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Nevron Open Vision Changelog

What's new in Nevron Open Vision 2023.1 (23.11.6.12)

Dec 3, 2023
  • NOV 2023.1 fully supports .NET Core 7.0, in addition to the supported builds for .NET Framework. The latest version includes new 3D rendering engine, improvements to Chart, Gauge and Rich Text Editor.

New in Nevron Open Vision 2023.1 (23.10.11.12) (Oct 16, 2023)

  • Chart Improvements:
  • The new version includes a new OpenGL hardware accelerated 3D rendering engine, which is currently available in the WPF and WinForms editions of the control. The new rendering engine is specifically optimized to perform GPU accelerated rendering and antialiasing.
  • The new version includes the following new 3D charting types:
  • 3D Area Chart with many variations – Categorical 3D Area, XY Scatter 3D Area, Stacked 3D Area and 3D Smooth Area
  • 3D Bar Chart with many variations – Categorical 3D bar, XYZ Scatter bar, XYZ Scatter Stack, XYZ Scatter Cluster, and XYZ Scatter Stack Cluster
  • 3D Bubble Chart – Categorical 3D Bubble, XYZ Scatter Bubble
  • 3D Error Bar Chart – Categorical 3D Error Bar, XYZ Scatter 3D Error Bar
  • 3D High Low Chart – Categorical 3D High Low, and XY Scatter 3D High Low
  • 3D Line Chart – Categorical 3D Line, Stacked 3D Line, XYZ Scatter Line, 3D Step Line, 3D Smooth Line
  • 3D Point – Categorical 3D Point, XYZ Scatter Point
  • 3D Range – XYZ Range Chart
  • 3D Vector – XYZ Vector Chart
  • 3D Funel – Standard and Scatter 3D Funnel Chart
  • 3D Pie – Standard and Doughnut 3D Pie Chart
  • Other Chart improvements include a new designer, improved image export capabilities, and bug fixes.
  • Diagram Improvements:
  • The new version of the diagram component in NOV includes the following improvements:
  • Support for reading of Visio 2003-2010 Drawings (VSD files)
  • Improved SVG export
  • Support for embedded 2D and 3D charts
  • Gauge Improvements:
  • The new version includes two new Gauge widgets:
  • Led Text Display widget – this widget can display arbitrary text using one of the supported cell styles.
  • State Indicator widget – this panel can be used to selectively display a shape from a set of shapes with specified filling and stroke.
  • In addition, the Gauge control features many new examples showing how to modify the gauge axes and indicators as well as how to combine different gauge elements.
  • Rich Text Improvements:
  • The new version adds new Bookmark features to the control, along with support for reading and exporting text documents with Bookmarks in DOCX, RTF and HTML formats.

New in Nevron Open Vision 2022.3 (22.10.19.12) (Nov 28, 2022)

  • NOV has support for .NET Core 6.0 as well as legacy .NET Framework
  • 4.7.2 and above. NOV fully integrates with Visual Studio 2022 for both .NET Core and legacy .NET framework projects. Improved design-them support, project templates, DPI support, examples browser, VB.NET, and localization.

New in Nevron Open Vision 2022.1 (22.2.11.12) (Feb 12, 2022)

  • General NOV Improvements:
  • Support for .NET Core 5.0:
  • NOV has support for .NET Core 5.0 as well as legacy .NET Framework 4.7.2 and above
  • Support for Visual Studio 2022:
  • NOV fully integrates with Visual Studio 2022 for both .NET Core and legacy .NET framework projects. All controls in the suite integrate with the Visual Studio toolbox automatically.
  • Improved Design Time Support and Project Templates:
  • Improved Visual Studio Design Time support for all NOV controls and updated project templates.
  • Theme Editor:
  • A new theme editor application is included in the suite that allows you to modify the existing UI themes or create your own.
  • Localization:
  • Improved localization and updated localization dictionaries.
  • Improved High DPI Support:
  • NOV is now per monitor DPI aware and will automatically switch the rendering resolution of all NOV controls depending on the current monitor’s DPI.
  • Improved Examples Browser:
  • NOV examples navigation is improved by adding a more intuitive and easy to use interface. In addition the NOV example framework supports automatic creation of example projects for WinForms and WPF based on the currently viewed example.
  • VB.NET Examples Source Code:
  • All examples now provide C# and VB.NET source code variants.
  • Performance Improvements:
  • NOV features many performance modifications in the text and graphics rendering.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • NOV features bug fixes for all reported problems in the previous release.
  • Diagram Improvements
  • Improved Visio Import and Export:
  • Visio import and export have been improved to ensure better loading and saving of Visio drawings and stencils.
  • Text Improvements:
  • Improved RTF, DOCX and EPUB support:
  • All major formats supported by the control (DOCX, RTF and EPUB) are significantly improved for better accuracy.
  • Improved Customization:
  • The control's customization capabilities have been significantly improved.
  • Schedule Improvements:
  • Time Indicators Added:
  • The schedule component can now show a time inidicator that represents the current time. See the Schedule Time Indicators topic for more information.

New in Nevron Open Vision 2017.1 (18.5.28.12) (May 29, 2018)

  • Mac OS X El Capitan theme - a new UI theme that mimics the Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan look and feel.
  • Dark theme - a new UI theme that uses dark colors.
  • Core Touch - added is core touch support that allows you to track multi-touch events in NOV UI.

New in Nevron Open Vision 2017.1 (Jun 2, 2017)

  • NOV UI Improvements:
  • Mac OS X El Capitan theme - a new UI theme that mimics the Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan look and feel.
  • Dark theme - a new UI theme that uses dark colors.
  • Core Touch - added is core touch support that allows you to track multi-touch events in NOV UI.
  • New UI Controls:
  • The NOV UI now includes Masked Text Box control - a text box that uses a mask to distinguish between proper and improper user input.
  • NOV Diagram Improvements:
  • Visio import - import of Visio Drawings in VSDX format.
  • GEDCOM import and export - import and export of family tree diagrams in Genealogical Data Communication (GEDCOM) format.
  • New shape factories.
  • Support for rich formatted texts. The new rich formatted texts support includes:
  • support for rich text formatting - different font styles (regular, bold, italic, bold italic), underline, strikethrough, different font sizes, different text foreground;
  • support for multiple paragraphs;
  • support for hard line breaks;
  • support for BIDI text;
  • support for embedded images (both raster and vector images are supported);
  • support for hyperlinks;
  • support for embedded 1D and 2D barcodes;
  • support for embedded fields and mail merge;
  • support for spell checking with automatic suggestions;
  • support for inserting special symbols;
  • Find / Replace text support.
  • NOV Rich Text Editor Improvements:
  • Added support for Multiple Range Selection.
  • Improved handling of bullets in RTF and DOCX import/export.
  • Open Vision Framework Improvements:
  • Added support for .ttc (TrueType Collection Files).
  • Added support for cursive fonts.
  • Better handling of RTL scripts.
  • Support for Visual Studio 2017
  • Nevron Open Vision for .NET now provides full support for Visual Studio 2017!

New in Nevron Open Vision 2016.2 (Aug 2, 2016)

  • New Grid Component (NOV Grid for .NET):
  • NOV Grid for .NET is a high performance Data Grid component for displaying and editing tabular data within your WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, MonoMac and Xamarin.Mac applications. The NOV Grid includes a TableGrid and a TreeGrid (ListTreeView) with many advanced features for editing, navigation, seamless databinding and more.
  • New Data Management API:
  • API for working with relational data. Includes implementation of different types of data tables and serves as foundation for data binding. Also adds support for working with relational databases such as SQL Server, OleDb, Oracle etc.
  • NOV Chart Improvements:
  • Radar chart with lots of options – multi measure radar, line radar series, area radar series, radar axis titles.
  • NOV Diagram Improvements:
  • New shape factories – Floor Plan, Arrow and Callout Shapes.
  • Many improvements and bug-fixes.
  • NOV Rich Text Editor Improvements:
  • Table of Contents - lets you easily create and update a table of contents based on the document content.
  • Electronic Publications - makes it possible to open and save documents as electronic publications, a.k.a. e-books in the EPUB format.
  • Image Interactivity - lets you move and resize images by dragging them or their handles with the mouse.
  • Floating Tables - support for floating tables in the DOCX importer and exporter.
  • RTF Styles - importing and exporting styles from and to RTF documents.
  • UI Improvements:
  • Dark theme - a new UI theme for modern and stylish UI experience.
  • General Improvements:
  • Visual Studio Project Templates – lets you quickly create a new NOV application either for a specific platform or a portable one, which targets multiple platforms from a single code base.

New in Nevron Open Vision 2014 Volume 2 (Dec 12, 2014)

  • Hosts for Xamarin.Mac & MonoMac, Outlook Bar (navigation page) in Widgets, Table styles, Text Styles, new and improved editors