The DevExpress WinUI PDF Viewer will ship with the following built-in features: In the second half of 2022, we expect to release a new WinUI PDF Viewer control. Office-Inspired UI Controls for WinUI 3 on Desktop PDF Viewer (v22.2) With our Blazor Spreadsheet’s UI and API, you will be able to create, edit and save spreadsheet documents as needs dictate. As you might expect, this will be an Excel-inspired control and will allow you to incorporate spreadsheet functionality into a Blazor Server application. In the second half of 2022 we plan to release a Spreadsheet control for Blazor. Through customization, you will be able to hide/modify default ribbon items and add custom items to the Rich Text Editor’s default UI ribbon. We expect to incorporate Ribbon UI customization in our v22.1 release cycle. Our mail merge implementation will allow you to bind the control to an external data source, preview dynamic content/execute final merge operations. We will introduce mail merge support to our Blazor Rich Text Editor in our v22.1 release cycle. Office-Inspired UI Controls for Blazor Rich Text Editor for Blazor Mail Merge (v22.1) Once our new rendering engine is available, you will need to replace System.Drawing object calls with custom DevExpress counterparts. NET 6 and higher (Image, Bitmap, Font, Pen, Brush, etc.).
We will update our public API to use this new implementation for all System.Drawing classes not supported in. To address rendering-related issues on non-Windows operating systems, we must implement our own cross-platform rendering engine based on the SkiaSharp library.
This breaking change significantly affects those using our Office File API library on Linux and macOS (we use to measure document text and render graphic objects including shapes, pictures, and charts). See the following page for more information: only supported on Windows. When enabled, this option automatically reduces text size to fit a cell.Ĭross-Platform Rendering Engine for Office File API (v22.2)Īs you may already know, was deprecated for non-Windows operating systems in. We plan to introduce a Shrink to Fit alignment option across our Spreadsheet product line (Document API and UI controls for WinForms and WPF). You will be able to insert/remove page breaks via the Spreadsheet control’s UI and drag existing page breaks to a new position with a mouse. Our WinForms Spreadsheet and WPF Spreadsheet controls will support Page Break Preview – a separate view that displays horizontal and vertical page breaks for a worksheet. Spreadsheet Document API and Spreadsheet UI Controls for WinForms and WPF Page Break Preview (v22.1)
You will be able to specify text direction in code or via the Rich Text Editor’s UI (in addition to UI display and print output, you will be able to export rotated text to PDF). We expect to add rotated text support within text boxes and table cells. Word Processing Document API and Rich Text Editors for WinForms and WPF Rotated Text Support (v22.1)
If you’d like to discuss the items on this roadmap in greater detail, or if you’d like to share a business use case that we don’t support, feel free to submit your comments below. We thank you for your continued support and for sharing your needs/requirements. Based on your votes and feedback, we’ve finalized our 2022 Office File API and Office-inspired UI Controls Roadmap.