Adds watermarks in headers and footers.

Features

• Microsoft Word Compatible Document Protection and Editable Regions - Documents can now be protected by restricting the formatting and editing of content. When protecting a document, it is possible to define whether the document is completely locked or formatting can be applied.
• Watermarks in Headers and Footers - Objects can be freely moved on the page and are placed behind the main text when headers and footers are deactivated. When a new page is inserted within the same section, the objects that belong to the header and footer are repeated on following pages as well.
• Pagination in Tables - Pagination settings can now be used in tables to control page breaks within a table.
• Select Objects Behind the Text - The new TXTextControl.SelectObjects property controls the selection of objects which are located behind text. When this property is set to True, a mouse click selects the object in the background. Otherwise, when this property is set to False, text in front of the object is selected.

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.

Adds fixed data rows in table and banded table views.

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.

Adds touch-friendly scrolling.

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.
• 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.

Adds new UI Adorner Manager.

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 control 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.

Adds support for Office-Add-Ins when rendering Excel files to PDF.

Features

• Obtain CSS separately from HTML markup when exporting to HTML using streams.
• Implemented Cell.FormulaLocal functionality, which is similar to Microsoft Interop FormulaLocal.
• Added support for Office-Add-Ins when rendering Micrsoft Excel files to PDF.
• Update "Keep change history" when sharing workbooks.

Fixes

• Text in cells is overlapping with other cells.
• Images are confused in a picture shape with texture fill.
• Refreshing PivotTable corrupts MS Excel file.
• Array formula involving "MEDIAN" is calculated as blank.
• Cell text alignment is changed in the converted image.
• One page lost when converting worksheet to image.
• Status of DataBars is incorrect in the output PDF.
• Second vertical axis label is missing when converting chart to image.
• Chart.Calculate is taking time and not working.
• Absolute path changes to relative path when re-saving an XLSX file.
• Merged cells lost on copy paste the column to next columns.
• Inserting a column causes MS Excel to prompt an error message.
• Comment settings changed on opening and saving the MS Excel file.
• Fill format is changed for all text shapes in workbook instead of selected one.
• Xlsx file is corrupted after loading and saving.
• The default value of the OoxmlSaveOptions.ExportCellName property is true instead of false.
• Workbook.Save(Stream stream, SaveFormat saveFormat) fails if stream does not support Seek.
• Issue with displaying worksheet data right to left.
• Error when clicking scroll bar on Aspose.Cells.GridDesktop.
• Shape to Image error occurs while converting Excel file to PDF.
• Exception on opening an Excel (Strict Open XML Spreadsheet) file.
• Index was outside the bounds of the array - Exception while rendering Excel file.
• You must enter data for validation criteria - exception occurs while saving the workbook.
• ArgumentOutOfRangeException occurs when worksheet is copied to another workbook.

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.

Improves handling of cell margins and table alignment.

Features

• Added PixelFormat property in ImageSaveOptions class.
• Implemented API to set chart axis properties.
• Horizontal and vertical flipping attributes are now taken into account when rendering DML textboxes.
• Improved rendering of diacritics for "Courier New" font.
• LINQ Reporting Engine supports the dynamic setting of chart axis titles.
• Improved handling of decimal tab alignment.
• Improved text wrapping when line contains a single or zero characters.
• Improved handling of cell margins and table alignment.
• Improved cell alignment when line has trailing spaces and custom tabs.
• Improved handling of collapsed paragraphs.

Adds support for saving to BMP.

Features

• Support for saving to BMP.
• Support for JPEG tiff compression.
• Added PixelFormat property in ImageSaveOptions class.
• Implemented API to set chart axis properties.
• Horizontal and vertical flipping attributes are now taken into account when rendering DML textboxes.
• Improved rendering of diacritics for "Courier New" font.
• Dynamically set chart axis titles in LINQ Reporting Engine.
• Improved handling of decimal tab alignment in cells where paragraph has hanging indent.
• Improved text wrapping when line contains a single or zero characters.
• Improved handling of cell margins and table alignment.
• Improved handling of collapsed paragraphs.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• Axis label moved to bottom left after JPEG rendering.
• WordArt text fill color lost when converting to thumbnail image.
• Presentation with the math symbol (Equation) produces incorrect PDF output.
• Incorrect character positioning in HTML representation of the presentation document in Safari for iOS.
• Incorrect HTML generated from OPD.
• Animation changed after saving PPT.
• ObjectReference exception on cloning presentation slides.
• Adding Media Player ActiveX control corrupts the presentation.
• Drawing is altered on load and save presentation.
• Font changed to subscript on thumbnail and saving PPTX.
• Wrong font name extracted.
• Mispositioned chart label issue.
• Superscript text is improperly displayed for text when viewed in Chrome.
• Black square instead of blank image when saving in PDF format.
• Thumbnails are not properly generated.
• Pie chart slice color changed in saved presentation.
• Border changes after saving PPT.
• VideoFrame with web source does not work in PowerPoint 2016.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• Set font size according to text boxes.
• SVG not properly generated after resizing slide.
• When PPTX is converted to PDF all content is missing.
• The axis label has moved to the bottom (left) after JPEG rendition.
• Axis labels are corrupted in JPEG output.
• WordArt text fill color lost when converting to thumbnail image.
• WordArt text kerning changed when converting to thumbnail image.
• When PPTX is converted to PDF font is larger.
• Incorrect HTML generated from ODP.
• PptxReadException on presentation load.
• Text is improperly rendered for exported PDF.
• Wrong Font name extracted.
• Ole frame resized on clicking in PowerPoint.
• Missing images while exporting to HTML.
• SVG not properly generated from PPTX.
• PNG not properly generated from PPTX.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• Improved LoadDataFilterOptions enumeration and ambiguity removed
• CSV Format - Cells are IsString but Aspose.Cells treats them as IsNumeric.
• When XLSX is converted to PDF, some lines in charts are different.
• Some CSS class declarations are not prefixed in the output HTML.
• HTML output inconsistent with source.
• Importing long value from HSQL DB throws an exception.
• Equation is not rendered in the output PDF.
• Chart is missing in the output PDF.
• Data labels for the chart are missing in the output PDF/image.
• Data labels display incorrectly in the output HTML file.
• Set combo box name does not work for the source Excel file but if re-saved by Microsoft Excel it works.
• Excel Macro-Enabled Worksheet (.xlsm) gets corrupted after opening and saving.
• Setting a Checkbox linked cell causes Excel to prompt an error message when opening the output file.
• Reading XLSB file throws NullPointerException.

Adds API to set chart axis properties.

Features

• Added API to set chart axis properties.
• Horizontal and vertical flipping attributes are now taken into account when rendering DML textboxes.
• Improved rendering of diacritics for the "Courier New" font.
• The LINQ Reporting engine now lets you dynamically set chart axis titles.
• Improved handling of decimal tab alignment in cells.
• Improved text wrapping when a line contains a single or no characters.
• Improved handling of cell margins and table alignment.
• Improved cell alignment when line has trailing spaces and custom tabs.
• Improved handling of collapsed paragraphs.

Task and contact attachments are now converted to EML.

Features

• Task and contact attachments are now converted to EML.

Fixes

• HTML data/links not set properly in contact body.
• Formatting lost while converting EML to XPS.
• Attachments in EML file not detected by API.
• MSG to MHTML removes line spaces.
• MSG body text formatting different to source HTML.
• Converting EML to MSG calendar Item shifts date by local time difference.
• Outlook raises exception while loading MSG file converted by Aspose.Email.

Improves selection logic when docking multiple windows at the same time.

Features

• Added AdvancedTabControl tab panel support for the mouse wheel to scroll tabs when using certain tab overflow behaviors.
• Improved selection logic when docking multiple windows at the same time.
• Improved auto-hidden tool window containers in non-hosted popups to support title bar drag-to-float functionality.
• Improved AdvancedTabControl's panel to allow for customization of the tab layout.
• Improved border rendering when tool window title bars were hidden.
• Updated floating dock hosts to show an external title bar when there is a single tool window container and tool windows don't have their own title bars.
• Updated docking window tab animation to not occur when deserializing a layout.
• Updated dragged document windows that don't allow attaching or docking to not update dock host z-order when dragging over a new dock host.
• Improved focus handling on layout changes.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where setting the TabbedMdiHost.TabControlStyle property wouldn't immediately update the tab highlight brushes.

Adds new features for adding inline UI elements within edit boxes.

Features

• Updated the color pickers such that the end user can tap and drag anywhere in a hue ring or saturation/brightness square to change color attributes, and not just on the thumb.
• Added a new drop-down to ColorPicker that allows switching between RGB and HSB text input modes.
• Added new features for adding inline UI elements within edit boxes.
• Updated the TimeEditBox QuickStart to show off an inline button for setting the current time.
• Improved the DateEditBox and TimeEditBox default formats to better support parsing of entered text values that lack part delimiters.
• Improved EditBoxPicker input handling for a more ComboBox-like experience.
• Improved how many edit boxes handle updates to range properties like Minimum and Maximum.
• Updated DateTimeEditBox and TimeEditBox to better handle millisecond entry.
• Improved TimeSpanEditBox's text entry support for custom formats.
• Updated TimeSpanPicker to only allow editing of parts that appear in the TimeSpanEditBox's format.
• Added the DateTimeEditBox.SetValueToNowCommand property, that resets the Value to DateTime.Now when executed.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where pressing a radial slider increment or decrement button would close a containing popup when used within a toolbar.

Improves TreeListBox selection tracking performance.

Features

• Added TreeListViewColumn.SortDirection property and related ColumnSortDirection enumeration that can be used to indicate that a sort glyph should appear in the column header when paired with a custom sorting mechanism.
• Improved TreeListBox to better handle property updates from view-models on other threads.
• Improved TreeListBox selection tracking performance.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug introduced in a previous build where pressing Tab to navigate focus through the PropertyGrid wouldn't properly select items.
• Fixed a bug where custom type descriptor Category properties weren't called.

Maintenance release includes several bug fixes.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where an exception could happen if the Backstage was forced open on load in a remote desktop scenario.
• Fixed a bug where a very thin RibbonWindow might incorrectly render title bar text.
• Fixed a bug where when moving the QAT from below to above the ribbon, it might not render with the correct width in a certain scenario.
• Fixed a bug introduced in a previous build where the RibbonWindow resize gripper could display in an incorrect location when Backstage was open.

Improves Cut Line to Clipboard edit action to support multiple lines.

Features

• Improved numerous edit actions to retain their final selection after the action goes through an undo/redo process.
• Improved how Tab indenting is handled when there is a block selection.
• Improved Cut Line to Clipboard edit action to support multiple lines.
• Updated the hit-testing mechanism to return a new result type for intra-line spacers, which prevents mouse hovers over them from triggering IntelliPrompt quick info.
• Updated the Caret property to implement INotifyPropertyChanged and raise the event when the selection changes, thereby allowing UI to bind right to properties such as Position.
• Updated the IntelliPrompt popups to not switch to partial opacity if both Ctrl and Alt are held down.
• Updated how IntelliPrompt quick info providers recognize when to close.
• Updated certain edit actions that retain selection to not force the selection range to be normalized.

.NET Languages Add-on

• Improved logic for selecting the best IntelliPrompt parameter info member overload when typing a comma at the end of an argument list.
• Updated how the resolver handles base type resolution to prevent a possible exception.

Web Languages Add-on

• Improved the XML line commenter to comment the entire line text when there is no selection.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where vertical scrolling was possible in a certain scenario when in single line mode.
• Fixed a bug introduced in a previous build where view focus might not tracked properly in a certain scenario.
• Fixed a bug where certain text formatting calls over very small ranges could lead to an exception in TextSnapshotReader.