Release History

UI for WinForms Q1 2015 (version 2015.1.225)

February 25, 2015

Zip Library

FIXED

• The default constructor forces the ZipArchive to dispose the passed stream when it is already disposed.

CHANGED

• ZipPackage is marked as Obsolete. Use ZipArchive instead.

RadBulletGraph (New Control)

NEW

RadBulletGraph is a variation of linear gauge. It combines a number of indicators, as well as the data indicator, into one control that's lightweight, easily customizable and straightforward to set up and use. The control is a great tool for dashboards--it's the optimal way to present a lot of information in relatively small area. Key features are.

• Easy to use: Just drag and drop from the toolbox
• Supports the full design specification: Non zero-based scale, negative featured measures, projected values, having many comparative measures and quantitative ranges is not a problem
• Data Binding Support: The control can be easily data-bound to your business data, either by setting its properties directly, or by using a binding declaration

RadLinearGauge (New Control)

NEW

Linear gauge is a linear scale, that can display multiple scales and ranges. Highlights include:

• Fully customizable elements: bars, lines, needle, ticks and labels
• Precise design time selection of the gauge elements
• Animation effects when the value is changed
• Plenty of gauge styles
• Save/Load layout to XML.

RadWordsProcessing

NEW

• RTF format provider: Support for Import/export of multilevel list containing list level without number text format.
• Export of RadFlowDocument to PDF, using the Pdf format provider class.
• Exposed Section.PageNumberingSettings property.
• Introduced support for vertical section alignment.
• Introduced RadFlowDocumentEditor.InsertSection() method.
• Introduced support for "type" attribute of HTML list.

FIXED

• Importing style from HTML does not base the created style on 'Normal' style.
• Document containing list without explicitly specified multilevel type cannot be imported.
• The input file stream fails to convert to RadFlowDocument when a field has multiple general formatting switches.

RadSpreadProcessing

NEW

• Introduced support for Grouping which allows creation of documents with grouped rows and columns.
• Introduced support for Data Validation which allows restricting the type of data or the values that users enter into a cell.

FIXED

• AutoFit does not fit exactly to text when Normal style is modified.
• When CanInsert() method is called with 0 as ItemsCount exception is thrown.
• Cell value formats are not applied in CSV import.

RadPdfProcessing

NEW

• Introduced support for generating PDF/A compliant PDF documents.
• Added support for export of document info: Author, Title, etc.
• Introduced PreferredWidth property for setting table cells width.
• Introduced support for Lists.
• Introduced LayoutType property in Table class.
• Added InsertBlock method in RadFixedDocumentEditor that allows inserting custom implementation of IBlockElement interface while generating flow content.
• Implemented support for adding hyperlinks with a destination through Block editor.

FIXED

• Block InsertText method overload does not respect its FontStyle and FontWeight arguments.
• Splitting empty Block returns not empty Block.
• When drawing element with and without clipping they are exported in wrong order.
• When drawing nested tables the text in the inner table is drawn out of the table.
• Merged cell's content overlaps the borders of a table that is split to two pages.
• Encrypted documents could not be opened in Adobe Reader.
• PdfReal values should not be exported in exponential format as it is not supported according to PDF specification.
• Transparent background color of images is exported as black.

CHANGED

• RadFixedDocumentEditor's TableProperties are removed.

Visual Style Builder

NEW

• An option to change the default filter for the save image dialog when saving an image from repository items.

FIXED

• "Save image as" option does not always allow you to save the image.

RadTrackBar

FIXED

• The scroll event is fired when value is changed through code.

RadPanel

FIXED

• When the AutoSize property is set to true the panel size is 0 despite that it has some elements in it.

Themes

NEW

• Added XmlTypeSelector to XmlVisualStateSelector for RadStatusBarElement.

FIXED

• The restore button of an MDI child form has a maximize icon in ControlDefault, Office2010Blue and Office2010Black.
• RadGridView does not display correct BackColor initially for the GridIndentCellElement when apply Office2007Silver theme.
• RadScrollBar - the thumb image should be changed with one corresponding to Windows 7, rather than Office 2010.
• RadToggleButton - the disabled state is not correct in the Office2013Light theme.

RadTreeView

NEW

• Possibility to set the auto-expand delay on drag-drop.

FIXED

• ArgumentOutOfRangeException when deleting nodes with same text in a sorted treeview
• Auto expand on hover does not work while dragging a node.
• Inability to auto-scroll while dragging a node.

RadTextBoxControl

FIXED

• User cannot type more than one polish char -"Д…". Additionally, the whole text is cleared.

RadTextBox

NEW

• Select all text with Ctrl+A in MultiLine mode.

RadSpellChecker

FIXED

• Right clicking an incorrect word does not show the popup on the correct location with two monitors environment.
• When RadTextBoxControl contains words followed by colon or semi-colon, the red underline indicating errors appears.
• Spell check as you type does not respect the ShowAllCapitalLettersWord property.
• Single letter in parentheses is underlined with a red line with spell as you type in the RadTextBoxControl

RadScheduler

FIXED

• Missing appointments in PrintPreview dialog.

RadRichTextEditor

FIXED

• When changing the text alignment the control is not invalidated.
• When the user types in RadRichTextEditor the Access Key (mnemonic) is activated.
• Exception when the ShowSpellCheckingDialog method is called for the second time.
• Pasting link, copied from outlook causes exception.
• The size in the selection mini toolbar is not correct.
• RtfFormatProvider does not recognize rtf tag \highlight0 as transparent highlight color.
• In HTML file when Serif font has been added to the font family definition the font is not recognized correctly.
• RTF importing produces spans with black highlight color.
• Renders list without indenting (like IE and other browsers do).

RadRibbonBar

FIXED

• ApplicationMenu button is not positioned correctly when the system buttons are hidden in Office2013Light theme.
• When there is a button in a tab or group it stays marked when the mouse down (right mouse button) occurs in the same control, but the mouse is not released over it.
• When the ribbon is collapsed and tab visibility is changed the ribbon is expanded for a second.

RadRadialGauge

FIXED

• The gallery is not loaded when the user's machine contains assemblies whose FullName cannot be retrieved.

RadPropertyGrid

FIXED

• NullReferenceException when using the up/down arrows in the PropertyGridSpinEditor and clicking over the text box.
• A collection property cannot be edited if it does not have setter.
• Sorting 6000 items takes a lot of time.

RadPivotFieldList

FIXED

• NullReferenceException when clicking over the +/- repeat buttons in an item in the Row Labels.

RadPivotGrid

FIXED

• Exporting with collapsed rows/columns causes exception.
• Performance issue when using ExpandAll/CollapseAll options in the context menu.

RadPdfViewer

FIXED

• When the fonts are not embedded and are not installed on the machine the text that uses them is not displayed.

RadPanorama

FIXED

• Dropping a tile from one group to another when the group has 1 row and the tile has rowspan 2 exception is thrown.

RadPageView

NEW

• Allow RadPageViewItems to accept other RadElements. Currently, they are not arranged.

FIXED

• Current page header at the top of the RadPageView in ExplorerBar view mode is not displayed.

RadMultiColumnComboBox

FIXED

• The dropdown is not sized correctly when there is only one record.
• SelectedIndex/SelectedValue is reset when the control loses focus and there is a filter applied which had filtered all the available rows.

Forms and Dialogs

FIXED

• When RadMessageBox is shown one cannot drag the popup dialog when clicked on the right half of the title bar.

RadMenu

FIXED

• Setting the Font of the control does not take effect when Office2010Blue theme is applied.

RadMaskedEditBox

FIXED

• Entering a value in a GridViewMaskBoxColumn with MaskType e-mail leads to an exception.
• The text property does not work correctly.

RadListView

FIXED

• NullReferenceException when dragging a custom DetailListViewVisualItem.
• DropHint is missing in Windows7 theme.
• When swapping items in the BindingList, the RadListView is not refreshed.
• Performance issue when the control is in unbound mode and grouping is used.

RadGridView

NEW

• Ability to move the column with the expanders to different position then the first one.

FIXED

• The ArrowPrimitive in the header cell overlaps the header text in Office2007Silver theme.
• There is a memory leak when the excel-like filtering is used.
• HtmlExporter one cannot add html code to the cell value when it is exported.
• ValueChanging and ValueChanged events are fired when the Escape key is pressed in the active editor for the GridViewMaskBoxColumn.
• CheckBoxColumn - when the data source contains null values and the header checkbox is shown exception is thrown.
• NullReference exception when using message box in CellValueChanged event.
• Allow users to input decimal numbers by directly starting with the decimal separator.
• The header cell checkbox is not updated when the grid data source is changed.
• NullReference exception in GridCheckBoxHeaderCellElement when adding a filter to a bound grid with cleared columns.
• Missing TableElement.RowDragHint in multiple themes.
• Null reference exception when disposing an orphaned self-reference grid.
• When the GridColorPickerElement.ReadOnly property is set to true, the editor is initialized with the last selected color despite the cell value.
• When the search functionality is used in combination with filtering NullReferenceException is thrown.
• Some cells are not selected when dragging quickly through them.
• When RadTextBoxControlElement is used as permanent editor in the grid there is NulllReference exception, caused by the IME support.
• When an unicode control character is inserted via the search row context menu ArgumentException is thrown.
• GridViewCheckBoxColumn - the header cell checkbox is automatically checked when the user is filtering.
• Columns are resized when the PrintPreview dialog is shown and grid is in RightToLeft mode.
• GridViewComboboxColumn NullReferenceException on CellValueChanged.

RadGanttView

FIXED

• When the vertical scroll is shown and one moves an item the link lines are not drawn correctly.
• ArgumentOutOfRange exception when scrolling the graphical view.
• When the ReadOnly property is set to true, the user can still move the summary task with the mouse.

Telerik Presentation Framework

NEW

• DesignTimeTextEditor support for adding new line with Enter key while in dropdown, without opening the MarkUpEditor.

FIXED

• RadRibbonFormBehavior dialog shows when you import a new image for a RadButtonElement at design time.
• Setting the ForeColor of root RadMenuItem is not taken into consideration
• RadImageButtonElement - ImageHovered and ImageClicked properties are not taken into consideration.
• Changing the ForeColor property of the BorderPrimitive of the RadStatusStripElement has no effect.

RadDropDownList

FIXED

• Calling the Focus method when DropDownStyle = DropDown does not select the entire text in the inner text box.
• The description text is not clearly visible for the selected item with the VisualStudio2012Dark theme.
• The border is not properly reset in Windows8 theme when the user hovers the control.

RadDock

NEW

• The possibility to choose which windows to be serialized via the SaveToXml method.
• The possibility to add custom elements to the TabStripItem.
• ActiveMDIChild property.
• Re-dock ability from floating to document.
• AutoHideSize is now serialized by the save/load layout functionality.

FIXED

• Design time error when starting debug mode after modification in design time.
• Absolute size is not taken into consideration when a window state is changed with the context menu.
• Exception when disposing a closed dialog with RadDock on it.
• Anchoring issue with controls in a form, hosted in RadDock.
• When in RTL the QuickNavigator shows the Top-left instead of Top-Right corner of windows.
• ToolWindow with anchored controls inside, changes child controls position when autohiding/showing.
• Dock with more than one ToolWindow (auto-hidden), when displaying a hidden window its caption is wrong for a fraction of time.
• Issue with loading layout from xml related to disposing mechanism in RadDock.
• Layout issues with autohide ToolWindow content.
• Xml serialization does not work in scenarios with inherited ToolWindow.
• Databinding issues with ToolWindows.
• Double click on ToolWindow caption is not working properly in design-time.
• BindingContext changes for ToolWindow hosted controls when state changes from Dock to AutoHide.
• Docking Manager execssive redrawing of floating window.
• RadDock does not preserve the original window order when using Save/LoadLayout methods.
• RadDock does not preserve the hidden state of a tool window when using LoadLayout method.
• RadMenu shortcuts do not work if form is MDI child.
• RadDock with two nested docks, setting the DocumentTabsAlignment of the other dock automatically sets the same on the inner one.
• Problem with resizing of right-docked auto-hide tool window.
• Load layout issue when using HostWindows.
• OnActivated is fired before OnLoad in forms which have RadDock instances.
• Activated event is not fired on hosted MDI forms.
• AutoHideSize is not considered properly in all cases.
• Save/Load layout does not store/restore correctly ToolWindows in a hidden FloatingForm after restart.
• Docking a floated window does not remove it from the FloatingWindows collection.
• AutoHidden window with property grid is hidden if it loses focus while the editor is active.
• Save/Load layout does not work as expected for HostWindows.
• Load layout does not restore correctly floating ToolWindow.
• AutoHiding a ToolWindow, then hiding and showing it does not restore its DockState to AutoHide.
• Closing the main Form should close the MdiChildren of the dock.
• Docking a ToolWindow with other windows inside, docks only the current window.
• Having floating window with docked windows inside and saving the layout does not allow you to load correct layout later.
• When the MDI form is closed right after another MDI the second form's host window remains visible.

RadDateTimePicker

FIXED

• When the user clears the whole date, the text is not cleared and the null date appears.
• The AutoSelectNextPart property is reset after the control is bound to a BindingSource.

RadDataEntry

FIXED

• Modified property value is not persisted when the editor is RadMaskedEditBox and the property is Nullable<int>.

RadColorBox

NEW

• Ability to disable the saving of the custom colors - set the SaveCustomColors property to false.

FIXED

• The Text property is not replaced with the localized name of the selected color when using ColorDialogLocalizationProvider.

RadChartView

NEW

• Funnel series.
• Scatter area series.
• HLC (high-low-close) series..
• Waterfall series.
• Funnel series.
• Range, Range Spline and Range Bar series.
• Marked zones.
• Annotations.
• Export to image.
• Possibility to enter minimum/maximum width for Bars in BarSeries.
• Ability to inverse the order of the values on ordered chart axes.
• A member property to the pie series that allows binding the legend title.
• Ability to rotate the labels of chart series - set the LabelRotationAngle property of the series.
• Ability to alignin the vertical axes of two charts one above the other.
• TrackBall for multiple axes.
• RightToLeft support for DrillDownNavigator.
• Ability to show negative values under the 0 point of the area.
• Allowed different theming for the points of PointSeries and LineSeries.
• Mouse aware zooming for PanZoomController.
• Scroll bar in legend section.

FIXED

• Vertical Stripes go out of the chart area when PanZoom is used.
• If two series are combined in Stack100 mode and both have value 0.0 in one category an exception is thrown.
• If one sets the GapLength of a chart axis to 0 the chart layouts bar series with inconsistent space between bars.
• AxisLabelElement overlaps the axis when chart's area has Horizontal orientation.
• PieSeries do not show the legend properly, the values are not initialized.
• Changing the view using DrillDownController and re-adding series will not update the legend.
• ChartTrackballController does not display correctly the vertical line across the chart plot area when the ShowLegend property is set to true.
• When the category is bound to a field that can be parsed to a number the axis labels are measured incorrectly.
• Legend items are not cleared when the underlying data source is refilled.
• Axis labels are not drawn to the correct locations on the plot area.
• Rotated labels appear in the legend area when using a RangeSelector.
• The labels are not aligned properly on the vertical axis.
• If you run a form with a chart view with a zoom controller on it you cannot start to zoom in and out until you click on the chart.
• Lasso controller does not zoom properly the vertical axis.
• Line and area series are not rendered correctly when the CartesianArea.Orientation is Horizontal.
• Labels are not rendered when the HorizontalLocation is set to right.
• Adding data points with DateTime category in the range of milliseconds results in wrong axis labels.
• Setting the DesiredTickCount property changes the axis minimum or maximum.
• The vertical axis labels are not drawn when the orientation of the chart is set to horizontal.

CHANGED

• The constructor of ChartLegendElement now takes the RadChartElement as a parameter instead of an ILegendInfoProvider.

Demo Application

FIXED

• In the first look example for the RadDataEntry one cannot properly add new items.
• the C#/VB code is not visible for DocumentProcessing, RichTextEditor and Panorama examples