DXperience 8.1.0 (Release Candidate 1) released on 2 March 2008 and What'a New

Release Notes

To learn about our new ASP.NET controls, 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 1

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

Breaking changes for DXperience v2008 vol 1

The following sections list all minor and major changes, as well as issue fixes in DXperience v2008 vol 1, Release Candidate 1.

New Features/Changes

ASPxGridView and Editors Suite

S18263 - Add a client-side method to determine if a group row is expanded or not
S18502 - Add a client-side method to determine the number of visible rows on the Page
S18501 - Add a client-side method to determine the top VisibleRowIndex
AS17472 - Add a new client-side method, which will return the number of visible rows in the ASPxGridView
S18568 - Add the "Enable Inserting" tag to the ASPxGridView's SmartTag
S90372 - Add the Button's Collection to the CommandColumn
S18821 - Add the IsGroupRow client-side method
S18739 - Add the MasterRowExpanding and MasterRowCollapsing client side events
AS17370 - Add the ParseEditValue server-side event, which will allow a developer to change values that come from the client side before they are converted to the datacolumn's Type
S18576 - Allow a PopupEditForm to be used in Modal mode
S18442 - ASPxGridView - add a client-side method to determine the row count
S18638 - ASPxGridView - add a Footer Template container
S18756 - ASPxGridView - add a method to retrieve the grid's grouped columns
S18593 - ASPxGridView - add a new property to define the New row position
S18495 - ASPxGridView - add a RowCancelling event
S19094 - ASPxGridView - Add an ability to sort columns displayed within the Field Chooser alphabetically
S19087 - ASPxGridView - Add the CustomGroupDisplayText event
S19194 - ASPxGridView - CustomSummaryCalculate - add the GetValue parameter to the CustomSummaryEventArgs class to be able to obtain a field value in a certain record
S18816 - ASPxGridView - the Sort By Summary feature is needed
S19043 - ASPxListBox - add the client-side ItemDoubleClick event
S50103 - Export only selected rows
S90734 - Implement an ASPxFileUploadControl to allow uploading files

ASPxperience Suite

CS8867 - Add an ability to center a popup window relative to the browser's window
AS15223 - Add an ability to hide tabs on the client
S20183 - Allow Redirects on a callback
S18738 - ASPxDateEdit - Add an ability to share a single calendar control between several ASPxDateEdit editors
AS17285 - ASPxMenu - add a style for an item's disabled state
AS16558 - ASPxMenu - Add an ability to define different popup images for an item's normal and hovered states
S18584 - ASPxPopupControl - Implement a new client CorrectPosition method to resize and reposition a popup window without hiding it
AS14376 - ASPxRoundPanel - Add an ability to modify the header's text on the client side
S90024 - Create a new control to upload files using AJAX
B91950 - EndCallback event should be raised after all scripts are initialized
CS60830 - Provide consistent themes for various controls

ASPxPivotGrid

S19065 - Add a FieldAreaIndexChanged event
S19039 - Add a FieldFilterChanged event
S18709 - Add a new event, which is triggered when a control's hierarchy is created
S19055 - Add an event that is raised when a field is moved to 'Field List', or its Visible property is set to False
Q95175 - Add new ExpandAllRows and ExpandAllColumns methods
S19054 - Add new properties to define the customization window's size
S18091 - Export to PDF - Provide the ability to use Landscape page orientation
S19152 - Improve the ExpandAll function performance in OLAP mode
S18625 - OLAP sorting - Provide an ability not to sort data by the grid
S19213 - Provide an ability to hide field headers
S90446 - Provide an ability to set the name of an exported spreadsheet
AS15199 - Support groups of fields

ASPxScheduler Suite

S19027 - Add an ability to customize pop-up menus at runtime
S18599 - Add Office skins support
S19272 - Add the ability to customize a vertical resource header area ( to change it's width)
S19218 - Add the ability to customize Appointment style within the ASPxScheduler.AppointmentViewInfoCustomizing event (An example: changing the Font color at runtime)
S18915 - Data binding - add UnitOfWork support
Q93819 - Implement AllowAppointment* events similar to that found in XtraScheduler
S18714 - MonthView,WeekView - Provide an ability to customize the DateCellHeader via a template
S18956 - Usability - Add the GoToDate method (similar to the SchedulerControl.GoToDate method)

DXperience Suite

AS5738 - New Product - ASP.NET HTML Editor
AS17084 - New Product - ASP.NET Spell Checker
AS6329 - New Product - ASP.NET TreeView/TreeList
S90467 - Include new Office2007, Pink and Green skins into the OfficeSkins.dll and BonusSkins.dll libraries

eXpress Persistent Objects

S18946 - Class Generator Wizard must display all tables and views from the database
S18623 - The XPObjectType table for a certain data layer (IDataLayer) should be accessed only once
S18988 - Wizard - The ability to import smalldatetime fields from an existing database
AS15888 - XPO class generator - Select/Unselect All

XtraBars Suite

S18518 - Provide a new "ShowInCaption" property for the PageCategory
S18517 - Provide the color property for the DefaultPageCategory
S20287 - Stand-alone Toolbar - Improve support for a StandaloneBarDockControl to be used with an XtraLayoutControl

XtraCharts Suite

AS15070 - Bar Series View - Add an option to show bars of the same size in the side-by-side series view
AS8925 - Bar Series View - Add an option to show labels for series points with a zero value
AS5057 - Design Time - Add import and export links to a ChartControl's smart tag (as well as to WebChartControl and XRChart), so to be able to save a chart to XML in VS IDE
DS6511 - Labels - Ability to fully customize their text
AS4481 - Pie/Doughnut Series View - Ability to paint separate titles for every chart series
S18907 - Serialization - the ability to save a chart to XML format
AS7804 - Series View - Add a Spline series view type
AS7366 - Web - Support the Medium Trust permission level
AS10978 - WebChartControl - Add the ability to store/restore a chart's layout at design time

XtraEditors Library

S18308 - Add the ability to immediately hide a tooltip by clicking on it
AS15650 - CheckedComboBoxEdit - editor that displays a checked listbox in the dropdown
S19175 - Create a list of all available skins in one topic
S19177 - Documentation - In the CustomDrawDayNumberCellEventArgs.Style Property topic, add that only the ForeColor style may be changed for a cell
S19195 - DXValidationProvider - InvalidControls collection must not return null
S18792 - FilterControl - Support the IBindingListView interface
CS64511 - Proportional resizing of panels separated by a Splitter Control when a form is resized
CS48127 - Provide Close buttons in tab pages
A2207 - SimpleButton - Add an ImageLocation property
A1480 - Take look and feel into account when painting scroll bars for PanelControl and GroupControl in AutoScroll mode
B2465 - XtraTabControl - Configuration of close buttons in tab headers

XtraGrid Suite

AS4577 - Add a column filter list with check boxes for multiple choices
S19258 - Create the ability to hide a vertical scrollbar for the LayoutView in a way it could be done with the help of the GridView's VertScrollVisibility property
AS3274 - Export to XLS - Intelligent data type detection for exporting
S90491 - LayoutView - Marquee selection of cards
S90533 - LayoutView - Multiple row/column Print Preview
S19174 - LayoutView - provide the ability to automatically change a focused card when scrolling is performed
S90037 - LayoutView - Runtime layout customization
S90056 - Rename the "Clear" button under "In-Place Editor Repository"
AS4469 - Support a column's ImageIndex and ImageAlignment properties in the LayoutView

XtraLayout Suite

AS4239 - Ability to create a custom customization form at design time
DS37585 - Add a property to allow a group to be expanded by double-clicking its header
DS11693 - Add Click and DoubleClick events to the LayoutControlItem class
A2001 - Add Hints for layoutItems
AS17342 - Add the ability to hide specific layout items when a LayoutControl is being printed
CS45937 - Add TooltipController support
A1783 - BaseLayoutItem - Add the Shown event
CS30759 - Constraints and long item text
S19066 - Customization - provide the ability to add "fixed" items to the customization, so they work in a similar way as the EmptySpaceItem does
S19135 - CustomizationForm - add Filter properties to the Property Grid
S18818 - Designer - Set a common property for multiple selected layout items in PropertyGrid
AS15679 - Display icons in layout items
S18753 - Don't create additional labels for fields when a Table is dropped onto the LayoutControl from the Data Source window as a detail table
AS9107 - Improve painting when the LayoutControl is set to Enabled (each layout item shouldn't be repainted individually)
AS8474 - Improve the design-time Undo of the Layout control
CS66356 - Make labels easy to edit
AS4578 - More flexibility in layout labels
AS6185 - Provide multi-line tabbed groups in XtraLayoutControl
DS59751 - Splitter - Add Click and DoubleClick events
S18168 - TabbedGroup - Add the HeaderOrienation property
AS10174 - The CustomizationForm property cannot be set to a new instance
DS30676 - Use different LayoutControlItem.MinSize values for RadioGroups with more than one column
S18579 - XtraLayout validating demo: deny navigation if validation failed

XtraPivotGrid Suite

CS34617 - Add a CellClick event
S18023 - Add a CustomGroupInvervalValue event - custom group intervals and custom display text for groups
S90142 - Add a new Group Interval type that groups by hours
B91685 - Add a PrefilterCriteriaChanged event
S20296 - Add an OptionsBehavior.CopyToClipboardWithFieldValues option
S19045 - ChartControl integration - Add the ability to produce null values, which are treated as empty points when setting the ChartControl.DataSource property to the PivotGridControl instance
AS13146 - Implement a SavePivotGridToStream method and a corresponding PivotFileDataSource constructor
S18886 - OLAP: Implement a CreateDrillDownDataSource method
S18630 - Pass a painter object to the PivotCustomDrawFieldHeaderEventArgs object
AS15016 - PivotFileDataSource - Add a DataSource property that will provide access to raw data and allow the number of records to be obtained
S19131 - Provide an ability to disable the prefilter functionality
S18748 - Provide an ability to obtain the bounds of a specific cell
S18660 - RetrieveFields must generate a unique name for fields

XtraPrinting Library

A947 - Export to XLS - Export an object's value and string format to Excel (use native format)
AS6501 - Localization - All resource names in the DevExpress.XtraPrinting assembly must include the default namespace (DevExpress.XtraPrinting)

XtraReports Suite

A1153 - Controls - Add a Cross-Tab report control based on XtraPivotGrid
S18112 - Localization - All forms must be converted to .NET 2.0
AS6691 - Page Builder - Add the ability to keep the Detail band and its Detail Report together
AS6172 - Page Builder - Add the ability to skip duplicate labels
AS6171 - Page Builder - Add the ability to skip empty labels
AS16584 - Page Builder - Add the PrintOn property to PageHeader and PageFooter bands
AS4534 - Page Builder - Support the KeepTogether feature for splitting in the vertical direction (when a control's contents are not printed on a page in case it cannot be completely visible there)
AS5964 - Styles - Add the ability to specify whether BackColor, BorderColor, etc. property values should be taken from a control or from its style
A1621 - Web - Provide the ability to use a report's printing settings instead of that of a Web browser when printing a report on the client side
B19721 - XRChart - Add the XRChart.DataMember property to make it easier to create data-bound charts

XtraScheduler Suite

S18550 - Add a possibility to set up the XtraScheduler time zone irrespective of the system time zone
S90370 - Add overloads to importing methods to accept a string parameter (path)
S90337 - Add simple calendar navigation depending on ActiveView
AS15709 - Add the Appointment Drop event
S90371 - Database schema for use with XtraScheduler - document the field required for Outlook synchronization
AS15348 - Documentation - Add a topic about the AppointmentConflictsCalculator class
S18614 - Documentation - Describe the OccurrenceCalculator class
Q93371 - Make it possible to specify the company name for the vCalendar export
S19044 - Outlook synchronization - Add LastModificationTime and CreationTime properties to the _AppointmentItem class
AS17170 - Provide an ability to filter Appointments and Resources by using the FilterControl
AS6073 - Recurrent event edit confirmation
S18542 - Scheduler Storage - Add an ability to define a color format for a resource (OLE or ARGB)
S18337 - SnapToCell - Extend the SnapToCell property (Create a three-state switcher: Always, Auto or Never)

XtraSpellChecker

S18340 - Dictionary - Ability to store *.txt, *.aff and *.xlg files as embedded resources

XtraVerticalGrid Suite

AS6408 - Add the ability to display a property description in the PropertyGridControl
B3294 - Add the ability to display unbound rows within a bound vertical grid
S130007 - Change the name of the ScaleRowHeaderPanel property to FixRowHeaderPanelWidth
S18745 - Implement the BestFit method
CS58719 - Repository - Show a warning message box before performing an action of the Clear button
AS17414 - Support methods for block data notifications

Resolved Issues