Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

What’s new in Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise 2013 Vol 2?

ASP.NET

• Barcode Control - Display any one of 12 included barcode types within your applications. Supported symbologies also include the popular QR code.
• Calculate Enhancements - 11 new functions added to the Calculate control.
• Essential Diagram Enhancements - An enhanced tooltip is displayed when the mouse pointer is moved over a diagram node. Tooltip content wraps automatically if it exceeds a single line. The tooltip template is fully customizable. It also adds support for In-Place Node Label Editing.

WinRT

• DataGrid - Features include editing, unbound columns, paging, stacked headers and exporting to Excel.
• TreeMap Control - Treemap control is used to effectively visualize flat or hierarchical data as clustered rectangles.
• Sparkline Control - Lightweight Sparkline Charts to quickly visualize trends.
• Grid Splitter - Used to effectively manage the screen real estate of dashboards.
• Calculator Control - Provides a basic calculator interface that enables end-users to perform simple calculations without switching to external applications.
• Touch-Friendly Scheduler Control - Advanced touch interactions such as reassigning, resizing, copying and pasting appointments.
• Range Navigator Control - An effective interface to select a time range from a date axis by using touch.
• Rich Text Editor Enhancements - Comes with touch-friendly editing capabilities.
• PDF viewer - Touch-friendly and optimized to handle large documents.

WPF and Silverlight

• Range Navigator Control - Provides an effective interface to select a time range from a date axis using touch.
• 14 New Controls - Bullet Graph, Rating, Color Palette, Barcode, Dashboard Designer, Tree Navigator, Hub Tile, Radial Menu, Radial Slider and Calculator have been added.
• Calculate Enhancements - 11 new functions added to the Calculate control.
• Build Tablet Applications by using WPF - Several existing WPF controls have been optimized for touch, and several new touch-centric controls such as Radial menu have been added, making it possible to build full-featured Tablet applications by using WPF.
• TreeMap Control - Used to effectively visualize flat or hierarchical data as clustered rectangles.
• Sparkline Control - Lightweight Sparkline Charts to quickly visualize a trend.
• Dashboard Designer - Essential Dashboard Designer for WPF helps design and visualize both relational data and multi-dimensional OLAP data from database services in an understandable manner.
• Pivot Grid Enhancements - New Floatable Field List, ability to load data asynchronously and the ability to filter calculation columns.

Windows Forms

• Barcode Control - Display any one of 12 included barcode types within your applications. Supported symbologies also include the popular QR code.
• BI PivotGrid Enhancements - Conditionally format cells based on the specified criteria.
• Essential Grid Enhancements - Paging support has been provided in Essential Grid for Windows Forms to improve the performance of a GridGrouping control.
• Carousel Control - Arrange items in a layout that is optimized for easily browsing a list of items.
• Essential Diagram Enhancements - Changing label orientation, and the ability to have reject point connections.
• Calculate Enhancements - 11 new functions added to the Calculate control.

Windows Phone

• TreeMap Control - Used to effectively visualize flat or hierarchical data as clustered rectangles.
• Sparkline Control - Lightweight Sparkline Charts to quickly visualize a trend.
• Range Navigator Control - Provides an effective interface to select a time range from a date axis by using touch.
• Map Control - Powerful data-visualization control that is used to articulate data as a map. It is frequently used in financial dashboards for plotting sales across geography.

ASP.NET MVC

• Barcode Control - Display any one of 12 included barcode types within your applications. Supported symbologies also include the popular QR code.
• Map Control - Powerful data-visualization control that is used to articulate data as a map. It is frequently used in financial dashboards for plotting sales across geography.
• OLAP Grid Enhancements - OLAP Grid content can now be exported to a Word document, PDF document, or CSV file.
• Essential Diagram Enhancements - Essential Diagram includes several enhancements including the ability to group nodes, advanced selection handles, connections points, along with 34 predefined node shapes and connectors.
• Dashboard Viewer - Simplifies viewing XML-formatted Analytical reports (either OLAP or Relational type sources or both) through the respective Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC component.
• OLAP Client Enhancements - Provides the ability to change Chart Type through the UI.
• Essential Schedule Enhancements - The appearance of schedule cell elements can be changed dynamically at run time.

What’s new in Essential Studio ASP.NET Edition 2013 Vol 1?

• MDX Query Binding with Drill-Up and Drill-Down Operations - In all business intelligence controls, users can perform drill-up and drill-down operations by using MDX queries to manipulate data at different levels.
• Client-Side Enhancements - This feature allows users to update diagram node properties on the client side through a client-side API. This allows users to quickly change a part of the diagram instead of having to render the entire diagram from the server when a change is made.
• KPI Report - The Key Performance Indicator (KPI) report generates a graphical representation of data dimensions.
• QR Barcode Support - Essential PDF has added support for the popular QR barcode.

What’s new in Essential Studio ASP.NET MVC Edition 2013 Vol 1?

• Combined JavaScript and Bundling - Combine multiple scripts into a single request to reduce the number of requests to a Web page.
• OLAP Chart Component - Essential BI Chart extends the chart control to visualize business intelligence data in OLAP cubes.
• Client-Side Component - Essential BI Grid features a web API for initializing drill-down processes and virtual scrolling on the client-side. This greatly improves the performance of the control.
• Path Data Support for Nodes and Connectors - Draw custom shapes using path data.
• Customization of Time Displayed – Customize time intervals in schedules.
• Add/Edit Appointment Template Enhancements - Users can now customize the Add/Edit Appointment template window with various editor controls such as text boxes, drop-down lists, combo boxes and various other ASP.NET controls.
• QR Barcode Support - Essential PDF adds support for the popular QR barcode.
• MDX Query Binding with Drill-Up and Drill-Down Operations-  In all business intelligence controls, users can perform drill-up and drill-down operations by using MDX queries to manipulate data at different levels.
• Custom CSS Support - Users can manually write CSS to customize the theme of Essential BI Client for MVC.
• Architectural Improvements - Several architectural improvements have been added to Essential BI Client to enhance performance, filtering, report manipulation, scrolling and action modes.
• Touch Events - This feature makes the HTML 5 Chart control more user-interactive in touch devices.
• Data Binding for Column Drop-Down Lists - Drop-down lists in grid columns can be bound to data so users can choose from items that are populated from a database.
• New Record Added in Last Row - In addition to adding records in-line in the first row of a grid, new records can also be created by entering data in the last row of a grid.
• Display Text in DatePicker Control - In addition to providing an interactive calendar, the DatePicker control allows users to provide default text as a string type value.
• Combine Localization Resources - This feature provides a single resource file that supports localization in all of the Essential Tools controls for ASP.NET MVC.

What’s new in Essential Studio Silverlight Edition 2013 Vol 1?

• MDX Query Binding with Drill-Up and Drill-Down Operations - In all business intelligence controls, users can perform drill-up and drill-down operations by using MDX queries to manipulate data at different levels.
• Sorting - The values in a column can be sorted in ascending or descending order when its column header is clicked.
• Add and Remove Filters without Expressions - Users can add and remove filters programmatically.
• Performance Improvement with Virtualized Binding - Virtualized binding improves the performance of a pivot grid with a large number of records across multiple pivot rows, columns and calculation cells.

What’s new in Essential Studio Windows Forms Edition 2013 Vol 1?

• MDX Query Binding with Drill-Up and Drill-Down Operations - In all business intelligence controls, users can perform drill-up and drill-down operations by using MDX queries to manipulate data at different levels.
• Binding Charts to GridGrouping and GridDataBound Controls - Charts can be created based on real-time values found in the GridGrouping control or GridDataBound control.
• Embedding OLE Objects in Cells - Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) objects can be bound to associated icons that are embedded in grid cells.
• Multiple Filters for Single Columns - Multiple filters can be applied to a single grid column simultaneously, improving end-user access to specific information.
• Placeholders for Content Exceeding Cell Borders - When the content of a cell exceeds the cell’s borders, characters can be displayed instead of numbers or letters to indicate that the content outstretches the cell’s dimensions.
• Rendering Images in Header Cells - Along with text, header cells in a grid can render images to represent the type of data contained in a column.
• Fitting Multiple Grids on a Printed Page - Multiple grids can be printed continuously, one after another, on the same page.
• Pivot Schema Designer - The pivot schema designer enables users to change the appearance of the pivot grid dynamically.
• QR Barcode Support - Essential PDF has added support for the popular QR barcode.

What’s new in Essential Studio WPF Edition 2013 Vol 1?

• MDX Query Binding with Drill-Up and Drill-Down Operations - In all business intelligence controls, users can perform drill-up and drill-down operations by using MDX queries to manipulate data at different levels.
• QR Barcode Support - Essential PDF has added support for the popular QR barcode.
• Sorting - The values in a column can be sorted in ascending or descending order when its column header is clicked.
• Axis Label and Series Positions - This feature allows users to set the range padding for indexed axis, and specify a "between segment" mode.
• Fast Spline Chart - A fast spline chart enables users to load high-volume data and real-time data at much faster rates than a regular spline chart. It can load 500,000 points in 12,000 milliseconds.
• Undo and Redo Support - Changes made in a spreadsheet are tracked by two stacks one for redo operations and one for undo operations.
• HTML Export - Formerly in Essential Report Writer, report contents could only be exported as PDF, Word, Excel, and XPS documents. With this feature, users can now export reports in complete HTML 5, including any rich-text formatting and images.

What’s new in Essential Studio WinRT Edition 2013 Vol 1?

• Doc to RTF Conversion - Essential DocIO for WinRT features support for converting Word documents to RTF, HTML and plain text.
• Bullet Graph - Measure a single value and plots it against a set measure to provide a visual comparison.
• Digital Gauge - The digital gauge can display both alphabetic and numeric characters in 7-segment, 14-segment and 16-segment displays.
• Header Support for Circular Gauges - Text, images or both can be added inside a circular gauge as a header.
• Linear Gauge - Linear gauges display a range of values along a linear scale. Support is built-in to allow users to orient the gauge horizontally or vertically.
• Multiple Scales in Circular Gauge - Multiple scales can be added to a single circular gauge. Each scale can be fully customized just like the primary scale.
• Smart Label Support in Circular Gauges - Smart labels allow users to manage space in a circular gauge more efficiently when the gauge's values are very large.
• Symbol Pointer Customization - Users can customize the symbol used as a pointer in circular gauges. Users can define their own custom shapes, or apply the following shapes which are built into the control.
• Rich Text Box - Designed specifically for use in Windows Store apps, this control renders Microsoft Word and rich text format documents for viewing.
• Map Legend - Two types of legends are built into Essential Maps for WinRT, bubble and shape. The bubble legend places colored circles on the map that are sized in proportion to the data they represent. The shape legend is designed to identify colors applied to the shapefile layer of the map. The colors in the shape legend can be displayed as circles or rectangles.
• MultiLayer Support - Load multiple shapefiles in a single container and move them independently.
• Point Support - Add points as a record type in the shapefile layer of Essential Maps.
• Essential Report Viewer - View RDL-based reports within their WinRT apps and dynamically change report parameters. It supports all major report features such as tablix, charts, tables and text boxes.
• Data Grid Data binding - Data binding works out of the box for all popular data sources, linked lists and observable collections.
• Data Grid Style - Users can customize the row and column styles of the DataGrid control. The length and width, colors, background and font can all be modified to the user’s specifications.
• Cell Templates - Users can create their own cell layout by assigning a data template to the cells in the DataGrid control.
• Selection - The DataGrid control provides three options for row-level selection behaviour, single, multiple and extended.
• Sorting - The DataGrid control lets users sort data against one or more columns.
• Grouping - The DataGrid control supports grouping data by one or more columns, either programmatically or through user interaction.
• Filtering - The DataGrid control allows users to filter data based on criteria specified in the Collection View.
• Summaries - The DataGrid control can calculate and display summary values for the entire table, grouped records and within group captions.
• Conditional Formatting - Users can edit grid cell styles to format the grid cells based on various criteria.
• Auto-fit Column Sizer - The DataGrid control has built-in support for automatically resizing column widths based on user-specified sizing criteria.

Essential Studio Enterprise Edition includes the following libraries in one great package. Each of these component libraries has a unique and useful feature set.

• Essential Tools—Collection of great user interface controls including Office 2010 and Visual Studio.NET-style controls, docking windows, editors, and more.
• Essential Grid—Fully customizable industry-standard grid control with extensive Excel-like feature set.
• Essential Chart—High-performance business chart component with a unique point-based styles architecture, more than 30 chart types, and extensive user interaction capabilities.
• Essential Diagram—Essential Diagram is a .NET framework for developing Microsoft Visio-like interactive 2-D graphics and diagramming applications.
• Essential Edit—Enhanced text editor similar to the Visual Studio code editor with great features such as syntax highlighting, multi-level undo/redo, and IntelliSense.
• Essential Grouping—Essential Grouping is a high-performance grouping engine that can group any list of data.
• Essential XlsIO—Essential XlsIO is a .NET framework component that can read and write Microsoft Excel files (from Excel versions 97 to 2010) without any reliance on Excel.
• Essential Calculate—Essential Calculate is a full-fledged standalone formula engine. It comes with a function library of more than 150 commonly used formulas for your business objects.
• Essential PDF—Essential PDF is a full featured .NET library that can create and modify PDF files without any dependence on Adobe.
• Essential HTMLUI—Essential HTMLUI is a 100% .NET HTML display engine. It can be used to create extremely flexible user interfaces.
• Essential DocIO —.NET library that can read and write Microsoft Word files, with a full-fledged object model similar to Microsoft Office COM libraries.
• Essential Gauge—Allows you to use XAML and C# to create many gauge designs including circular gauges, linear gauges, rolling gauges, and digital gauges for visualizing data.
• Essential Schedule—A UI control library that lets you add Outlook-like scheduling capabilities to your applications.
• Essential Maps—Provides a graphical representation of geographical data for map applications. It can be used to represent statistical data for specific regions. The built-in Navigation control makes it easy to move through the map. With Essential Maps, you can load ESRI Shapefiles, employ color palettes with custom colors, and zoom or pan a map with powerful event mechanisms.
• Essential Spreadsheet—Edit Excel files in a familiar Excel-like interface without having Excel installed.
• Essential Gantt—Add a Microsoft Project-like project-management interface to your applications.
• Essential PDF—.NET library that can create and modify PDF files without any external dependency on Adobe Acrobat. Convert a multitude of files to PDF and have complete control over your document.
• Essential PDF Viewer—View, print, and export PDF files from your WPF or Windows Forms applications without any reliance on Adobe Acrobat.
• Essential Report Viewer—A component for viewing reports defined in Microsoft’s RDL format in your WPF and Silverlight applications. Support is provided for various report visualization elements such as charts, grids, gauges, text boxes, images, rectangles, and lines.
• Essential Report Writer—A class library that enables you to render RDL-format reports as PDFs. The reports can be tabular, graphical, or free-form, and can make use of relational, multidimensional, XML, and object data sources.
• Essential ProjIO—Native .NET library that enables applications to read and write Microsoft Project .xml files without any reliance on Microsoft Project.
• Essential BI Grid—Interactive grid great for visualizing OLAP data from XMLA-compatible data sources like MS SQL and Mondrian. Summarize, analyze, and explore your critical business data and make informed decisions.
• Essential BI Client—Includes a powerful UI for managing your OLAP data with business intelligence analysis that includes slicers, filters, summaries, and KPIs.
• Essential BI Chart—Capable of representing business intelligence data as charts from any XMLA-compatible source like MS SQL and Mondrian
• Essential BI Gauge—Capable of representing business intelligence data in gauges from any XMLA-compatible source like MS SQL and Mondrian.
• Essential BI PivotGrid—A powerful pivot table for visualizing relational data in a multidimensional UI that works with relational data. Also features support for exporting grid content to Excel, Word, and PDF documents while preserving format.

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