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Essential Studio for Back Office 6.2.0.40

04/16/2008

PDF

What's New:

Added support for reading, existing PDF document from stream, disk and bytes.
Added ability to merge and append multiple PDF document.
Added ability to split PDF.
Added ability to import pages from other document.
Added support for merging bookmarks, when merging multiple documents
Added support for reading forms.
Added support for merging multiple forms.
Added support for form filling.
Added support for Form and field flattening.
Added support for opening excrypted document.
Added support encrypting existing document.
Added support for creating PDF templates.
Added support for sorting in PDF light table.
Added support for setting row height.
Added support for ignoring column format for headers.
Improved support for HTML to PDF conversion.

What's Fixed:

Issue with PDF document version not set properly, if it is less than 1.5, has been fixed.
NullReference Exception occuring issue while opening a PDF document has been fixed.
Issue with Meta File image not displayed properly in PDF, has been fixed.
Issue with empty PDF getting generated after merging two files, has been fixed.
Improper contents issue, while converting from Html-Pdf, has been fixed.
A TargetInvocationException is being thrown when trying to Publish an ITable in WinXP 64bit machines, has been fixed.
While converting HTML to PDF, several blank pages are added at the end of the document has been fixed.
Issue with EMF image, which was not rendered properly in the PDF document, has been fixed.
Some content is cut off when converting HTML to PDF / RTF to PDF, has been fixed.
Argument Exception thrown issue, while converting HTML to PDF by using Bitmap image type, has been fixed.
Data which was not rendering properly, as the RTF original file, has been fixed.
Exception which was thrown, when the file is opened with an OS in Italian and Excel 2007, has been fixed.

XlsIO

What's New:

Added support for writing page breaks in Excel 2007 .xlsx format.
Added support for Charts in Excel 2007 .xlsx format.
Added support for external formulas.
Improved performance for reading error indicator documents.
Added support for image styles preservation.

What's Fixed:

Parse exception thrown issue when the file is opened with German regional settings has been fixed.
Error message which was displayed while downloading the file with pivot table, has been fixed.
Issue with AutofitColumns property not working properly with the particular column, has been fixed.
Unable to open Excel-File. Throws an " Index out of bounds" exception has been fixed.
Issue with multiple rows not getting copied properly, has been fixed.
Exception which was thrown, on opening a file has been fixed.
Issue with DropDown list item not working properly, when resaving the file through XlsIO, has been fixed.
Argument Exception was unhandled, which was thrown, while passing "=" to XlsIO, has been fixed.
Wrong color shown while accessing the Foreground color of chart has been fixed.
Cell backcolor value which was not returned properly, has been fixed.
File crash issue in Office 2003 sp3 has been fixed.
Issue with file getting corrupted, while setting richtext formatting to range of cells has been fixed.
While setting NumberFormat as "[$-409]#,##0.0###", it shows wrong value for the DisplayText property has been fixed.
Error occurred when Workbook.Protect() method is used, has been fixed.
Exception thrown issue, while opening a file, has been fixed.
Unable to open xlsx file containing formulas with invalid name error, has been fixed.
Need proper exception title for unsupported file formats, has been fixed.
Unable to open the xlsx file "Index was out of range exception" has been fixed.
Issue while inserting a new row, some comments inserted in the rows are moved incorrectly, has been fixed.
An item with the same key has already been added exception occurred, while opening the template has been fixed.
File corrupted issue, when the workbook was protected, has been fixed.
File crash issue, after opening the document using XlsIO, has been fixed.
While Copying the chart data in another worksheet, source data range are not displayed, has been fixed.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object exception is raised while opening the file, has been fixed.

What's Fixed:

If XlsIO is unable to read any .xlsx files then please send it to support@syncfusion.com and we will fix it at the earliest.

DocIO

What's New:

Added support for Built in styles.
Added support for inserting Table of Contents.
Added ability to insert page numbers with formatting.
Added support for writing Office 2007 .Docx files.
Added limited support for converting .Doc files to .Docx files.
Added ability to insert Html formatted strings in paragraphs.
Added ability to set margin for textbox.
Added support for find and replacing Hyperlinks.
Added support for find and replace string with document contents.

What's Fixed

File crashing issue while opening DocIO generated file in MS Word 2000 has been fixed.
Issue with bookmarks not working properly, when creating large number of bookmarks, has been fixed.
Incorrect character and page count returned issue in Windows server 2003 64 bit machine has been fixed.
Issue with opening a document, which has an image whose scale factor of width is greater than 3000%, has been fixed.
Exception thrown issue, while replacing a boomark content which is inside the textbox has been fixed.
Outline numbering lost issue, while viewing the file in Office 2003 sp3 and Office 2007, has been fixed.
The Exception, "Cells count in sourceDescriptor is greater than destination", which was raised while trying to open the file, has been fixed.
Issue with Padding not working for cell level formatting has been fixed.
Exception which was occuring while opening the document has been fixed.
Argument Exception which was thrown on navigating to a particular Bookmark has been fixed.
BookMark Formatting Issue has been fixed.
Header formatting issue which was not properly applied to the merged document, has been fixed.
Corrupted text shown issue, while trying to open the text file in the browser using document Save() Method has been fixed.
Issue with documents which are generated using DocIO, cannot be opened by DocIO, has been fixed.
Issue with Bookmark in DocIO, which is case-sensitive, has been fixed.
DLS exception which was raised, while opening the file with table, has been fixed.
Issue with Textbox TextFormat property returning the default values, has been fixed.
The clone method should be multi-thread safe.While running threads, it throws an exception has been fixed.
"Cannot open storage" exception which was raised, while multithreading the document, has been fixed.
Throws "Index out of Range exception" while opening and saving the merged document, has been fixed.
IndexOutOfRangeException exception which was raised, while using lists, has been fixed.
While opening the document, it removes the spaces in the datefield has been fixed.
Issue with Table left indent property which was not working properly in the document, has been fixed.

Calculate

What's Fixed:

Formula that has intermediate results with a thousands separator results invalid expression, has been fixed.
Issue with formula, where % sign results invalid expression, has been fixed.
Issue with Parsing function arguments failing to work, when the first character in a literal string argument is a comma has been fixed.
Issue with the CONCATENATE function failing to strip interior quotes for string arguments with embedded quotes has been fixed.

Grouping

What's Fixed:

Issues with return Value Type from QueryValue event has been fixed.

Essential Studio for Back Office 6.2.0.32

04/07/2008

PDF

What's New:

Added support for reading existing PDF document from stream, disk and bytes.
Added ability to Merge and append multiple PDF document
Added ability to split PDF
Added ability to import pages from other document.
Added support for merging bookmarks when merging multiple document
Added support for reading forms
Added support for merging multiple forms
Added support for form filling
Added support for Form and field flattening
Added support for opening excrypted document
Added support encrypting existing document
Added support for creating PDF templates
Added support for sorting in Pdf light table
Added support for setting row height.
Added support for ignoring column format for headers
Improved support for HTML to PDF conversion.

What's Fixed:

Issue with PDF document version not set properly, if it is less than 1.5, has been fixed.
NullReference Exception which occured while opening a PDF document has been fixed.
Issue with Meta File image not displayed properly in PDF, has been fixed.
Issue with empty PDF getting generated after merging two files, has been fixed.
Improper contents issue, while converting from Html-Pdf, has been fixed.
A TargetInvocationException is being thrown when trying to Publish an ITable in WinXP 64bit machines, has been fixed.
While converting HTML to PDF, several blank pages are added at the end of the document has been fixed.
EMF image is not rendered properly in the PDF document has been fixed.
Some content is cut off when converting HTML to PDF / RTF to PDF has been fixed.
Argument Exception is thrown while converting HTML to PDF by using Bitmap image type has been fixed.
Data is not rendering properly as the RTF original file has been fixed.
Exception is thrown when the file is opened with an OS in Italian and Excel 2007 has been fixed.

XlsIO

What's New:

Improved performance for reading error indicator documents.
Added support for image styles preservation.
Added support for writing page breaks in Excel 2007 .xlsx format.
Added support for external formulas.
Added support for Charts in Excel 2007 .xlsx format

What's Fixed:

Parse exception thrown issue when the file is opened with German regional settings has been fixed.
Error message which was displayed while downloading the file with pivot table, has been fixed.
Issue with AutofitColumns property not working properly with the particular column, has been fixed.
Unable to open Excel-File. Throws an " Index out of bounds" exception has been fixed.
Issue with multiple rows not getting copied properly, has been fixed.
Exception which was thrown, on opening a file has been fixed.
Issue with DropDown list item not working properly, when resaving the file through XlsIO, has been fixed.
Argument Exception was unhandled, which was thrown, while passing "=" to XlsIO, has been fixed.
Wrong color shown while accessing the Foreground color of chart has been fixed.
Cell backcolor value which was not returned properly, has been fixed.
File crash issue in Office 2003 sp3 has been fixed.
Issue with file getting corrupted while setting richtext formatting to range of cells has been fixed.
The file gets corrupted while setting richtext formatting to range of cells.
While setting NumberFormat as "[$-409]#,##0.0###", it shows wrong value for the DisplayText property has been fixed.
Error occurred when Workbook.Protect() method is used, has been fixed.
Exception thrown while opening a file has been fixed.
Unable to open xlsx file containing formulas with invalid name error has been fixed.
Need proper exception title for unsupported file formats has been fixed.
Unable to open the xlsx file "Index was out of range exception" has been fixed.
When insert a new row some comments inserted in the rows are moved incorrectly has been fixed.
An item with the same key has already been added exception occurred while opening the template has been fixed.
File gets corrupted when the workbook was protected has been fixed.
File crash after open the document using XlsIO has been fixed.
To copy the chart data in another worksheet the source data range are not displayed has been fixed.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object has been fixed.

DocIO

What's New:

Added support for Built in styles
Added support for inserting Table of Contents
Added ability to insert page numbers with formatting
Added support for writing Office 2007 .Docx files
Added limitted support for converting .Doc files to .Docx files.
Added ability to insert Html formatted strings in paragraphs.
Added ability to set margin for textbox.
Added support for find and replacing Hyperlinks.
Added support for find and replace string with document contents.

What's Fixed

File crashing issue while opening DocIO generated file in MS Word 2000 has been fixed.
Issue with bookmarks not working properly, when creating large number of bookmarks, has been fixed.
Incorrect character and page count returning issue in Windows server 2003 64 bit machine has been fixed.
Issue with opening a document, which has an image whose scale factor of width is greater than 3000%, has been fixed.
Exception thrown issue, while replacing a boomark content which is inside the textbox has been fixed.
Outline numbering lost issue, while viewing the file in Office 2003 sp3 and Office 2007, has been fixed.
The Exception, "Cells count in sourceDescriptor is greater than destination", which was raised while trying to open the file has been fixed.
Issue with Padding not working for cell level formatting, has been fixed.
Exception which was occuring while opening the document, has been fixed.
Argument Exception which was thrown on navigating to a particular Bookmark, has been fixed.
BookMark Formatting issue has been fixed.
Header formatting issue which was not properly applied to the merged document, has been fixed.
Corrupted text shown issue, while trying to open the text file in the browser using document Save() Method has been fixed.
Issue with documents which are generated using DocIO, cannot be opened by DocIO, has been fixed.
Bookmark in DocIO is case-sensitive has been fixed.
DLS exception is raised while opening the file with table, has been fixed.
Textbox TextFormat property returns the default values has been fixed.
The clone method should be multi-thread safe.While running threads, it throws an exception has been fixed.
Cannot open storage exception raise while multithreading the document has been fixed.
Throws " Index out of Range exception" while opening and saving the merged document has been fixed.
IndexOutOfRangeException exception is raised while using lists has been fixed.
While opening the document, it removes the spaces in the datefield has been fixed.
Table left indent property is not working properly in the document has been fixed.

Calculate

What's Fixed:

Formula that has intermediate results with a thousands seperator results invalid expression has been fixed.
% sign in the formula results invalid expression has been fixed.
Issue with Parsing function arguments failing to work, when the first character in a literal string argument is a comma has been fixed.
Issue with the CONCATENATE function failing to strip interior quotes for string arguments with embedded quotes has been fixed.

Grouping

What's Fixed:

Issues with return Value Type from QueryValue event has been fixed.
Issue with Enum type fields in a complex field not getting initialized, has been fixed.
Issue with number string expressions has been fixed

Essential Studio for Back Office 6.1.0.34

12/03/2007

XlsIO

What's New:

Advanced support for Excel 2007 (.xlsx) file format.
Copying cells with conditional formatting.
Preserve shapes in charts.
Improved support for working with styles in Biff8 format.
Open password protected worksheet with structure option.

What's Fixed:

Exporting a range which has empty cells in the first row, is fixed.
Exception being thrown while autofitting rows has been fixed.
Runtime error 50290 is thrown in SAP environment is fixed.
Exception, 'An item with the same key has already been added', which occurs on opening a file, is fixed.
PrintTitleRows doesn't work properly on giving null value, is fixed.
Rows not visible while resaving the workbook, is fixed.
Need fix for the issue 'Argument Range Exception' in 6.2.0.32 code base, has been fixed.

DocIO

What's Fixed:

Incorrect result while removing bookmark content, is fixed.
IndexOutOfRange exception raised while using Mail merge executegroup, is fixed.
Formatting not applied when the bookmark content is empty, is fixed.
Bookmark not found with euro-sign in template issue, is fixed.
TextFormField not preserving new lines, is fixed.

PDF

What's Fixed:

Tab spacing getting ignored when drawing strings has been fixed.
MeasureString returning wrong width for single space has been fixed.
OutOfMemoryException being raised while converting HTML to Pdf, is fixed.

Essential Studio for Back Office 5.2.0.25

09/10/2007

XlsIO

What's New:

Basic support for Excel 2007 XML-based file format.
Objects preservation when opening and saving Excel 2007 format.

What's Fixed:

Fixed issue with chart color when the file is opened through Office 2007.
Fixed issues with formula that gets changed when resaved with XlsIO.
Chart area gets shrunk while resaving with XlsIO.
IAddInFunction.Name throws NullReference exception.
Fixed issue with inserting rows that throws "ArgumentOutOfRange" exception.
Fixed issue with exporting a range which has empty cells in the first row of Data table.

DocIO

What's New:

Form creation and Form filling.
Replacing place holders with document elements.
Support for setting Background / Watermark.
Enhanced support for Bookmark preservations and replacement.
Enhanced support for Table creation.
Spell check preservation.

What's Fixed:

FindAll method generates unexpected output when searching for a particular text.
Fixed issue with bullets in table that are not preserved when cloning and merging.
Performing Mail Merge raises argument exception.
Fixed issue that throws "Not enough memory" exception while resaving the document using MS Word.
Fixed issue with formatting that are changed while cloning the document.

PDF

What's New:

Version 5.2 of Essential PDF is a complete rewrite, so the APIs are not compatible with the previous version of Essential PDF.
HTML Pagination that will prevent text truncation at page breaks.
Support for converting HTML to PDF from streams.
Improved support for RTF files.
Improved performance with rendering images and document generation.
Insert page labels.
Sign document with Certify signatures.
Bullets and Lists support.

What's Fixed:

Calculate

What's New:

Extended UseNoAmpersandQuotes to support controlling quotes.
Added more excel like functions:- DOLLAR, FIXED, ISTEXT, ISNONTEXT, FALSE, TRUE, ISBLANK, ISNA, ISERR, ISLOGICAL, TRIM, UPPER and LOWER.

What's Fixed:

Recursive Refresh call on ValueChanged causes app hung with complex formulas.
Min /Max library functions not handling empty args as Excel does.
Not able to concatenate multiple values with ampersand.
Engine not considering values that starts with +/ - as formula.

Essential Studio for Back Office 5.1.0.51

05/08/2007

XlsIO

What's New:

Performance in terms of time taken and memory usage has been greatly improved. Users should typically see 2-5x improvement in performance.
Find external formulas in the worksheets using HadExternalFormula.
Remove the green indicator from the top left hand corner of the cell containing the error.
Encryption and Decryption support.
Preserve hyperlinks when copying worksheets.
Vista compatibility.

What's Fixed:

Layout being changed while copying worksheets.
IWorksheet.PageSetup.FirstPageNumber property is not setting the value properly.
IRange.Text property returns null when a cell has a Date time or Number - use the IRange.Value property instead.

DocIO

What's New:

Preserving AutoShapes, FootNotes, EndNotes and Comments in Templates.
Append Symbols, Comments, FootNotes and EndNotes to a document.
Vista Compatibility.

What's Fixed:

Fixed issue with invisible images in a table.
Fixed issue with preserving the originality of the image in a template document.
Fixed issue with the length of the stream that returns as 0.
Fixed issue with nested table preservation.
Fixed issues with Doc to Txt conversion.
Fixed issue with find and replace inside the table.

PDF

What's New:

Support for filling forms created with "Adobe 6.0 compatible" format in Adobe life cycle.
Vista compatibility.

What's Fixed:

Rendering large TIFF images into PDF.
Fixed issue with retaining the vertical alignment while flattening Multiline text box.
Fixed issue with TextShape settings.
Fixed issue with converting RTF documents with hyperlinks to PDF.
Fixed issue with gradient Fill in DrawPolygon.

Calculate

What's New:

Added support for sheet ranges. Setting the new property CalcEngine.SupportsSheetRanges to true makes the engine supports sheet ranges like =SUM(Sheet1:Sheet3!A1) and =SUM(Sheet1:Sheet3!A1:B4).
CalcEngine.GetValueFromArg has been made virtual to allow access to the processing of function arguments during computations.
CalQuick.CreateEngine is a new virtual method that allows for the use of derived CalcEngine objects within a derived CalcQuick class.

HTMLUI

What's Fixed:

CSS header style not affected, when changed at run time using the InnerHTML property.
Vertical alignment for the 'tr' tag is not rendered properly in the HTMLUI Control.
Double Click event is not raised for the IHTMLElement objects.
OuterHTML is not get updated when an attribute from an HTML element is removed.
Print and PrintPreview does not show the custom control in the second preview page.
Printer prints a page by splitting the images between bottom of one page and top of another page.

Essential Studio for Back Office 4.4.0.51

11/30/2006

XlsIO

What's New:

Support for gradients and textures in chart.
Autosizing comments.
ExcelExportDataTableOptions.DetectColumnTypes has been added to detect column types.
IHFEngine interface has been added to create/edit strings required by header/footer.
IWorksheets.AddCopyAfter() and IWorksheets.AddCopyBefore() methods have been added to position worksheets after copying them.
Support for charts with templatemarkers.
Import datatable to a named range.
IRange.BorderAround, IRange.BorderInside and IRange.BorderNone properties have been added to support inserting borders around ranges.

What's Fixed:

Fixed issue with image in the copied sheet getting resized.
Fixed issue with copying worksheet between workbooks [Japanese]
Background color disappears in pictures when template was modified using XlsIO.
PrintTitleRow settings not getting copied over when a worksheet is copied into another workbook.
Fixed issues with applying multiple conditional formatting to intersecting ranges.

DocIO

What's New:

Support for navigation through the bookmarks in a template document and to insert paragraph items such as text, tables and images into the bookmarks.
Insert images to the Header/Footer section of a document.
Insert RTL (Right to Left) language text to a document.
Support for setting paragraph tab stop width position in a document.

What's Fixed:

Preservation of Bookmarks, Images, Custom Properties, Date fields in a template document.
Fixed issues with table border lines conversion to PDF.
Fixed issues with cloning and merging template documents bigger than 2MB.
Preservation of a paragraph text having a specific heading style.
Find and replace functionality where place holder text has one or two tab spaces in a template document.

PDF

What's New:

Column overflow support.
Merging table cells in grid model.
Booklets support.
Reading and Writing XMP tags.
Support for modifying LZW encoded PDF documents.
Enhanced support for TIFF images.

What's Fixed:

Digital signature issuer name conflict and multiple signing.
Fixed issues with HTML to PDF conversion in VS2005.
Fixed issues with horizontal merging of table cells in flow model.
Fixed issues with Page number in Cliprectangle overload.
Fixed issues with table default width, table underlined header text and table position

Calculate

What's New:

Overload of PullUpdatedValue.
Bench marking calculations in debug library builds.
OffSet function added.
Index and Match functions added.
Support for using ranges as binary operands. Must set CalcEngine.SupportRangeOperands property to enable this support.
ActiveCell, SupportRangeOperands and UseDatesInCalculations properties.

What's Fixed:

Empty cells are not being treated as false in logical calculations.
Formulas are incorrectly being marked as having circular references.
If calculated result returns an value that is expressed in exponential notation and this value is passed to another function, an invalid argument error results.
Problem in SumIf calculation if criteria is a reference.

HTMLUI

What's New:

FindDialog to show the text selected in the control inside the textbox as like in VisualStudio.
Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut to copy the text.

What's Fixed:

Document.BeginUpdate() method has no effect.
Any change to the html elements displayed in the document making the control to scroll up to the top.
Problem with the difference in the positioning of the OL list items.
Problem with the p tag inside the li tag is displayed in the next line of the bullet.
Improper tab cycling through the input tags.

Essential Studio for Back Office 4.3.0.30

09/19/2006

Essential Studio for Back Office 4.2.0.37

06/01/2006

XlsIO

What's New:

IWorkbook.DisplayWorkbookTabs property to hide displaying Worksheet Tabs in workbook.
Support for Reading/Writing SpreadsheetML files has been implemented.
Preserving the column type in the worksheet while exporting to a DataTable.
Support added for R1C1-Style cell reference.
Autofitting cells with Numbers that have NumberFormat applied.

What's Fixed:

Reading several templates that could not be read using the previous versions of XlsIO.
Reading Crystal reports generated workbooks.
Fixed issue with not being able to modify Normal Style.
PrintTitleRows setting is not getting set when applied after moving a worksheet.
RichText formatting is only getting applied for the first comment.

DocIO

What's New:

MultiColumn layout support.
Advanced support for Mail Merge.
Inserting Bookmarks support.
Ability to convert Simple HTML to Word document.
Enhanced tables support.
Ability to protect a document.
Improved Document cloning support.
Ability to conditionally format data during Mail Merge using Merge field events.

What's Fixed:

Fixed issues with inserting Unicode Text.
Fixed issues with inserting Metafiles.
Fixed issues with Reading several Template documents that could not be opened in the previous versions.
Fixed issues with writing to a memory stream.
Fixed issues with preserving Table formatting on resaving Template with Essential DocIO.

PDF

What's New:

Digitally signing PDF documents.
Filling Acroform fields support.
Support added for Merging, Splitting, and Stamping existing PDF documents.
Enhanced support for RTL languages.
128 bit encryption support.
Specify color in CMYK Color scale.
Convert Multi-column MS Word documents to PDF using Essential DocIO and Essential PDF.
HTML to PDF conversion using MSHTML. This option is for converting complex HTML pages. Please note that the text inside the PDF document remains searchable.

What's Fixed:

Fixed issues with drawing RTL languages text.
Fixed issues with Multipage Tiff to PDF conversion.
Justify text behavior while drawing Multiline Text.
Fixed issues with inserting Multipage RTF into PDF.

Essential Studio for Back Office 4.1.0.62

03/13/2006

XlsIO

What's New:

Support for reading spreadsheet in optimized mode (Skipping styles and Charts) is added. The IWorkbooks.Open method accepts the following enumerations ExcelParseOptions.SkipStyles |ExcelParseOptions.DoNotParseCharts.
New method IWorksheet.FindFirst() has been added to return the first occurrence of the value searched.
New method IWorksheet.FindAll() has been added to return all occurrence of the value searched.
Optimized for lesser memory usage and quicker spreadsheet generation.
Support for reading order (RTL) for the text and worksheet is implemented. IWorksheet.IsRightToLeft property has been added.
IAddInFunctions.Add() method can be used to add undefined functions that need to be referenced in Formulae entered in cells using XlsIO.

What's Fixed:

Assigning formula to IName.Value has been fixed.
Autofitting is not working properly with bold text and Zooming.
Issue with adding vertical page breaks has been fixed.
Conditional formatting applied using XlsIO does not refresh properly when values are changed in MS Excel.
IRange.clear() method also deletes the formatting of range.
Images in chart worksheet getting lost when resaving using XlsIO.

PDF

What's New:

Vector images support has been enhanced. Essential PDF has support for working with emf, wmf and emf+ Image types.
128 Bit Encryption support has been added.
Support to use any custom image as attachment icon.
Beta version of a simple DOM that simplifies usage of the library.
Beta version of a converting DOC to PDF.

What's Fixed:

Inserting some emf+ images into PDF has been fixed.
Images being locked by Essential PDF has been fixed.
Issue with drawing text in CMYK Color scale has been fixed.
Table Headers are not being displayed when there are no rows.

Calculate

What's New:

Added support for entering vectors of numbers in CalcQuick calculations.
Added support for Mid and Len functions.
Made CalcEngine.ComputedValue public.
Made CalcSheets obsolete and added a new Property CalcSheetList to support adding and removing CalcSheets from CalcWorkbook.

What's Fixed:

Fixed problem in CalcQuick with dependent controls not being calculated.
Allow spaces to be significant in sheet names.
NamedRanges with special characters - Named Ranges with underscores(_) or periods(.) in the name, then Calculate produces results that is not compliant with Excel.
Strings are included in quotation marks - After doing a calculate and saving the resulting spreadsheet all string type results are inclosed in quotation marks.

Essential Studio for Back Office 4.1.0.50

01/23/2006

XlsIO

What's New:

Support for setting Round corners and Background colors for plot area and chart area are implemented
Support for setting default row and column styles has been implemented
Support for reading order (RTL) for the text and worksheet is implemented. IWorksheet.IsRightToLeft property has been added.
Support for generating spreadsheets directly to the memory stream without creating a temporary file on the server.

What's Fixed:

IRange.Activate() method is not activating the cell.
Autofitting Columns with merged cells has been fixed.
Reading DateTime value that is a result of a formula has been fixed.
Images in chart worksheet getting lost when resaving using XlsIO has been fixed
Issue with setting ActiveSheetIndex has been fixed

PDF

What's New:

New forward only mode for creating large tables which drastically reduces memory usage.
Support to use any custom image as attachment icon.
Support for inserting Barcode (Preview version of Essential Barcode).
Beta version of a simple DOM that simplifies usage of the library.

What's Fixed:

Issue with inserting some emf+ images into PDF has been fixed.
Issue with images being locked by Essential PDF has been fixed.
Issue with drawing text in CMYK Color scale has been fixed.
Issue with Table Headers not being displayed when there are no rows has been fixed.

Calculate

What's New:

Added support for entering vectors of numbers in CalcQuick calculations.
Added support for Mid and Len functions.
Made CalcEngine.ComputedValue public.
Made CalcSheets obsolete and added a new Property CalcSheetList to support adding and removing CalcSheets from CalcWorkbook.

What's Fixed:

Fixed problem in CalcQuick with dependent controls not being calculated.
Allow spaces to be significant in sheet names.
NamedRanges with special characters - Named Ranges with underscores(_) or periods(.) in the name, then Calculate produces results that is not compliant with Excel.
Strings are included in quotation marks - After doing a calculate and saving the resulting spreadsheet all string type results are inclosed in quotation marks.

Essential Studio for Back Office 3.3.0.0

09/06/2005

Essential Studio for Back Office 3.2.1.0

04/27/2005

ExcelRW

What's New:

Performance has been increased over the previous version.
ExcelRW now has the capability to update formulas when a row is inserted, similar to MS Excel.
Enhanced support for reading Excel row and column groups has been added.
Support for eliminating duplicate fonts has been added.

What's Fixed:

Issue in activating Worksheet has been fixed.
Column Count increasing during save bug has been fixed.
Issue with deleting rows has been fixed.
Formula values are being imported as error.
Formatting lost when same file is saved multiple times.
Issue with opening template files with large number of DataValidations.

PDF

What's New:

RightToLeft support.
Support for inserting RichText.
Support for attaching files.
Support for creating Acroform fields in the generated document.
Support for inserting Metafile images.

What's Fixed:

Font interference bug has been fixed.
Issue with embedding multiple fonts
Issue with changing captions of imported datatable.
Page orientation between landscape and portrait issue has been fixed.
Problem with inserting Multiple Metafiles has been fixed.

Calculate

What's New:

ThrowCircularException property added to both CalcEngine and CalcQuick.
Changed Engine to be a public member of the CalcQuick class.

What's Fixed:

ChiDist function computation time reduced.
The binary text append operator, &, was not working.
Concatenate library function leaving interior quotes.
Leading plus signs cause parsing errors.
Formulas like =9/-2 not computing properly.

HTMLUI

What's New:

Styles can be applied optimally by invoking BeginUpdate and EndUpdate.
Style changes are updated optimally when the dimensions and position of a changed element do not change.
Added support for selecting text inside HTML Elements.
Added support for searching text inside HTML Elements.
Added support printing HTML documents.

What's Fixed:

Several fixes were made to enable wider range of HTML to be compatible.
AutoScroll property is not working.
Multithreading has been disabled by default. This can be switched through the EnableMultithreading property.
UnknownElementImpl is not raising events.
Incorrect spacing when links are displayed in text.

Essential Studio for Back Office 3.0.1.0

12/22/2004

Essential Studio for Back Office 2.1.0.9

09/17/2004

Essential Studio for Back Office 2.0.5.1

04/26/2004

Essential Studio for Back Office 1.6.1.8

10/17/2003

Great product, really a joy to use, and wonderful support, too. Pat yourselves on the back!
Bob Wiseman
Honeywell
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