Bill Henning (Actipro)
New maintenance releases are now available for our WPF and WinForms Controls. Numerous new minor features and updates are included, and known issues with the recently-released .NET 8 have been resolved.
See the related WPF v23.1.4 announcement post and WinForms v23.1.3 announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Bill Henning (Actipro)
This version makes a number of minor updates across the WinForms control product line.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Bill Henning (Actipro)
This version makes a number of SyntaxEditor improvements, and also fixes a bug introduced in v23.1.0 when parsing image data on certain machines. Several NuGet packages have been updated to better support cross-platform usage.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
This version contains updates across all our WinForms controls to support high DPI environments and add new dark color schemes. .NET version compatibility was modernized to the latest supported .NET versions, and a large number of other various feature additions and bug fixes were made to all products.
See the related announcement post for the detailed list of enhancements and updates.
Here's a look at some of the new features.
Historically, high DPI support in WinForms has been a mixed bag. Newer Windows API’s and recent updates to .NET have greatly improved the scenario, but high DPI support is still not free and developers must put in the effort to ensure proper DPI awareness.
With our WinForms Controls v23.1 updates, we’ve done our part to make sure our controls can render correctly in high DPI environments. Some of the changes include:
NOTE: Anyone with a DPI-aware application needs to read our v23.1 conversion topic and thoroughly test. It could be that you were already compensating for lack of DPI-awareness that we now handle, so you don't want to do something like scale our controls if we're already scaling them (causing double scaling).
We’ve also revamped how all renderers determine which colors are being used so we can better support a dark color scheme. New “Metro Dark” renderers are available for all our products and can be used to better integrate with dark-themed applications.
In regards to .NET version compatibility, we have:
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The WinForms Controls v23.1 release is close to ready, and includes sweeping changes across all products to support high DPI environments and new dark color schemes. We have extensively tested this release internally and have already received positive feedback from beta testers, but we know every customer’s implementation of DPI support can vary greatly and would like to get more exposure before full release.
If you would like to assist with evaluating the release (especially DPI awareness) in your own application and provide feedback on changes before release, please email our support address for access to a release candidate.
Historically, high DPI support in WinForms has been a mixed bag. Newer Windows API’s and recent updates to .NET have greatly improved the scenario, but high DPI support is still not free and developers must put in the effort to ensure proper DPI awareness.
With our WinForms Controls v23.1 updates, we’ve done our part to make sure our controls can render correctly in high DPI environments. Some of the changes coming in the next release include:
We’ve also revamped how all renderers determine which colors are being used so we can better support a dark color scheme. New “Metro Dark” renderers are available for all our products and can be used to better integrate with dark-themed applications.