ControlzEx

As part of this release we had 14 issues closed.

Breaking change

• #152 Drop .NET Framework 4.5.2 which will reach End of Support on April 26, 2022

Bugs

• #116 Slow resize
• #119 Auto-Hide Taskbar retrieved position in WindowChromeBehavior is incorrect
• #128 Window not detectable by applications as Screen2Gif and WinSnap
• #137 Mouse over highlighting appears when resizing window
• #139 WindowChrome Behavior Titlebar has Text Cut off When Changing Text Size
• #140 Minor Issue: Debugger shows GlowWindow for Title
• #167 GlowBorder disapears on WindowChromeWindow if ResizeMode = NoResize
• #169 Window Border Issue on Windows 7/8 (only in alpha version)
• #174 TabControlEx: TabStripPlacement issues

Bug Fixs

• #129 WIP Set default WindowStyle to SingleBorderWindow
• #157 Fixed issue with maximizing window on secondary monitors
• #175 Fixing issues when taking screenshots

Feature Request

• #65 Fully transparent window

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ControlzEx/ControlzEx/compare/5.0.2...6.0.0

New Contributors

• @gep13 made their first contribution in https://github.com/ControlzEx/ControlzEx/pull/150

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As part of this release we had 1 issue closed.

Bug Fix

• #166 Check for PresentationSource before attempting to move tooltip

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ControlzEx/ControlzEx/compare/5.0.1...5.0.2

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As part of this release we had 3 issues closed.

Bugs

• #146 Synched windows accent color includes alpha value
• #145 Incorrect menu with EnableMaxRestore on maximized window
• #144 TabControlEx creates 2 instances of the first ContentTemplate.

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As part of this release we had 2 issues closed.

Breaking change

• #125 .NET 5.0 support and remove EOL .NET Core 3.0

Bug

• #134 System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The parameter is incorrect

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As part of this release we had 8 issues closed.

Bug

• #120 Making window fullscreen crashes the application when using .NET 5

Bug Fixs

• #138 SyncTheme now works with all flag combinations
• #133 Making code CLSCompliant and removing some unused interop code
• #132 Try to get the WindowBaseColor in HighContrast mode
• #131 Fixing issues with MonitorInfo
• #130 TabControlEx: Fixing potential leaks of ContentPresenter
• #111 Fix Hue might get negative

Enhancement

• #123 [RFC] Add docs for the ThemeManager

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As part of this release we had 2 issues closed.

Bug

• #126 System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The parameter is incorrect

Bug Fix

• #127 SetWindowPos: Throw last error only if necessary

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As part of this release we had 5 commits which resulted in 2 issues being closed.

Bug

• #121 High contrast detection in Theme Manager

Bug Fix

• #122 Fix High contrast detection in Theme Manager

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As part of this release we had 108 commits which resulted in 6 issues being closed.

Bug

• #107 HSL Documentation seems to be wrong

Features

• #113 Added BadgeTemplate and BadgeTemplateSelector
• #102 Add ThemeManager

Enhancements

• #110 Some improvements to the HSL-Struct
• #109 Add caching to theme dictionary checks
• #108 Safe detection of current theme

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As part of this release we had 4 commits which resulted in 1 issue being closed.

Bug

• #104 Binding to window Topmost property will be lost (MahApps #3738)

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As part of this release we had 4 commits which resulted in 1 issue being closed.

Bug

• #103 System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The parameter is incorrect

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As part of this release we had 10 commits which resulted in 2 issues being closed.

Bug

• #97 (GH-95) Fix SystemCommands.ShowSystemMenu not DPI aware

Feature

• #98 Add TargetFramework .NET Core 3.1

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As part of this release we had 39 commits which resulted in 4 issues being closed.

Bugs

• #95 SystemCommands.ShowSystemMenu not DPI aware
• #88 System.ArgumentException: Width and Height must be non-negative.

Bug Fixs

• #96 Fix SystemCommands.ShowSystemMenu not DPI aware
• #94 Check size in WindowChromeBehavior

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As part of this release we had 11 commits which resulted in 2 issues being closed.

• Use updated Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Wpf with .Net Core 3 support

Bugs

• #93 Fix GlowBrush shows on all desktops #92
• #92 GlowBrush shows on all desktops

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As part of this release we had 7 commits which resulted in 2 issues being closed.

Bug

• #90 Fixing CA2213

Feature

• #91 .NET Core 3.0

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As part of this release we had 5 commits which resulted in 1 issue being closed.

• Support .NET Core 3.0 Preview 9

Bug

• #87 Update TextBoxInputMaskBehavior.cs

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As part of this release we had 5 commits.

• Support .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8

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As part of this release we had 2 commits.

• Support .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7

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As part of this release we had 30 issues closed.
#36 Convert WindowChrome, WindowChromeWorker and WindowChromeBehavior to one Behavior

Breaking changes

• #68 Use Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Wpf instead the System.Windows.Interactivity
• #63 Strong-Naming again...
• #46 Rewrite of WindowChromeBehavior to contain everything previously contained in WindowChrome, WindowChromeWorker and WindowChromeBehavior
• #44 Reference Expression.Blend.Sdk.WPF instead of shipping System.Windows.Interactivity manually
• #37 Should we drop the .Net 4.0 support?
• #36 Convert WindowChrome, WindowChromeWorker and WindowChromeBehavior to one Behavior

Bugs

• #80 Borderless Window Style goes wrong
• #78 Showtitlebar can not fill all screen
• #77 Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ControlzEx 4.0
• #74 InvalidOperationException while closing
• #73 TabControlEx
• #72 NativeMethods.SetActiveWindow fails with error E_INVALIDARG
• #67 Fix breaking dotnet core 3.0 SDK changes
• #64 Try to fix a rare bug with restoring a maximized window.
• #62 Taskbar shown when child window closed when IgnoreTaskbarOnMaximize=true
• #60 Delay and black background when maximizing window
• #58 window keeps glow on top of owned window on restored
• #57 Enabling GlowWindowBehavior.IsGlowTransitionEnabled causes crash
• #56 _HandleNCACTIVATE is causing child windows to not be interactive
• #55 Fixed issues with attaching/detaching GlowWindowBehavior
• #18 TabControlEx doesn't work corretcly

Features

• #66 Added dotnet core 3.0 support
• #61 PopupEx topmost behavior
• #52 Adding GlowWindow
• #41 Implements BadgeMargin DependencyProperty

Feature Requests

• #49 Add GlowWindow from MahApps.Metro
• #47 Window Border has Wrong Color
• #45 Add TextBoxInputMaskBehavior
• #40 Ability to Adjust Badge Control Placement

Enhancement

• #5 Samples for WindowChromeBehavior

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#38 SetWindowPlacement doesn't work

• Add WindowChrome stuff from MahApps.Metro
• Updated / fixed WindowChromeBehavior (influenced by Fluent.Ribbon and MahApps.Metro)
• PropertyChangeNotifier: listen to any dependency property changes without memory leaks.

private PropertyChangeNotifier borderThicknessChangeNotifier;

public MainWindow()
{
    this.InitializeComponent();
    this.Loaded += (s, e) => {
    	this.borderThicknessChangeNotifier = new PropertyChangeNotifier(this, Control.BorderThicknessProperty);
    	this.borderThicknessChangeNotifier.ValueChanged += this.BorderThicknessChangeNotifierOnValueChanged;
    };
}

private void BorderThicknessChangeNotifierOnValueChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var newThickness = ((Window)sender).BorderThickness;
}

#24 Per monitor DPI awareness for WindowChrome
#26 Release .NET 4.6.2 version
#27 UnauthorizedAccessException from ToolTipAssist.AutoMove
#23 Replace code for WindowChrome and related classes
#30 OverflowException when converting 64-bit IntPtr to Int32
#34 Arithmetic Overflow
#31 Maximising a RibbonWindow with MaxWidth or MaxHeight causes an extra border above the title bar