DXperience v2008 vol 2.2 released on 30 Jul 2008

DXperience v2008 vol 2.2 for Visual Studio 2005, 2008

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What's Included & New .NET Product Line - v2008 vol 2.2

Release Notes

To learn about our new XtraGauges and XtraWizard suites, as well as get acquainted with other major improvements introduced in this version, please check the following page:

What's New in DXperience v2008 vol 2

To learn about breaking changes in this version, please refer to the following page:

Breaking Changes - DXperience v2008 vol 2.2

The following sections list all minor and major changes, as well as issue fixes in DXperience v2008 vol 2. Note that this list covers all issues fixed in 8.2.0 (Release Candidate) and 8.2.1 (Final Release) versions of the Suite. The current version 8.2.2 only includes one change compared to 8.2.1: a fixed demo of DXGrid for WPF.

New Features/Changes

All ASP.NET Components

• S30047 - ASPxUploadControl - The loading progress, indicated within the browser's status bar, never stops after the file is uploaded
• S30176 - AutoFormats - Provide a capability to apply AutoFormats to a control without clearing the control's existing templates

ASPxGridView and Editors Suite

• S91176 - Add the ASPxGridViewBehaviorSettings.SortMode property
• S19438 - ASPxClientEdit - Add a new client side method to validate invisible editors
• S19941 - ASPxComboBox - display an error message on the client, if a server-side exception is thrown during a callback
• AS17597 - ASPxEdit - Support the Enable property on the client side
• S18744 - ASPxGridView - add the GroupRowTemplate for a column
• AS16002 - ASPxGridView.DetailsChanged event - add a capability to determine a row, which was expanded/collapsed
• S19303 - ASPxGridView: Add an ability to change a summary footer cell style conditionally (based on the summary value)
• S91891 - ASPxGridview: Documentation - Describe the Settings.UseFixedTableLayout property in more detail
• S19196 - ASPxWebControl - add the client-side CallbackError event
• S30153 - Describe the OnHtmlEditFormCreated event
• S30072 - Documentation - HtmlRowCreated event - add a note that it's never fired with e.RowType == GridViewRowType.Title parameter
• S18181 - Export - add a capability to export a description of the exported GridView
• S18825 - Export hyperlinks as hyperlinks, but not as text
• S20056 - GridViewExporter control with master and detail gridviews
• S18397 - Native rendering is required for particular editors (such as TextBox, Memo, ComboBox, ListBox)
• S91848 - New Filter Row Menu in 8.2 - Menu Item Wording
• S18541 - Provide a consistent look and feel of error messages displayed within the ASPxGridView control
• S30209 - Rewrite the "Missing primary key" error message

ASPxHtmlEditor

• S19628 - Add a capability to strip unsafe HTML tags
• S19404 - Add an ability to define and apply custom text formatting using tags and CSS styles
• Q103638 - Integrated spelling checker is required

ASPxperience Suite

• S18765 - Add an option to ASPxMenu to prevent items resizing if the menu's width is 100%
• Q102303 - Add the ability to prevent loading panel display during callbacks
• S18711 - ASPxCallbackPanel - add a property, which will force the ASPxCallbackPanel not to clear its contents during a callback
• S19762 - ASPxCallbackPanel - Provide an capability to pass server data to the client side
• S30085 - ASPxMenu - Add the htmlElement property to an argument passed to the client ItemMouseOver and ItemMouseOut events
• S18713 - ASPxNavBar - add client-side methods to hide / show Groups
• S19306 - ASPxNavBar, ASPxMenu - add a capability to map data table fields to fields used by the NavBar
• S19651 - ASPxPageControl, ASPxMenu, ASPxNavBar: add an ability to change the Enabled and Visible properties of a client object (tab, item, group) on the client if it is disabled and invisible on the server
• AS12579 - ASPxTabControl - Provide means to obtain tabs from an xml file
• B95604 - Provide a capability to initiate a new callback within a handler of the client EndCallback event
• S90451 - Provide a mechanism to pass any required information from the server to the client
• S90852 - Provide a server-side capability to determine whether a control is being updated using the callback technology

ASPxPivotGrid

• Q97960 - Implement the LayoutChanged event that is fired each time when the grid's structure is changed by the end-user
• S19381 - Support Chart integration similar to the PivotGridControl's one

ASPxScheduler Suite

• S19383 - Add the reminder functionality
• S19589 - Client-side - provide a capability to show AppoitmentForm by AppointmentID
• S18844 - Documentation - Add a topic to describe how to bind ASPxScheduler to XPO data source
• S19231 - SchedulerCommand - implement a constructor with XtraScheduler (or ASPxScheduler) instance passed as a parameter instead of InnerSchedulerControl

ASPxTreeList

• S91774 - Provide the data export capability for the control
• S19666 - Support data editing
• S19537 - Support drag-and-drop nodes

Core of ASPxScheduler and XtraScheduler

• S91102 - Add an ability to customize the caption of navigation buttons
• S19729 - Add helper DateTime conversion methods when the (client) time zone is taken into account
• S19085 - Add the ability to handle the "More Items" button click
• AS3474 - Data Exchange - iCal (VCalendar 2.0) support
• AS17087 - DayView - Add a possibility to show AllDay Appointments in the TimeCells area, rather than in the AllDay area
• S91516 - SchedulerControl - provide a capability to customize date and time formats in different parts of the scheduler control separately

Data Library

• S30005 - Linq~ data sources must support the grid's Incremental Search feature in Server mode
• S19363 - LinqServerModeDataSource - support data editing

DXperience Suite

• CS57170 - New Product - Gauge Control (or Meter)
• AS6099 - New Product - Wizard control

eXpress Persistent Objects

• Q104460 - Add support for the IN operator in the Where clause
• S30137 - Allow the use of the XPWeakReference class under Medium Trust environment
• S19481 - Append a version number to Xpo Source in Data Source Configuration Wizard (Web)
• B95172 - LINQ - support for the "where !(obj is DomainObject2)" construction

XtraBars Suite

• AS6085 - Add support for tooltips for XtraMdiTabPages
• S18376 - Add the Glyph property to AppMenuFileLabel
• CS60507 - Collapsible Toolbars like in QuickBooks 2007
• AS16039 - Ribbon - Add a new ButtonGroupVertAlign property that will allow BarButtonGroup objects to be vertically aligned
• S18534 - Ribbon - AppMenuFileLabel - Add an option to hide the Pin button to the right of the AppMenuFileLabel
• AS17229 - Ribbon: provide BarEditItem grouping similar to ButtonGroup
• A230 - XtraDocking - add an ability to display images in the dockpanel's caption bar

XtraCharts Suite

• S19848 - ASPxClientTitle - Add the Alignment and Dock properties
• A2351 - Axis - If the scale type is date-time, make it possible to start showing axis labels and draw its gridlines from a start of a day, week, month, etc.
• DS4405 - Chart - Multi-pane charts (capability to show several panes inside one diagram)
• S19849 - Chart Titles, Series Titles - Support basic HTML formatting tags to emphasize text in titles
• AS6825 - Data Binding - Summarization capability (e.g. capability to calculate a standard function for a data field)
• AS13397 - DateTimeMeasurementUnit - Add Millisecond, Week and Quarter measure units
• S18577 - Financial Analysis - Support trend line indicators
• AS2865 - Pie Series View - Add the Radial and Tangent values to the set of possible label positions
• AS10911 - PointOptions - Rename the "ValuePercentPrecision" property to "PercentageAccuracy" and set the ValueNumericOptions.Precision to PercentageAccuracy-2 every time the ValueAsPercent=True and Format =Percent (at design time)
• AS4702 - Series - Implement the "Top N" and "Other" functionality
• AS3228 - Series Labels - Smart labels do not overlap each other for series point labels (collision detection)
• S18073 - Web - Capability to print and export a WebChartControl on the client side
• S30048 - Web - Client-side improvements (add the ShowLoadingPanel property, CallbackError and CustomJSProperties events)
• S19847 - WebChartControl - Add the RuntimeSelection property and SetObjectSelection and ClearSelection methods
• S90605 - Wizard - Capability to specify a chart's appearance (e.g. its background image)

XtraEditors Library

• S50110 - Add an Export Images method to the DevExpress.Utils.ImageCollection
• S30017 - Documentation - XtraTabPageCollection.Move Method - add sample code demonstrating how to move a page forward and backward
• S50014 - DropDownButton - Add an ActAsDropDown property that specifies whether a dropdown control is opened on clicking the main button
• S19917 - Hide the Mask property for the LookupEdit control
• S91772 - Hide the TEXT property of XtraTabControl
• AS7414 - Improve HyperLinkEdit Appearance support
• S30170 - Mask - DateTime - preserve the date/time portion that is not displayed in the editor
• S30052 - MemoEdit - Hide the BackGroundImage and BackgroundImageLayout properties
• S19685 - TextEdit - remove a restriction on the length of the entered text when working with a numeric mask

XtraGrid Suite

• S19733 - Hide the FormatEditValue and ParseEditValue events for the CheckEdit control
• S19873 - Implement the AutoFilterCondition.Contains mode
• S91347 - LayoutView: Improve RetriveFields designer action speed
• S30054 - Master-detail - When a detail view is being edited, and a master (main) view is being scrolled, the current edit value must be saved
• B93998 - Nullable type's alignment should work in the same way as the alignment for its not nullable equivalent
• S91647 - Update designer for Group summary items

XtraLayout Suite

• S91374 - Add an option to display all of the layout control's constraints
• S19648 - Add an option to hide LayoutControlItem content
• S91331 - DataLayoutControl - Display field names in the Bindings Manager
• B94604 - Scroll LayouControlGroup on pressing PageUp and PageDown

XtraNavBar

• AS13325 - Documentation: Add a note that the CustomDrawHint and CalcHintSize events fire only for the VSToolBoxView style

XtraPivotGrid Suite

• S30018 - Customization Form - Display field header filter icons for filtered fields when they reside within the Customization Form
• DS5903 - Make data editable within the PivotGrid
• S19245 - OLAP - Use the Analysis Services 2005 translation in the Customization Form
• S90067 - OLAP connection string - The OLAP connection string should support more parameters

XtraPrinting Library

• B93956 - Deployment - Add the ability to throw an exception when exporting data if the DevExpress.XtraPrinting.x.y.dll isn't deployed
• B730 - Export to XLS - Allow export of hyperlink fields
• S90887 - Preview - Change the Printable Component Editor's caption to "Print Options"
• CS200 - Preview - Support skins for the Document Map (use the DevExpress XtraTreeList for this)

XtraReports Suite

• S90754 - Data - Always show display names, but store real names when binding report controls to data, use mail merge, specify summary data member, etc.
• A864 - Data Binding - Add calculated fields with the capability to visually construct their expressions via the Formula Wizard
• A137 - End-User Designer - Localize all property names in the Property Grid
• DS39930 - Field List - Put a two second delay on the info tip
• S19271 - Field List - Show different images for fields of different data types
• AS3189 - Filtering - Add a collection of parameters to a report, which may be passed to a report via code, or entered by an end-user via a parameters dialog before generating a preview
• AS15389 - Localization - Capability to localize smart tags
• AS12725 - Summary - Capability to calculate a percent of the total value for a group, page or entire report
• AS5480 - Summary - Running totals
• S19959 - XRPivotGrid - Add the capability to handle the CustomGroupInterval event

XtraScheduler Suite

• S90782 - Add a method to process reminders on demand
• S91613 - Add reminder intervals to DurationEdit control to match Outlook 2007
• S91795 - Add the LayoutVersion property and LayoutUpgrade events
• S91022 - Context menu for switching a view should match BarButtonItems in the new ViewSelector
• A713 - Data Exchange - Synchronization with Lotus Notes
• S91642 - Right-clicking on calendar should select a day if no interval is highlighted
• AS17638 - SchedulerControl - Add new AppointmentResizing and AppointmentResized events
• S19531 - SchedulerControl - new service is required to get the current SchedulerControl state (is the popup form opened, are appointments being dragged, is the in-place editor shown, and so on)
• S19504 - SchedulerControl - Provide a capability to set the ignored state for Reminders
• S91627 - SchedulerControl - Support an interface, which will allow a user to create SchedulerControl commands without an InnerControl instance
• S19475 - SchedulerControl - update the corresponding Custom Field value when the Appointment.SetValue() method is called
• S30188 - ViewNavigator Bar - disable the bar item when the command cannot be executed

XtraTreeList Suite

• CS54856 - Drag and Drop support for reparenting nodes without keyboard SHIFT button
• S20039 - Native support for Checkboxes
• AS14025 - Sort columns in the customization form

Resolved Issues

All .NET WinForms Components

• B95977 - DXDesignSettings tool doesn't enable visual inheritance for VS2008 in Vista x64
• B95751 - Invalid bar layout when setting AllowCollapse and UseWholeRow properties
• B95803 - Slider control isn't drawn correctly on Windows 2008 Server RemoteApp
• B95593 - The Skinned HighlightedItemStyle isn't applied to the ImageListBoxContol when using some bonus skins
• B95947 - When ToolTipType=Standard and no tooltip is specified, an empty tooltip box is displayed

ASPxGridView and Editors Suite

• B95671 - ASPxButton - A click on the button, placed within an UpdatePanel, doesn't initiate a callback under Mozilla in some situations
• B31744 - ASPxButton - Handling a client-side event of a button whose UseSubmitBehavior option is enabled and which is placed within an Update Panel, is not in effect under Firefox
• B31185 - ASPxDateEdit: The dropdown isn't closed on pressing the Tab key
• B95795 - ASPxGridView - An error occurs when trying to navigate to another page after calling the Selection.SelectAll method
• B31787 - ASPxGridView - the client-side GetRowValues method fails for a field of the Enum type
• B95789 - ASPxLabel - The EncodeHtml property doesn't work correctly in some situations
• B31201 - ASPxSpinEdit - MinValue is not effective if the Enter key is pressed
• B95574 - Auto-Expand Groups does not work when a grid is created at runtime
• Q108157 - Column validation settings are not properly restored from the ViewState
• B95895 - GetMainElement is null or not an object
• Q108131 - Hidden editors validation issue
• B95493 - Hidden GridView MemoColumn not shown in EditTemplate
• B95917 - If using inline Edit Form, a client error occurs after the edit mode is initiated by a row click
• B95684 - Incorrect alignment of error text displayed on top of the text box
• B31814 - Invalid Value message is cleared after a post back

ASPxHtmlEditor

• B95563 - ASPxHtmlEditor - An image is wrongly aligned after insertion
• B95976 - ASPxHtmlEditor - If the Prototype.js file is linked to a page, a client error occurs when trying to insert an image using the "From this computer" option
• B94931 - The ASPxHtmlEditor freezes when used inside an UpdatePanel (FireFox, IE6)
• B94955 - The ASPxHtmlEditor is not initialized if placed in a hidden container

ASPxperience Suite

• B31335 - ASPxPopupControl - FireFox - it is impossible to type in the ASPxHtmlEditor if it is hosted by the ASPxPopupControl
• B94907 - ASPxUploadControl - A page doesn't finish loading after the client UploadComplete event is fired
• B31876 - Setting the e.cancel property's value in a handler of the client TabClick event has no effect

ASPxPivotGrid

• Q106765 - ASPxPivotGrid doesn't work in master detail for the ASPxGridView
• B94854 - AspxPivotGridExporter truncates text values
• S91548 - Show the user that the area is not allowed

ASPxScheduler Suite

• B31902 - The APTCHANGE callback may be omitted when starting to resize an appointment and dropping it immediately afterwards (when custom fields are used)

ASPxTreeList

• B31975 - Column captions assigned via the Caption property of column are not exported - the corresponding data field names are used instead

eXpress Persistent Objects

• B31608 - LINQ there is no way to apply criteria based on an aggregated collection
• B95171 - LINQ: Unable to cast objects of type 'PropertyAlias' to type 'DevExpress.Data.Filtering.CriteriaOperator'.
• B95749 - Nested UOW exception if Delayed property exists: Entering the 'GetObjectsNonReenterant' state from the 'LoadingObjectsIntoNestedUow' state is prohibited
• Q108171 - Unique constraint violation when inserting an instance of a dynamically generated class
• B93327 - UpdateSchema() doesn't fire SchemaCorrectionNeededException on CompactFramework

XtraBars Suite

• B95832 - BarQuickCustomization button invalid hit test
• B94575 - Dock Panel not working properly with multiple monitors
• B93748 - Minimize MDI child form - control buttons disappear
• B95865 - Ribbon - The alignment of a LargeButton's text is incorrect
• Q32811 - RibbonControl - buttons are not centered

XtraCharts Suite

• B31982 - Chart Wizard can be invoked for a chart when placed within an inherited Form
• B31981 - Data Filtering - Unable to filter empty points when using the PivotGridControl as a series' datasource
• B95726 - DateTimeMeasureUnit - Different precision problems with date-time values with milliseconds
• B95846 - Localization - Some strings are missing in v2008 vol 2 Release Candidate
• B95919 - Web - WebChartControl and LLBLGENProDataSource do not work
• B95779 - Zooming - The behavior of the DevExpress.XtraCharts.Native.Chart class's CanZoomIn and CanZoomOut properties has been changed in v2008 vol 2

XtraEditors Library

• B95889 - Arithmetic Exception in RibbonControl
• Q108738 - CalcEdit -incorrect behavior when calculating percents
• B31922 - CheckedListBox - CheckedItems property is not updated after new items are added
• B31443 - Documentation - The XtraTabPageCollection.Move Method - the description within the Parameters section is wrong
• B95742 - GroupControl's caption is not trimmed correctly
• B31774 - Skinned MDI application - the title bar is painted incorrectly
• B95796 - SourceSafe checks out files if a Form contains XtraTabControl
• B95932 - TextEdit beeps when input is valid with RegEx mask
• B95953 - XtraScrollableControl - Scrollbars are not updated when adding controls to the XtraScrollableControl

XtraGrid Suite

• B95038 - Documentation - Correct the BooleanFormatter example
• B94000 - LayoutView - a card's background image (TemplateCard.ContentImage) is only visible if the OptionsView.ShowCardCaption is set to True
• B95834 - LayoutView Designer is unstable
• B95916 - The control crashes, when setting the format string to {00.00%}
• Q108991 - When printing, an exception is raised: Unable to cast object of type 'DevExpress.XtraPrinting.RichTextBrick' to type 'DevExpress.XtraPrinting.ITextBrick
• B95559 - With the CellSelect multi-selection mode, the grid does not select all rows by clicking the RowIndicator

XtraLayout Suite

• Q96910 - A control disappears after performing Undo in the Layout Control
• B96042 - Documentation - Spelling error in the IXtraResizableControl.MinSize/MaxSize topics
• B95598 - Drop area is incorrectly displayed when the control is within an XtraScrollablePanel
• B95597 - LayoutControl - The vertical scrollbar is not working in a sample layout
• B95659 - OnLoad event is raised too early
• B94543 - Opening a form with a LayoutControl containing a StandaloneBarDockControl modifies the form
• Q109399 - Shortcut adjustment problems with LayoutControl
• B94304 - Size constraints state is not indicated
• B96041 - The RestoreFromCustomization method must throw ObjectDisposedException when being called for a disposed item

XtraPivotGrid Suite

• B95733 - Error when using the LoadCollapsedStateFromStream method with the Custom Group Interval feature enabled
• B31252 - Print Preview - The Behavior tab is empty in the Printable Component Editor dialog

XtraPrinting Library

• B31431 - ImageBrick - Brick is rendered incorrectly if Sizing is set to Auto
• B30715 - Preview - Header and Footer dialog isn't closed via the ESC key

XtraReports Suite

• B31432 - Design Time - A selected item in the Field List shouldn't be changed, when hovering over an existing control during the dragging process
• B30496 - Design Time - Web Application - The "Add Project Datasource" context link is visible and enabled for the DataSource property (of a report, chart and pivot grid), but does nothing
• B30766 - End-User Designer - If a DataAdapter is selected, there are several verbs shown at the bottom of the Property Grid, which do nothing and must be hidden
• B31515 - End-User Designer - In the DataSourceSchema dialog, the "XML/XSD Schema File" caption and the editor below are overlapped
• B31622 - End-User Designer - The XRCrossBandBox.BackColor property is visible in the End-User Designer, while it shouldn't
• B95848 - End-User Designer - User-friendly names are not displayed when the End-User Designer is started from scratch (without calling the XtraReport.ShowDesigner method)
• B31433 - End-User Designer - Values of bound fields aren't displayed in the DetailReportBand, if the XtraReport.Datasource property is set to null
• Q106695 - Export - Sometimes an incorrect layout is produced when exporting a report to XLS, MHT and image formats
• B31449 - Importing - Access - The XtraReport.DataSource property isn't assigned when importing a data-bound report
• B31450 - Importing - Importing doesn't work at Visual Studio design time in v2008 vol 2.0 Release Candidate
• B95393 - Page Builder - Sometimes a subreport with a multi-page image causes a dead lock
• B94029 - Page Builder - XRCrossBandBox issues with a subreport
• B95148 - PageBuilder - PageHeader is shown though the PrintOn property is set to NotWithReportHeader
• B32004 - Parameters - Unable to filter reports using Begins With, Ends With, Is Like operators
• B95855 - Report Wizard - Wrong image size on the first page when Large Fonts are used in the operating system
• B30590 - ReportToolbar - The ComboBox.Name property is required
• B94196 - User Designer - Labels deleted from a report are still listed in the "Property Grid"
• B95383 - XRRichText - If data fields are renamed via the IDataDictionary interface, and a field name contains an accented character, the data binding isn't recognized in mail merge

XtraScheduler Suite

• B94865 - Documentation - RecurrenceInfo.ToXml and FromXml methods
• B96021 - ShowPrintOptionsForm causes NullReferenceException
• B95799 - XtraScheduler at design time - the RibbonViewSelector and RibbonViewNavigator components are missing in the Toolbox; LargeGlyphs problems
• Q108431 - XtraScheduler at design time - the RibbonViewSelector component is missing in the Toolbox
• B95717 - XtraScheduler Demo (Custom Appointments Form) - incorrect calculation within the code for a custom form

XtraTreeList Suite

• B95761 - DragDrop event doesn't fire
• B31951 - The CalcNodeDragImageIndex event isn't raised if we drag a node, and then press the Control key
• B95786 - Unhandled IndexOutOfRangeException is raised when a datasource row is deleted
• B95794 - Values of ColumnEditName properties are not saved when a layout is saved

XtraVerticalGrid Suite

• B30522 - PropertyGridControl - BestFit method raises an exception, if there is any other row except EditorRow
• B31933 - PropertyGridControl - When the modal editor is invoked by an UITypeEditor class descendant, the value being edited is not posted
• B95529 - VGridControl - BestFit method raises an exception for invisible rows

XtraWizard

• B95729 - FinishText never appears when modified
• B95728 - WizardPage.DescriptionText is not localizable