April 28th, 2025 Release

The Xceed team is excited to announce a suite of powerful updates across our .NET developer tools, designed to help you build faster, more robust, and visually stunning applications—whether you’re handling document automation, data visualization, or secure file transfers. Here’s what’s new in the Xceed ecosystem:

Xceed Workbooks for NET 3.0 (Build 5.0.25228)

Workbooks for .NET Framework is now optimized to support millions of Cells in a Workbook.
Xceed Workbooks for .NET now supports almost every type of 2D and 3D charts offered by Microsoft.
It is now possible to use Conditional Formatting in a Worksheet to format Cells based on specific conditions.
The DataValidation class has been changed & now works with two new companion classes, called DataValidationSingleCondition & DataValidationRangeCondition, which determine the type of condition that will be used for the validation process.
In DataValidationCollection, new methods were introduced to make it easier to retrieve DataValidations within a specific range of the Worksheet.
In PictureCollection, a new method, called Clear, can now be used to remove all the Pictures in a Worksheet.
It is now possible to get the value of the CellRange class’ DataValidation property.
The picture part associated with a Picture is now correctly removed from a .xlsx document when said Picture is removed.
When a new style is set on a CellRange intersecting with an already styled Column, the resulting style will now be in sync with the range’s or Column’s original styles.
Installer link: https://services.xceed.com/downloads/installers/dlb-5.0.25228/xceed_documents_libraries_v5.0.25228.exe

Xceed Words for .NET 5.0 (Build 5.0.25228)

It is now possible to use Area Charts, Bubble Charts, Radar Charts, Scatter Charts, Spider Charts & Sunburst Charts.
The Series class is now abstract and cannot be instantiated directly; instead, classes derived from the various Chart types, like BarSeries, LineSeries, PieSeries should now be used.
The ExternalXml property of the Chart class is now marked as internal and is no longer accessible from outside the assembly.
The Xml property of the Chart class is now marked as internal and is no longer accessible from outside the assembly.
The ChapterNumberSeperator property found in the PageNumberType class has now been renamed to ChapterNumberSeparator.
In Paragraph, two new properties, called FootNotes and EndNotes, are now available to retrieve a Paragraph’s foot notes and end notes.
In Paragraph, a NullRefException is no longer raised when the Headers.Even or Footers.Even properties are null.
In Section, removing a Section containing Tables or Headers & Footers no longer throws exceptions once the removal process is finished.
Merging Documents containing no custom properties no longer raises an exception.
The Document’s language is now preserved in the Document’s properties during the conversion to PDF process.
In PDF Conversion, external fonts with their “bold” and/or “italic” variants files are now supported when said files are provided.
In PDF Conversion, a NullRefException will no longer be raised during the conversion process when Tables are converted & split on 2 pages with only the Header Row fitting on the first page.
It is now possible to replace text with HTML inside of a Table’s paragraphs.
Nesting that does not adhere strictly to W3C specifications is now supported when inserting HTML content into a Document.
Block Elements located inside of an HTML list’s “li” items are now supported when inserting HTML content into a Document.
HTML tag elements that can be converted to MS OOXML elements are now supported.
In .NET 5 & above, colors are now applied properly when inserting HTML with some form of color formatting into a Document.
The Lists’ bullets are no longer converted to unknown symbols when a HTLM bulleted List is inserted into a Document.
A “Specified argument was out of the range of valid values” exception is no longer thrown when an entire paragraph is replaced with an HTML list.
A “System.ArgumentException: ‘Invalid hexadecimal color string. (Parameter ‘hexString’)‘” exception is no longer thrown when inserting HTML with hexadecimal colors into a Document.
Installer link: https://services.xceed.com/downloads/installers/dlb-5.0.25228/xceed_documents_libraries_v5.0.25228.exe

Xceed Toolkit Plus for WPF 5.0 (Build 5.0.25228)

In Chart, a new class, called DoughnutLayout, can now be used to perform the creation, layout and arrangement of doughnut charts’ primitives.
In Chart, a new class, called DoughnutPrimitiveInfo, can now be used to store the data used to perform the layout of doughnut charts & the databinding of their primitives.
In Chart, a new property, called DoughnutLayout.InnerRadius, can now be used to get or set the inner radius adjustments of doughnut slices.
In Chart, a new property, called Series.UseAnimations, now allows to animate the Series’ elements when using doughnut or pie charts.
In Chart, a new property, called Series.UseGradientBackground, can now be used to get or set if the Series’ elements use a gradient background.
In Chart, a new property, called Series.IsSmooth, can now be used to add rounded curves to polygons & lines with sharp angles.
In Chart, a new property, called Axis.ShowAxisPointer, can now be used to show the data associated with the current cursor position.
In Chart, a new property, called Axis.AxisPointerGridLineTemplate, can now be used to set the DataTemplate that will be used to display the GridLine attached to the Axis pointer function.
In Chart, a new property, called Axis.AxisPointerLabelTemplate, can now be used to set the DataTemplate that will be used to display the LevelLabel attached to the Axis pointer function.
In Chart, a new class, called GapPolygon, can now be used to draw polygons and smooth their angles.
In Chart, a new property, called GapPoliline.IsSmooth, can now be used to draw a polygon or a line with rounded angles.
In AvalonDock, floating a LayoutAnchorable when the DockingManager defines DataTemplates for specific DataTypes will now display said LayoutAnchorable’s content using the valid DataTemplates.
In DateTimePicker, selecting and incrementing or decrementing a time part now correctly increments or decrements said part.
In TimePicker, selecting and incrementing or decrementing a time part now correctly increments or decrements said part.
In StyleableWindow, displaying the ContextMenu with a right click no longer freezes the window if there is no selection made when the mouse’s left button clicks away from the ContextMenu.
Installer link: https://services.xceed.com/downloads/installers/wtk-5.0.25228/xceed_toolkit_plus_for_wpf_v5.0.25228.exe

April 28th, 2025 Release

Xceed Workbooks for NET 3.0 (Build 5.0.25228)

Xceed Words for .NET 5.0 (Build 5.0.25228)

Xceed Toolkit Plus for WPF 5.0 (Build 5.0.25228)

Xceed SFTP for .NET 7.2 (Build 7.2.25228)

Xceed FTP for .NET 7.2 (Build 7.2.25228)

Xceed ZIP for .NET 7.2 (Build 7.2.25228)

Xceed Realtime ZIP for .NET 7.2 (Build 7.2.25228)