Posted 17 years ago
by Actipro Software Support
- Cleveland, OH, USA

A new WPF Studio maintenance release is now available. Updates include major enhancements to VS 2008 designer functionality and full mini-toolbar implementation for Ribbon.
With the release of this version, Actipro Ribbon now has 100% implementation of all required AND optional items in the Microsoft Ribbon UI requirements specification!
With the release of this version, Actipro Ribbon now has 100% implementation of all required AND optional items in the Microsoft Ribbon UI requirements specification!
Bar Code Updates
- Improved VS designer support by allowing the bar code symbology's value to be entered on the task pane.
Ribbon Updates
- Dramatically improved designer functionality including control drag/move grippers and more extensive task panes that allow for label/screentip entry, image selection, and much more.
- Added a complete implementation of the mini-toolbar, including support for standalone usage and "pairing" with a context menu.
- Added the MiniToolBar and MiniToolBarService classes.
- Added the ContextMenu.MiniToolBar property, which when set will display the mini-toolbar with the context menu whenever the mouse is used to show the context menu.
- Added the ControlContext.MiniToolBarItem value.
- Improved support for screen tips on menu items.
- Enhanced Ribbon.DeserializeQuickAccessToolBarItems so that if an exception occurs while loading or cloning an item, the loading will continue on, and a collection of exceptions will be returned from the method indicating the problems.
- Updated the foreground color of editable ComboBoxes and TextBoxes.
- Updated SplitButtons used in normal menus so that they draw a small line on the right side, indicating they are split buttons.
- Fixed a bug where a large SplitButton or PopupButton would not show the drop-down arrow if there was no label.
- Fixed a bug where when a Tab's Visibility was changed, the ActiveTabs collection was not properly updated.
- Fixed a couple bugs with ComboBox where conversion of text to a value could throw an exception in certain cases and live preview may not function in certain cases.
Wizard Updates
- Updated VS designer features to allow typing of page captions, descriptions, and title right in WizardPage task pane.
- Added first/last page navigation to context menus and task panes.
- Other minor designer enhancements including condensed task pane layouts and separators on context menus.
Shared Library Updates
- Source projects updated to VS 2008 but still target .NET 3.0.
- Added the VisualTreeHelperExtended.IsVisual method, which checks to see if an object is a Visual or Visual3D.
- Updated all code so that VisualTreeHelper.GetParent calls check for a Visual or Visual3D source object first.
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