WPF Studio 3.0.0410 Maintenance Release

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!

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.