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What's new in the 1.8.0 release?

• See here

• AutoSelectTextBox
• MaskedTextBox (replacement)
• Toolkit edition of Xceed DataGrid for WPF

• PropertyGrid now supports DefaultPropertyAttribute. When the SelectedObject changes, the property identified by this attribute will be the default selected property.
• PropertyGrid: sbyte, ushort, uint, ulong types are now editable.

• The order in which a decorated property's category appears in the PropertyGrid when the latter is set to Categorized mode (via CategoryOrderAttribute) can be specified.
• DisplayNames for fields and enum values can be provided.

• CheckListBox and CheckComboBox: SelectedItemChange event renamed to ItemSelectionChanged to avoid possible confusion with the SelectedItem property. SelectedItemChangedEventHandler renamed to ItemSelectionChangedEventHandler. SelectedItemChangedEventArgs renamed to ItemSelectionChangedEventArgs.
• Protected method Selector.RaiseSelectedItemChangedEvent removed.
• Selector.OnItemSelected protected method renamed to OnItemSelectionChanged.
• Selector: SelectorItemSelected and SelectorItemUnselected protected methods removed. Use the "OnItemSelectionChanged" protected method instead.
• Selector.Update and Selector.GetDelimitedValue protected methods removed.
• Selector.SelectedItems is no longer a Dependency Property and cannot be set.
• No longer Dependency properties: Properties, PropertyDefinitions, and EditorDefinitions (PropertyGrid class); Category, DisplayName, Level, and PropertyOrder (PropertyItem class).
• A new MaskedTextBox with a much more complete API has replaced the original one. The original one is still available in the namespace Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.Obselete.
• MaskedTextBox.ValueType replaced by MaskedTextBox.ValueDataType.
• MaskedTextBox.ValueDataType default value is now "null" instead of "typeof(string)".
• MaskedTextBox.SelectAllOnGotFocus replaced by AutoSelectTextBox.AutoSelectBehavior.
• MaksedTextBox.IncludeLiterals replaced by IncludeLiteralsInValue.
• MaskedTextBox.IncludePrompt replaced by IncludePromptInValue.
• SelectedObjectName, SelectedObjectType, and SelectedObjectTypeName properties are no longer read-only.
• PropertyGrid.IsReadOnly property added.
• DefaultPropertyAttribute recognized by PropertyGrid

• Added SelectedItemsOverride property, which can be used for MVVM scenarios. This property allows a custom IList to be specified as the collection of the selected items. Binding to this property will also work within a DataTemplate.
• CategoryOrderAttribute added.
• Added ExtendedDisplayNameAttribute class to allow a DisplayName to be specified for fields and Enum type values, which will be used by the newly added EnumDisplayNameConverter to display enum field values as custom strings.
• Added LocalizedDisplayNameAttribute to easily allow localized strings for the DisplayNameAttribute value.
• Added LocalizedDescriptionAttribute to easily localize strings for the DescriptionAttribute value.

.NET Framework notes:

Instructions for using the Extended WPF Toolkit binaries:

1. Install .NET Framework 4.0
2. Download the ExtendedWPFToolkit_Binaries
3. Right-click ExtendedWPFToolkit_Binaries.zip -> Properties -> Unblock
4. Unzip the ExtendedWPFToolkit_Binaries.zip
5. Add a using statement ("using Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit;") to the top of .cs files
6. Add a new xmlns (for example, xmlns:xctk="http://schemas.xceed.com/wpf/xaml/toolkit") to the top of XAML files
7. In your XAML, use the namespace prefix (in the above example, <xctk: ...>)