Office-Inspired UI Components and File API – Tips & Tricks (September-October 2019)

We’ve compiled a short list of interesting support tickets we answered in September-October timeframe. We hope you find these tickets of value as you integrate our Office-inspired desktop controls and our File API library (DOC, XLS, PDF) in your next .NET project.

Tips & Tricks

• PDF: How to implement infinite scrolling within the PDF Viewer (T812982)
• Spreadsheet: Which uses cases benefit from multi-threaded calculations (T811454)
• Word Processing: How to copy tables from our Rich Text Control to Microsoft Office Excel via the Clipboard (T815880)
• SpellChecker: How to change misspelled words in multiple documents simultaneously (T809708)

Enchancements

• Word Processing: A horizontal scroll bar is displayed for floating objects and tables when they don’t fit into SimpleView’s client area in WordWrap mode (T816312)
• Word Processing: You can prevent importing and rendering for paragraph borders (T820390)
• Word Processing: You have access to a misspelled word when a user makes a selection from the context menu (T822216)
• Spreadsheet: You have the ability to substitute characters that are missing in the current font when the document is rendered in the WinForms Spreadsheet control and Spreadsheet Document API (T812620)
• Spreadsheet: We improved XIRR function result accuracy for specific data sequences (T815122)
• PDF: You can specify page layout and the action performed when a document is opened within Adobe Reader (T811655)
• PDF: You have the ability to programmatically display the Open and SaveAs dialogs (T813211)
• PDF: We added a new method to replace the built-in “Annotation Properties” dialog with a custom dialog (T813501)
• PDF: You can hide the progress indicator when the document is saved (T826112)

If you’ve come across a support ticket that might be of interest to the rest of the DevExpress developer community, feel free to post a comment below. As always, we thank you for your business and continued support.