New Windows Application Themes in DevExpress DXperience.

Adds new controls for WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET and Windows 10 Apps.

DevExpress DXperience delivers the capabilities you'll need to build compelling, high-impact desktop, Web and mobile solutions. DevExpress DXperience Subscription is a feature-complete software development toolset for .NET developers. It includes all DevExpress Controls for WinForms, ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC, WPF, Reporting, Windows 10 Apps plus the award-winning Visual Studio Add-In CodeRush, in one integrated package.

Updates in 15.2.3

• WinForms Diagram Control - Visually communicate complex information using data-linked diagrams and flowcharts.
• WinForms Date Editor and Calendar - The calendar used in the WinForms Date Editor is now available as a standalone control that can be dropped directly onto a form.
• WinForms Excel Data Source - Bind DevExpress WinForms data-aware controls to Microsoft Excel workbooks or CSV files.
• Office Inspired Ring/Line Animations - The WinForms Progress Panel and Transition Manager now support Office inspired animation styles.
• Office 2016 Inspired Theme - Adds new Office 2016 Colorful Theme and Office 2016 Black Theme.
• WinForms Tabbed Form - Incorporates a Tabbed MDI interface which allows you to eliminate the use of MDI managers.
• WinForms Tabbed Pane Control– A SDI (Single Document Interface) navigation control that owns a collection of pages and uses buttons to navigate between them.
• WinForms Toolbox Control - A Microsoft Visio inspired Toolbox control.
• ASP.NET CardView Control - Build a Microsoft Outlook inspired Contacts View with integrated data shaping and editing capabilities.
• WPF Camera Control - Display a video stream from a webcam and take a snapshot.
• WPF Clipboard Manager - Copy data from the DevExpress Grid and TreeList Controls to MS Word, Excel and Outlook while preserving the original formatting.
• WPF TreeMap Control - Visualize flat or hierarchically structured data using nested rectangles that are sized and ordered.
• UWP Ribbon Control - Includes Ribbon items, Backstage View, Mobile View and MVVM support.
• UWP Hamburger Menu and Hamburger Frame - New Hamburger Menu and Hamburger Frame controls.
• WPF Report Designer - A feature-rich end-user reporting tool for WPF with a new Report Wizard and Data Source Wizard.

About DevExpress (Developer Express)

DevExpress (Developer Express) is a software development company based in the United States. It produces coding assistance tools and components for Delphi, C++ Builder and Microsoft Visual Studio developers. The major part of its product line is VCL, .NET WinForms and ASP.NET components that replicate the UI of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications. Developer Express has won many industry awards for its products.

A sample flowchart created using DevExpress WinForms.

Visually communicate complex information using data-linked diagrams and flowcharts.

DevExpress WinForms includes 130+ controls which help you emulate the UI of today's most popular productivity apps. Whether you need to reproduce the look and feel of Microsoft Office or to deliver data mining and decision support systems for your enterprise, DevExpress libraries have been built to help you intuitively present data to your end-users in the shortest possible time.

Updates in 15.2.3

New Controls

• WinForms Diagram Control - Visually communicate complex information using data-linked diagrams and flowcharts.
• WinForms Date Editor and Calendar - The calendar used in the WinForms Date Editor is now available as a standalone control.
• WinForms Excel Data Source - Bind DevExpress WinForms data-aware controls to Microsoft Excel workbooks or CSV files.
• Office Inspired Ring/Line Animations - The WinForms Progress Panel and Transition Manager now support Office inspired animation styles.
• WinForms Tabbed Form - Incorporates a Tabbed MDI interface which allows you to eliminate the use of MDI managers.
• WinForms Tabbed Pane Control– A SDI (Single Document Interface) navigation control that owns a collection of pages and uses buttons to navigate between them.
• WinForms Toolbox Control - A Microsoft Visio inspired Toolbox control.

Enhancements

WinForms Grid Control

• Data Cell Images - Data cells can now display custom images either to the left or right edge of the control.
• Align Summary Values with Group Rows - Summary values can be displayed in group rows under corresponding column headers.
• Partial Groups - Display group rows with two or more data rows.
• Grid-Based Report Generation - Invoke the DevExpress WinForms Report Designer from the Grid Control and create reports based on its data.

WinForms App UI Manager

• New layout mode allows you to mix vertical and horizontal tabbed groups in Tabbed Views.

WinForms Chart Control

• New Financial Indicators - This release ships with financial indicators including AverageTrueRange, CommodityChannelIndex, DetrendedPriceOscillator and MassIndex.

WinForms Layout Control

• Resizing - You can view an item's current size during resize operations.
• Search within Customization Form - You can now locate items by entering their names in the search box.

WinForms Map Control

• Data Clustering - Aggregate data using the DevExpress Map Control's new clustering methods.
• Vector Data Export/Import Enhancements - Import SVG vector graphics and export its vector data to KML, SVG and Shapefiles.

WinForms PDF Viewer

• Open/Save Attachments - You can open and/or save attachments as needed.

WinForms Property Grid Control

• HTML Formatting - Row headers and data cells now support HTML text formatting.

WinForms Ribbon Control

• Recent Items - Emulate menus introduced in the newest version of Microsoft Office.

WinForms Rich Editor Control

• Custom Drawing Using Layout API - Draw lines, shapes and text above, below or in place of page elements.
• Nested Comments - Comments and replies are grouped and displayed as a conversation.
• Improved PDF Export - PDF algorithms have been optimized. It's now twice as fast and consumes 30% less memory.

WinForms Scheduler Control

• Time Indicator - The Scheduler now indicates current time.
• Time Zone Information for Each Appointment - Associate time zones with individual appointments.

WinForms Snap Reporting Control

• Data Source Wizard Customization - Manage data source lists, remove default wizard pages, create and add custom pages.

WinForms Spreadsheet Control

• Pivot Tables - Analyze, categorize and summarize large volumes of data within a worksheet.
• API Improvements - Create a pivot table from a cell range or a PivotTable cache, modify and remove existing pivot tables.

WinForms TreeList Control

• Cell Selection - The WinForms TreeList control now supports selection of multiple cells.
• Drag and Drop Enhancements - You no longer need to handle events and write code to enable drag and drop for multiple nodes within the DevExpress WinForms TreeList control.

WinForms MVVM and Scaffolding

• New Services - This release provides four new services for the MVVM platform: notification, splash screen, layout serialization and print preview.
• Data Binding Improvements - The MVVM Framework supports binding to properties, commands and event-to-command behaviors for nested ViewModels.
• View Scaffolding - You can now create MVVM Application parts (Model, ModelViews and Views) based on an Entity Framework Model.

WinForms Application Themes

• New Office 2016 Inspired Themes - This release ships with the following Office 2016 inspired themes: Office 2016 Colorful Theme and Office 2016 Black Theme.

About DevExpress (Developer Express)

DevExpress (Developer Express) is a software development company based in the United States. It produces coding assistance tools and components for Delphi, C++ Builder and Microsoft Visual Studio developers. The major part of its product line is VCL, .NET WinForms and ASP.NET components that replicate the UI of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications. Developer Express has won many industry awards for its products.

All three Xamarin platforms, plus UWP, now have picker controls.

Features

• Xamarin.Forms
  • New picker control.
  • New radial menu control.
  • Text selection and copy support in PDF Viewer.
• Xamarin.Android
  • New picker control.
  • New data form control.
  • Table summaries for data grid.
• Xamarin.iOS
  • New picker control.
  • New data form control.
  • Table summaries for data grid.
• ASP.NET Core
  • New radial menu.
  • Stacking spline area and 100% stacking spline area charts.
  • Ruler support for diagram.
• ASP.NET MVC
  • Stacking spline area and 100% stacking spline area charts.
  • Ruler support for diagram.
  • Work week support for Gantt control.
• ASP.NET Web Forms
  • New date range picker.
  • Stacking spline area and 100% stacking spline area chart types.
  • Ruler support for diagram.
• UWP
  • New picker control.
  • Axis scale break for charts.
  • Style customization support for Gantt control.
• JavaScript
  • Stacking spline area and 100% stacking spline area charts.
  • Ruler support for diagram.
  • Work week support for Gantt control.
• Windows Forms
  • Content control support for DocIO.
  • Customization support for message boxes.
  • Tagged PDF support.
• WPF
  • Themes support for tree grids.
  • Axis scale break for charts.
  • Report Viewer parameter rending based on parameter layout.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• An AV occurs when hovering the mouse pointer over a bar button, whose RepeatClick property is set to True, pressing the left mouse button and then right-clicking the button without releasing the left mouse button.
• Ribbon - Resizing a form by dragging its shadow doesn't close a popup that hosts a minimized Ribbon's groups.
• Ribbon Form - Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Office 2016, or Microsoft Office 2016 Tablet style - Clicking a form's shadow focuses it and prevents handling shortcuts.
• TdxBarCustomPopupComponent descendants ignore their bar manager's Scaled property value.
• The "Overriding virtual method 'TdxBarControlContainerControl.HasWindow' has lower visibility (protected) than base class 'TdxBarItemControl' (public)" hint is displayed when compiling the dxBarExtItems unit.
• Toolbars displaying large size icons from a linked image list, whose SourceDPI property value is greater than 96, are oversized at high DPI settings (more than 96).

ExpressDataController

• An inserted record is hidden until the bound dataset is reactivated if the data controller whose DataModeController.SmartRefresh property is set to True is linked to this dataset using a FireDAC connection.

ExpressDocking Library

• A dock panel activated by closing another dock panel's tab in TdxTabContainerDockSite doesn't fire its OnActivate event.
• Controls docked into a side container don't limit its sizing.

ExpressEditors Library

• cxLookupComboBox displays a date-time value containing the milliseconds part differently in the input field and drop-down list.
• TcxRadioButton is incorrectly painted at high DPI settings (more than 96) if the Flat, Standard, Office11, or UltraFlat paint style is applied.
• TcxScrollBox - Pressing the mouse wheel and moving the mouse doesn't scroll the content.
• TcxShellTreeView - The Folders[I].PathName property is not updated on renaming an item.
• TdxCustomGalleryControl and descendants don't gray out glyphs for disabled items.

ExpressExport Library

• A cell text formatted using one rich text style is not exported.

ExpressLibrary

• Certain images without the alpha channel information and that are stored in a standard VCL TImageList are incorrectly painted if its ColorDepth property is set to cdDeviceDependent or cd32bit.
• SVG Images - Fractional numbers whose zero integer part is omitted are parsed incorrectly with certain images.
• SVG Images - The "Floating point divide by zero" exception occurs on drawing an image with no viewBox attribute.
• TdxImageSlider - The quality degrades when an image is scaled down to fit the control.

ExpressPDFViewer

• An OpenType font containing composite glyphs is rendered incorrectly.
• Pages referring to shared resources in the PDF document's root page tree node are displayed incorrectly.
• PostScript Type 1 fonts are rendered incorrectly in certain cases.

ExpressPivotGrid Suite

• Memory leaks when exporting data to an XLS or XLSX file.

ExpressPrinting System

• Improve the quality and reduce memory usage when printing large images.
• Scheduler Report Link - Memory leaks when handling the OnCanPrintEvent event to exclude events from printing.
• TDrawGrid Report Link - Header/footer content is not printed if the SupportedCustomDraw property is set to True and the OnCustomDrawCell or OnCustomDrawCellEx event is handled.

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• Export - Card View - An AV occurs when calling the ExportGridTo~ methods if the View doesn't fit all the records set for display.
• Layout View - Calling the ExportGridTo~ methods causes the "Invalid class typecast" error if the View displays layout group captions.
• Table and Banded Table Views - Scrolling the content produces painting artifacts while an in-place editor is active.
• Table and Banded Table Views - The "List index of bounds" exception occurs when storing/restoring a customized layout of a View's in-place Edit Form after creating an auxiliary TdxLayoutAutoCreatedGroup at runtime.
• The column can be narrowed so that its check boxes used for web-style row selection are clipped if the OptionsSelection.CheckBoxVisibility property is set to [cbvDataRow].

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

• Assigning an image list to the StateImages property causes the EOutOfResources exception or unexpected node height changes while the Images property is unassigned.

ExpressRichEdit Control

• A rotated text box located close to a page's edge displays truncated text.
• Image quality degrades when previewing, printing, or exporting documents to PDF files.
• Managing a document that contains only frames causes an exception.
• Modify Style dialog - Typing a non-existing style name to the "Current style" field causes an exception.
• Simple View doesn't paint the left side of an inserted table.
• The control does not load external image files included into a document by specifying their relative paths in INCLUDEPICTURE fields.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• An application freezes when saving a worksheet containing a formula built with a number of references to an XLS file.
• Clearing selection doesn't disable certain actions.
• No data is loaded from an XLSX file created by Office Open XML SDK.

ExpressTile Control

• A detail page overlaps control borders.

ExpressWizard Control

• An MDI child form's wizard control causes the "Cannot create form. No MDI forms are currently active" error on closing an application and manually destroying a data module that contains TcxLookAndFeelController.

Installation (VCL)

• Documentation - ALinks displayed by a topic title's non-scrollable area are broken in RAD Studio XE7 or earlier.
• Documentation - Certain cross-product links are either missing or misleading in RAD Studio XE8 or later.

Improved quality of VSDX to SVG output.

Features

• Improved quality of VSDX to SVG output.
• SVGSaveOptions - added support to control the level of bitmap compression.
• Added support for connecting shapes with a connection index.

Fixes

• VSDX to PDF and HTML conversion, the circular shape's text is misplaced.
• Warning triangle shapes are not rendered correctly in saving VSDM to SVG.
• Displaced text items on converting a VSD to PDF.
• Incorrect fonts applied to text when converting a VSD to PDF.
• VSDM to SVG - the image is truncated.
• VSDX to PDF - the color of text on connecting lines has changed.
• VSDX to PDF - missing graphic elements.
• VSDX to PDF - incomplete rendering of the flowchart.
• VSDX to PDF - missing graphic elements.
• Open and save routine of a VSDX drawing generates a corrupt output file.
• VSDX to SVG - incorrect positioning of text.
• VSDX to PDF - the text on connecting lines is missing.
• VSDX to PDF - bold formatted text on rectangle shapes is missing.
• VSDM to SVG - arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow error.
• Error in the element of shape while loading a VSDM.
• VSDM to SVG - all connecting lines are missing.
• VSDM to SVG - incorrect border style and border color of various shapes.
• Issue after adding two comments to the shape.
• Issue after using the "AddComment" method when adding comments to various shapes.
• Aspose Diagram incorrectly imports shape to document.
• VSDM to SVG - an additional watermark text is added.
• VSDM to SVG - incorrect rendering of an icon.
• VSDM to SVG - displaced text at the top right corner.
• VSDM to SVG - incorrect rendering of the background image.
• VSD to HTML - invalid format of the input string error.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• Missing shapes on converting a VST to PNG.
• Output VSDX - incorrect layout of all connecting lines.
• Output VSDX - manually added shape size is not changed.
• Output VSDX - misplaced text of the dynamic connector.
• Output VSDX - the connecting line passing through another shape.
• Output VSDX - the decision shape is becoming larger.
• Cannot set the overlapping behavior of connecting lines in a VSDX drawing.
• Output VSDX - incorrect layout of the connector line.
• Output PNG - the text of a shape goes out of the boundary.
• Output VSDX - width formula of any shape is not preserved.
• Output VSDX - incorrect size of shape.
• Output VSDX - the layout of shapes is not according to the width and height in the shapesheet.

Now includes non-blocking layout methods.

Features

• Non-blocking layout methods - All graph layout classes now contain an ArrangeAsync method that runs layout calculations in the background.
• Miscellaneous
  • The ShapeNode, Cell and TableNode ImagePadding property lets you set padding space between an element's borders and the contained image.
  • Property added that specifies how much space to leave between links when LinkType is set to Cascading.
  • ContainerNodes now applies TextPadding value.
  • Merge indicators for cascading links are now supported as counter-parts of branch indicators.
  • Custom element added to BranchIndicator enumeration.
  • Export overloads that write to Stream objects added to PdfExporter, VisioExporter and Visio2013Exporter.
  • PageAdding validation event added to TabbedDiagramView control.
  • TreeViewConnectionPoint Public Item property provides access to target TreeViewItem links.
  • Vertical scrollbar is now displayed on the left side of DiagramView when RightToLeft is enabled.

All graph layout classes now contain a method that runs layout calculations in the background.

Features

• Non-blocking layout methods - All graph layout classes now contain an ArrangeAsync method that runs layout calculations in the background.
• Miscellaneous
  • The ShapeNode, Cell and TableNode ImagePadding property lets you set padding space between an element's borders and the contained image.
  • Property added that specifies how much space to leave between links when LinkType is set to Cascading.
  • ContainerNodes now applies TextPadding value.
  • Merge indicators for cascading links are now supported as counter-parts of branch indicators.
  • Custom element added to BranchIndicator enumeration.
  • Export overloads that write to Stream objects added to PdfExporter, VisioExporter and Visio2013Exporter.
  • PageAdding validation event added to TabbedDiagramView control.
  • TreeViewConnectionPoint Public Item property provides access to target TreeViewItem links.
  • Vertical scrollbar is now displayed on the left side of DiagramView when RightToLeft is enabled.

Adds composite nodes and animated layouts.

Features

• Composite nodes - The content of a composite node can be created by building a tree of components programmatically, or by loading a JSON template. This initial release includes layout containers such as StackPanel and GridPanel. Objects from the MindFusion.Drawing namespace now double as CompositeNode components (Image, Text, Path, Rect).
• Animated layout - Methods added to the Diagram and ContainerNode classes to display the movement of items from their original locations to new locations assigned by the layout object.
• Overview improvements
  • ScaleMode enumeration and properties added to the Overview control to implement several scaling modes.
  • Users can zoom the diagram by resizing the viewport tracking rectangle.
  • MinVisibleFontSize specifies a threshold value that hides text if scaled font sizes become smaller.
• Miscellaneous
  • ImagePadding property lets you set the padding space between element borders and their images.
  • resizetoFitText method resizes table columns and rows to fit text.
  • All sample projects now available in TypeScript.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• ExpressBars Suite
  • Problem with subitems on ribbon.
• ExpressDocking Library
  • Invalid DockPanel font size after loading layout.
• ExpressEditors Library
  • cxComboBox - The Esc keystroke doesn't close a modal form that contains a TCustomButton descendant whose Cancel property is set to True after modifying the edit value of the editor whose Properties.DropDownListStyle property is set to lsFixedList.
  • cxDateEdit - A focused editor hides the year part if the short date format includes "MMMM" and the genitive form of the displayed month name doesn't match the name's nominative form.
  • dxTokenEdit - Selecting an item from the editor's drop-down list of suggested tokens and pressing the Enter key triggers a TCustomButton descendant whose Default property is set to True.
• ExpressLayout Control
  • Constraints do not correctly work in certain cases.
• ExpressLibrary
  • C++Builder 10.2 Tokyo accesses already freed memory when finalizing the dxCoreGraphics unit.
  • Images are distorted in TcxImageList.
  • Invalid font size in frame on high dpi monitors.
  • Invalid look of button glyph on monitor with high dpi.
  • Using SVG Image in TcxButton with NumGlyph >1.
• ExpressMemData
  • TdxMemData List index out of bounds ().
• ExpressPageControl
  • The tab/page control hides shortened tab captions (with an end ellipsis), in certain cases.
• ExpressPDFViewer
  • "The document format is not recognized as valid PDF" exception occurs on loading a PDF document whose "endobj" keywords are omitted.
  • PDF Image Copy /Rotate 270.
• ExpressPivotGrid Suite
  • Memory leaks when using drag and drop to move fields between areas in the Office 2007 style customization form if the "Defer Layout Update" option is enabled.
• ExpressQuantumGrid Suite
  • Problem when press arrow keys when cxGrid has Detail.
  • Server Mode - Inserting a new record doesn't fire the View's OnFocusedRecordChanged event.
• ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite
  • TcxDBTreeList - Changing a bound field's ReadOnly property value creates a node while inserting another node which is not posted yet.
  • The content cannot be scrolled if the tree list's OptionsBehavior.AlwaysShowEditor property is set to True and a cell's in-place editor is currently active.
• ExpressRichEdit Control
  • Export to HTML - An AV occurs when exporting a document that contains images with incorrect CRC32 checksums.
  • RichEdit document background color not displaying in print preview or print.
  • Saving document in original format fails.
  • Some images are not being saved properly when saving to .DOC format.
  • The control does not load external image files included into a document by specifying their relative paths in INCLUDEPICTURE fields.
• ExpressScheduler Suite
  • iCal (iCalendar 2.0) data exchange - An incorrect end date is set for a past all-day event whose end date's entry precedes the start date's entry.
  • iCal (iCalendar 2.0) data exchange - Importing an incorrect recurrence pattern causes the "The recurrence pattern is not valid" exception rather than removing this pattern from an event.
  • iCal (iCalendar 2.0) data exchange - Wrapped text entries in consecutive lines starting with a space are incorrectly imported.
  • TcxSchedulerHolidays doesn't load data from an ANSI encoded file.
• ExpressSkins Library
  • Problem with caption of tdxRibbonForm.
• ExpressSpreadSheet
  • Copy data from Spreadsheet to Excel via clipboard ignores decimal separator.
  • Custom format "General..." shows inplace-editor for date format.
  • The font name and/or size of the rich text formatted content displayed in a worksheet cell cannot be customized using a corresponding command (TAction object).
• ExpressTile Control
  • The Glyph.Image.SourceDPI property value of a tile or tile frame is ignored.
  • Touch mode in Tile Control.
• ExpressVerticalGrid Suite
  • Delphi XE7, Can't change Glyph in TcxRTTIInspector.

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Convert a specific area of a drawing to an image.

Features

• Support for converting a specific area of a drawing to an image.
• Retrieve shapes by name.
• Retrieve shapes from Annotations.

Fixes

• VSDX to SVG - the low quality of output SVG.
• DiagramException occurs on VSDX file saving.
• VSDM to SVG - the text items are shifted up.
• VSDM to SVG - incorrect rendering of the circular icons.
• VSDX to SVG - the truncation of text from the right side of each image.
• Incorrect comments order.
• Out of memory error after using the "AddComment" method and save file to steam.
• VSDX to PDF - an argument out of range error occurred.
• The comment is not deleted together with the shape.
• VSDM to SVG - the logo quality is downgraded.
• Cannot add another comment in the Visio page.
• Cannot edit comments in the Visio page.

Adds support for automatically spacing shapes in Visio.

Features

• Added support for automatically spacing shapes in Microsoft Visio.

Fixes

• Output VSDX - incorrect layout of the connector line.
• Output PNG - the text of shape goes out of the boundary.
• Output VSDX - the connecting line is touching the boundary of shape.
• Output VSDX - incorrect layout of the connecting lines.
• Output VSDX - incorrect layout and misplaced text of the connecting lines.
• Output VSDX - Cannot formulate the position of text in shape.
• Output VSDX - cannot set property value as String.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• Ribbon - An AV occurs when a ribbon with the QAT is merged with a ribbon without it.
• Ribbon - Customization Form - Moving an item from the "Customize the Ribbon" list to another group or submenu in this list causes the "Argument out of range" exception.
• Ribbon - TdxRibbonBackstageView - Menu buttons without glyphs display cropped text when the Metropolis or Metropolis Dark skin is applied.
• Skin is painted bad after change form's size.

ExpressEditors Library

• cxRichEdit - Memory leaks when calling the SaveSelectionToStream method.
• TcxButton - A button whose OptionsImage.Margin and OptionsImage.Spacing properties are set to -1 displaces its caption and glyph if the current DPI value is 192 or higher.
• TcxButton - The OptionsImage.NumGlyphs property is initialized to the default value, ignoring a change made at design time.
• TcxButton doesn't receive the MouseLeave event after destroying its handle in certain cases.
• TcxGroupBox - An embedded TToolBar's background is painted in black in certain cases.
• TdxActivityIndicator - The TabStop property is True by default.
• TdxTokenEdit, TcxCheckComboBox, TcxCheckGroup, or TcxRadioGroup - TcxButtonGroupItems descendants containing a number of items are assigned to other collections very slowly.

ExpressExport Library

• Export - Excel doesn't recognize formulas exported using the ExportGridDataToExcel procedure if they reference only one cell.

ExpressLibrary

• SVG Images - In certain cases, downscaled images are cropped from the bottom.

ExpressMap Control

• Creating a map item layer at runtime when the current DPI differs from the monitor DPI at design time results in incorrect positioning of map items created on the layer.
• Map items created at design time are not scaled and are positioned incorrectly if monitor DPI values are different at design time and runtime.

ExpressPDFViewer

• 1-pixel wide lines are not drawn at certain zoom levels.

ExpressPrinting System

• A merged cell printed across two pages contains no text and the second cell part has no color.
• Localization - Scheduler Report Link - The print styles listed in the "Format Report" dialog cannot be localized.

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• cxCheckBox - A flickering black rectangle is drawn instead of a custom glyph in the in-place editor that is displayed using the native windows style.
• Layout View - Calling the ClearItems method within the Container.BeginUpdate/Container.EndUpdate method block causes an AV.
• The Find Panel doesn't execute a search in response to the Undo, Paste, Cut, or Delete operation executed from the Find box's context menu if the View's FindPanel.UseDelayedFind property is set to True.

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

• TcxDBTreeList - The 'Could not convert variant of type (Array Byte) into type (Integer)' error occurs when binding to a dataset whose key field value is an array of bytes.

ExpressRichEdit Control

• A hyperlink's UNC path is incorrectly stored to an RTF file.
• Loading a DOC file fires the OnModifiedChanged event.

ExpressScheduler Suite

• Copying events to the clipboard causes the "Cannot open clipboard: Access is denied" error in certain cases.
• No data is copied to the clipboard in certain cases.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• Clicking a cell containing a formula when another cell's in-place editor contains pending changes causes an AV.
• Shared formulas are loaded incorrectly from certain XLSX files.
• Styles of empty cells associated with comments are incorrectly imported from certain spreadsheet files.
• The LOOKUP, HLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, and MATCH functions containing references to entire columns/rows return incorrect results.
• The SUBTOTAL function result is not recalculated in response to changing visibility of a cell within the range passed as the function's argument.

ExpressWizard Control

• The Aero wizard's page transition produces painting artifacts in an application run via Remote Desktop on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, or earlier.

Installation (VCL)

• Documentation - Links located under the title are incorrectly arranged in certain topics.
• Documentation - Replace the "Related Information" section's ALinks with direct links specifying the corresponding product in RAD Studio XE7 or earlier, making the links consistent with those provided in RAD Studio XE8 or later.

Scheduling, diagramming, charting, mapping and User Interface components for ASP.NET applications.

Features

• Diagramming - Supports several user interaction modes, scrolling and zooming, tables, automatic graph layout algorithms, undo/redo, programmatic access to diagram objects and selections. Once your diagram is ready you can export it into variety of files, print it, save it as an image or view it in a web page.
• Scheduling - Create calendars and timetables and allows users to edit schedule information interactively. You can fully customize its appearance, define recurring events or export the schedule to XML. Built-in forms help you create or edit items, define events or want to show items that are hidden in the current view.
• Charting - Create any type of bar, line, area, pie or radar chart with an unlimited number of data series. Other features include zooming, second Y-axis, 3D charts and XML serialization. It also includes a built-in gauge control that supports oval, horizontal and vertical linear gauges.
• UI Controls - A rich set of UI controls including a dock control, tab control, accordion control and several data input controls. It also comes with a variety of smaller but useful components including slideshow, zoom, menu, calendar, different pickers and numeric up and down. The appearance of all the controls can be customized through themes.

Export diagrams to Microsoft Excel Open XML (XSLX) format.

Features

• Export Microsoft Excel files - The ExcelExporter class now exports diagrams to Excel Open XML (XSLX) format. Diagrams are exported as Excel AutoShapes.
• Microsoft Visio 2013 Exporter improvements
  • Process link arrowheads.
  • Preserve diagram Z order.
  • Export link Text and Labels.
  • Export Image of ShapeNode objects.
• Miscellaneous
  • RightToLeft mode improvements.

Export diagrams to Microsoft Excel Open XML (XSLX) format.

Features

• Export Microsoft Excel files - The ExcelExporter class now exports diagrams to Excel Open XML (XSLX) format. Diagrams are exported as Excel AutoShapes.
• Microsoft Visio 2013 Exporter improvements
  • Process link arrowheads.
  • Preserve diagram Z order.
  • Export link Text and Labels.
  • Export Image of ShapeNode objects.
• Miscellaneous
  • RightToLeft mode improvements.

Improves Microsoft Visio 2013 exporting.

Features

• Microsoft Visio 2013 Export improvements
  • Process link arrowheads.
  • Preserve diagram Z order.
  • Export link Text and Labels.
  • Export Image of ShapeNode objects.
• Miscellaneous
  • Resize child nodes proportionally to their container.
  • LinkLabel Visibility property lets you hide labels temporarily.

Fixes

• CreateImage fix for blurry bitmaps when exporting large diagrams.
• SvgExporter fix for non-zero origin of diagram's Bounds.
• Group rotation fix when setting RotationAngle to zero from code.

Access embedded files within PDFs.

Features

• Convert a drawing to an image with the same area.
• Access embedded files within PDFs.

Fixes

• Formulas are lost on saving in VSDX.
• Preserve default settings under the control tab when placing a Trapezoid shape.
• VSDX to PDF - text items are misplaced.
• VSDX to HTML - text items are misplaced.
• Open and save VSDX - missing date and edit date attributes of annotations.
• A null pointer error occurred on loading a VSDX drawing.
• Error in element author list on loading a VSDX.
• VSDX to VDX - incorrect text font.
• Open and save VSDX - Tabs section turns into a self-closed tag.
• VSD to PNG - incorrect layout of shapes.
• VSD drawing import - an error in element Master.
• VSD to PNG - an overflow error occurred.
• VSD to PDF - misplaced text items at the bottom.
• VSDX to VSDX - additional text items added.
• Open and save VSDX - drawing is missing Asian text font.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• JpegQuality does not make any effect on output document.
• Output VSDX - connecting line passing through boundary of the shape.
• Shape Transform section does not preserve formulas.
• VSDX to PNG - incorrect rendering of the shape corners.
• The fill colors are not being preserved on saving a Visio drawing to SVG.
• Incorrect rendering of lines when saving a Visio drawing to SVG.
• The fill colors are not being preserved on saving a Visio drawing to SVG.
• Incorrect rendering of lines when saving a Visio drawing to SVG.
• VSDM to VDX - connecting lines are not connected to the shapes.
• The VSDX drawing is corrupt after adding SolutionXML element.