Adds support for Microsoft .NET 5, plus new features for Actipro Bars, Docking, Navigation and SyntaxEditor.
Features
- Bars
- Added IBarRenderer.DrawCommandLinkInCustomizeList to support rendering BarCommandLink within a user-drawn ListBox.
- Improved processing of mnemonic key for BarCommandLink and auto-generated tool tip text.
- Improved performance of BarManager rendering related to resolving the IBarControl containing a BarCommandLink.
- Removed BarManager.PopupAnimation which has not been supported since Microsoft Windows XP.
- Docking/MDI
- Added the DockManager.ExecuteTabbedMdiWindowContextMenuItem method which can be used to execute the logic of a context menu item for a specified TabbedMdiWindow.
- Improved drop target rendering when dragging TabbedMdiWindow.
- Updated floating document windows to not always appear on top of the main Form.
- Navigation
- Added NavigationBar.MoveNavigationPaneDown and NavigationBar.MoveNavigationPaneUp which can be used to adjust the position of a NavigationPane. Use NavigationBar.CanMoveNavigationPaneDown and NavigationBar.CanMoveNavigationPaneUp to test if the corresponding method is valid.
- SyntaxEditor
- Added support for semi-transparent text foregrounds.
- Added completion item inline descriptions that can render optional text along the right side of a completion list item. Updated the .NET Languages Add-on's Completion Override QuickStart to demonstrate the new feature.
- Added a new IUnusedRegionTag that can be applied to ranges of unused code that should be rendered using partial transparency.
- Added a new Unused Regions QuickStart to demonstrate the new unused regions feature.
- Added features so the macro recording mechanism can be customized. Updates include a new IMacroAction interface, making the default MacroRecording object public, adding a virtual SyntaxEditor.CreateMacroRecording method, and more.
- Added the SyntaxEditor.ViewActionExecuting event that is raised immediately before an edit action occurs within an editor view, allowing the action to be canceled.
- Added the ICodeSnippetTemplateSessionEventSink.NotifySessionOpening method, allowing for code snippet declaration default text customization prior to text insertion.
- Added SyntaxEditor.CanPointerWheelScrollUnfocusedViews property that can be set to false to prevent unfocused editor views from mouse wheel scrolling.
- Added the CompletionFilter.KeyGesture property and support for key gestures to toggle filter UI buttons and tabs. Updated the Completion List Filtering QuickStart to demonstrate the new feature.
- Added a new Adornments Highlight Range QuickStart to demonstrate how to manually tag any range of text with a custom classification and highlighting style.
- Added support for a transparent plain text background.
- Improved squiggle line height to scale with font size.
- Improved exception reporting for an invalid dynamic lexer regular expression pattern range.
- Improved high-DPI layout of the search overlay pane.
- Improved printer view layout logic.
- Improved the IOutliningManager.CollapseToDefinitions logic.
- Improved the line commenter logic for determining the selection after a change.
- Improved the token-caching mechanism.
- Improved the logic for selection updates when text ranges are collapsed.
- Improved the logic for selection updates as a result of text changes.
- Improved the indentation guide display logic for scenarios with blank lines.
- Improved the print dialog to support the Selection page range option.
- Improved the copy/cut line logic when on the last view line.
- Improved the line number margin to support bold/italic fonts.
- Improved the scrolling experience when selecting in virtual space.
- Improved outlining margin rendering.
- Improved word wrap logic.
- Updated the maximum document TabSize to 32.
- Updated a quick info session to close when a pointer wheel is scrolled.
- Updated a quick info session to close when its target SnapshotRange is changed to zero-length while the session is open.
- Updated the scroll distance when clicking on a scrollbar track.
- Updated clicks in various view locations to ensure the containing view is focused.
- Updated clicks in the outlining margin to select the view line.
- Updated how outlining nodes expand in response to text changes around them.
- Updated the trigger logic for an auto-corrector.
- Updated Esc key handling while incremental search mode is active to deactivate the mode, but not collapse the selection.
- Updated the left/right selection adjustment edit actions to support virtual space without having to hold Alt when in Block selection mode.
- Updated the EditorSnapshotChangingEventArgs/EditorSnapshotChangedEventArgs.TypedText properties to no longer require a single operation. As a result, incremental search and parameter info can now function with block and multiple selections.
- Updated text changes that retain selection to not scroll the editor view to the caret.
- Updated clicks in a view to ensure the parent Form is activated.
- Refactored how text offsets are mapped to view character indices and vice versa.
- Refactored how text selection over a collapsed outlining node is handled.
- Refactored how SyntaxEditor.DocumentTextChanged events are raised to ensure that they occur in snapshot version order.
- Increased the maximum outlining node depth.
- .NET Languages Add-on
- Added optional extensions to load binary assembly reflection data with Roslyn, which wasn't available in prior WinForms versions.
- Added C# extern alias support via the new IProjectAssemblyReference.Aliases collection.
- Improved probing logic for system assembly XML DocComment files.
- Improved enumeration of IBinaryAssemblyReferenceCollection to use thread locking.
- Improved handling of FileNotFoundException when loading binary assemblies.
- Updated the IntelliPrompt completion list's filters to support key gestures.
- Updated the resolver to better handle a certain lambda expression scenario.
- Python Language Add-on
- Updated the IntelliPrompt completion list's filters to support key gestures.
- Shared
- Updated MarkupLabel's font-family style attribute to support several generic font family names.
- Updated ScrollBar to ensure that its thumb mouse capture is released if the control becomes disabled.
- Updated CanvasControl's text rendering logic to ensure fallback fonts don't increase line height.
- All
- Validated Microsoft .NET 5 compatibility.
- Added NuGet packages for Microsoft .NET Core 3.1 variations of the assemblies.
- Realigned API namespaces for clarity and consistency with other platforms.