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RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP Changelog

What's new in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 3.03.0.0

Apr 11, 2015
  • Bugs fixed:
  • The command "Expand all nodes" does not always expand all the members in the multilevel hierarchies. It might not if the hierarchy members contain the same child nodes;
  • The expansion state of a multilevel hierarchy may not be saved in the Direct edition;
  • Export operation may fail after changing AnalysisType if the number of filters and modifiers exceeds the number of records in the OLAP-slice;
  • The Calculated Measure Editor may show up empty;
  • In the Quick Filter the filtering limits may be incorrect;
  • Setting of the OLAPGridSettings.ScrollFullGrid property produces the NullReference exception.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 3.02.0.0 (Feb 18, 2015)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Errors might show up when working with some large databases;
  • The color of the text and the background for the hierarchy members might get lost after loading the grid state;
  • Sometimes the scroll bars in a pivot panel may get hidden even if there are lots of elements in the panel;
  • An exception may get raised on the mouse right click on the blank area of the color modifiers panel;
  • NullReference exception might occur when changing the AnalysisType property with all the panels hidden at that;
  • When saving the state with the expanded parent-child hierarchy an exception might sometimes occur.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 3.01.0.0 (Oct 3, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Sometimes an error occurs on deserialization of the saved states;
  • The formula editor does not work;
  • When reading an old saved state of chart in AnalysisType.Chart mode the control can reset to AnalysisType.Grid;
  • The position of a measure on the axis can be saved incorrectly.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 3.00.0.0 (Oct 3, 2014)

  • New features:
  • New control TOLAPAnalysis allows to show the OLAP slices as a Grid or as a Chart. For backward compatibility TOLAPGrid and TOLAPChart controls are now heirs from TOLAPAnalysis. In the new projects we recommend to always use TOLAPAnalysis. See details in the article on the matter.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • TDashDockPanel deletes grid or chart after any action that requires update.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.97.0.0 (Apr 8, 2014)

  • .NET Framework 4.0 and 4.5 support;
  • The legend with info-attributes exported on PDF or HTML export;
  • The color modifiers cannot be canceled;
  • Legend export to Excel 2003-2007 does not work;
  • On print preview the legend is shown on a separate page;
  • The editor of export properties does not allow to set up the look and feel of the exported cells;

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.96.0 (Mar 27, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The type of the chart is changed when the skin is changed;
  • When printing to a multipage format the cells sometimes come out of the print area;
  • When closing a modal dialog window with TOLAPGrid in it connected to TOLAPCube, this may lead to an unhandled exception and application crash;
  • In the print preview the legend of the slice is not shown (filters, modifiers).

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.95.0 (Oct 11, 2013)

  • New features:
  • The new PIE chart type added
  • Export to Excel 2007 format
  • The methods allowing creating the cube in run-rime are now available to the developer
  • The source code now cannot be compiled under Visual Studio 2008 and earlier
  • Bugs fixed:
  • The legend of the graphs corrected when exporting to a graphic format
  • Sometimes when the multidimensional hierarchies get open its members do not show up

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.94.0 (Sep 20, 2013)

  • New features:
  • TOLAPCube. Now it is possible to read the data from a database and set your own converter for the data in the DataConverter event handler. The demo application shows some examples of image reading ("Image Reader" and other)
  • TOLAPChart. Images in the legend of chart axes (see the example "Chart With Images"). On exporting to the image format of the legend can also be exported. (See the property Grid.OLAPExport.Options.ShowLegend)
  • TOLAPGrid. The color modifiers are now saved and restored along with the other grid layout

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.93.0 (Sep 20, 2013)

  • New features:
  • TOLAPCube.OnInitDataSet event to better control the filling of the cube with data
  • Bugs fixed:
  • TOLAPCube. Sometimes when not all tables from the dataset are used by the cube, the data might be read in infinite loop
  • TOLAPGrid. When copying the filtered data the exception might occur
  • TOLAPGrid. On remove the hierarchy members with defined color null reference exception might occur
  • TOLAPGrid.OLAPGridSettings.MeasurePos works incorrectly
  • TOLAPChart. When changing the chart type to bar the modified painting might reset
  • The calculated measured are now saved with the layout regardless of their visibility
  • DrillingHotKeys are now active with the chart. Fixed the drilling buttons' blinking and improved their painting

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.92.0 (Sep 20, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Not all hierarchy members are shown after a multilevel hierarchy is opened in some ways
  • Memory leaks. Some service controls are kept in memory after Dispose
  • Layouts that contain calculated measures may be saved and restored with errors
  • Creating a calculated measure may lead to an endless loop
  • Scrolling in pivot panels doesn’t work with long data lists

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.91.0 (Jan 31, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Performance issue in version 2.90 when opening all hierarchy levels takes too long;
  • Sometimes null reference exception pops out when closing the application with RadarCube in it;
  • When changing the size of the window with OLAP Grid to the full screen, the pivot panels are not resized.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.60.1 (Jan 27, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Various errors on drilling like incorrect results, null reference exceptions, and also unreasonable slowing down of all drilling operations including drill up;
  • When drawing the Cube Structure Tree there are too many threads created, that may considerably slow down the whole process.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.60.0 (Jan 27, 2012)

  • New features:
  • RadarCube code is significantly improved. Drilling and OLAP processing has been rewritten completely. As a result the grid hierarchies with lots of open members work much faster and take less memory;
  • The drilling buttons in the grid cells are now shown by default. You can use the ShowDrillButtons property to set up the old behavior;
  • The "Drillthrough..." context menu command is now shown in any grid cell, for which the operations is possible.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • The Grid "shimmering" on drilling operations.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.51.3 (Jan 27, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Occasional NotSupportedException when Grid or Chart is getting open;
  • When removing a measure from the panel it is still there sitting in the grid or chart;
  • Copying the XMLString from the grid to the chart might cause null reference exception.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.51.2 (Jan 27, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When there is no icon defined for the application the "Icon is not valid or is the wrong type" error message might appear when some RadarCube dialogs (Hierarchy Editor, for example) show up.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.51.1 (Jul 18, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • When exporting to PDF format the fonts might be embedded wrong;
  • On disabled hierarchy close button (ShowHierarchyCloseButton = false) and hierarchy filter (AllowFilter = false) the space for them is allocated anyway, so the hierarchy title might be moved away;
  • The cube structure for OLAP Chart might reflect wrong measure settings.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.51.0 (Apr 28, 2011)

  • New features:
  • New method TOLAPControlGeneral.EditExpression shows the dialog box for editing a measure formula;
  • New buttons closing hierarchies and measures in some chart panels like Size, Shape, Details;
  • New properties ShowHierarchyCloseButton and ShowMeasureCloseButton control the visibility of buttons closing the hierarchies and measures
  • Bugs fixed:
  • In the Tree Like mode when expanding/collapsing a hierarchy branch the first column?s width in the grid is changed;
  • Sometimes the grid cells in the Tree Like mode are calculated too high;
  • On opening the cube some redundant data is loaded that is not actually used in the cube.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.50.0 (Feb 21, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Formula-based calculated members and measures for end-users! Now the end users can create calculated members and measures through a comfy interface. See details in the article Calculated measures and members in RadarCube
  • Built-in error handler. Now all the errors that might occur when working with RadarCube will not raise unavoidable exceptions in your applications. At that RadarCube can "cancel" the action that led to the error - that keeps RadarCube and your application up and running
  • New events TOLAPGrid.Error and TOLAPChart.Error allow to set up your own exception handling logic
  • Help file has been updated

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.40.0 (Feb 21, 2011)

  • New features:
  • New button (X) in the cells with level headers and also in pivot panels. It allows to close or remove from the active area the corresponding cube element
  • Tree-like representation of hierarchy members in the row area. This is much more comfy as it allows more space to show data in. The property TOLAPGrid.HierarchiesDisplayMode allows to switch the mode back to normal
  • Entity Framework and LINQ for SQL as new ways to represent the source data structure for the cube. Now RadarCube supports three data representation schemas: DataSet, LINQ for SQL, and Entities
  • The width of the columns changed by the end user is now saved in an XML file
  • Excel-like pivoting. Now when a hierarchy is moved into the active area it is drilled down automatically, and its members are shown up. New property TOLAPGrid.PivotingBehavior can turn this on or off

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.33.0 (Nov 17, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Now you can copy the data from the drillthrough window to HTML, so you can past it to the Word or Excel.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Formatting of the text when exporting to Excel has been fixed (the measures and the hierarchy elements are now formatted according to the MSAS info);
  • When dragging to the filter area the hierarchy is removed from the color and other areas;
  • When the mouse gets out of the empty grid area the "index out of range" can appear;
  • Some problems with installing RadarCube on x64 computers.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.32.0 (Oct 25, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Multiple member filtering in the hierarchy editor. The hierarchy editor now has multiline text field to enter filter conditions to, and all the conditions placed in different lines are combined using OR logical operation;
  • New method OLAPGrid.Cellset.ExpandAllHierarchies allows opening all and every hierarchies/levels of the current Cellset.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • When a measure does not have the "Value", the drilling operation and also saving to/restoring from the stream might not work correctly;
  • When restoring the grid state saved by OLAP Chart, OLAP Grid mistakenly sets THierarchy.ShowEmptyCells properties to true.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.31.0 (Jun 30, 2010)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • While restoring a drilled multidimensional hierarchy from a saved state file, only three hierarchy levels used to be restored.
  • Setting the THierarchy.ShowEmptyLines property to True could fail to lead to the disired effect.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.30.0 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • New features:
  • NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 support. Now the controls can be integrated into VS2010 environment. The source code of the controls is tested for NET Framework 4.0 compatibility;
  • RadarCube core optimization. Now virtually all cube operations are performed faster. The acceleration can be up to several ten times depending on the Cellset;
  • New properties TCubeMeasure.VisibleInTree and TMeasure.VisibleInTree define whether the measure is visible in the Cube Structure Tree;
  • Measures and hierarchies can now be dropped right onto the Grid.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • The printing page size is always less than defined;
  • The "&" sign always goes like auxiliary and doesn't show up in the Cube Structure Tree.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.26.0 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • New features:
  • New Master for Cube Creation.
  • Ability to convert DateTime fields into their string representation.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • TOLAPGrid control in the Evaluation version gives out the NullReferenceException, when the grid has no measures/hierarchies;
  • The attribute editor in the Cube Editor might not work well when the base list of hierarchies is changed.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.25.0 (Mar 11, 2010)

  • New features:
  • New ability to add user comments to the cube's cells. Just select the corresponding context menu item for the cube cell;
  • DIRECT: New ability to create the cube structure automatically in run-time;
  • DIRECT: Ability to save and restore an empty cube.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • When changing a measure position in the grid, its position in Values Area does not change;
  • When closing the application there might be some bugs;
  • Some problems with localization;
  • Time Intelligence information can be loaded wrong from the previously saved state file.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.24.0 (Feb 18, 2010)

  • New features:
  • It's possible now to apply filters on date of time-hierarchies in the context filter. It is available in the hierarchy editor as well as through the context menu of hierarchy members;
  • When selecting cells in the grid there now shows up the status information about the selected cells (sum, average value, and amount by default). This option can be regulated in design time with the TOLAPGrid.TOLAPGridSettings AllowSelectionInfo... properties;
  • Bugs fixed:
  • The panels' visibility in the Grid/Chart (such as Cube Structure Tree and pivot areas) is not synchronized with the corresponding buttons in the toolbox responsible for the visibility of these panels;
  • The DistinctCount aggregation function sometimes gives out the wrong result.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.23.0 (Feb 18, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Many restrictions have been removed from the evaluation-version. Now the only difference between that and the commercial-version is the corresponding label;
  • Ability to place directly in OLAP Grid some additional user controls except for the pivot-panels managing the selected grid;
  • Bugs fixed:
  • In case, when a few calculated members are created, deleting one of them could lead to an error.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.23.0 (Feb 18, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Many restrictions have been removed from the evaluation-version. Now the only difference between that and the commercial-version is the corresponding label;
  • Ability to place directly in OLAP Grid some additional user controls except for the pivot-panels managing the selected grid;
  • Bugs fixed:
  • In case, when a few calculated members are created, deleting one of them could lead to an error.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.22.0 (Feb 18, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Some speed optimization.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Some bugs when several controls share a single olap cube;
  • Some problems when displaying the attributes for flat and multilevel hierarchies.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.21.1 (Oct 9, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Performance optimization.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • The information attributes described in the Cube Editor are not saved on closing/opening the project;
  • On copying data into the clipboard, if any data format fails, the rest formats are not copied either, even if no error occurred.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.21.0 (Oct 9, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • An error that significantly slows down the drilling operations.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.20.2 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • An error that significantly slows down the drilling operations.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.20.1 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • The "Drill up" operation doesn't work for all level members;
  • When drilling in the "show totals first" mode the cellset may be display incorrectly;
  • The visibility state of the attributes is not stored in the grid state file.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.20.0 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Performance optimization. The more complex the cellset is the faster RadarCube works comparing to the previous versions. For example, on operations like "Expand All" RadarCube may work tens times faster;
  • The x64 platform support without having to recompile the source code;
  • "Defer update layout" checkbox. Using the deferred layout update may significantly speed up the cube performance;
  • New event TOLAPGrid.AllowDrillAction allows to control if the drilling operation is available for each of the grid cells;
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Some bugs in hierarchy filter editor;
  • An attempt to apply the empty context filter to a level or a measure may lead to an error.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.10.1 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Some Total cells of the OLAP Grid can be made up incorrectly when there is two or more open multilevel hierarchies in the column or row area;
  • The visibility state of the chid members in a hierarchy editor may get lost on paging;
  • Sometimes the modes of auto sizing can't be cancelled;
  • When reading a ParentChild hierarchy a null reference error may occur;
  • If a hierarchy key field points to the field holding null values the null reference error may occur.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.10.0 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • The attributes of hierarchy members can now be displayed in the grid. You can read the article on the matter;
  • The conext menu for a cell now contains the command copying the cell's text;
  • The tuning dialog window of Export and Print commands can now be localized;
  • On long operations the screen cursor is now changed.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Some errors on deleting a calculated measures;
  • The Cube Editor can "forget" the relations between tables;
  • Sometimes the double click restoring the column width leads to the strange location of columns;
  • When there is a lot of cells in the grid the pictures and text in the cells can be displayed incorrectly.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.03.0 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • New events TOLAPGrid.MouseDoubleClick and DoubleClick;
  • OLAP Chart: Now the OnCalcMember event is fired for calculated measures;
  • New property public TSkinType TOLAPControlGeneral.Skin defines the look and feel of the Grid and Chart. This property has only been available in Designer.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • The hierarchies that are fully filtered are not displayed in the Filter area;
  • OLAP Chart: If moving a hierarchy, which is already in the Modifiers area, out to the tree, the corresponding filters are reset;
  • The members of ParentChild hierarchies are created in a wrong way using the unique key IDField and duplicate DisplayField properties;
  • In the hierarchy editor the relation between the tree item and the table may get lost, if the object's DiplayField property is set and IDField is not set;
  • When opening the cube in run time there may be an error because of the missing initialization.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.02.2 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • New class THierarchyEditor allows using the hierarchy editor in run time.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • The Cube Editor error fixed: the fields are distinguished by IDField property now instead of DisplayField.
  • In the Filter Editor the context menu sometimes is not completed.
  • When the conditional formatting is on there might be errors on selecting the grid cells.
  • When placing the grid down on a form in Design Time, the color scheme of the pivot panels might be wrong.
  • TOlapGrid control doesn't handle the mouse events.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.02.1 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Memory leaks.
  • On export to PDF some errors are possible.
  • When opening a form with components RadarCube Windows Forms of versions 1.x a huge amount of errors is possible in the *.Designer.cs file like "Error 1124 The type or namespace name 'RadarSoft.WinForms.*' could not be found"
  • For some series the non-linear trend can be draw incorrectly.
  • Some minor downsides

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.02.0 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • New control TToolbox. It can be placed on a form independently and connected to any grid to manage that grid. See here to learn how to manage the properties of the TToolbox panel.
  • The docking panels now improved - you can set up the panel size programmatically, and the double click on a panel will roll it down.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Some bugs on dragging hierarchies within the grid.
  • Conditional formatting is not saved on saving the grid in a stream/file.
  • Possible memory leaks fixed.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.01.0 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Now in the TOLAPChart diagrams it is possible to show trend lines.
  • Now the context formatting is saved along with saving the Grid state.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • The measure quick filter, in case the measure is contained in a group (that is when a single Chart displays the data of several measures simultaneously) did not work.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.00.4 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Now in the Quick Filter mode you can change the scale on the axis with the measure being filtered.
  • Now you can tune the cell formatting when exporting to Excel.
  • The property TOLAPControlGeneral.OLAPExport is now accessible. It can be used to control the export properties.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Export/Print/Preview doesn't work with some Asian fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, ...).
  • The buttons added to the TOLAPControlGeneral.Toolbox programmatically are not saved.
  • The TOLAPControlGeneral.ShowToolboxButton event handler's action is only visible after the next grid refresh operation.
  • When Quick Filter and simple filter are both applied to the same measure, there might mutual collisions.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.00.3 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • The Hierarchy editor is improved and has more handy interface.
  • The Cube Editor now allows more than one measures "assigned" to the same numeric field.
  • Documentation has been updated.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Some Pivoting bugs have been fixed.
  • The scrolling of TOLAPGrid is improved - now the cells' size remains unchanged when scrolloing the large grid.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.00.2 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Localization of Chart and Grid is possible now.
  • New property Toolbox in TOLAPGrid and TOLAPChart controls allows to manipulate the toolbox. Also new property OLAPToolboxSettings allows setting some toolbox properties.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • A bug on export to PDF.
  • Grid: The grid cells displaying the hierarchy names and data cannot show the properly filled context menu.
  • When dragging a hierarchy from the active area to Cube Structure Tree an exception may occur.
  • In the licensed distributive not all files from the demo application source code are shipped.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.00.1 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New features:
  • OLAP Chart: A legend is added on export to HTML and as images, and also on print preview window.
  • OLAP Chart: A button changing the skin is added to Toolbar. The way the skins are stored is improved, so the assembly size is considerably shrunk.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • OLAP Chart: When dragging a measure from the color modifier the NullReference exception occurs.
  • OLAP Chart: Sometimes an error is possible in the quick filter panel for measures.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 2.00.0 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New TOLAPChart control to display the OLAP data graphically.
  • New filters panel gives an end user an ability to quickly read and edit filters applied to measures and hierarchies.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 1.20.8 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • In some cases closing the Hierarchy Editor caused the NullReferenceException error.
  • In some cases the filtered cellset was incorrect, as well as saving filter's state if a complex filter was applied to a multilevel hierarchy.
  • Sorting by value was not saved during saving of the Grid's state.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 1.20.7 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • Operating the empty Grid may have caused the "ArgumentOutOfRange" error.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 1.20.4 (Jun 7, 2008)

  • New properties TFilter.Description, TMeasureFilter.Description, and THierarchy.FilterDescription contain descriptions of the filters applied to the objects.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 1.20.3 (Mar 31, 2008)

  • TOLAPGrid.BeginUpdate and EndUpdate functionality has been changed. Now the pivoting operations embraced with these methods don't recalculate the cellset, that might significantly speed up the cube activating.
  • Filtering mechanism added for "Cube Structure Tree" as a textbox above the tree. This can be turned off with Grid.OLAPPanelSettings.UseQuickSearchForTree property.

New in RadarCube Windows Forms Desktop OLAP 1.11 (May 30, 2007)

  • Export of the selected values in the mode of "conditional formatting".
  • The hierarchy editor works much faster.
  • Only "Values" measure mode displaying when the cells with the names of modes are hidden.
  • Some displaying parameters defined in OnDrawCell event handler can disappear after the form size is changed.