Major enhancements for JavaScript (Angular, React, Vue), ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET, WPF and Reporting.

Features

DevExpress has released a major update across their entire product range.

• CodeRush Ultimate - Quickly renames all namespaces within a project so they match the project’s folder structure.
• DevExpress ASP.NET - Adds a new Gantt Control (CTP) for ASP.NET, plus a new Rich Text Editor & Spreadsheet control for ASP.NET Core.
• DevExpress Office File API - Adds support for .NET Std 2.0/.NET Core 2.1 (LTS), plus predefined CMaps for CID Fonts in the PDF Document API.
• DevExpress Reporting - New! Create hierarchical reports using the new DetailBand.HierarchyPrintOptions property.
• DevExpress Report and Dashboard Server - Data models can now contain custom SQL queries, plus changeable Report & Dashboard Designer themes.
• DevExpress Windows 10 Apps - Use the Date Navigator control to display and select visible dates within the Scheduler, plus Drag 'n' Drop support.
• DevExpress WinForms - Adds .NET Core 3 Preview 5 support, plus Format Rules to Highlight Cell Value Changes in the Data Grid.
• DevExpress WPF - New assemblies for .NET Framework 4.5.2, new packages for .NET Core 3 Preview 5, plus improves Grid & Chart.
• DevExtreme - Adds new File Manager (CTP), Diagram Widget (CTP) & Button Widgets, plus updates Data Grid & Tree List.

Manipulate PDF, Word & Excel Files in Web & Desktop .NET applications.

Features

Telerik Document Processing is a set of libraries, which provide you with a complete set of APIs, for manipulation of the most commonly used flow, fixed and spreadsheet document formats for Web and desktop .NET applications without relying on third party software - like Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat.

• UI-Independent
  The libraries are UI-Independent and cover all .NET technologies, from desktop and web to mobile, and can be deployed in client, server-side and cloud apps.
• No need for 3rd party software – No Server Deployment Fees
  Enable document manipulation within your application without relying on 3rd party software such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Convenient API
  Add document processing capabilities to your applications in no time by utilizing the convenient APIs. Enable creating, editing and converting documents with just a few lines of code.
• Any document. Any Business
  The Telerik Document Processing is suitable for various business cases and scenarios, where document creation or manipulation is required.
• Performance and Speed
  The libraries are decoupled from UI and can provide a great performance in different cases, especially when dealing with huge excel files.
• Support for Variety of File Formats
  The Telerik Document Processing includes 5 libraries for manipulating PDF, Word, Excel and ZIP files in your application.

Set background images in ODS files.

Features

• Set background images in OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS) files.
• Control all external data with IStreamProvider interface.

Diagramming adds Button, CheckBox, Edit, NumericEdit, Slider and Spinner CompositeNode components.

Features

• JavaFX dependencies removed from all components in the pack.
• Diagramming for Java Swing
  • New CompositeNode components - Component classes that support user interaction can now be used as part of CompositeNode templates:
    • ButtonComponent implements clickable buttons inside nodes.
    • CheckBoxComponent represents a check-box that lets users select true / false values.
    • EditComponent implements editable text area.
    • NumericEditComponent implements number-entry area.
    • SliderComponent allows selecting a value from numerical range by dragging a slider.
    • SpinnerComponent represents a spin-edit component.
  • Improved FlowchartLayout - FlowchartLayout can now arrange more types of graphs, no longer requiring them to represent strictly-nested source code structures.
• Spreadsheet for Java Swing
  • The Editable property added to Cell class lets you prevent users from changing cell's content.
  • Show rotated cell text by setting the Rotation style property.
  • Show double underlined cell text by setting the FontDoubleUnderline style property.
  • Prevent users from resizing rows and columns by setting the AllowResizeHeaders property.
  • The inplaceEditStarting event is now raised by the formula bar too.
  • CSV importer fixes.
• MindFusion Virtual Keyboard
  • Added dispose method used to stop the auto-repeat timer. Calling it is necessary if disposing the parent frame in response to keyboard's own key-press event.
  • Setting the TemplateLayout property now automatically changes Mode to Custom.

Convert from DIB, XLT, POT, WMF and EMF files.

Features

• Convert from DIB, XLT, POT, WMF and EMF files.
• Removed obsolete property JpegQuality from ImageSaveOptions.

Adds support for LaTeX files.

Features

• Added support for LaTeX files.
• Added image representation feature for Diagram family formats.
• Expanded document Split logic.

Adds the ability to extract data from documents.

Features

• Added the ability to extract data from documents.
• Added the ability to move Table Layout.
• Added the ability to detect a table in a rectangular area using a collection of column separators.
• Added support for spreadsheet and presentation templates.

Adds support for exporting MarkDown format files.

Features

• Added support for exporting MarkDown format files.

Fixes

• Macros are lost when publishing the report.
• Fields cannot be added to a matrix report.
• Report server URL is not saved in the client.
• Publishing report fails for a shared data source.
• Unable to open any exported files after update to version 19.3.
• Exception caught instantiating ACXLSX report server extension: "System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly".

Adds Dynamic Array support and Spread Designer enhancements.

Features

• Dynamic Array Support - You can now enter cell formulas that return array values which “spill” into empty adjacent cells. This powerful feature is a new alternative to array formulas and includes support for seven new formula functions and the new operators for spilled range (#) and range intersection (@).
• New Spread Designer Enhancements - The Spread Designer tool now supports the Formulas tab with tools for Defined Names, Formula Auditing and Calculation. This new UI also supports enabling the new dynamic array support in the spreadsheet (which is not enabled by default).
• Alternating Styles Support - You can now apply table-like formatting to entire sheets and skins with alternating row and column styles using the new flat-style model. This feature includes support for built-in Excel styles and themes, including gradient and pattern fill.
• Deselect the Selection like Microsoft Excel® - You can now use the CTRL key with the mouse or keyboard to remove specific cells from the selection, as in Microsoft Excel®.
• 1-based Indexing like VSTO - You can now create the IWorkbook to use 1-based indexing for all GrapeCity.Spreadsheet.IWorkbook APIs, like Microsoft Excel® VSTO APIs. This can enable easier porting of Excel VBA code or old Spread COM version code (which also used 1-based row and column indexing) to .NET, which has always used 0-based indexing for all APIs in previous releases for CLS compliance.
• New F4 Key Action - You can now use the F4 key while editing a formula reference to toggle the reference between absolute and relative column and row references, as in Microsoft Excel®.
• New Constructor for AsyncFunction - You can now create a custom AsyncFunction which uses specified FunctionAttributes. This enables creating custom asynchronous functions which are volatile, or which return arrays, or otherwise require specifying some FunctionAttributes for proper function.

Adds Dynamic Array support and Spread Designer enhancements.

Features

• Dynamic Array Support - You can now enter cell formulas that return array values which “spill” into empty adjacent cells. This powerful feature is a new alternative to array formulas and includes support for seven new formula functions and the new operators for spilled range (#) and range intersection (@).
• New Spread Designer Enhancements - The Spread Designer tool now supports the Formulas tab with tools for Defined Names, Formula Auditing and Calculation. This new UI also supports enabling the new dynamic array support in the spreadsheet (which is not enabled by default).
• Alternating Styles Support - You can now apply table-like formatting to entire sheets and skins with alternating row and column styles using the new flat-style model. This feature includes support for built-in Excel styles and themes, including gradient and pattern fill.
• Deselect the Selection like Microsoft Excel® - You can now use the CTRL key with the mouse or keyboard to remove specific cells from the selection, as in Microsoft Excel®.
• 1-based Indexing like VSTO - You can now create the IWorkbook to use 1-based indexing for all GrapeCity.Spreadsheet.IWorkbook APIs, like Microsoft Excel® VSTO APIs. This can enable easier porting of Excel VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code or old Spread COM version code (which also used 1-based row and column indexing) to .NET, which has always used 0-based indexing for all APIs in previous releases for CLS compliance.
• New F4 Key Action - You can now use the F4 key while editing a formula reference to toggle the reference between absolute and relative column and row references, as in Microsoft Excel®.
• New Constructor for AsyncFunction - You can now create a custom AsyncFunction which uses specified FunctionAttributes. This enables creating custom asynchronous functions which are volatile, or which return arrays, or otherwise require specifying some FunctionAttributes for proper function.

Adds support for Angular 8, plus improvements to FlexChart and FlexGrid.

Features

• Added support for Angular 8.
• Added support for deep-binding in wijmo.format method.
• Added FlexChart.itemsSourceChanging/Changed events.
• Added FlexGrid.refreshRange method for finer control on rendering.
• New Samples
  • GanttChart Repeat Tasks - PureJS | Angular | React | Vue
  • FlexGrid PDF Export WebWorkers - React
  • TemplateLiterals - PureJS | Angular | React | Vue
  • Gauge NeedlePointer - PureJS | Angular | React | Vue

Adds the ability to specify page range and PDF compliance level.

Features

• Added the ability to specify page range and PDF compliance level.
• Implemented method to retrieve credit consumption info.

Adds document filtering in search results.

Features

• Added document filtering in search results.
• Added settings for logging functionality.
• Added English synonyms to default synonym dictionary.
• Provide the number of hits for each word separately.
• Optimized index storage format.
• Added support for new file formats.
• Added method to retrieve credit consumption info.
• Added the ability to attach arbitrary additional fields to a document.

Improves Grid, VerticalGrid, SpreadSheet & PivotGrid controls, plus the PDFViewer, RichEdit & Scheduler controls.

Fixes

ExpressBars Suite

• TdxBarCustomPopupMenu and descendants - A bar's popup menu is always scaled according to the monitor DPI, even if the menu's invoker is programmatically scaled to a different target DPI.
• TdxRibbonStatusBar - An AV occurs when an editor on the status bar's toolbar panel receives focus if the Ribbon property is set to nil.
• TdxStatusBar - The font of an individual panel scales twice if the panel's PanelStyle.ParentFont property is set to True, and the system DPI does not equal 96.
• TdxTabbedMDIManager - A child MDI form's TdxRibbon control is displayed on the form for a brief moment before being merged with the parent form's TdxRibbon control on switching between MDI child forms.

ExpressDataController

• Server Mode - A column whose Properties property is incorrectly unassigned displays certain non-string data types.

ExpressEditors Library

• cxLabel - An editor is scaled incorrectly if it is anchored to the right edge of its parent and has an associated style controller.
• cxLookupComboBox - The EditValue property value can change to Null Variant if the Properties.DropDownListStyle property is set to lsFixedList, and the ifoUseContainsOperator flag is in the Properties.IncrementalFilteringOptions property value.
• Increasing the Filter Builder dialog's font size displays a horizontal scrollbar.
• TcxCustomTextEdit and descendants - The CursorPos property returns an incorrect value in certain cases.
• TcxDBRichEdit - An entire editor content becomes selected when the Style.Color property value changes.

ExpressLibrary

• SVG Images - Certain images in a 64-bit application are parsed incorrectly.
• The dxSetProcessDpiAwareness global function in the dxDPIAwareUtils unit does not work under Windows 10 version 1607 and newer.

ExpressPDFViewer

• A text can be invisible if it uses a custom-encoded PostScript Type 1 embedded into a loaded document.
• Incorrect font glyphs are displayed for characters in a text that uses an embedded font whose 'hhea' table is omitted.
• The default button field states are displayed incorrectly for the fields whose values are unspecified in a loaded PDF document.

ExpressPivotGrid Suite

• Data fields have incorrect widths if the "TheBezier" skin is applied.

ExpressQuantumGrid Suite

• Chart View - NULL grouped chart values cannot be drilled down.
• cxExtLookupComboBox - An AV occurs on closing an in-place editor's dropdown window with filtered items if the TcxGrid control uses hybrid scrollbars.
• Table and Banded Table Views - Horizontal scrolling cannot bring certain columns into view if the View's OptionsView.ColumnAutoWidth property is set to True and the Options.AutoWidthSizable property is set to False for one or more columns.

ExpressQuantumTreeList Suite

• The ikMultiArrow indicator cell icon is not displayed for a focused node that is the only node selected in the tree list.

ExpressRichEdit Control

• An HTML document is loaded very slowly if it contains a link whose URL does not specify a protocol.
• Opening a DOCX file that contains a duplicate or empty xmlns attribute causes the "Duplicates not allowed" error.

ExpressScheduler Suite

• An event doesn't assign its Data property on calling the event's Assign method.
• Events are hidden for resources if certain non-matching strings are assigned as their identifiers.

ExpressSpreadSheet

• A custom in-place cell editor that overrides the default editor via an OnEditing event handler, scales twice when invoked for the first time on a monitor whose DPI differs from 96.
• A defined name that refers to an external document is loaded incorrectly from an XLS file.
• A worksheet ceases to scroll on cell selection via drag-and-drop when the mouse pointer goes outside the control's bounds if the worksheet has at least one frozen row or column.
• An AV occurs on an attempt to copy or cut a cell to the clipboard if the cell contains a formula expression that returns a string.
• Certain cell borders are not displayed in certain spreadsheet documents created by third-party applications.
• Export to XLSX - Microsoft Excel considers an exported document corrupted if a worksheet has one or more hyperlinks and its OptionsPrint.Source.GridLines property is set to bTrue or bFalse.
• The "'-' is not a valid floating point value" exception occurs on loading an ODS file that includes at least one blank cell with a numeric formatting pattern.
• The IF function returns only a single value regardless of accepted parameters.
• The IF, IFERROR, IFNA, and CHOOSE functions can return incorrect results when used in array formula expressions that return an array.

ExpressVerticalGrid Suite

• TcxVirtualVerticalGrid - The "List index out of bounds (-1)" exception occurs on saving a stream using its WriteComponent method if no record is focused.

Read and edit Excel Spreadsheets in C# with no need for MS Office or Excel Interop.

Features

• Elegantly Work with Microsoft Excel in .NET - A fast and intuitive way to work with Microsoft Excel and other Spreadsheet files in C#. Works on Core and Azure with no special dependencies and no need to install Microsoft Office or Interop.
• Read and Write Multiple Formats - IronXL allows you to quickly read and write Excel Spreadsheets in your .NET Apps. Read and Edit XLS/XLSX/CSV/TSV - Save and Export to XLS/XLSX/CSV/TSV/JSON.
• Fast, Native SQL Support - Move data between Excel, SQL and GridViews by accessing spreadsheets as System.Data.DataSet and System.Data.DataTable objects.
• Edit Excel Data Sets: Filter, Sort, Formulas - Works with Microsoft Excel formulas - recalculate every time a work sheet is edited. Easy to use WorkSheet syntax. Combine and set ranges intuitively. Sort by Ranges, Columns and Rows.
• Style Cells in Excel Files - Set Font, Size, Background, Border, Alignment and Number format.
• Rapid Installation With Microsoft Visual Studio - IronXL puts Excel generation and editing tools in your hands quickly with intellisense support and a Visual Studio installer.

Adds the ability to join PNG and BMP images.

Features

• Adds the ability to join Portable Network Graphic (PNG) and Bitmap Image file (BMP) images.

Create HTML tables from Handsontable instances and acquire Handsontable settings from HTML tables.

Features

• Added a new feature that allows users to parse HTML tables into Handsontable settings and Handsontable instances to plain HTML tables. This change introduces these new API methods:
  • Handsontable.helper.instanceToHTML: (instance: Handsontable.Core) => string – parses the provided Handsontable instance to an HTML table as a string
  • Handsontable.helper.htmlToGridSettings(element: Element | string, rootDocument?: Document) => Handsontable.DefaultSettings – analyzes a static HTML table and returns a Handsontable-compatible settings object
  • hotInstance.toTableElement: () => HTMLTableElement – converts the Handsontable instance to a static HTML table
  • hotInstance.toHTML: () => string – same as Handsontable.helper.instanceToHTML, but the instance is already bound
• Added the possibility to return false from the beforeCreateCol hook to stop column creation.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where it wasn’t possible to block Undo/Redo plugin keyboard shortcuts.
• Corrected the ManualColumnMove type definitions.
• Fixed a problem with pasting multi-line data from Excel and Google Sheets.
• Fixed a bug where it wasn’t possible to paste merged cells from Excel.
• Fixed a problem with copying cells with longer content from Excel or Google Sheets.
• Fixed a problem with Handsontable not adding the carriage return character to pasted data.
• Fixed some NestedRows performance issues on large datasets.
• Fixed a bug where placing SVG in a cell caused a ManualColumnMove error.
• Fixed a bug where using the Undo functionality did not revert the selection to its original position.
• Fixed a bug where the getCell method, when used with the topmost argument set to true, did not return the correct cell elements from the bottom overlay.

Export spreadsheets with shapes to PDF.

Features

• Export spreadsheets with shapes to PDF: Insert arrows, lines, pictures, general shapes and Microsoft Excel in-built shapes.
• Control pagination and spreadsheet content export to PDF: Control printing specific Excel portions to PDF documents:
  • Render Excel ranges Inside a PDF
  • Print specific pages of Excel to PDF
  • Group customized data range while exporting to PDF
  • Print multiple worksheets to one page in PDF
  • Manage headers on different pages
• Export different Excel workbooks into one PDF: Export or save different Excel workbooks into a single PDF file with the PrintManagerclass.
• Repeat rows at bottom and columns at right in PDF: Repeat designated information on every page while printing.
• Export formatted pivot tables, style, and field number Format: Distinguish information separately.
• Customize row/column/value Delimited (.csv files): Supports importing and exporting .csv files with any row/cell/column delimiters.
• Support for paste options: Includes various PasteType options with multiple copy/paste content scenarios.
• Control adjusting page breaks: Control whether to adjust page breaks on row/column insertion/deletion using FixedPageBreaks.
• Copy and Move Worksheet: GcExcel API will help to copy and move worksheets programmatically.
• Cut and copy range between workbooks: Easy to cut./copy selective data in any range and re-use in other workbooks.
• Find and replace text: Increased options to perform Find, Replace, Search and Replace options.
• Support for formula/array R1C1 in cell range: Reference R1C1 style formulas for any cell range.
• Support shrink to fit for wrapped text: Shrink text within a cell even when the text is wrapped when exporting to PDF.
• Support more import flags for XlsxOpenOptions: Support importing maximum features while reading spreadsheets:
  • Table
  • MergeArea
  • Style
  • ConditionalFormatting
  • DataValidation
  • PivotTable
  • Shapes
• Support auto fit/row height/column width API: Automatically determines column width “AutoFit()’ method.
• Preserve OLEObjects: Load, modify and save Excel spreadsheets with OLEOObjects.
• Preserve Japanese Ruby Characters.

Render Excel ranges inside a PDF.

Features

• Export spreadsheets with shapes to PDF: Insert arrows, lines, pictures, general shapes and Microsoft Excel in-built shapes.
• Control pagination and spreadsheet content export to PDF: Control printing specific Excel portions to PDF documents:
  • Render Excel ranges Inside a PDF
  • Print specific pages of Excel to PDF
  • Group customized data range while exporting to PDF
  • Print multiple worksheets to one page in PDF
  • Manage headers on different pages
• Export different Excel workbooks into one PDF: Export or save different Excel workbooks into a single PDF file with the PrintManagerclass.
• Repeat rows at bottom and columns at right in PDF: Repeat designated information on every page while printing.
• Export formatted pivot tables, style, and field number Format: Distinguish information separately.
• Customize row/column/value Delimited (.csv files): Supports importing and exporting .csv files with any row/cell/column delimiters.
• Support for paste options: Includes various PasteType options with multiple copy/paste content scenarios.
• Control adjusting page breaks: Control whether to adjust page breaks on row/column insertion/deletion using FixedPageBreaks.
• Copy and Move Worksheet: GcExcel API will help to copy and move worksheets programmatically.
• Cut and copy range between workbooks: Easy to cut./copy selective data in any range and re-use in other workbooks.
• Find and replace text: Increased options to perform Find, Replace, Search and Replace options.
• Support for formula/array R1C1 in cell range: Reference R1C1 style formulas for any cell range.
• Support shrink to fit for wrapped text: Shrink text within a cell even when the text is wrapped when exporting to PDF.
• Support more import flags for XlsxOpenOptions: Support importing maximum features while reading spreadsheets:
  • Table
  • MergeArea
  • Style
  • ConditionalFormatting
  • DataValidation
  • PivotTable
  • Shapes
• Support auto fit/row height/column width API: Automatically determines column width “AutoFit()’ method.
• Preserve OLEObjects: Load, modify and save Excel spreadsheets with OLEOObjects.
• Preserve Japanese Ruby Characters.

Ribbon control now replicates the look & feel of Office 2019, plus improves RTL support in several UI controls.

Features

Right-To-Left Support

• This release adds Right-to-Left (RTL) support to the following DevExpress VCL components:
  • Toolbars, Menus, and Ribbon Control
  • Pivot Grid Control
  • Vertical Grid Control
  • Wizard Control

Filtering UI

• Excel-inspired Filtering - v19.1 introduces new Microsoft Excel-inspired column/row filter dropdowns for the Grid, TreeList, and Vertical Grid controls. New filter dropdowns provide two tabs:
  • The first tab allows users to select from among all available cell values.
  • The second tab allows users to create a filter expression using filter operators (Equals, Between, Contains, etc.)
• Use the dxDefaultFilterPopupWindowMode global constant in the source code to make the new filtering UI active for all Grid, TreeList, and Vertical Grid controls.
• Filter Box Support - Much like the VCL Grid Control, the TreeList and Vertical Grid controls now provide the Filter Box to allow end-users to customize, temporarily disable, and reapply recently used filter criteria.

Enhanced SVG Rendering

• SVG images are rendered two times faster when compared to previous versions.
• Image data is loaded and parsed about ten times faster when compared to previous versions.
• Introduced a dxSVGRenderQuality global variable to let you choose a preferable quality-to-performance ratio.

Ribbon and Toolbars

• Microsoft Office 2019 Style - The DevExpress VCL Ribbon Control now ships with a Ribbon style that replicates the look & feel of the latest Microsoft Office version. This style includes new tab styles and animation effects. Also added IDE templates to make it easy to create Office 2019 Ribbon style applications and Ribbon forms from scratch.
• Performance Enhancements - The optimized painting mechanism makes the Ribbon/Toolbar UI more responsive - it's two to three times faster than in previous versions.
• Miscellaneous Enhancements
  • Ribbon Backstage View galleries can now display KeyTips for their elements: groups, items, and item pins.
  • The editor located on the Search Toolbar can optionally display a command's location. It includes the names of the tab, group, and submenu items an end-user has to click to navigate to the command. Also added an option that enables recursive search for commands in submenus.
  • Two new events (OnBeforeMerge and OnAfterMerge) allow you to respond to toolbar merge operations.

Flow Chart

• 30+ new shapes and the ability to load custom shapes from an XML file or stream.
• 20+ new connection arrow styles and 5 predefined connection arrow sizes.
• Ability to apply the layered (Sugiyama) algorithm-based layout. This algorithm minimizes the number of connector crossings and evenly spreads out the shapes.
• Shape transformation support. End-users can transform shapes by dragging yellow handles.
• Ability to custom paint any advanced shape.
• Flow Chart designer: Alignment guides and size arrows make it easier to rearrange and resize chart elements.
• Flow Chart designer: A new pane for quick access to chart element properties.

Skins Library

• New SVG Microsoft Office 2019 Colorful Skin - This release ships with a new vector-based skin and associated color palettes - Office 2019 Colorful.

Spreadsheet

• API Enhancements
  • Evaluate any formula expressions, not only those stored in a document (the EvaluateExpression function).
  • Pass cell ranges in the A1 reference style as string parameters to any cell management method.
  • Track visibility changes of cell comments and prevent their display (the OnCommentShow and OnCommentHide events).
  • Quickly reset a cell, row, or column to its default style (the IsDefault property).
  • Read/write the rich text formatted content directly from/to a cell (the GetAsRTF and SetAsRTF functions).

Pivot Grid

• A new field option automatically expands group values and keeps them expanded (the AlwaysExpanded property).
• You can now apply the Min and Max summary functions to date-time or string data fields.
• A new event (OnGetCellHint) allows you to customize hints displayed for data cells, field values, and field headers, or suppress them.
• The HitTest property now provides a flag to identify total cells (the HitAtTotalCell property).

PDF Viewer

• Attachments - This release extends the Navigation pane with a panel that allows end-users to open and/or save attachments embedded in a document.
• Text Markup Annotations - The PDF Viewer now displays markup annotations based on embedded appearance streams.

Layout Control

• End-users can now collapse/expand splitter items to temporarily hide a part of a layout with a mouse click or drag and drop.
• Splitter items now provide an event (OnCanResize) that allows you to dynamically control size operations.

Design-Time Enhancements

• This release replaces all the Ribbon-based application/form IDE template items with two items that allow you to select a Ribbon style for a new application/form and preview it instantly.