Fixed ability to work with EffectConfigForms in the Visual Studio WinForms designer.

Fixed UIScaleFactor's methods for converting between DIPs and pixels.

Fixed the Environment property's runtime type when accessed from an EffectConfigForm (for BitmapEffects and GpuEffects with custom UIs).

New: Added convenience constructors to many Direct2D effects so that they can be used without declaring a new local variable.

Fixed: All of the custom Direct2D effects now have runtime metadata (DisplayName, Author, Category, Description), which is useful for a UI that lets the user browse them (e.g.

New: Plugins can now access the built-in JPEG and PNG FileTypes through two new methods on IFileTypesService.

Fixed a rare crash when rapidly undoing multiple actions.

Fixed: All mouse cursors will now honor the Windows setting for adjusting the mouse pointer size.

New: Edit -> Paste now supports base64-encoded images, which enables copying images from Microsoft Teams (thanks the implementation!).

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It is still a (major) work-in-progress, but it finally exists! This update has a handful of small improvements and bugfixes, as well as improvements for plugin developers.Īlongside this release, for plugin developers, the Paint.NET Plugin API Documentation site is now live.

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