Adds new plugins for editing and drawing lines and curves.

Features

• New ui.PathEditor plugin for editing vector SVG paths.‍
• ‍New i.PathDrawer plugin for drawing SVG paths.
• ‍New Vector Editor demo app for PathEditor and PathDrawer, effectively implements a simple vector graphics editor.
• ‍Rappid is now compatible with both Lodash v3 and v4.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• AV occurs on generating the default RibbonUI.
• Ribbon - Customization Form - Resetting customizations after moving an item within the "Customize the Ribbon" list, applying changes, and re-opening the form causes the "Argument out of range" exception.

ExpressDBTree Suite

• TcxDBTreeList - The built-in navigator's Post button is disabled if an exception occurs after clicking it.

ExpressEditors Library

• cxImage - Invoking the context menu doesn't fire the OnContextPopup event.
• In-place cxRichEdit - The form's scaling factor multiplies the font size of the editor's unformatted text twice.
• TcxDBImage - AV when loading invalid images.

ExpressExport Library

• Export to XLS or XLSX - The cxExportPivotGridDataToExcel procedure exports a lookup column/row field's grouping values as lookup keys.
• The "Inline function 'dxSpreadSheetVarCompare' has not been expanded" compilation hint is displayed if the 'uses' clause includes the cxGridExportLink unit.

ExpressLayout Control

• Dragging a hidden empty group causes an AV.

ExpressNavBar

• Error with latest version in NavBar with High DPI.

ExpressPDFViewer

• An AV occurs on reusing a dynamically loaded library that uses the PDF Viewer functionality.
• Images encoded using Indexed color spaces are incorrectly displayed in certain cases.

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

• A column's SortIndex property value is ignored when restoring the tree list using the RestoreFrom~ methods.
• TcxDBTreeList - Appending multiple nodes creates records in the bound dataset and displays only one node.
• 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 and changing node focus.
• The Styles.Selection.Font property settings are not applied to the selection.

ExpressRichEdit Control

• RichEditControl does not save Unicode text properly.
• The MeasurementUnit property value doesn't affect the Paragraph, Tabs, "Modify styles", and "Modify table styles" dialogs.
• The Options.Behavior.PasteSingleCellAsText property value is ignored on pasting data from the clipboard.

ExpressSkins Library

• The Skin Editor treats the opened project as unmodifed after invoking the Project | Build command.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• An AV occurs when loading a malformed XLS file if it contains two or more data entries for a cell.
• Export to HTML - The "Duplicates not allowed" exception occurs on exporting a worksheet containing a merged cell with a hyperlink.
• Loading shared formulas from an XLS file doesn't limit their column indexes to 256 as per specifications.
• Wrong image aspect ratio.

ExpressTile Control

• A control placed on a frame using custom anchoring settings is displayed incorrectly provided that the frame is set as the tile item's detail control.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• VSDM to SVG - incorrect shading on bottom shapes.
• VSDM to SVG - shadow on shapes is being lost.
• Parsing error of the long attribute's value occurred while generating a VDX diagram.
• VSDX to PDF export - Shadows of Shapes are not being preserved properly.
• VSD to VSDX - misplaced text items at the bottom.
• VSDM to SVG - incorrect shading on header bar.
• VSDM to SVG - the background image is small and compressed.
• VSD to PDF - formatting errors in the output PDF.
• VSD to HTML - the header is missing in the output HTML.
• A null reference error occurred on loading VSDX drawing.
• Open and save routine of VSDX does not preserve a container text.
• Open and save routine of VSDX removes tab property object.
• VSD to PDF - cannot skip background pages.
• VSD to image - cannot skip background pages.
• VSDX to PNG - an argument exception occurred.
• VSD to image - incorrect display of the shape.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• Output VSDX - AutoFitPageToDrawingContent does not work as expected.
• Open and save routine missing Macros.
• VST to VDX conversion, pictures are missing from the each rectangle shape.
• VSDX to PDF export - Shadows of Shapes are not being preserved properly.
• Output VSDX - misplaced text of the dynamic connector.
• Output VSDX - invisible connecting lines on generating a network drawing.
• VSD to SVG - an unknown source error is thrown.
• VSD to SVG - incorrect formatting of the text.
• VSD to SVG - the text items are displaced.

Export diagrams to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

Features

• Export to SVG - The SvgExporter class creates a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing from the content of a Diagram.
• AMD Module - The diagramming.js script can now be loaded as an AMD module. If it detects an AMD loader during startup, it will list common.js as its dependency, so it is enough to require only diagramming.js as application's direct dependency:
• Miscellaneous
  • A node's Stroke attribute is now also applied to shape decoration elements.
  • Underlined fonts can be applied to the text of links.
  • RowCount and ColumnCount properties now exposed by TableNode.

Fixes

• Arc definitions in custom shapes now follow correct SVG syntax instead of specifying bounding box and angles.

Export diagrams to Excel Open XML Format (XLSX) files.

Features

• Export to Excel - Export diagrams to Excel Open XML Format (XLSX) files. Diagrams are exported as Excel AutoShapes drawings. The Export overload that takes a DiagramDocument parameter creates a sheet for each DiagramPage in the document.
• Miscellaneous
  • ShapeNode, TableNode and Cell ImagePadding property now lets you set the padding space between an element's border and the image.
  • Visio2013Exporter now applies the TextVerticalAlignment property of nodes.
  • Improved GridRouter routes when connected nodes are close to each other.

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

Features

• MindFusion.Charting
  • Miscellaneous
    • OuterLabelRotation and InnerLabelRotation properties of BarChart and bar series renderer classes let you set custom label rotation angles.
    • StackOuterLabels property of BarChart and BarStackRenderer specifies whether outer labels are displayed stacked on top of stacked bars.
    • The YLabelAlignment property of BiaxialChart specifies horizontal alignment of Y-axis labels.
• MindFusion.Diagramming
  • Export to Excel - Export diagrams to Excel Open XML Format (XLSX) files. Diagrams are exported as Excel AutoShapes drawings. The Export overload that takes a DiagramDocument parameter creates a sheet for each DiagramPage in the document.
  • Visio2013Exporter improvements
    • Visio2013Exporter processes links' arrowheads.
    • Visio2013Exporter preserves the diagram Z order.
    • Visio2013Exporter exports links' Text and Labels.
    • Visio2013Exporter exports Image of ShapeNode objects.
  • Non-blocking layout methods - All graph layout classes now contain a method that runs layout calculations the background.
  • Miscellaneous
    • ShapeNode, TableNode and Cell ImagePadding property lets you set the padding space between an element's border and the image.
    • LinkPadding property added to LayeredLayout specifies how much space to leave between links when LinkType is set to Cascading.
    • ContainerNodes now apply the 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 have been added to PdfExporter, VisioExporter and Visio2013Exporter.
    • PageAdding validation event added to the TabbedDiagramView control.
    • Vertical scrollbar is now displayed on the left side of DiagramView when RightToLeft is enabled.
• MindFusion.Reporting
  • Improved font support - It is now easier to change the font size or style of a label without replacing the entire label font.

Adds new pivot client, combo box, and date-range picker.

Features

• File Explorer - New control - The file explorer component is an interface for managing the file system through any web application. It allows the user to perform the most common file operations, including browse, open, create, rename, copy, paste or move, delete, and file searching.
  • Windows Explorer-like functionalities and appearances.
  • Handy file operations (copy, paste, move, and delete).
  • File download and upload.
  • File type restriction.
  • Easy UI customization.
  • Different layouts (grid and tile views).
  • Context menu support.
  • Built-in image viewer support.
  • Keyboard navigation.
  • Right-to-left alignment (RTL) support.
  • Localization support.
• Combo Box - New control - The combo box component allows the user to type a value or choose an option from a list of predefined options. When the arrow icon that accompanies this component is clicked, the drop-down displays a list of values from which the user can select one.
  • Data binding: Allows binding and accessing the list of items from local or server-side data sources.
  • Grouping: Supports grouping of logically related items under a single or specific category.
  • Sorting: Supports sorting list items in alphabetical order, either ascending or descending.
  • Filtering: Allows filtering list items based on a character typed in the component.
  • Templates: Allows customizing the list items, selected value, header, footer, category group header, and no records content.
  • Accessibility: Built-in accessibility support helps provide access to all the component’s features through the keyboard, screen readers, or other assistive technology devices.
• Date-Range Picker - New control - The date-range picker is a new ASP.NET Core wrapper component that allows selecting a date range from a set of predefined or custom date-time ranges in an application.
  • Dates can be selected from a pop-up window.
  • Predefined custom ranges can be set for easier selection.
  • Localization can be implemented.
  • The control is mobile friendly.
• Pager - New control - The pager control is a new ASP.NET Core wrapper component that allows navigation between large amounts of data sectioned as pages. It includes an easily customizable UI.
  • Users can navigate to a specific page.
  • Users can navigate to previous, next, first, or last pages.
  • Localization can be implemented.
  • The control is mobile friendly.
• Pivot Client - New control - The pivot client control allows the visualization of both OLAP and relational data in pivot grids and pivot charts embedded within it. It also provides a UI option to drag fields, filter them, re-arrange them, and create pivot views at run time.
  • Bind the control with relational data sources along with Microsoft Analysis Services databases and XML/A data sources.
  • Build OLAP/pivot reports by placing elements in different axes of the pivot client. Reports can be prepared on the fly.
  • Use the toolbar’s various options for exporting and manipulating the OLAP/pivot report such as add report, new report, remove report, etc.
  • Save reports for later use.
  • Apply localization.
• Spell Checker - New control - The new spell checker control finds and highlights misspelled words, typically by comparing them to a stored list of dictionary words.
  • Highlights misspelled words based on user-customized style.
  • Ignores alphanumeric, mixed case, and uppercase words as well as URL links.
  • Ignores specific collections of words using a user-customized dictionary.
  • Displays all possible suggestions based on the user-specified count.
  • Renders with optimal user interface on phone, tablet, and desktop.
  • Evaluates one or more HTML elements such as div, span, textarea, and input elements.
• Autocomplete
  • Search indices for multicolumn pop-up - Display format and search fields in the multicolumn autocomplete control can now be differentiated, allowing users to search any number of fields in the suggestion list without modifying the selected text format.
• Chart
  • Axis label breaks - Provided support for displaying axis labels on multiple lines.
  • Show outside data labels - Partially visible data labels can now be displayed inside the chart area.
  • Automatic label format for date-time and date-time category axis - The label format for the date-time and date-time category axis can be updated automatically based on the interval type.
• Data Manager
  • Anti-forgery - The anti-forgery token can be used to help protect the application against cross-site request forgery. It generates a hidden form field (anti-forgery token) that is validated when the form is submitted.
  • Additional data operations - IN and NotIN filter operations have been provided for specifying multiple values in a WHERE filter.
• Diagram
  • User handle alignment - Support has been added to customize the user handle position with a desired location.
  • Port enhancement - Ports can now be dragged to reposition them.
  • Symmetric layout - Symmetric layout is an automatic layout used to arrange the diagram in a circular and symmetrical fashion.
  • Label interaction - Interaction support has been provided for labels. They can be selected, dragged, resized, and rotated.
• Essential DocIO
  • Clone and merge enhancements - An option has been added to restart or continue list numbering when merging Word documents.
• Drop-Down List
  • Server filtering - This feature filters a data source when text is typed in the search box. Filtering is done based on the collection that contains matchings item from the entire data source.
• Gantt
  • Resource allocation view - The Gantt control now provides support for a resource allocation view. Using this view, the user can interpret tasks occurring on same dates and the over-allocation of resources in a project.
  • Sequencing tasks - It is now possible to display tasks with serial or sequence number based on the row order.
  • Multiple row selection - It is now possible to select multiple rows and perform indent and negative indent actions.
  • Column filtering - It is now possible to filter specific fields or columns in the Gantt control.
  • Expand/collapse records at levels - The Gantt control now provides support for expanding and collapsing records at specific levels.
• Grid
  • Hierarchy export - Support has been added to export multiple hierarchy levels in the grid control for PDF, Excel, and Word file formats.
  • Add current selection to filter option in Excel filter menu - The add current selection to filter check box is now displayed while searching, allowing users to add the currently selected or cleared check box list data along with already-filtered data in the grid.
  • Between operator option in menu filter - The between operator option has been added in the menu filter for filtering grid records based on the specified range.
  • Export template column - Export the grid with template columns in Excel, PDF, and Word file formats.
  • Export details template - Export the grid with the details template in Excel, PDF, and Word file formats.
• Kanban
  • External drag and drop - The Kanban control now supports drag-and-drop operations between the Kanban board and other controls.
  • Kanban column without data source - Kanban columns can be rendered without binding a data source and an option has been included to add new cards dynamically.
• Essential PDF
  • Security - Security support allows users to create or load a password-protected PDF document.
  • PNG support - Support has been added to draw PNG images in PDF documents.
• Schedule
  • Excel exporting of appointments - Supports exporting the appointment collection in Excel format, along with field customization to export only the specified columns of the appointment data.
  • Auto-scroll viewable area while dragging appointments to the edges - Auto-scroll support is added now, so that while dragging an appointment to the top or bottom edges of the viewable area, the schedule will scroll accordingly.
  • Persisting scroll position on refresh - The scroller position on the schedule can be persisted now, even after refreshing the entire layout.
  • Printing appointments with background color - Appointments can be now printed with proper background color.
  • Displaying specific date collection - Additional support to display only the user-specific date collection is included, which can be of a periodic date range collection or a different date collection.
• Slider
  • Button support - A button that can be hidden has been added to allow increments and decrements to the slider value.
• Tree Grid
  • Stacked header - The tree grid control now provides support for stacked column headers.
  • Header context menu - The tree grid control now provides support for context menus for column headers.
  • Excel filtering - The tree grid control now provides support for an Excel-like menu for filtering column values.
  • Toolbar Filtering - It is now possible to filter tree grid contents using toolbar filtering.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Security - XlsIO allows the user to secure their Excel documents with the following abilities:
    • Encrypt and decrypt Excel documents with a password.
    • Protect Excel documents from unwanted changes to their structure.
    • Protect worksheets and the contents of locked cells.

Adds new Essential JS 2 toolkit, framework support for Ember, and new combo box.

Features

• Essential JS 2: Enterprise-Grade JavaScript UI Toolkit - Essential JS 2 is a modern JavaScript UI toolkit that has been built from the ground up to be lightweight, responsive, modular, and touch friendly. It is written in TypeScript and has no external dependencies. It also includes complete support for Angular and React frameworks. The following components are currently available:
  • Grid
  • Chart
  • Drop-Down List
  • Tree View
  • Date Picker
  • Dialog
  • Numeric Text Box
  • Tab
  • Toolbar
  • Circular Gauge
  • Linear Gauge
  • Form Validator
  • Combo Box
  • Autocomplete
  • Multiselect Drop-Down
  • Calendar
  • Date Range Picker
  • Button
  • Radio Button
  • Check Box
  • Text Box
  • Time Picker
  • Masked Text Box
  • List View
  • Tooltip
  • Context Menu
  • Accordion
• Ember Support for jQuery-based JavaScript Controls - Ember support has been implemented for most of the important Syncfusion JavaScript controls. Syncfusion provides this support as an add-on, so you can seamlessly use this add-on with your Ember CLI application.
• Angular 5 Support - Essential JavaScript for Angular components have been upgraded to seamlessly support Angular 5.
• ComboBox - New control - The combo box component allows the user to type a value or choose an option from a list of predefined options. When the arrow icon that accompanies this component is clicked, the drop-down displays a list of values from which the user can select one.
  • Data binding: Allows binding and accessing the list of items from local or server-side data sources.
  • Grouping: Supports grouping of logically related items under a single or specific category.
  • Sorting: Supports sorting list items in alphabetical order, either ascending or descending.
  • Filtering: Allows filtering list items based on a character typed in the component.
  • Templates: Allows customizing the list items, selected value, header, footer, category group header, and no records content.
  • Accessibility: Built-in accessibility support helps provide access to all the component’s features through the keyboard, screen readers, or other assistive technology devices.
• Media Player - New control - The media player for JavaScript provides a simple yet powerful video and audio player with built-in control options. It supports HTML5 standard audio and video formats such as MP4, MP3, WebM, and Ogg.
  • Supports HTML5 standard video.
  • Supports YouTube videos.
  • Built-in control bar for desktop and mobile devices with all basic operations, including play/pause, next, previous, volume control, and full screen.
  • Timeline slider for easy navigation.
  • Title bar.
• Chart
  • Axis label breaks - Provided support for displaying axis labels on multiple lines.
  • Show outside data labels - Partially visible data labels can now be displayed inside the chart area.
  • Automatic label format for date-time and date-time category axis - The label format for the date-time and date-time category axis can be updated automatically based on the interval type.
• Data Manager
  • Anti-forgery - The anti-forgery token can be used to help protect the application against cross-site request forgery. It generates a hidden form field (anti-forgery token) that is validated when the form is submitted.
  • Additional data operations - IN and NotIN filter operations have been provided for specifying multiple values in a WHERE filter.
• Date-Range Picker
  • Backward Selection - Backward selection support has been added to the date-range picker control to select start and end dates in any direction or order.
  • Responsive Date-Range Picker - The responsiveness of the date-range picker rendered with preset ranges has improved. To ensure user-friendly selection, it renders as a single calendar on mobile devices.
• Diagram
  • User handle alignment - Support has been added to customize the user handle position with a desired location.
  • Port enhancement - Ports can now be dragged to reposition them.
  • Symmetric layout - Symmetric layout is an automatic layout used to arrange the diagram in a circular and symmetrical fashion.
  • Label interaction - Interaction support has been provided for labels. They can be selected, dragged, resized, and rotated.
• Autocomplete
  • Search indices for multicolumn pop-up - Display format and search fields in the multicolumn autocomplete control can now be differentiated, allowing users to search any number of fields in the suggestion list without modifying the selected text format.
• Bar Code
  • EAN - The bar code control now supports EAN-8 and EAN-13 bar codes.
• Calculate
  • 27 New Excel Formulas - Support has been provided for the following Excel formulas: ASINH, ATANH, AVERAGEIF, AVERAGEIFS, BASE, BESSELI, BESSELJ, BESSELK, BESSELY, COUNTIF, MMULT, MOD, NORMSDIST, NORMDIST, ODD, POWER, PV, RADIANS, RAND, ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN, SECH, SUMPRODUCT, TEXT, VLOOKUP, and STDEV.
• Drop-Down List
  • Server filtering - This feature filters a data source when text is typed in the search box. Filtering is done based on the collection that contains matchings item from the entire data source.
• File Explorer
  • Mouse selection support - Provided support for managing files/folders selection using a mouse in the file explorer control.
• Kanban
  • External drag and drop - The Kanban control now supports drag-and-drop operations between the Kanban board and other controls.
  • Kanban column without data source - Kanban columns can be rendered without binding a data source and an option has been included to add new cards dynamically.
• Schedule
  • Excel exporting of appointments - Supports exporting the appointment collection in Excel format, along with field customization to export only the specified columns of the appointment data.
  • Auto-scroll viewable area while dragging appointments to the edges - Auto-scroll support is now available, so that while dragging an appointment to the top or bottom edges of the viewable area, the schedule will scroll accordingly.
  • Persisting scroll position on refresh - The scroller position on the schedule can be persisted now, even after refreshing the entire layout.
  • Printing appointments with background color - Appointments can now be printed with proper background color.
  • Displaying specific date collection - Additional support to display only the user specific date collection is included, which can be of a periodic date range collection or a different date collection.
• Slider
  • Button Support - A button that can be hidden has been added to allow increments and decrements to the slider value.
• Gantt
  • Resource allocation view - The Gantt control now provides support for a resource allocation view. Using this view, the user can interpret tasks occurring on same dates and the over-allocation of resources in a project.
  • Sequencing tasks - It is now possible to display tasks with serial or sequence number based on the row order.
  • Multiple row selection - It is now possible to select multiple rows and perform indent and negative indent actions.
  • Column filtering - It is now possible to filter specific fields or columns in the Gantt control.
  • Expand/collapse records at levels - The Gantt control now provides support for expanding and collapsing records at specific levels.
• Grid
  • Hierarchy export support - Support has been added to export multiple hierarchy levels in the grid control for PDF, Excel, and Word file formats.
  • Add current selection to filter option in Excel filter menu - The add current selection to filter check box is now displayed while searching, allowing users to add the currently selected or cleared check box list data along with already-filtered data in the grid.
  • Between operator option in menu filter - The between operator option has been added in the menu filter for filtering grid records based on the specified range.
  • Export template column - Export the grid with template columns in Excel, PDF, and Word file formats.
  • Export details template - Export the grid with the details template in Excel, PDF, and Word file formats.
• Pager
  • Template - Template support has been provided to the pager component to customize the UI based on application needs.
  • Pivot Chart, Client and Grid
  • Paging support for Mondrian Server (Client Mode) - Paging splits large records into separate segments so you can view data easily. It also improves the performance of the pivot controls connected to Mondrian Server.
• Tree Grid
  • Stacked header - The tree grid control now provides support for stacked column headers.
  • Header context menu - The tree grid control now provides support for context menus for column headers.
  • Excel filtering - The tree grid control now provides support for an Excel-like menu for filtering column values.
  • Toolbar filtering - It is now possible to filter tree grid contents using toolbar filtering.

Adds new image editor, a new Smith chart, and right-to left support for rich text box.

Features

• Image Editor - New control - The image editor control lets users annotate images with freehand drawing, text, and shapes. It is also possible to perform simple image manipulation operations like cropping, flipping, and rotation.
  • Image cropping.
  • Image annotation with text, arrows, and shapes.
  • Image rotation and flipping.
  • Image zooming and panning.
  • An interactive toolbar for customization.
• Smith Chart - New control - Smith chart is one of the most useful data visualization tools for high frequency circuit applications.
  • Visualization of the impedance and admittance of a transmission line.
  • Representation of data with line series and various types of markers.
  • Data label support for better readability.
  • Interactive tooltip support.
  • Interactive legend.
  • Customizable colors.
• Calculate
  • Array formula calculation - Support has been provided for array formula calculation as in Microsoft Excel. An array formula is a formula that can perform multiple calculations with an array or series of data values and return one or more results. It helps to simplify the formula expression. For example, “=MAX (B1-C1, B2-C2, B3-C3, B4-C4, B5-C5)” can be replaced by the array formula, “{=MAX (B1:B5-C1:C5)}”.
• Chart
  • Multi-level axis labels - Multi-level axis label support has been provided for the chart control.
• Data Grid
  • Built-in row drag and drop - Support has been added for dragging and dropping rows in a data grid or between two data grids. This feature also allows rows to be dragged and dropped to and from any other control.
  • Grid column enhancements
    • Provided support to automatically generate columns for the details view grid when items source changed at runtime.
    • Provided read-only support for the data grid where users can enter edit mode but can’t input text.
    • Provided support to load different ItemsSource for combo box based on underlying data object.
• Diagram
  • Quick Commands - Support has been provided for customizing the appearance and position of quick commands.
  • Dock Port - A dock port is a place holder that allows you to create connections at any point on it.
  • Auto-align - Support has been provided to align nodes or annotations automatically if they overlap.
• Essential DocIO
  • Clone and merge enhancements - An option has been added to restart or continue list numbering when merging Word documents.
• Numeric Up-Down
  • Customization - Numeric up-down now supports custom view, images, and a font icon with increment and decrement buttons.
• Pivot Client
  • Layout for mobile view - The pivot client control appearance is now customized in such a way that it can be comfortably viewed and operated in mobile devices.
• Pivot Grid
  • Excel-like filtering (Relational DB) - The pivot grid control supports sorting along with filtering values by label and value. This is available only for relational data sources.
  • Top summary layout (Relational DB) - The pivot grid control can now display summary data in rows or columns at the beginning of the value cells.
  • Dynamically change the properties of a calculation item (Relational DB) - The pivot computation information dialog allows you to change or edit value formats, summary types, calculation types, and field headers of a calculation item at run time.
• Calendar
  • Vertical Swiping - Calendar provides vertical swiping support to navigate through a calendar’s months.
  • Agenda View - Calendar supports an agenda view, in which appointments will appear on the bottom of the calendar month view.
• Gantt
  • Toolbar - The toolbar contains options for editing, expanding, collapsing, indenting, outdenting, and deleting selected tasks. It also contains options for adding new tasks.
  • Strip lines - Important days or events in a project can be highlighted using strip lines.
  • Exclude weekends - Support has been added to exclude weekends from task duration.
• Rich Text Box
  • Right-to-left support - The rich text box control allows the user to view and edit right-to-left content such as text, paragraphs, lists, and tables.
  • Drag-and-drop support - The rich text box control allows the user to drag and drop content within the control.
• Spreadsheet
  • Array formula calculation - Support has been provided for array formula calculation as in Excel. An array formula is a formula that can perform multiple calculations with an array or series of data values and return one or more results. It helps to simplify the formula expression. For example, “=MAX (B1-C1, B2-C2, B3-C3, B4-C4, B5-C5)” can now be replaced by the array formula, “{=MAX (B1:B5-C1:C5)}”.
• Tree Grid
  • Footer column - Support has been added for freeze columns (non-scrolling columns) on the right, like in Excel.
  • Stacked header - Support has been added for stacked header rows, which are unbound header rows that can span multiple rows and columns to group one or more header cells.

Adds quick access toolbar for ribbon, array formula calculation for spreadsheet, and Office 2016 theme support for date-time picker.

Features

• Calculate
  • Array formula calculation - Support has been provided for array formula calculations as in Microsoft Excel. An array formula is a formula that can perform multiple calculations with an array or series of data values and return one or more results. It helps to simplify the formula expression. For example, “=MAX (B1-C1, B2-C2, B3-C3, B4-C4, B5-C5)” can now be replaced by the array formula, “{=MAX (B1:B5-C1:C5)}”.
• Advanced Date-Time Picker
  • Office 2016 theme support - Office 2016 theme appearance support is provided for the date-time picker control.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows Word documents with line numbers to be converted to PDFs with their original formatting.
  • Clone and merge enhancements - An option has been added to restart or continue list numbering when merging Word documents.
• Group Bar
  • Office 2016 theme support - Office 2016 theme appearance support is provided for the group bar control.
• Main Frame Bar Manager
  • Office 2016 theme support - Office 2016 theme appearance support is provided for the main frame bar manager control.
• Advanced Month Calendar
  • Office 2016 theme support - Office 2016 theme appearance support is provided for the advanced month calendar control.
• Ribbon
  • Icon for quick access toolbar - Support has been added to provide different icons for the quick access toolbar, similar to the behavior available with the Office colorful theme.
  • Ribbon merge container enhancement - An option has been provided to merge items in the ribbon merge container based on the position and group.
  • Customization - The ribbon system buttons’ appearance can be customized based on your needs.
• Spreadsheet
  • Array formula calculation - Support has been provided for array formula calculation as in Excel. An array formula is a formula that can perform multiple calculations with an array or series of data values and return one or more results. It helps to simplify the formula expression. For example, “=MAX (B1-C1, B2-C2, B3-C3, B4-C4, B5-C5)” can now be replaced by an array formula, “{=MAX (B1:B5-C1:C5)}”.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Chart to image enhancement - The manual layout positions of chart elements like the legend, titles, plot area, and display units are now properly converted into images.

Adds row drag and drop for data grid, a new Smith chart and right-to-left support for rich text box.

Features

• Smith Chart - New control - Smith chart is one of the most useful data visualization tools for high frequency circuit applications.
  • Visualization of the impedance and admittance of a transmission line.
  • Representation of data with line series and various types of markers.
  • Data label support for better readability.
  • Interactive tooltip support.
  • Interactive legend.
  • Customizable colors.
• Calculate
  • Array formula calculation - Support has been provided for array formula calculation as in Microsoft Excel. An array formula is a formula that can perform multiple calculations with an array or series of data values and return one or more results. It helps to simplify the formula expression. For example, “=MAX (B1-C1, B2-C2, B3-C3, B4-C4, B5-C5)” can now be replaced by the array formula, “{=MAX (B1:B5-C1:C5)}”.
• Chart
  • Multi-level axis labels - Multi-level axis label support has been provided for the chart control.
• Data Grid
  • Built-in row drag and drop - Support has been added for dragging and dropping rows in a data grid or between two data grids. This feature also allows rows to be dragged and dropped to and from any other control.
  • Grid column enhancements
    • Provided support to automatically generate columns for the details view grid when items source changed at runtime.
    • Provided read-only support for the data grid where users can enter edit mode but can’t input text.
    • Provided support to load different ItemsSource for combo box based on underlying data object.
  • Filter row enhancements - Support has been added to update the drop-down list of a multi-select combo box filter based on other column filters, similar to Excel. Users can easily select or unselect only visible records.
• Diagram
  • Quick Commands - Support has been provided for customizing the appearance and position of quick commands.
  • Dock Port - A dock port is a place holder that allows you to create connections at any point on it.
  • Auto-align - Support has been provided to align nodes or annotations automatically if they overlap.
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows Word documents with line numbers to be converted to PDFs with their original formatting.
  • Clone and merge enhancements - An option has been added to restart or continue list numbering when merging Word documents.
• Rich Text Box
  • Right-to-left support - The rich text box control allows the user to view and edit right-to-left content such as text, paragraphs, lists, and tables.
  • Drag-and-drop support - The rich text box control allows the user to drag and drop content within control. It also allows the user to drag and drop content to and from other editor controls.
• Spreadsheet
  • Array formula calculation - Support has been provided for array formula calculation as in Excel. An array formula is a formula that can perform multiple calculations with an array or series of data values and return one or more results. It helps to simplify the formula expression. For example, “=MAX (B1-C1, B2-C2, B3-C3, B4-C4, B5-C5)” can now be replaced by the array formula, “{=MAX (B1:B5-C1:C5)}”.
• Tree Grid
  • Footer column - Support has been added for freeze columns (non-scrolling columns) on the right, like in Excel.
  • Stacked header - Support has been added for stacked header rows, which are unbound header rows that can span multiple rows and columns to group one or more header cells.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Chart to image enhancement - The manual layout positions of chart elements like the legend, titles, plot area, and display units are now properly converted into images.

Includes improvements and additions across the entire library of controls.

Features

• ASP.NET MVC - A new combo box component allows users to select an option from a defined list of values. The drop-down list control now supports server filtering for remote and local data. The tree grid now supports stacked column headers.
• ASP.NET Core - A new date-range picker control allows users to select from a predefined or custom set of dates. A new combo box component allows users to select an option from a defined list of values. A new pivot client control allows the visualization of both OLAP and relational data in pivot grids and pivot charts.
• ASP.NET Web Forms - A new combo box component allows users to select an option from a defined list of values. The drop-down list control now supports server filtering for remote and local data. The tree grid now supports stacked column headers.
• JavaScript - Essential JS2 and Ember support each bring a wealth of new functionality to our JavaScript controls. A new combo box component allows users to select an option from a defined list of values.
• Xamarin.Forms - The new diagram control can be used to create a wide range of diagrams, including flow charts, use case diagrams, workflow processes, and more. Multicolumn grouping is now possible simply by setting an API. The image editor control now supports zooming and panning.
• Xamarin.Android - The new diagram control can be used to create a wide range of diagrams, including flow charts, use case diagrams, workflow processes, and more. The image editor control now supports zooming and panning.
• Xamarin.iOS - The new diagram control can be used to create a wide range of diagrams, including flow charts, use case diagrams, workflow processes, and more. The image editor control now supports zooming and panning.
• UWP - The new image editor control lets users annotate and manipulate images. The new Smith chart makes visualizing high frequency circuit applications easier than ever, with data label support, interactive tooltip support, interactive legend, and color customization. The rich text box now supports viewing and editing right-to-left content.
• Windows Forms - The ribbon control now supports different icons for the quick access toolbar. The spreadsheet control has new support for array formula calculation. The date-time picker now has Microsoft Office 2016 theme support for improved aesthetics and usability.
• WPF - The data grid control now has built-in row drag-and-drop for moving columns between grids. The new Smith chart makes visualizing high frequency circuit applications easier than ever, with data label support, interactive tooltip support, interactive legend, and color customization. The rich text box now supports viewing and editing right-to-left content.

Adds conditional formatting to the Grid, TreeList, and Vertical Grid controls.

Features

• New UI Adorner Manager - Designed to display interactive objects and apply visual effects to better communicate the state of your application to end-users. It allows you to paint badges on top of all other UI elements and create guides to highlight specific UI elements using a translucent layered window.
• Conditional Formatting - The Grid, TreeList, and Vertical Grid controls now support Microsoft Excel-inspired conditional formatting of individual cells and entire rows/columns. You and your end-users can now highlight critical information, compare data, visualize trends and patterns using data bars, icons, and color scales. To help with rule customization at runtime, the cell formatting feature also provides the Conditional Formatting Rules Manager. Rule conditions built with Spreadsheet functions are also supported. The formatted content can be exported to HTML, PDF, XLS, and XLSX files. Format conditions exported to Excel files are compatible with native conditional formatting rules and can be customized using the VCL Spreadsheet Control or Spreadsheet apps such as Microsoft Excel.
• Complete High DPI Awareness - This release adds per-monitor DPI awareness support to the utility applications, demos, as well as the following DevExpress VCL products: Grid, Scheduler, Pivot Grid, Vertical Grid, PDF Viewer, Printing-Exporting Library and Extended Lookup Editor. The entire VCL product line now supports per-monitor DPI awareness.
• Touch-Friendly Scrolling - This release introduces a scrollbar mode optimized for touch-enabled applications. In this mode, the scrollbar thumb appears when an end-user hovers the mouse pointer over a control or scrolls through its content. The mouse pointer disappears if it is stationary or the control is not scrolled for some time. The scrollbar buttons are never displayed.
• Grid Control - Fixed Data Rows in Table and Banded Table Views - You can now allow end-users to anchor specific data rows to either the top or bottom of the grid, so that when scrolling the data the pinned rows stay visible. End-users can click row pins or select a corresponding option in the row context menu to fix/unfix data rows.
• Grid Control - Miscellaneous Enhancements
  • Added skin support to the built-in menus by dynamically converting them to ExpressBars popup menus.
  • Table View and Banded Table Views can optionally display images that correspond to Image Combo Box columns' group values in group rows.
• Scheduler Control - Modern-Style UI - Added a new UI style to all scheduler Views, allowing you to better reflect the UX of Microsoft Outlook in your calendar and scheduling apps.

Easily duplicate shapes.

Features

• Easily duplicate shapes.
• Added single API to convert a Microsoft Visio shape to PDF.
• Added single API to convert a Microsoft Visio shape to HTML.

Adds single API to convert a Visio shape to PDF or HTML.

Features

• Added single API to convert a Microsoft Visio shape to PDF.
• Added single API to convert a Microsoft Visio shape to HTML.

Fixes

• Output VSDX - cannot connect shapes by connection index.
• Shape.connectedShapes method does not retrieve outgoing nodes.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• Built-in menus in DevExpress controls display duplicate items after invoking a TreeList control's built-in menu or a tab/page control's Go Dialog.
• Hot-tracking a popup menu item displaying an icon causes an AV if a bar manager's Style property is set to bmsEnhanced.

ExpressEditors Library

• In-place cxImageComboBox - Activating another cell's editor displays the previously active cell's edit value if the Properties.IncrementalFiltering property is set to True.
• TcxButton - Assigning a drop-down menu in the OnDropDownMenuPopupEx or OnDropDownMenuPopup event handler doesn't replace the menu specified using the DropDownMenu property.

ExpressLayout Control

• An AV occurs at design time when selecting "Revert to Inherited" in the context menu of a TcxGrid control located within a visually inherited layout control in certain cases.

ExpressLibrary

• A glyph assigned to a custom menu item is not displayed if the item is within the built-in popup menu of the TcxGrid or TcxScheduler control, provided that the ExpressBars Suite is installed.
• All DevExpress controls - Changing the content in an image list linked to a DevExpress control does not immediately repaint it.
• SVG Images - An exception occurs on drawing an image containing the "Text" element with invalid font parameters.

ExpressMemData

• The "List index out of bounds (0)" exception occurs on posting data if the SortedField property is specified, the ProgrammedFilter property is set to True, and FilterList is empty.

ExpressNavBar

• The default fonts are scaled twice when loading any NavBar control positioned on the form designed at 96 DPI if the current system DPI exceeds 96.

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• DB Table and DB Banded Table Views - Collapsing all rows doesn't collapse the group row containing the selected row if it was located more than once.
• Master-Detail - Expanding all rows consumes a lot of memory.
• Table and Banded Table Views - The popup menu assigned to the PopupMenu property of the grid control or the grid View is not displayed if the built-in popup menu is empty for a specific View element.
• The Component Editor dialog flickers on switching between grid Views.
• The default column widths are incorrectly initialized on creating a form if the current monitor DPI differs from 96.

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

• The font specified by the Styles.Content property is not applied to selected cells if the Styles.Selection property is assigned a style whose Font property is not customized.

ExpressScheduler Suite

• An event caption is incorrectly positioned within a popup hint displayed in Modern Style mode if the monitor DPI differs from 96.
• Handling the OnGetEventDisplayText event has no effect if the Modern UI Style is selected.
• The date navigator does not show holiday hints if the Modern UI Style is selected.

ExpressSkins Library

• Ribbon - TdxBarLargeButton whose Down and ButtonStyle properties are set to True and bsCheckedDropDown blends with the background if the Office2013~ skin is applied.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• A numeric value assigned to a cell via its AsString property is automatically converted into a number.
• The 'Control has no parent window' exception occurs when trying to change an active sheet while an inplace cell editor is opened.
• The public GetCellValue procedure has been removed from the TdxSpreadSheetTableView class.
• The VALUE function does not recognize a numeric value stored as a string if one or more zeros precede the first meaning number.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• Ribbon - The Customization Form's font (MS Sans Serif) doesn't match the Ribbon control's font (Tahoma).
• Ribbon - The scaling factor is not applied to check marks of bar buttons within a subitem's dropdown menu.
• Ribbon is incorrectly painted if an application is automatically moved to another monitor in response to turning off the monitor displaying the application in a multiple monitor setup.

ExpressDataController

• Lookup editors with Time list fields always add a date part to displayed texts.
• The topmost group row is not displayed if group rows are sorted by summary values.

ExpressDocking Library

• The control reserves excessive memory for double-buffered drawing on restoring the control's layout from an INI file if the current monitor DPI exceeds 96.

ExpressEditors Library

• Control has no parent window exception when invoking TdxColorDialog.
• cxLabel - The width is not stored to a DFM file if the AutoSize and Properties.WordWrap properties are set to True.
• TcxCheckGroup stores the default EditValue property value to a DFM file.
• TcxCustomComboBox descendants - An incorrect AIndex parameter value is passed to a Properties.OnDrawItem event handler if the Properties.IncrementalFiltering property is set to True.
• TcxCustomEdit descendants - Creating and assigning the Parent property in a TForm.OnCreate event handler are significantly slower compared with v16.2.
• TcxShellBrowserDialog - Add a property that returns the current shell item's identifier (PIDL).
• TdxCameraControl doesn't apply antialiasing when scaling output frames.

ExpressExport Library

• Export to Excel - Excel-compatible cell editors export their NULL values as empty strings if True is passed as the AUseNativeFormat parameter to an export method.

ExpressLayout Control

• A layout control's OccupiedClientWidth property returns the OccupiedClientHeight property value.
• Add the capability to customize content offsets in tabbed group pages using the LayoutLookAndFeel.Offsets options.
• An AV occurs when assigning a value to the LayoutLookAndFeel property in a TdxLayoutControl descendant's constructor.
• Layouts containing a number of hidden groups are loaded very slowly.
• Performance issues when a TdxForm scales a layout control containing a number of TdxLayoutLabeledItems whose CaptionOptions.WordWrap property is set to True.

ExpressLibrary

• Add the capability to override the global touch-friendly scrolling mode setting for individual DevExpress controls.
• DevExpress controls on MDI Child forms do not display Touch-friendly scrollbars.
• dxColorEdit and dxColorGallery don't apply new localized strings to color group captions located in the cpOffice color palette after localizing it.
• SVG Images - The "Text" element's font size set in typographic points is parsed incorrectly.
• TdxUIAdornerManager - Adorners associated with items and groups in the TdxRibbon control are visible when its ShowTabGroups property is set to False.
• The current monitor DPI is ignored on saving the layout and properties of cxPivotGrid, TcxGrid, cxVerticalGrid, cxTreeList, TcxScheduler, TdxTileControl, TdxTileBar, TdxLayoutControl, and TcxPropertiesStore.

ExpressMap Control

• The BingServices demo doesn't update a hint for a pushpin created using the "Change start point" context menu item.

ExpressNavBar

• Performance issues when adding a large number of items and/or groups.
• Side Bar Views - Increasing the control's height does not scroll to show an active group's items automatically, provided that the group's TopVisibleLinkIndex property value is positive.

ExpressPageControl

• The "List index out of bounds (-1)" exception occurs on painting skinned tabs if the control's width is too small to fit them.

ExpressPDFViewer

• An application hangs on loading a document containing JBIG2-compressed images with Huffman coding.
• Application hangs on loading certain documents with images compressed using the Group 3 CCITT facsimile encoding.
• Quantization parameters for JPX image decoding are initialized incorrectly in certain cases.
• The control identifies an incorrect name of a system font corresponding to a certain unembedded font within a document.

ExpressPivotGrid Suite

• Dropping down a filter from a TcxGrid or Pivot Grid will focus the main app window.

ExpressPrinting System

• LayoutControl Report Link - The preview truncates captions of elements whose CaptionOptions.Width property value is greater than 0 in certain cases.
• Spreadsheet Report Link - Rich text formatted content located in worksheet cells is printed as plain text.

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• All unbound Views - Opening a visually inherited form in the IDE causes an exception after modifying the number of grid items in the form's ancestor.
• All Views - Glitches appear as a result of vertical scrolling in certain cases.
• An AV occurs after calling a View's RestoreFrom~ procedure if it removes the View's layout elements, provided that the loaded layout was saved in v17.1 or an earlier version.
• Banded Table View - Master-Detail - The "List index out of bounds" exception occurs when expanding/collapsing master rows if per-pixel scrolling is enabled.
• Clicking a cell in a row located under an inserted but not yet posted row doesn't update the cell's value if this click cancels row insertion and the OptionsBehavior.AlwaysShowEditor property is set to True.
• Conditional Formatting - The "Conditional Formatting Rule" dialog does not recognize lowercase non-English characters in data field names specified within a rule condition expression.
• Conditional Formatting - The "Conditional Formatting Rule" dialog omits spaces in data field names specified within a rule condition expression.
• cxRichEdit - Unformatted text in an in-place editor is scaled incorrectly when the system DPI exceeds 96.
• Export - All formatted content export routines allocate excessive memory on exporting a Master-Detail view.
• TcxCustomGridTableView descendants - Conditional formatting is not applied to a grid item whose content style is assigned.
• The control's ScaleBy procedure does not scale the size of a custom font used to display root level tab captions.

ExpressRichEdit Control

• Closing the popup menu of a Rich Edit control invokes its parent control's popup menu.
• Export to HTML - The first & character delimiting parameters is omitted in hyperlinks.
• Mail merge ignores format strings specified for integer mail merge fields.
• Scroll and pan touch gestures do not function.

ExpressScheduler Suite

• Modern Style - Date Navigator shows scroll buttons in each displayed month header.
• Modern Style - Events are incorrectly snapped to time slots in the Timegrid and Gantt Views.
• Scrolling an event that lasts more than one day out of view and back duplicates the event in the scheduling area.

ExpressSkins Library

• The text displayed in the dialog invoked by a MessageDlg function call blends with the background if the Sharp, Darkroom, or DevExpressDarkStyle skin is applied.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• An in-place cell editor does not apply a set of font attributes to the entire cell content.
• Calling the ApplyBestFit procedure of a column or row can result in incorrect font scaling in all DevExpress controls used in an application, provided that the system DPI differs from 96.
• Cell style data is incorrectly stored in the XML Spreadsheet format within the clipboard.
• Inconsistent behavior on performing string operations on values stored in Date/Time-formatted cells.
• The default column and row sizes are incorrectly loaded from an XLSX file if the system DPI is higher than 96.
• The first column displays cells of other columns if it is wider than the spreadsheet's visible content area.
• The scaling factor for text edited by using an in-place cell editor is calculated incorrectly when the system DPI exceeds 96.

Flip diagramming shapes horizontally or vertically.

Features

• Universal Windows Platform - The Diagram control can now be used in UWP Xamarin.Forms applications. Support for UWP is implemented by the MindFusion.Diagramming.Universal.dll assembly.
• Flip shapes - ShapeNodes can be flipped horizontally or vertically. Enable the AllowFlip property and the shape flips when an edge is dragged over its opposite edge. You can get or set current flip state using FlipX and FlipY properties.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• Saving Visio Drawing (VSDX) as Visio Drawing XML (VDX) File produces corrupted output.
• VSDX to Portable Document Format (PDF) conversion - circular shape fill color changes.
• VSDX to PDF conversion - incorrect formatting issues with text items.
• Title text is not aligned on saving a Visio Macro-Enabled Drawing (VSDM) to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
• VSDX to PDF conversion - wrong shape background color.
• VSDX to HTML conversion - wrong shape background color.
• Title text is displaced when converting a VSDM to SVG.
• Output VSDX - incorrect display of shape when changing width.