DevExpress WinForms 21.2.8

Improves Charts, PDF Viewer and Grid controls.

Fixes

All WinForms products

• "'Method 'DevExpress.XtraReports.Design.VSCore.TypeInfoDiscovery.RemoteClassStub.ChrW' not found" error occurs when a report is opened in the Microsoft Visual Studio Report Designer.
• Bricks added to a panel in a custom report control are not displayed on the surface of the End-User Report Designer.
• Colors with names containing spaces cannot be used in CSS.
• Controls from the toolbox cannot be dropped on tab/navigation pages in Microsoft .NET/.NET Core designer.
• Direct X - Layout Features | Anchoring Demo - The price is cropped on switching to the Landscape orientation.
• Document Viewer - The Reset button does not clear all currently selected cascading parameter values.
• Export to PDF - Some characters are missing in the exported PDF document after the upgrade to v21.2.7 if a custom font is used.
• FederationDataSource - The internal data source's Fill method is not called for subreports.
• Form shadow flickers when Backstage View is opened/closed.
• Preview - The value of a parameter is not applied when the Enter button is pressed quickly.
• ReportPrintTool - The Cancel button is missing from the standalone "Parameters" panel.
• Scrollable controls cannot be scrolled using accessibility tools.
• TransitionManager - Add a way to normalize an image during the transition animation.
• XRBarCode - The Validate method works incorrectly if a barcode has borders.

Data Access Library

• JSON Data Source - An error occurs when opening a specific JSON file.
• JsonDataSource fails to load data for large numbers exceeding int64 (BigInt numbers).

PDF Viewer

• Parsing - A FontDescriptor object without FontBBox cannot be parsed.
• UI - Skins are incorrectly applied to PdfSearchProgressForm.
• Usability - There is no event to determine the moment when a form field editor is created and get its value.

Snap

• ReplaceMisspellingCommand cannot be overridden.

XtraBars Suite

• A minimized hamburger menu does not display text of elements if any of the elements has an image.
• AccordionControl - AccordionControlElement is not shown when it is added using the AddItem method.
• AccordionControl adds a redundant indent to child items when ActiveGroupDisplayMode is GroupHeaderAndContent.
• AccordionControl in Hamburger Mode is scaled incorrectly in Per-Monitor V2 scaling mode.
• BarButtonItem - There is no capability to specify the maximum Description width.
• BarButtonItem defined with an SVG image is colored differently in Quick Access Toolbar and the Caption Bar.
• BarItems - It is not possible to determine the current paint style in the RibbonControl component.
• BarManager - There is no check to see if Item is null in the BarItemLink.Enabled property.
• BarManager's Customization Form cannot be opened if both the base and inherited form containing it are open at design time.
• DockManager - InvalidOperationException is thrown when restoring the component layout.
• DockManager - There is no way to click the caption's buttons when using the Light style and a large CustomResizeZoneThickness value.
• It is not possible to double-click Toolstrip items at design time if TabPane's tab is under such an item.
• Keyboard accelerators disappear after navigating through a submenu.
• NavigationFrame is scaled incorrectly in Per-Monitor V2 scaling mode.
• Ribbon Search Menu only accepts one character when Primary Shortcut Processor is set to Bar Item.
• RibbonControl does not exit full-screen mode when the auto-hidden ribbon is expanded.
• Taskbar Assistant - The ParentControl property is not set when dropping Taskbar Assistant onto a form in a Microsoft .NET 6 project.
• The form designer cannot be opened when OfficeNavigationBar is used.
• ToolbarForm menu is not activated when the Alt key is pressed.
• ToolboxControl - Search results are cleared when entering more than one symbol.

XtraCharts Suite

• 3D Pie - Series labels rendering artifacts occur in certain cases.
• Chart Control for WinForms - The Legend.Alignment property value cannot be changed in Chart Designer.
• Chart for WinForms - NullReferenceException occurs if an Annotation is anchored to a Series Point and the AllowResample option is enabled.
• Chart for WinForms - ChartDesigner - Setting the legend alignment has no effect.
• Chart for WinForms - Designer displays the Value section instead of the Color section in the Data tab for series.
• Chart for WinForms - Narrow strips are not displayed without zooming in certain cases.
• The chart layout is incorrect after calling the XYDiagram.ResetZoom method in the LegendItemChecked event handler.
• The e.LegendMarkerVisible property does not work in the CustomDrawSeries event handler.
• XRChart shows the zero value with the negative sign in the point label in certain cases.

XtraDiagram

• DiagramControl incorrectly generates the ribbon menu if there is another RibbonControl on the form.
• Items overlap in certain cases.
• ToolboxControl doesn't automatically switch an item's icon and text positions when the RTL mode is enabled.

XtraEditors Library

• Application.ThreadExit event fires when closing a Splash Screen.
• BarCodeControl - The VerticalTextAlignment property resets the value of the HorizontalTextAlignment property.
• ButtonEdit - The Auto Complete popup doesn't close when a button is clicked and Advanced Mode is enabled.
• Certain text element properties are not applied to nested elements when the SVG image is drawn.
• CustomDisplayText event does not work with an in-place GridLookUpEdit in AutoSuggest mode.
• DateEdit - The calendar closes immediately when selecting a date even if the CalendarTimeEditing option is enabled.
• DateEdit - The OK/Cancel buttons are not centered in the editor popup when the calendar control is hidden.
• DxHtmlElementEventArgs are not inherited from EventArgs.
• FlyoutPanel - The BeforeHide event stops firing after its Cancel parameter is set to true.
• HyperLinkEdit's hit information is calculated incorrectly when the StartLinkOnClickingEmptySpace setting is disabled in RTL mode.
• LookUpEdit - No text is displayed when the text contains the ampersand(&) symbol.
• OverlayForm - The disableInput parameter is not taken into account when the form is shown using a button.
• OverlayForm - The form overlaps the second screen when the overlay is shown for a maximized form.
• PopupContainerEdit.PopupControl is disposed of when Conditional Formatting dialogs that use it are closed.
• RepositoryItemMemoExEdit - The icon is not displayed when using the Blue skin.
• RepositoryItemPictureEdit - The SvgImageColorizationMode property is not taken into account.
• SplashScreenManager is generated as a local variable.
• SplitContainerControl - A splitter cannot be moved between panels with docked controls in .NET 6.
• StepProgressBar - The ContentBlock property is not localized by the form localization mechanism.
• TablePanel - Columns width are incorrect when an auto-size control spans in multiple auto-size columns.
• TablePanel - The control is not docked in a cell when it is dropped from the Toolbox in .NET 6.
• TextEdit - The label is truncated if a control is disabled and text exceeds the control width.
• TextEdit - IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown after removing text from an editor that is handled by the SpellChecked component in Advanced Mode.
• TextEdit - Part of a symbol can be removed.
• TextEdit - The editor flashes with the previous value during the transition animation.
• TextEdit - The MaxLength property is not taken into account when data is entered in the middle of text in Advanced Mode.
• TextEdit in Advanced Mode - The Text property accepts multiline text on pasting.
• The href tag value can not be set using the binding function.
• The TimeSpanEdit dropdown behaves incorrectly when the "f" mask expression is used.
• The touch keyboard is not displayed for the focused TextEdit in certain cases.
• TokenEdit - Cells display incorrect data when multiple rows use the same RepositoryItem object in Manual mode.
• TokenEdit - The text area is disabled after one token is checked if all tokens from the editor's data source are selected.
• Tooltip with a beak has a misplaced shadow when the WindowsFormsSettings.AllowRoundedWindowCorners property is enabled.
• XtraDialog - Buttons are not displayed after upgrade.
• XtraDialog - The dialog form flickers when shown and it's not possible to modify its ShowMode property.
• XtraFolderBrowserDialog - It is not possible to hide hot key prefixes in the folder context menu.
• XtraInputBox cannot be resized according to the control's width.
• XtraMessageBox - The dialog is shown on the primary screen despite the location of the parent form.

XtraGauges Suite

• GaugeControl - Visual Studio restarts when the control designer is shown with non-standard DPI settings.

XtraGrid Suite

• Columns in the top row of the AdvBandedGridView column panel cannot be moved if more than one band is hidden using the OptionsView.ShowBands property.
• GridControl - Borders are not shown when GridControl is placed and docked inside GroupControl and GroupControl's Padding is greater than zero.
• GridView - FormatException is thrown when adding a SUM and AVG summary on a column bound to a nullable TimeSpan.
• GridView - The Auto Filter Row cell is not cleared when you select the content and erase it.
• GridView - The Average and Sum summaries set in the Group Summary Editor form are not correctly shown for the TimeSpan column.
• GridView - The conditional formatting font size is not restored when a layout is loaded if other font properties are set.
• GridView - The Edit Form does not respond to an OptionsBehavior.ReadOnly property change.
• GridView - The MRU dropdown is not displayed in the Filter Panel when filters in Visual filter criteria style are cleared.
• GridView - The values of a nullable field in a conditional formatting rule are exported to Microsoft Excel as strings.
• GridView throws NullReferenceException when MasterRowGetChildList is handled without MasterRowGetRelationName.
• LayoutView throws an exception if the last item is removed from the data source.
• Opening GridControl's Data Source Configuration Wizard causes Visual Studio to crash in certain conditions.
• PropertyGridControl does not display child rows for a byte array.
• Redundant filter criteria may result in a NullReferenceException.
• Skin - The HighlightSearch and HighlightSearchText skin properties are not used to paint the search results.
• SVG images are not shown in WinExplorerView when an HTML template is used.
• The GridControl filter is not reset in AutoFilterRow if a read-only column is used.
• TileView - Kanban groups aren't saved and restored correctly when Workspace Manager is used.
• TileView - The group header can show multi line text with vertical orientation using the HTML format.
• TileView throws NullReferenceException when restoring a layout with a GroupedColumn.
• UnboundDataType for enum is not restored when calling RestoreLayoutFromStream.
• WinExplorerView - The EmptySpace appearance gradient does not work.
• WinExplorerView - The scrollbar's position is incorrectly set when the view is filtered.
• WinExplorerView cannot apply multiple HTML templates in the QueryItemTemplate event handler.
• WinExplorerView does not support GIF animations.
• WinExplorerView incorrectly restores a layout with a GroupedColumn.

XtraLayout Suite

• Layout Control - TabbedControlGroup's caption image is stretched when the image padding is increased.
• LayoutControl - A Visual Studio crashes when opening a custom UserCustomizationForm at design time in .NET 6.
• The .NET/.NET Core designer crashes in Visual Studio 2019 after LayoutControl is dropped from the toolbox.

XtraMap

• Map Control for WinForms - Labels for clustered items disappear when scrolling the map.
• Map Control for WPF - Usability - There is no event that is raised when you remove a Map Ruler.
• Map Editor for WinForms - Usability - The Delete key removes a newly created item even if it is not selected.
• Map for WinForms - Custom Vector Tile provider implementation is incorrect.

XtraPivotGrid Suite

• PivotGrid for WinForms - Async mode - Loading icon flickers when loading the form.
• PivotGrid for WinForms - Filter Editor incorrectly filters data when the text of a field is overridden in the FieldValueDisplayText event in certain cases.
• PivotGrid for WinForms - It is impossible to call the CreateDrillDownSource method in the CustomGroupInterval event handler.
• PivotGrid for WinForms - The GetAvailableValues method returns zero items when using OLAP Expression.
• PivotGrid for WinForms - UnsafeTypeDeserializationException occurs when restoring a layout with the ProvideRowFieldValuesAsType option.
• PivotGrid for WinForms incorrectly renders images in cells during scrolling when the DirectX Image Rendering is enabled.

XtraPrinting Library

• BrickSelector.GetBricksByTag method compares tags by instances instead of checking their equality.

XtraRichEdit

• ReplaceMisspellingCommand cannot be overridden.
• RichEdit - The incorrect background color is displayed if the document contains the \cb RTF tag.
• RichEditControl allows editing protected ranges if the Track Changes option is turned on.
• RTL text in a particular document is rendered incorrectly when RichEditControl uses theme fonts.
• The application freezes on an attempt to open a specific OpenXml document.
• XtraRichEdit - ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when the current Comment is accessed during the edit operation.

XtraScheduler Suite

• ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when the TimeScaleFixedInterval.IsDateVisible method is overridden.
• Exception is thrown in the report preview when the VisibleResourceCount property is used.
• Scheduler - AppointmentDrag doesn't allow preventing dragging of individual appointments.
• Scheduler - HTML Templates do not work in TimeLineView.
• SchedulerControl - Resources are scrolled without animation in the Timeline View.
• SchedulerControl - The control cannot display data from the internal list of the BindingSource collection.
• SchedulerControl - The recurrence glyph is too big at high DPI.
• SchedulerControl does not print appointments that are outside the print time if the PrintAllAppointments option is enabled.
• SchedulerControl with the TimeLine view - An incorrect appointment time format may be applied on the application startup.
• ToolTipController's BeforeShow event does not fire when AgendaView is used.

XtraSpellChecker

• TextEdit - IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown after removing text from an editor that is handled by the SpellChecked component in Advanced Mode.

XtraSpreadsheet

• Spreadsheet doesn't open a certain Excel 2007 file.
• Spreadsheet - The new line symbol is added to the text editor in the Formula Bar when a formula contains an error.
• SpreadsheetControl - Setting the DefaultRowHeight property doesn't update a worksheet's row height immediately.

XtraTreeList Suite

• Disabled Cell Behavior - NullReferenceException is thrown when a behavior with an expression is attached to a control with a visible Auto Filter Row.
• Find Panel module in XtraTreeList MainDemo - Icons are not scaled correctly in the print preview when Per Monitor V2 is used.
• Skin - The HighlightSearch and HighlightSearchText skin properties are not used to paint the search results.
• The SelectionChanged event does not fire after data is filtered out.
• TreeList - ArgumentException is thrown when columns with the same field name are added.
• TreeList - The number of lines is incorrect in the preview area when AutoCalcPreviewLineCount is enabled and AutoWidth is disabled.
• TreeList does not cancel creation of a new data record when a user cancels input in the new item row.
• TreeList does not show values from a list with a simple data type.

XtraVerticalGrid Suite

• A cursor jumps to the start of an editor after posting a value in the property grid in the End-User Report designer.
• Editors that implement the IHeightAdaptable interface cause performance drops in PropertyGridControl.
• PropertyGridControl - The ShowFocusedFrame property does not work with the Office view type in v21.2.7.
• PropertyDescriptionControl - The text is not cleared when the PropertyGridControl.SelectedObject property is set to null.
• PropertyGrid - RepositoryItem is not assigned in the CustomRowCreated event handler.
• PropertyGrid - Specified DateTime mask looks different in display and edit modes.
• PropertyGridControl doesn't take the "Order" Data Annotation attribute into account.
• PropertyGridControl with Office View doesn't allow disabling the touch scrollbar.
• There is no way to respond to the refreshing of property rows in PropertyGridControl.