Bilal Haidar [MVP, MCT]

RadControls for Silverlight Q3 2009 Beta 2 v 2009.3.1019

Changes on existing controls

RadGridView

What’s New:

• Horizontal and vertical UI virtualization with container recycling added for rows and cells
• All grid templates (rows, cells, etc.) lighten up
• Extended Validation
  • Added metadata driven validation (via data annotations attributes)
  • Added more validation events that allow support for custom validation
• Clipboard.IsEnabled property added
• GridViewDynamicHyperlinkColumn and GridViewHyperlinkColumn added
• GridViewImageColumn added
• Introduced new property SelectionMode which specifies the selection behavior
• Hierarchy support simplified and improved
• PrintToHtml() method added
• GroupFooterTemplate added for GridViewColumn
• GridViewToggleRowDetailsColumn added

What’s Fixed:

• Null reference exception when calling ReorderColumns in DataLoaded is now fixed
• Cell's content was not displayed when GridView was bound to list of primitive types is now fixed
• IsFilteringAllowed cannot be changed with Binding runtime is now fixed
• SelectionChanged event is no longer raised when ItemsSource property is changed
• Memory leak in FilteringDropDown is now fixed
• Header row not exported correctly if the grid is grouped is now fixed
• Exception with exporting of grouped grid with null values is now fixed
• AutogenerateColumns property is now a DependencyProperty
• Column cannot be replaced in AutoGeneratingColumn event

RadChart

What’s New:

• Negative values – RadChart provides full negative values support for all relevant two-dimensional series types
• Multiple Y axes support – RadChart adds a highly requested support for secondary and multiple Y axes. The new feature is useful when the values of the displayed data series vary a lot from one another or different types of data should be presented in one chart. The scale of each added Y axis corresponds to the associated data series and auto adjusts its range
• Added support for two new Label Format Tokens useful for stacked chart series – STSUM (stacked sum – represents the sum of all stacked items for a given index) and STPERCENT (stacked percent – the percent representation of the value of a given item with respect to all stacked items for the respective index).

What’s Fixed:

• Fixed an issue that prevented RadChart to correctly change its theme in runtime
• Fixed an issue with setting AxisY.Step before AxisY.MinValue that resulted in incorrect axis range
• Fixed an issue with missing axis titles in 3D chart types in some scenarios
• Fixed an issue with skewed AxisX ticks in horizontal bar series types
• Fixed an issue that prevented tooltips to support standard format expressions like "C2", "N2", etc.
• Fixed an issue that prevented tooltip format customization for Range and financial series types
• Fixed an issue that prevented setting the AxisX.Step property declaratively in XAML
• Fixed an issue that prevented setting the AxisX.TicksDistance property declaratively in XAML
• Fixed an issue that prevented setting GroupingSettings declaratively in XAML
• Fixed NullReferenceException with grouping and aggregation when grouping by data field containing null values
• Fixed NullReferenceException with custom chart layout in some scenarios

RadTreeView

What’s New:

• UI Virtualization (vertical only)
• CheckBoxes and BringIntoView support
• Added SingleExpandPath functionality

RadScheduler

What’s New:

• Standard Resources have been added to the Appointment and Edit Appointment dialogs:
  • Category
  • Importance
  • TimeMarker
• All-day area improvements
• Added properties for implementing read-only scheduler:
  • IsReadOnly
  • IsBackAndForwardNavigationEnabledImportance
  • IsViewModeNavigationEnabled
• Added properties to the Resource type for colorizing appointments when grouped:
  • ResourceBrush
  • AppointmentBrush
  • MouseOverAppointmentBrush
  • SelectedAppointmentBrush

RadDocking

What’s New:

• RadDocking now uses RadToggleButton and RadContextMenu instead of RadMenu
• All Close and Pin buttons are replaced by RadButtons
• If RadPane’s Header property is null and there is no binding, the Header is automatically bound to the Title property (if not null) or vice versa
• The Compass property has been added to the PreviewShowCompassEventArgs class. The value of this property is a reference to the compass that will be shown
• The PreviewShowCompass event is also fired for the RootCompass
• IsLeftIndicatorVisible, IsTopIndicatorVisible, IsRightIndicatorVisible, IsBottomIndicatorVisible, IsCenterIndicatorVisible properties have been added to the Compass class. These properties allow you to show or hide parts of both the Compass and RootCompass controls
• States compass parts visibility are added
• When the pane is in the DocumentHost area the title of the tab item displays the Header property with the HeaderTemplate (before the Title property with the HeaderTemplate was displayed)
• HasDocumentHost property has been added, RadDocking now supports RadSplitContainer as the last child

What’s Fixed:

• The TitleTemplateSelector property of the RadPane has been removed
• DockingPanel does not inherit from RadDockPanel anymore

RadRibbonBar

What’s New:

• Added two new themes – Office Black and Office Silver
• RibbonButtons support Commands with Parameter and Target

RadOutlookBar

What’s Changed:

• RadOutlookBar now updates its Title after item has dynamically changed its Header
• Added two new themes – Office Black, Office Silver, Office Blue, Summer, Vista

RadMaskedTextBox

What’s Fixed:

• Setting the value of a standard mask used to not clear the mask beyond the changed characters

RadSlider

What’s Fixed:

• Fixed issue with hardcoded Margin and MinWidth in RadSlider’s ControlTemplate. When the width was less than 56px, RadSlider would clip itself

RadHTMLPlaceHolder

What’s New:

• SourceUrl can now be use with binding

RadButtons

What’s New:

• New button type has been added – RadSplitButton
• Commands support with Parameter and Target