WPF Controls v21.1.2 Maintenance Release

by Avatar Bill Henning (Actipro)
Tuesday, July 13, 2021 at 12:33pm

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.

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UWP Controls v2020.1 Build 354 Maintenance Release

by Avatar Bill Henning (Actipro)
Tuesday, July 13, 2021 at 12:25pm

Our v2020.1 UWP controls have been updated with a new maintenance release that is now ready for download. 

See this announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.

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WPF Controls v21.1.1 Maintenance Release

by Avatar Bill Henning (Actipro) - 1 comment
Monday, March 8, 2021 at 7:02pm

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.

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SyntaxEditor

Unused Regions

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.

A new sample demonstrating unused regions

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.

UWP Controls v2020.1 Build 353 Maintenance Release

by Avatar Bill Henning (Actipro) - 1 comment
Monday, February 15, 2021 at 8:35pm

Our v2020.1 UWP controls have been updated with a new maintenance release that is now ready for download. 

See this announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.

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UWP Controls 2020.1 Released

by Avatar Bill Henning (Actipro)
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 3:40pm

We are pleased to announce the release of the 2020.1 version of our UWP Controls.  

This announcement post contains the detailed list of updates in the 2020.1 version.  Please be aware that Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709) or later and usage of the Microsoft's free 'Win2D.uwp' NuGet package are required.

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While the version includes a wide number of small updates and bug fixes, let’s take a look at a handful of the larger updates.  

Editors

AutoCompleteBox 

AutoCompleteBox now has a SelectedItemChanged event and an InputMode property, that alters input behavior.  Search mode is the default and is intended for usage when the control is providing search-like functionality, commonly seen in application title bars.  ComboBox mode is an alternate mode intended for use when the control should be used in more traditional ComboBox-like scenarios.  When in ComboBox mode, the popup list filter turns off when not typing in the control, allowing the entire list to be browsed when interacting with the control purely via the popup.

Swatch-Only Display

BrushEditBox and ColorEditBox now have a HasText property that allows you to hide the text portion of the edit box for a swatch-only display.

Dates and Times

DateEditBox and TimeEditBox now accept delimiter-less input for several additional custom formats.

Large Incremental Changes

Numeric edit boxes now support large incremental changes when holding Shift while pressing Up/Down or rotating the mouse wheel.

Custom Format Strings

Several numeric edit boxes now support custom format strings with semi-colon conditional format specifiers.

Grids

We've added a PropertyGrid.RequestRefresh method that can be called to tell the PropertyGrid to refresh its contents.

SyntaxEditor

Search Overlay Pane

A new background renders the search range when the search overlay pane is in Selection scope mode.

A new property allows you to disable key bindings that would activate the search overlay pane, which is useful if you have an external search UI.

Logic related the selection scope searching has been improved.

Ctrl+Enter can be pressed to execute a Find All search operation when the Find textbox has focus and the find all button is visible.

IntelliPrompt

New methods allow completion list items to be added much faster, dramatically improving performance.