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Breaking Changes in 2015 Volume 1

Breaking Changes Summary

Breaking changes summary chart

The following table summarizes the breaking changes of the Ultimate UI for WPF 2015 Volume 1 Release. Detailed explanations of the issues are provided after the summary table.

xamComboEditor / xamMultiColumnComboEditor

Issue Description

The xamComboEditor’s MinDropDownWidth property default value is changed from double.NegativeInfinity to double.NaN.

xamGrid

Issue Description

The GroupByRow.ChildBands collection property’s return value is changed.

There are behavioral changes in what happens when the user collapses the last visible column.

xamComboEditor / xamMultiColumnComboEditor

MinDropDownWidth property’s default value changed

The xamComboEditor’s MinDropDownWidth property default value is changed.

Old Value New Value

double.NegativeInfinity

double.NaN

xamGrid

ChildBands collection behavior

The GroupByRow.ChildBands collection property is changed to return null because it is not supported by design for a row of type GroupByRow.

Old Behavior New Behavior

Throwing InvalidCastException when accessing child bands.

Returning null.

Change in column’s collapsing behavior

There are changes in column’s visibility behavior described in the table below:

Old Behavior New Behavior

When a user tries to collapse the last visible column in a group, its parent column collapses and the child column remains visible.

If the user tries to collapse the last visible child column - it collapses as well as its parent column.

When you switch the visibility of a parent column from collapsed to visible - the parent column becomes visible as well as all its children columns.