2021 (version 2021.2.512.480)

May 12, 2021

What's New

NEW

• Introduced a BadgeView component. Represents a control that is used for displaying an additional marker on its content, like number of items or notifications.
• Introduced a Shadow component. It adds a highly customizable shadow effect around any view - that helps elevate some UI elements and thus achieve modern look and feel for your app.
• Added SwissQR Code. Encodes all the information necessary for a payment in specific format and structure, and all of it as part of the well-known Barcode component.

Barcode

NEW

• Added Code39Extended and Code93 1D Symbologies.

FIXED

• Code93Extended symbology is drawn as Code39Extended.

PdfProcessing

NEW

• Implemented API for flattening form fields.
• Introduced support for Lab color space.
• Implemented GetColor method for Indexed color space.

FIXED

• CharCodes to glyph indices are incorrectly mapped when exporting TextBoxField with TrueType font and defined encoding.
• An ArgumentException is thrown when merging or splitting files with the PdfStreamWriter.
• TypeInitializationException is thrown when exporting a document with PdfComplianceLevel set.
• CharCodes to glyph indices are incorrectly mapped when exporting TextBoxField with Simple font and a Differences array defined in the Encoding.

PdfViewer

NEW

• Provided mechanism for loading custom font files when importing TrueType fonts.

SpreadProcessing

NEW

• Introduced conversion from DataTable to RadWorkbook/RadWorksheet and vice versa.
• Introduced an API for measuring the text using the text measuring of the PdfProcessing.

FIXED

• An invalid file is generated when the freezing panes are set, and the file is opened in Excel.
• An InvalidOperationException is thrown when attaching to CellPropertyChanged event and trying to modify the cell.

SpreadStreamProcessing

NEW

• Added space="preserve" attribute to string cell values to preserve their exact spacing when visualizing.
• Introduced API for measuring the text on different platforms.

FIXED

• ArgumentException is thrown when calling SpreadExporter.CreateWorkbookExporter method and referencing Trial assemblies.

WordsProcessing

NEW

• Implemented a mechanism to automatically load external CSS resources when the URI is valid.
• Implemented Find functionality allowing you to perform a text-based search.
• Implemented support for importing DOC format.
• Implemented support for importing DOT format.
• Introduced support for importing documents with shading colors defined as strings.

FIXED

• NullReferenceException is thrown when importing a DOCX document containing a DataBinding element inside a structured document tag.
• The Hyperlink field is exported wrong.
• The Nonbreaking space is exported as a Unicode character instead of the appropriate Control word.
• RtfFormatProvider: Indexing is wrong when exporting the list override index (\ls).
• When replacing a word being part of the field code fragment definition, the field becomes invalid.

CHANGED

• RadFlowDocumentEditor.ReplaceText(string, string) method is removed. Use the RadFlowDocumentEditor.ReplaceText(string, string, bool, bool) method with default bool values instead.