Improves Charts, DataGrid and SyntaxEditor controls.
Features
- All
- Validated Microsoft .NET 5 compatibility.
- Updated Microsoft .NET Core assemblies to target .NET Core 3.1 instead of .NET Core 3.0.
- Updated Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies to target .NET Framework 4.5.2 instead of .NET Framework 4.0.
- Modernized offline documentation, and introduced online documentation on the Actipro web site.
- Created a new 'WPF-Controls' GitHub repository with the full source of documentation topics, samples and other code.
- Charts
- Updated the label collision logic.
- DataGrid
- Updated ThemedDataGrid to properly render an inactive selection.
- Editors
- Added the AutoCompleteBox.TextAlignment property.
- Updated each edit box to have a default AllowDrop of true, and to bind the AllowDrop property to the embedded TextBox.
- Updated numeric edit boxes to not round values when incrementing and the related SmallChange or LargeChange is zero.
- Grids
- Added the Toolbox demo.
- Improved TreeListBox so that when turning off filtering, all ancestor nodes of currently-selected nodes will remain expanded.
- Ribbon
- Updated the UIA tree to include the Backstage's close button.
- Shell
- Improved performance when refreshing shell object children in a certain scenario.
- Improved the Custom Shell Objects QuickStart to demonstrate more advanced features.
- SyntaxEditor
- Added the ability to customize the macro recording mechanism. 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.
- Improved exception reporting for an invalid dynamic lexer regular expression pattern range.
- Themes
- Updated how the styles for ComboBox, ListBox and ListView handle grouping.
- Updated how ThemeManager watches the system theme settings.
- Updated the ThemeGenerator logic.