These maintenance releases for our WPF, WinForms, and UWP Controls focus on making many minor improvements across all the products. In addition, WPF's WindowChrome now allows it to render a backdrop with Mica or Acrylic materials when on a Windows 11 system.
See the related announcement posts for the detailed lists of enhancements and updates:
Bill Henning (Actipro)
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This version includes new controls, new WindowChrome features for Windows 11, many improvements for SyntaxEditor and its add-ons, updates to nearly all WPF products, and now includes .NET 5 assemblies in the NuGet packages with validated .NET 6 compatibility.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Here's a look at some of the new features.
Added a rich API that can create modern, themed dialogs for anything from simple messages and confirmations, to more advanced scenarios like exception notification dialogs or file copy dialogs.
We even include a ThemedMessageBox object with static methods that match the native WPF MessageBox API. Our themed version of the MessageBox uses a chromed WPF Window instead of Win32 dialogs (as the default WPF MessageBox does), along with fluent icons. This is important when your app is in a dark theme because it allows all message/confirmation dialogs to match the theme. You can instantly modernize all message box display in your app to our implementation with a single line of code too.
Added a new control that is often seen as a replacement for a traditional CheckBox in modern user interfaces.
It's easy to customize the appearance of ToggleSwitch to support other styles as well.
Made numerous updates to PopupButton to improve focus handling, tooltip display, key handling, and knowing when to close itself.
WindowChrome has added support for Windows 11 where it will use rounded corners and system-rendered drop shadows. In addition, hovering over the title bar's Maximize or Restore buttons will show the Windows 11 Snap Layout menu.
A new sample demonstrates synchronizing the scroller and splitter of one editor instance with another.
Improved drag/drop interaction and related scrolling in several scenarios, and add a new Drag and Drop QuickStart sample.
Added a formula example with alternate style for nested parentheses.
Made many small improvements in the areas of editing and caret movement, especially in certain special contexts.
Improved popups to reposition themselves as the editor is scrolled.
The vertical scrollbar has been updated to handle collapsed regions more smoothly.
Updated to support C# 8.0 syntax.
A new sample that demonstrates using an IResolver to navigate to the source of a reference.
The outliner will now create nodes for code-level constructs such as block statements by default.
Updated to support ECMAScript 2021 (12 Edition) syntax.
Added a constructor for whether the language should support JavaScript style comments, as in Microsoft’s JSONC variant.
Updated to support Python v3.9.5 syntax.
Updated to support namespace packages.
Added a FilterApplied event that is raised after the current filtering state has been applied to all of the control's items, generally occurring when DataFilter is changed, or filtering is enabled or disabled
Added a new item adapter method that can improve performance in large trees when searching for a tree node, and improved focus tracking and filtering.
Updated edit box commit triggers so that commit on focus loss is now optional.
Updated the numeric edit boxes to support input of Full-width and Arabic-Indic digits.
Added SignedMaximum and SignedMinimum aggregation options that compare against absolute values while retaining the sign of the original value; e.g., -5 is greater than 4.
The WPF Controls NuGet packages on nuget.org now contain compiled product assemblies that target:
Projects that target .NET 5 or later will use the .NET 5-based assemblies, and projects that target .NET Framework 4.5.2 or later will use the .NET Framework 4.5.2-based assemblies.
We’ve also validated that our assemblies work great in .NET 6 applications.
Bill Henning (Actipro)
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Our WPF, WinForms, and UWP controls have all been updated with new maintenance releases that are now ready for download. The maintenance releases focus on SyntaxEditor improvements and some other minor updates.
See these announcement posts for the detailed list of enhancements and updates:
Bill Henning (Actipro)
Our v21.1 WPF controls have been updated with a new maintenance release that is now ready for download. This version has many updates for SyntaxEditor along with improvements for Ribbon, Docking/MDI, and other products.
See this announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Bill Henning (Actipro)
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Our v21.1 WPF controls have been updated with a new maintenance release that is now ready for download. This version has a fun new SyntaxEditor feature, and fixes a problem in the previous release's nuget.org packages that was triggering design-time assemblies to get referenced when using packages.config files.
See this announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
A new unused region tag is available that allows you to mark regions of code that are "unused". This is commonly seen in the Visual Studio code editor when no types from an imported namespace are used, or a variable is declared but never used.
The result of tagging text ranges as unused regions is that they will render with partial transparency. This helps visually separate unused code from other code, while still maintaining the syntax highlighting.