Studio for LightSwitch 2014 v1 is released with several new features and bug fixes. This version of Studio for LightSwitch HTML is powered by Wijmo Professional version 3.20133.29.
This topic has a complete list of the enhancements and fixes included in 2014 v1 release. If you have a licensed ComponentOne Studio for LightSwitch installed in your system, you can download and install this upgrade for free. Please contact sales in case you have any query or you want to know more about the available options.
New in 2014 v1 Release
- Added new data visualization controls based on the D3.js library: Bubble Chart, Gantt Chart, Heatmap, Timeline, and Treemap.
To use these controls, complete the following steps:
- Add the extension ComponentOne D3 Controls for LightSwitch HTML to your project.
Make sure that you have added the NuGet package D3 Controls for LightSwitch HTML Client to your HTML client project.
No screen templates are provided for the D3 controls, but you can instantiate them as follows:
- Create a new browse screen for the desired data source.
- In the screen designer, change the control type of the collection element from List to D3 Collection Control.
- In the Properties window, set the Widget property to the desired control (default: Treemap).
- Click the Edit Render Code link to generate the render method for the control.
Enhancements:
- Added licensing support for the Studio for Web SKU.
- Added support for the March 2014 update of the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013.
- Upgraded scripts to D3.js version 3.4.3.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that crashed the Visual Studio IDE on clicking the Edit Render Code link on a screen that was created as part of a Common Screen Set.
FlexGrid
Bug Fixes:
- Adjusted the transparent background and fonts/colors for the dropdown calendar control in the filter row.
- Fixed a regression bug in paged grids where the Next button was not available if the page size was set to 1 and the grid was sorted at run time.
- Fixed a regression bug so that the correcr background color is applied to selected rows.
- Fixed a runtime error that occurred when custom screen code attempted to delete multiple rows.
- The Tap action now works if the grid’s selectionMode option is set to "multiRow".
- Fixed runtime error, binary operator with incompatible types was detected, that occurred when filtering a column of type DateTimeOffset.
- Fixed the null object reference that occurred in some scenarios when clicking the Save/Discard buttons.
Events Calendar
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where an events calendar on a hidden tab did not render properly if the browser window was resized before the tab was opened.
OLAP
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a regression bug that caused a JavaScript exception to be thrown when attempting to assign the same field to both rows and columns.
- Fixed bug that crashed the Visual Studio IDE when changing the type of a control from Wijmo Collection Control to D3 Collection Control.
- Fixed runtime error, Value can’t be converted to type number, that occurred when the row field type was numeric and row totals were specified.
D3
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed several issues where the D3 controls threw an exception or rendered incorrectly if rows were added to or deleted from the bound collection.
- The D3 controls adheres to runtime filtering of parameterized queries.