DevExpress WinForms 21.2.6

Improves PDF Viewer, Charts and RichEdit controls.

Fixes

All WinForms products

• Microsoft Visual Studio Report Designer - The Satellite Assemblies localization approach does not work.
• Microsoft .NET 5 Designer - SpinEdit loses its buttons when copying & pasting.
• A page summary in a group footer is incorrectly calculated if CachedReportSource is used.
• Accessibility object for TextBoxMaskBox is created for TextEdit-based editors in Advanced Mode.
• Add New Report Parameter window - The StaticListLookUpSettings collection cannot be sorted in the UI after upgrade from v19.2.
• Adding new elements to Skin.SvgPallettes collections affects existing skin colors.
• Certain skin patch elements are not colored according to a selected palette.
• Custom drawing with the GraphicsCache.Paint object doesn't correctly update shapes on DiagramControl's canvas if DirectX rendering is used.
• Displaying a message box in the EditingFieldChanged event handler causes selection of bricks.
• DocumentViewer - Dotted XRLine is incorrectly rendered when UseDirectXPaint is enabled.
• EFDataSource - The overridden DBContext.OnConfiguring method is not called.
• End User Report Designer - Property Grid - The caret may change its position on entering a value into the editor.
• ExcelDataSource - Adding columns with the same name is case-sensitive.
• Export to PDF - The produced document cannot be opened in Adobe Reader (the Nan issue).
• Incorrect icons for the values of the Shape property of the XRShape control.
• It is not possible to set an Expression for the value of a Date Range Parameter.
• Query Builder - Title bar buttons are missing and dialog buttons do not grow in size.
• Report Designer - "Hiding the AddNewDataSource" ReportCommand does not hide the popup menu option in the Field List.
• Report Designer - The Toolbox panel is always added to the owner Form and not to the immediate parent.
• Report Designer crashes when you select XRControl into DetailReportBand and collapse this DetailReportBand.
• Skin Editor: New Skin dialog cannot be resized while the New Skin Patch tab is open.
• Skin Palette Gallery displays incorrect palettes when the WindowsFormsSettings.DefaultLookAndFeel.StyleChanged event is handled and the "default Windows mode" style is changed.
• Skin patches cannot be applied using SplashScreenManager.
• SqlDataSource - Joining two tables results in an error (the Google BigQuery provider issue).
• The DetailReportBand section is not printed if Hierarchical Print Options are used and PageFooter is added to a layout.
• There is no toolbox when a descendant of XRDesignPanel is used.
• Visual Studio Report Designer - Connecting to a PostgreSQL database results in the System.Threading.Tasks.Sources.IValueTaskSource type error.
• Visual Studio Report Designer (Microsoft .NET Core) - NullReference exception occurs when binding to a DataSet class results.
• XRCrossTab - A column is split in half by the right margin.

Coded UI Test Extension

• Ribbon - ToggleSwitch and BarToggleSwitchItem don't offer a way to determine their state via Appium.

Data Access Library

• SqlDataSource - The enhanced "Manage Queries" dialog does not work properly.
• The "Invalid column" error occurs in the Query Builder Expression Editor when the table in [ ] is used.

MVVM Framework

• Existing documents created using WindowedDocumentManagerService are not resized properly if the IDocument.Show method is used.
• MVVM Framework - The IOpenFileDialogService.Reset method doesn't reset options of the existing dialog service.
• Template Gallery: View & View Model template generates invalid designer code.

PDF Viewer

• DirectX Printing - Stackoverflow exception is thrown when printing a document that has a large number of objects with a complex blend mode.
• Parsing - Documents containing an invalid signature lock dictionary cannot be opened.
• Printing - An exception is thrown during printing when the DirectX engine is used and the PdfPrinterSettings.PrintInGrayscale option is enabled.
• Printing - Certain thin lines are incorrectly detected as hairlines.
• Rendering - An exception is raised when the form field appearance is rebuilt if a highlighted form field has default appearance resources.
• Rendering - An optional content group is always visible regardless of its default visibility.
• Rendering - Empty text annotation's appearance defined as an empty form is rebuilt on rendering.
• System.NullReferenceException is thrown when showing the CommentReview popup menu if this menu has a custom item without an icon assigned.
• The PDF Document API library and PdfViewer don't preserve the "Unencrypted wrapper document" PDF 2.0 feature when resaving a PDF document.
• Thumbnail selection isn't reset in the Thumbnails Panel after a new PDF document is loaded in PdfViewer.
• Usability - There is no public API to access printer settings selected in the Print dialog.
• XMP Metadata - Escape characters are duplicated after document serialization.

Project Templates

• Template Gallery: View & View Model template generates invalid designer code.

XtraBars Suite

• A minimized Ribbon Control is shown on a shifted secondary display.
• Accordion Control - AccordionControlElement's text overlaps a Context Button.
• AccordionControl's footer height is not set according to the AccordionControl.OptionsMinimizing.FooterHeight property.
• BarButtonItem - Add a capability to set an item link as the last command in code.
• BarItem - Make the display text of shortcuts localizable.
• BarManager - The Customization dialog does not scale the icons of BarItems.
• BarManager's BarDockControl cannot be brought to the front.
• CustomHeaderButtons' tooltips flicker if the KeepWhileHovered option is enabled at the DefaultToolTipController level.
• FluentDesignForm - The caption of a BarButtonItem disappears after hovering over the item when it is located in the form header area.
• Maximized RibbonForm - Shadow overlaps the second screen on a multi-monitor system.
• Merged RibbonControl enters Navigation Mode when a shortcut containing the trigger key is used.
• PictureEdit cannot load an image using the context menu when it is located in a bar.
• Ribbon Control - It's not possible to drag&drop BarItems onto BarSubItems in Design Mode.
• RibbonGalleryBarItem - Gallery items do not fit into the gallery after the upgrade to v21.2.5.
• ToolbarForm allows moving BarItems using the ALT key when the AllowCustomization option is disabled.
• ToolbarForm doesn't allow dragging items when the Alt button is pressed.
• ToolboxControl - It is impossible to customize the appearance of the BeginGroupCaption text.
• WidgetView - The Designer does not allow applying changes to the Column/Row Length property in Stacked Layout mode.
• А white flash occurs when showing RibbonMiniToolbar in a dark skin.

XtraCharts Suite

• StackOverflowException occurs when clearing the data members of a Series inside the BeginInit/EndInit statement.
• Chart for WinForms does not display task links or partially displays them when the control has a certain size.

XtraDiagram

• A diagram with SVG shapes exported to an SVG document loses gradient colors.
• An InvalidOperationException occurs after re-selecting the Text Tool when a shape is already in edit mode.
• Measure units aren't used for editing if PropertyGrid's active view type is set to "Office".

XtraEditors Library

• Accessibility - The value provider pattern isn't available for DateEdit.
• An empty newly created Microsoft .NET 6 project has the <supportedRuntime> element in the app.config file.
• An extra dialog is shown when an existing file is assigned to XtraSaveFileDialog.FileName.
• DefaultLookAndFeel - Bonus skins are not included in the drop-down list when .NET Core is used.
• DX Skin colors cannot be set at design time in .NET 6 applications.
• FlyoutPanel does not appear a second time with AnimationType Fade.
• GridLookupEdit does not allow entering new values if UseAdvancedTextEdit is enabled.
• HtmlContentControl - Visual Studio hangs when the cursor hovers over the "Edit Template" action at design time.
• NullReferenceException is thrown in GridControl if an unbound column is added when GridControlExtension is used.
• PictureEdit cannot load an image using the context menu when it is located in a bar.
• RadioGroup - Item layout is broken when items are arranged in multiple columns and the ItemVertAlignment property is set to Top.
• Ribbon - ToggleSwitch and BarToggleSwitchItem don't offer a way to determine their state via Appium.
• SVG Image - OutOfMemoryException is thrown when an image is resized.
• SVG rendering - Scaling is not taken into account when a clip-path is calculated.
• SvgRectangle.Create outputs the redundant rx="0" ry="0" properties.
• The TextEdit.CustomHighlightText event cannot be used to apply vertical padding in single-line editors.
• TokenEdit in GridControl - MaxTokenCount does not work.
• TokenEdit in GridControl - The MaxExpandLines property is not taken into account when AutoHeightMode is set to RestrictedExpand.
• UnauthorizedAccessException is thrown when selecting a folder.
• XtraMessageBox border isn't displayed when WindowsFormsSettings.OptimizeRemoteConnectionPerformance and WindowsFormsSettings.FormThickBorder are enabled.
• XtraMessageBox displays an empty string if its text is longer than 32000 symbols.
• XtraMessageBox ignores the button alignment when the dialog title is larger than its text.
• XtraOpenFileDialog opens extremely slow after upgrading to v21.2.
• XtraSaveFileDialog shows an overwrite message when clicking a file's context menu items.

XtraGantt

• It is not possible to format the values of Interaction Tooltips.
• Print preview output is incorrect when OptionsView.ShowHorzLines is set to True.
• The "InvalidOperationException" error occurs on printing when NewItemRowPosition is set to Bottom.

XtraGrid Suite

• A custom Data Grid template does not generate required classes when the VB.NET language is used.
• Column captions in Grid ColumnChooser are cut off when the HeaderPanel's font is changed.
• CSS selector ":root:select" is not applied until the focused row changes for the first time.
• Fixed columns are drawn incorrectly when a group column is fixed.
• LevelIndent is not scaled correctly with different DPI settings.
• NullReferenceException occurs when the PrintableComponentLink.CreateDocument method is called.
• GridControl Accessibility issue - It is not possible to specify AccessibleRole of a column.
• GridControl ignores the cursor CSS tag.
• GridView header's accessibility information is updated too frequently when the GridView.Columns.AddRange method is used.
• GridView: the offset created by FormatConditionRuleIconSet is not changed after the condition is no longer met.
• Horizontal lines in group ident are incorrectly drawn.
• HTML Template Editor: Splitter is not set correctly after returning to the normal window size from a maximized window.
• ItemsView - The KeyNotFoundException exception is thrown when a new record is added to an underlying data source if the scroll bar is visible.
• LayoutView - Field visibility is not restored when a layout is restored from the registry.
• LayoutView is scrolled and shows a single item when the last record in the data source is removed.
• Master-Detail - The first row added with the new item row in an empty detail view is incorrectly shown.
• Master-Detail GridView - The down arrow does not focus a row from a higher level detail view.
• NullReferenceException is thrown in GridControl if an unbound column is added when GridControlExtension is used.
• RepositoryItemRichTextEdit's document elements are not disposed of when GridControl's data source is cleared in v21.2.
• The Retrieve Details button in GridControl crashes the .NET/.NET Core form designer.
• TileView excessively uses GDI objects when the AnimateArrival option is enabled.
• WinExplorerView - The CustomDrawItem event makes the text of all records bold.
• WinExplorerView - A view is not refreshed when its data source changes.
• WinExplorerView does not store the scroll position when the current skin is changed.
• WinExplorerView fires the SelectionChanged event when its content is scrolled.

XtraLayout Suite

• .NET Core 5 Design-Time: It's not possible to drop a control from the toolbox onto LayoutControl.
• LayoutControl.LayoutUpdate is not always fired after changing item visibility.
• WorkspaceManager - It is not possible to determine which component the property belongs to when processing child properties in the PropertyDeserializing event handler.

XtraPivotGrid Suite

• Row summaries are unreadable/not shown in the Print Preview.
• Usability - UnboundExpressionEditorCreated event does not allow replacing the default ExpressionEditor like in Grid Control.

XtraRichEdit

• An OpenXml document containing a shape with an invalid "o:spt" parameter value cannot be loaded.
• Charts - Microsoft Office 365 Word cannot edit the BarStacked chart's data after a .DOCX document with this chart is re-saved by RichEditControl.
• Editing - Hanging indentations are incorrectly applied to text pasted from an external document.
• Editing - NullReferenceException is thrown on an attempt to create a bulleted list after loading a specific document.
• Export to DOCX - An exception occurs on an attempt to save a specific document to DOCX.
• Export to DOCX - The layout is messed up after saving a specific document to DOCX and reloading it.
• Export to HTML - InvalidOperationException occurs on an attempt to get the HtmlText property value.
• Export to Rtf - A table from a specific .Rtf document looks incorrect in Microsoft Office Word if the document was saved by the DevExpress Rich Text Editor.
• Frames - Specific frames are positioned incorrectly after loading a specific document.
• Import from DOCX - Paragraphs have incorrect spacing after loading a specific document.
• Import from HTML - ArgumentException is thrown on an attempt to load an HTML document containing images with small heights.
• Rendering - The layout of the inserted HTML table is messed up.
• RepositoryItemRichTextEdit's document elements are not disposed of when GridControl's data source is cleared in v21.2.
• Shapes - Gradients applied to shapes are inverted.

XtraSpreadsheet

• A SpreadsheetML file with the specific record of the style color cannot be imported.
• Cell values in hidden rows are overwritten after pasting the content using the Enter key.
• InvalidOperationException is thrown on an attempt to refresh a pivot table if a source table was removed and a new table with the same name and different column layout is created.
• NullReferenceException is thrown on an attempt to load a specific XML document.
• OutOfMemoryException is thrown on an attempt to refresh the pivot cache if the pivot table has multiple row fields.
• Replacing empty values works differently than in Microsoft Excel.
• Spreadsheet Control - A long Chinese text is incorrectly rendered in a document cell if the Wrap Text command is applied to the cell.
• Spreadsheet crashes when inserting a picture using a non-image file.
• The 'Reference is not valid' exception is thrown on an attempt to refresh a pivot table if a source table was removed and a new table with the same name and column layout is created.
• The ColumnsRemoved event does not fire in specific cases.
• The outline level is not automatically updated after loading a specific document.
• The SetValueFromText allows inserting a string longer than 32767 characters.
• The Spreadsheet Document API/SpreadsheetControl does not preserve the "updateLinks" workbook property on saving an XLSX document.

XtraTreeList Suite

• Empty TreeList nodes' DefaultAction accessibility property is set to "Expand".

XtraVerticalGrid Suite

• DXCollectionEditor allows adding and removing items of ReadOnlyCollection.
• Measure units aren't used for editing if PropertyGrid's active view type is set to "Office".
• ProeprtyGridControl - The ShowFocusedFrame property does not work with the Office view type.
• PropertyGrid doesn't close an active editor when adding a property to a bound object.
• PropertyGridControl - A custom UITypeEditor's value is not saved when the SelectedObject property is changed in the MouseDown event handler.
• PropertyGridControl - ArgumentException is thrown in the designer when PGPanel is located in TabbedControlGroup.
• PropertyGridControl creates a new control each time a user activates a cell that uses another repository item.
• PropertyGridControl's CellValueChanging uses a string representation of a value instead of a real object.
• VGridControl incorrectly processes the Tab key on the active editor when the OptionsBehavior.UseTabKey property is set to false.