WPF Studio 2010.2 build 531 Maintenance Release

A new WPF Studio maintenance release is now available. This release adds several new features to SyntaxEditor and Gauge, and fixes a couple large bugs found in v2010.2 Docking and Ribbon updates.

Updates include:

Docking/MDI

• Fixed several issues pertaining to tool windows, such as the content or data context going blank.
• Fixed issue with unhandled exception when floating certain ToolWindowContainers.

Editors

• Fixed an unhandled exception in DateTimeEditBox when entering the minimum date value allowed by .NET.
• Fixed entry of single digit years in DateTimeEditBox.

Gauge

• Added support for labels (or text) pointers to CircularGauge/LinearGauge.
• Added CircularGauge Pointer Label QuickStart to demonstrate new feature.
• Added LinearGauge Pointer Label QuickStart to demonstrate new feature.
• Added support for refresh rate (or value throttling) to CircularGauge/LinearGauge.
• Added CircularGauge Refresh Rate QuickStart to demonstrate new feature.
• Added LinearGauge Refresh Rate QuickStart to demonstrate new feature.
• Added special support for plus sign to DigitalGauge 7-segment display.
• Added support for lowercase characters to DigitalGauge, where appropriate.
• Added character casing setting to DigitalGauge.
• Updated DigitalGauge Characters QuickStart to show off new character casing support.
• Updated rendering code to freeze brushes to help improve performance.
• Added Procedural Gauge QuickStart to show how to create a gauge from code-behind.

Ribbon

• Updated styles to add rounded corners to ContextMenu and MiniToolbar, and background to ScrollViewer.
• Fixed a possible exception that could fire when a RibbonWindow was closed.

SyntaxEditor

• Added multiple auto-indent options for languages, with the new default being to Block indent.
• Added the IIndentProvider service, which can be registered on a syntax language to indicate which indent mode to use, and how much to smart indent when Smart indent mode is active. Added related IndentMode enumeration.
• Added the ITextFormatter service, which can be registered on a syntax language to add text formatting support.
• Updated dynamic lexer so that patterns can be dynamically added/removed if within a 'using' DynamicLexer.CreateChangeBatch block.
• Fixed an exception that could raise if HasHorizontalSplit or HasVerticalSplit are set true in XAML.
• Web Languages Add-on: Enhanced XML context factory logic.