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Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition by Syncfusion

Add sophisticated grid, grouping, charting, diagramming, Excel reporting, enhanced editing, and many more user-interface capabilities to your .NET Windows forms, WPF and ASP.NET applications. Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise includes Syncfusion Essential Tools, Essential Grid, Essential Grouping, Essential XlsIO, Essential Diagram, Essential Chart, and Essential Edit. Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise incorporates a unique debugging support system that allows switching between Debug and Release versions of the library with a single click from inside the Visual Studio.NET IDE. Dynamic and feature-rich, Syncfusion Essential Studio has everything developers need to create enterprise-class applications.

Essential Studio 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 XP style controls, docking windows

Essential Grid - Fully customizable industry standard grid control with extensive Excel like feature set

Essential Chart - Full fledged business chart component with a unique point based styles architecture

Essential Diagram - Essential Diagram is a .NET framework for developing Microsoft Visio like interactive 2D graphics and diagramming applications

Essential Edit - Enhanced edit with great features such as syntax high lighting, multi-level Undo / Redo

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 (BIFF 8 format)

Essential Calculate - Essential Calculate is a full fledged stand-alone formula engine. It comes with over 150 commonly used formulas. This product comes with Essential Studio Enterprise

Essential PDF - Essential PDF is a full featured .NET library that can produce Adobe PDF files. This product comes with Essential Studio Enterprise

Essential HTML UI - Essential HTMLUI is a 100% .NET HTML display engine. It can be used to create extremely flexible user interfaces. This product comes with Essential Studio Enterprise

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 draw circular gauge designs

Essential Schedule - a UI control library available for both Windows Forms and ASP.Net that lets you add scheduling support for your applications.

Essential Reports visually create and view reports dynamically using various report visualization elements such as charts, grids, gauges, text boxes, images, rectangles, and lines.

Also included is Essential TestStudio, which enables automated testing of Syncfusion controls using Mercury Quick Test Professional

What’s new in Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition 2010 Vol 1? - Essential Studio 2010 Volume 1 features support for Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET 4.0 for all Syncfusion products, as well as many feature enhancements that make the tools more powerful and flexible, while remaining easy to use.

Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition Updates

Developers can now provide a fast Silverlight and WPF, allowing end-users to quickly load and scroll through over 100 million rows of data.

A new TileView control for Silverlight and WPF enables developers to easily create business dashboards.

The Silverlight and WPF Grids have been greatly enhanced with better support for formulas and exporting data to a Microsoft Excel format.

The ASP.NET MVC Grid, Tools, and Chart controls have been updated to support the release of ASP.NET MVC 2.0.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition Updates

Developers can now access Oracle data sources to build business intelligence applications for end-users.

Enhanced filtering options provide more granular control and eliminate outliers. End-users can now pull data based on multiple dimensions, including named sets, which allows data analysts to narrowly focus on information that has already been grouped into categories, e.g., if someone wants to run a sales report, he or she can call out data by country, revenue, and type of product sold.

With new stacked bars and stacked columns, end-users can view a subject’s overall or individual performance—the big picture or the small details.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition 2010 Updates

New enhancements give Syncfusion’s tools the ability to produce native Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, and Microsoft Word reports in Silverlight.

Developers can empower end-users to make custom changes to reports on their own, greatly freeing up a developer’s time.

Support for protecting charts present in the worksheet and for Microsoft Word document to PDF conversion has been enhanced.

What’s new in Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition 2009 Vol 4?

Essential Chart ASP.NET

Custom Axes in Polar and Radar Charts - Essential Chart now supports the customization of solid circle lines of polar and radar charts. The Primary X and Y axes pens property is used to set the style of the solid circles.

Multiple Pie or Bull’s-Eye Type Charts - Essential Chart now supports displaying multiple pie charts in one chart area for easier presentation and analysis of chart data.

Essential Schedule ASP.NET

Appointment Rendering Time - The appointment rendering time is greatly optimized for both vertical and horizontal modes of the schedule control.

Essential Grid ASP.NET MVC

Performance Enhancement - Essential Grid has been revamped to handle millions of records using LINQ queries. Ajax is extensively used to reduce data traffic so that only the required data is sent between the client and the server, minimizing data transfer and response time.

Summary Rows - Essential Grid now comes with options to include summary rows for each page. Grid summaries are displayed in the summary rows. The summary rows can be added and defined using the Grid Summary Row Descriptor collection editor available in the grid. Options for specifying the summary format and summarized columns are also available. Summary rows can be defined declaratively to include summary information for one or more columns. The grid offers a wide range of summary functions, which can be used to summarize grid records. The built-in summary functions used to calculate grid summaries are as follows: Int32Aggregate(Count, Min, Max, Sum), Double Aggregate(Count, Min, Max, Sum), Count and BooleanAggregate(Count).

Disable-Sorting Columns - Essential Grid now provides you with options to restrict or disable sorting for required columns. The DisableSortedColumns property allows you to implement a restriction on a column by setting the name of the target column to the property in the form of string array.

Multicolumn Drop-Down Grid - The Multicolumn Drop-Down Grid control is used to display grid data in the drop-down grid. The drop-down data can be bound to an external data source. The data selected from the drop-down is displayed in the control text box and can be edited at run time. The pop-up panel is customizable, and the control supports client-side functionality and comes with Office 2007 and Vista skins.

Essential Tools ASP.NET MVC

Menu - The Menu is a professional, easy-to-use product built upon the principles of MVC architecture. Its look and feel is highly customizable with built-in and custom skins. Showing and hiding animation is an added advantage of this control.

Generic Drop-Down - The Generic Drop-Down control acts as a host for displaying any ASP.NET MVC or custom control embedded in a drop-down menu. It supports Office 2007 skins, and has rich client-side functionalities to control the behavior of a control. The pop-up panel is highly customizable and supports RTL mode.

AutoComplete Text Box - The AutoComplete Text Box control provides predictive text hints in a drop-down list for users as they type keywords into a text box. The control utilizes callbacks to send keyed data to a server and retrieves hints to display in a drop-down list. It supports features like case sensitivity, setting minimum characters, delayed display of options in the drop-down list, JSON data, setting a client-side template, server-side and client-side rendering, etc. The appearance of drop-down list items can also be customized using various skins.

Essential DocIO

Native Silverlight Support - Essential DocIO now provides native support for Silverlight, which runs inside the client browser and is compatible with Word (97-2003) documents. Manipulation occurs completely from the client side without any server-side interactions or external dependencies.

Performance Improvements - Essential DocIO now offers significant improvement in performance during the generation and manipulation of large documents, document cloning, and mail merge.

Improved Word to PDF Conversion - This version of Essential DocIO adds improved support for converting Word documents to PDF documents with enhanced support for text, table formatting, and the preservation of a table of contents. It improves the conversion accuracy of a Word document that contains paragraphs with formatting, or tables with styles, as a PDF document.

Essential PDF

Native Silverlight Support - Essential PDF now provides native support for Silverlight, which runs inside the client browser and generates PDF documents. It supports manipulation from the client side without any server-side interactions or external dependencies

Performance Improvements - Essential PDF’s performance has been greatly improved. This performance enhancement offers faster HTML to PDF conversion, document merging, and Word to PDF conversion.

Extraction and Replacement of Fonts - Essential PDF now supports the extraction and replacement of fonts within an existing document.

Attachments - Essential PDF now provides support for extracting attachments from an existing document. The extracted attachments can be saved to disk.

HTML to PDF Conversion - HTML to PDF conversion has been enhanced with support for converting lengthy Web pages taller than 32,767 pixels.

Essential XlsIO

Native Silverlight Support - Essential XlsIO now provides native support for Silverlight, which runs inside the client browser and generates Excel (97-2003) files. Manipulation occurs from the client side without any server-side interactions or external dependencies.

Excel Workbook/Worksheet to HTML Conversion - Essential XlsIO now provides support for converting an Excel workbook or worksheet to an HTML document with sheet tabs preserved.

OLAP Chart ASP.NET

IList Data Binding - The OLAP Chart control simulates the Pivot Table feature of Microsoft Excel; it pivots and organizes IList data into a cross-tabulated form based on parameters defined in the OLAP Data Manager.

Filter Elements Based on Top Level Records - This feature allows users to measure the performance of individual measure elements and alternatively filter out only the required records to improve application performance.

OLAP Client ASP.NET

The new OLAP Client control lets you efficiently browse and analyze multidimensional data from an OLAP data source. It lists all the cubes, dimensions, and measures that are available in a data source and allows you to select them visually by simply dragging and dropping them into the appropriate category or series axes. The data can be visualized using a grid or a chart.

Cube Selector - Most OLAP data sources contain multiple OLAP cubes. An OLAP cube is a specially designed database that is optimized for reporting. The OLAP Cube Selector allows you to browse efficiently through all available cubes in a database.

Cube Dimension Browser - The Cube Dimension Browser displays dimensions and measures from a selected cube in a tree. Members can be visualized by dragging them to the axes builder area.

Axis Element Builder Areas - OLAP Client has three axis element builder areas: Categorical Axis, Series Axis and Slicer Axis. Elements (dimension and measure) from Cube Dimension Browser can be dragged into these axes to represent them as drop-down buttons in the axis element builder area. A chart or a grid can then be used to display multi-dimensional data, based on the selected members.

Dimension Buttons - Dimension metadata, when dragged to the Axis Element Builder, creates a Dimension button. The Member Editor control then displays the available dimensions, allowing users to dynamically select members.

Measure Button - Measure metadata, when dragged to the Axis Element Builder, creates a Measure button. The Member Editor control then displays the available measures, allowing users to dynamically select the members.

Data Visualization using OLAP Chart and OLAP Grid - The OLAP Chart and OLAP Grid controls are embedded in the OLAP Client to visualize business intelligence data buried in OLAP cubes. When one or more dimensions are dropped on the column axis, then the data can be displayed as an OLAP chart series or column elements of an OLAP grid.

OLAP Chart in Client Web Control - When data is represented using an OLAP chart, and more than one dimension is present on the categorical axis, each data point is defined by a unique combination of the dimensions' members, which can be shown in a series ToolTip.

OLAP Grid in Client Web Control - When data is represented using an OLAP Grid, the value cell is bound by the measure added to the series, categorical, or slicer axis. If no measure is added, then the default measure of the current cube issued.

OLAP Grid ASP.NET

Conditional Formatting - Conditional formatting for an OLAP grid for ASP.NET allows you to select cells and set conditions for formatting them. You can control cell font, color, and border settings based on the current cell content or the content of another cell. Formatting is applied only when the conditions are met.

Exporting Feature - Essential BI OLAP Grid for ASP.NET can export OLAP data to Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. Exporting to Excel is one of the most essential functions required in the OLAP Grid Web control. Users can download data from an OLAP Grid into an Excel spreadsheet for offline verification and computation. Grid data can also be exported into a Word document by using Essential BackOffice.

IList Data Binding - The OLAP Grid Web control simulates the Pivot Table feature of Microsoft Excel; it pivots and organizes IList data into a cross-tabulated form based on parameters defined in the OLAP Data Manager.

Grid Layouts - The OLAP Grid control supports three different layouts to arrange OLAP data. Normal Grid Layout - In this layout the grid renders all headers, summaries, and value cells. When expanding a Row Header element, the child members will be displayed in the next column. Excel-Like Grid Layout - In this layout, when expanding a row header element, the child members will be displayed within the same column, similar to Microsoft Excel. No Summaries Grid Layout - This layout removes the row and column summaries and displays header and value cells.

Hyperlink Cells - The OLAP Grid control generates a server-side, clickable event for the following cells via the hyperlink feature: Value Cells, Column Headers and Row Headers. This allows users to retrieve the current cell information on the server side.

Filter Elements Based on Top-Level Records - This feature allows users to measure the performance of individual measure elements and alternatively filter out only the required records to improve an application’s performance.

OLAP Chart Silverlight

Chart Types - Essential BI OLAP Chart for Silverlight now comes with various chart types—from column charts to stacking area charts.

Loading Data from an OLAP Report - Essential OLAP Chart Silverlight now supports creating a dimension by using the DimensionElement class. This can be achieved by instantiating the dimension element, specifying a name for the dimension element, and then adding the dimension element to the series elements of the OLAP Report object.

OLAP Gauge Silverlight

Loading Data from an OLAP Report - Essential OLAP Gauge Silverlight now supports creating a dimension using the DimensionElement class. This can be achieved by instantiating the dimension element, specifying a name for the dimension element, and then adding the dimension element to the series elements of an OLAP Report object.

Layout for OLAP Gauge - Essential OLAP Gauge now supports displaying multiple gauge controls in a structured layout. You can also customize a layout by using the ColumnsCount and RowsCount properties. These properties are used to specify the number of columns and rows for displaying OLAP Gauge controls.

OLAP Grid Silverlight

Loading Data from an OLAP Report - Essential OLAP Grid Silverlight now supports creating a dimension by using the DimensionElement class. This can be achieved by instantiating the dimension element, specifying a name for the dimension element, and then adding the dimension element to the series elements of an OLAP Report object.

Frozen Headers - Essential OLAP Grid Silverlight provides built-in support for freezing column and row headers. This is achieved by setting the FreezeHeaders property of OLAP Grid to true. This feature also enables scrolling through the value cells.

Grid Scorecards - Essential OLAP Grid Silverlight provides support for displaying scorecards with key performance indicators (KPIs) directly from an OLAP cube. KPIs are displayed with trend and status visualizations, such as traffic lights, road signs, and standard arrow types.

OLAP Chart WPF

IList Data Binding - OLAP Chart WPF simulates the Pivot Table feature of Microsoft Excel; it pivots and organizes IList data into a cross-tabulated form based on parameters defined in the OLAP Data Manager.

Filter Elements Based on Top-Level Records - This feature measures the performance of individual measure elements and alternatively filters out only the required records to improve an application’s performance.

OLAP Gauge WPF

Semi-Circle Gauge - Essential BI OLAP Gauge for WPF supports a circular gauge; its default template renders a semi-circular gauge. The semi-circular gauge contains a variety of built-in frame types that provide effective rim styles. The built-in frame types can be customized through circular gauge properties such as FirstFrameThickness, SecondFrameThickness, FirstFrameFillColor, SecondFrameFillcolor, and InnerFrameFillcolor.

OLAP Grid WPF

IList Data Binding - The OLAP Grid control simulates the Pivot Table feature of Microsoft Excel; it pivots and organizes IList data into a cross-tabulated form based on parameters defined in the OLAP Data Manager.

Exporting Feature - Exporting to Excel is one of the most essential functions in OLAP Grid WPF. Users can download data from an OLAP Grid into an Excel spreadsheet for offline verification and computation.

Grid Layouts - The OLAP Grid control supports three different layouts that arrange OLAP data. Normal Grid Layout - In this layout the grid renders all headers, summaries, and cell values. When expanding a row header element, the child members will be displayed in the next column. Excel-Like Grid Layout - In this layout, when expanding a row header element, the child members will be displayed within the same column, similar to Excel. No Summaries Grid Layout - This layout removes the summary column and summary row and displays the header and value cells.

Filter Elements Based on Top-Level Records - This feature measures the performance of individual measure elements and alternatively filters out only the required records to improve an application’s performance.

Essential Grid Silverlight

Cell Types - The grid control now implements an optimized way to load different cell types, allowing virtualization and recycling of UI Elements. It supports features for editing a current cell with the same API used in the WPF Grid control. Essential Silverlight Grid supports the following cell types: Text Box Cell Type - Text box cells allow data editing, Check Box Cell Type - Check box cells allow selecting options through check boxes, Combo Box Cell Type - These cells allow both text editing and selecting options from a drop-down list and Data Template Cell Type - Cells have defined cell item templates and cell edit item templates for each cell.

Current Cell Selection Support - The Essential Silverlight grid data control now provides current cell selection support, which allows users to select cells, rows, or columns with different list-box selection modes.

Excel-Like Selection Support - Essential Silverlight also supports selecting cells that are to be highlighted in a frame.

Basic Data Sources - The Essential Silverlight grid data control now comes with following: Support for all IEnumerable or IEnumerable<T> data sources, Support for ObservableCollection<T>, enabling synchronization with all internal structures and Support for INotifyPropertyChanged interface events, which is useful in real-time or cascade update scenarios.

New Skins for Grid Data Control - The Essential Silverlight grid data control now comes with a wide range of built-in visual styles, allowing users to enhance the look and feel of a control. Users can create a control with stunning user interfaces. The grid data control supports the following skins: Default, Default Office 2007 Blue, Silver, Black, Office 2003, Blend, Glassy Green, Sun Black, Shiny Red, Shiny Blue, Bureau Blue and Bureau Black.

Advanced Filtering Mode - The Essential Silverlight grid data control now comes with support for two types of filtering modes.

Text Filtering Pane - This filtering pane allows users to filter data based on the text associated with it. Users can define AND/OR filter conditions, set case sensitivity, and filter a value for appropriate data segregation in the control.

Slider Filtering Pane - This filtering pane lets users interactively filter displayed grid data based on a range selected on the slider. The range for a data filter can be selected by dragging the slider. Users can define AND/OR filter conditions for appropriate data segregation in the control.

Conditional Formatting - The Essential Silverlight grid data control now supports conditional formatting for grid cells. This allows you to select cells, and set rules for when and how grid cells are formatted. You can control cell font, fill color, and border setting, based on cell content.

Unbound Columns - The Essential Silverlight grid data control now supports displaying data in unbound column. These columns are not bound to any field in the underlying data source. Users can provide custom data for unbound columns; these can be sorted, grouped, and filtered in the same manner as bound columns.

Expression Columns - The Essential Silverlight grid data control now supports expression columns where users can define an expression for a column, enabling it to contain a value calculated from other column values in the same row or from column values of multiple rows. Expression columns are unbound columns and display computed values based on bound values of the target cells.

Stacked Headers - The Essential Silverlight grid data control now supports stacked headers. This feature allows you to group required columns under each header. These stacked headers can be rearranged by a simple drag-and-drop action.

Grouping Data - The Essential Silverlight grid data control comes with a new grouping model that allows you to group large data sets very comfortably. It uses LINQ extensions internally and thus provides easier APIs to specify summaries and other functionalities.

Summaries in Grouping - The Essential Silverlight grid data control now supports displaying summaries for control data. Users can specify caption summaries or group summaries to be displayed in a grid. Custom summaries can also be defined using LINQ internally. The default setting displays the summary rows at the bottom of a grid.

Essential Chart Windows Forms

Highlighting a Hidden Series - Essential Chart provides support for highlighting a specific series when a pointer hovers over that series. A series can also be highlighted by hovering over the legend of a series; in this case, the other series in the chart becomes transparent, so that the selected series is prominently highlighted.

Custom Axes in Polar and Radar Charts - Essential Chart now supports the customization of solid circle lines in polar and radar charts. The primary X and Y axes pens property is used to set the style of the solid circles.

Multiple Pie or Bull’s-Eye Charts - Essential Chart now supports displaying multiple pie charts in one chart area for easier presentation and analysis of data.

Chart Localization - Essential Chart now supports localization for chart context menus and series context menus, allowing applications to be customized for specific cultures or regions.

Essential Grid Windows Forms

Grid Helper Class - Essential Grid has improved its ability to handle combinations of operators and data types by using the GridDynamic filter, allowing users to play with various key combinations and data types.

Essential Tools Windows Forms

IsNullValue Support for Double Text Box - Essential Tools now comes with IsNullValue support for the double text box control. This allows users to set a desired string to be displayed in a text box when the double-value is set to 0.0.

Rolled-In and Rolled-Out Status of an AutoHidden Control - Essential Tools now supports displaying the rolled-in or rolled-out status for AutoHidden controls. This can be achieved by using the docking manager’s AutoHideAnimationStop event.

Changing Text for CAPS/SCROLL/INSERT/NUM Lock keys in a Status Bar Panel - Essential Tools now comes with support for changing default text set for the CAPS/SCROLL/INSERT/NUM Lock keys. Users can set the desired text using the CustomOffTex and CustomOnText properties by setting EnableCustomText to true.

AutoSize property for XP Taskbar - The size of an XP taskbar can now be adjusted using the AutoSize property when XP taskbar boxes are collapsed or expanded. This property will work based on values set for the MaximumSize and MinimumSize properties.

Hidden Bar Items under Chevron in XP Toolbar - The new HiddenBarItems collection has been added to return the hidden bar items of an XP toolbar. When the ShowChevron property is set to true, some of the bar items that exceed the size of an XP toolbar are hidden. The HiddenBarItems collection allows users to view a collection of hidden bar items.

AutoCheck for CheckBoxAdv - The CheckBoxAdv control can now be manually selected or cleared. This can be achieved by setting the AutoCheck property to false.

Automatically Hiding a Single Control in a Tabbed Group Programmatically - A single control can now be automatically hidden from a tabbed group. This can be done programmatically by using an additional parameter added to the SetAutoHideMode method.

Essential Chart WPF

Data Binding for Child-Level Properties - Chart WPF now comes with data binding options for child-level properties. Child properties can now be bound to a chart series using the BindingPathX and BindingPathY values.

AutoDiscard Property - The range of a primary axis can be set using the AutoDiscard property, which falls under the ChartSeries class. Three enumerations are provided for this property—None, ExtendRange, and ResetRange. Users can provide custom range values when the AutoDiscard property is set to None. When it is set to ExtendeRange, the range value will be automatically extended, according to the difference between the start and end range values. When set to ResetRange, range values will be reset according to the interval. The IsAutosetRange property of the primary axis is set to False when the AutoDiscard property is set to ExtendRange or ResetRange.

Improved Performance for Fast-Line Chart - The rendering mechanism of a fast-line chart has been improved to enhance performance. This performance upgrade allows for faster data point updates. This fast-line chart type can be used in real-time charts.

IsVisibleOnLegend Property - The legend item for a series can be customized using the IsVisibleOnLegend property, which falls under the ChartSeries class. A legend item can be added or removed from the legend using this property. The default value for this property is set to True.

Essential Diagram WPF

Undo and Redo Support - The Undo command reverses the last action performed. For example, some of the basic operations—like translation, rotation, resizing, grouping, ungrouping, changing z-order, addition, deletion, etc.— that are performed on diagram objects (nodes and line connectors) can be reversed. The Redo command undoes the last Undo action. Alternatively, these commands can be executed using keyboard shortcuts: CTRL+Z for the Undo command and CTRL+Y for the Redo command.

Table Layout - Table Layout automatically arranges nodes in a tabular structure based on specified intervals, without the need to specify offset positions for each node. The layout can be designed by specifying the number of nodes in each row and column. The nodes are assigned to rows and columns based on the order in which they are added to the model and based on the maximum nodes allowed in that row or column. Support for horizontal and vertical table expand modes have also been provided.

Multiline Label Support - The labels of nodes and connectors now come with multiline support—for example, users can specify the labels to span multiple lines by setting the TextWrapping property to wrap text and set the label width. Also, several other customization properties like LabelTextTrimming, LabelForeground, LabelBackground, LabelFontStyle, LabelFontFamily, LabelTextAlignment, LabelFontSize, and LabelFontWeight have been added.

Gripper for Diagram Nodes - Support for a gripper has been provided for diagram nodes. A gripper is a small rectangle that appears near the top-left corner of a node and facilitates the node drag operation. Users can drag a node by clicking and dragging the gripper. The gripper is especially useful in cases where the hit test visibility node content is set to true, which makes dragging the node difficult. The gripper can also be customized to suit your needs.

Event Mechanism - Several events have been added for nodes and connectors: Node Selected, NodeUnselected, NodeDeleting, NodeDeleted, ConnectorDeleting, ConnectorDeleted, PreviewNodeDrop and PreviewConnectorDrop. Access to the objects is provided using the corresponding RoutedEventArgs of these events.

Simplified Context Menu - Context menu customization has been simplified and now the custom context menu can be added to nodes and line connectors by using the corresponding context menu properties. In addition to this, NodeContextMenu and LineConnectorContextMenu properties have been implemented in DiagramView, which enables the application of a context menu to all the nodes and connectors in the diagram.

Essential Grid WPF

New Skins for Grid Data Control - The grid data control now comes up with ten more fascinating skins.

Expression Columns - This feature lets you add expression columns into the grid data control along with other columns from the data source. These expression columns are unbound columns that are used to display calculated values for each grid record.

Custom Visual Style - In addition to the built-in skins supported by grid data control, you can also define a required skin and attach it to the grid. This can be achieved in simple steps, such as implementing the required interface and defining the color codes for various grid components.

Printing Support - This feature allows you to print-preview and print the content of a grid control and grid data control. The Print dialog provides options to zoom content, select paper size and print output color, navigate to desired pages, and print the grid. You can also define a header and footer for the print output.

Excel Exporting - You can now serialize grid data into XLS format in seconds. Converting grid content into Excel format is as simple as invoking an API.

Localization - Essential Grid now adds localization support to its components. You can now localize text that is displayed in any part of the grid.

Synchronize Current Selection - The grid data control provides support to keep any selector-derived control synchronized with its current selection. If you change the current record in the grid, then the current selection of the other control will also shift to this new position and vice versa.

Essential Tools WPF - Customizing Styles for Tabs and MDIs in a Docking Manager and Document Container Styles for tabs and MDIs in a docking manager and document container can be customized.

New Visual Style Support in Docking Manager - The WPF Docking Manager now comes with a new visual style, Office 2003, and an improved visual style for Blend.

New Visual Style Support in Ribbon - To provide users with improved options to style appearance, ribbon controls now come with two new visual styles—Office 2003 and Blend.

Line Breaks in Ribbon Button Label - The ribbon button label now supports line breaks, allowing users to display label text in multiple lines. This can be achieved using the IsMultiline property. When IsMultiline is set to true, and your ribbon button label has the “\n” character, then the character is treated as a line break; this means the label text is displayed in the next line whenever “\n” is encountered. When the IsMultiline property is set to false, the “\n” character is treated as a part of the ribbon button label text, thus displaying the entire text in a single line.

ScreenTip Placement for Ribbon Bar Items - A ScreenTip for ribbon bar items can now be displayed in the bottom of a ribbon bar instead of below the items. Similarly, the ScreenTip displayed above the items can be displayed above the ribbon bar, enabling a clearer view.

Ribbon Bar Launcher Button Command Support - Ribbon controls now support command binding using the ribbon bar launcher button. With this command binding support, the on button click operation can be achieved in a single code line, thereby avoiding additional code for the launcher button click event.

Editor Controls WPF

Null Option in all Editor Controls - Null values can now be accepted in all editor controls using the UseNullOption property. Previously, the non-acceptance of null values caused the editors to take zero (0) as the default value. By setting UseNullOption to True, null values can be accepted by editor controls.

MinMax Validation in all Editor Controls - The editor controls now support specifying a valid range of values using the MinValue and MaxValue properties.

Currency Symbol Position in Currency Text Box - The placement of the currency symbol in a currency text box can now be customized. It can be placed on either the left side or right side of the value. It can be customized by setting a value to the CurrencySymbolPosition property.

Caret Animation in Editor Control - Editor controls now have a feature to turn caret animation on and off.

String Validation in a Masked Text Box - Masked text boxes now have a feature to validate a string when pressing upon a key or when the text box is not in focus. This can be done by using the StringValidation property.

Negative Background in Up-Down Control - The up-down control now has a feature to add a negative background.

AutoComplete Sources - The AutoComplete control’s support for including a string collection as a source for a drop-down list is now extended to custom objects. This enables users to include not only the string collection as a drop-down list source but also business objects. Business objects can be included in the same way as a string collection.

Custom Region Adapters for WPF Prism - Essential Tools for WPF now provides several custom region adapters, like docking managers, ribbons, ribbon tabs, application menus, and group bars. Using the WPF Prism Model, a well-designed and highly flexible client application can be created in an efficient and user-friendly manner.

Icon Size for Ribbon Menu Items, Simple Menu Buttons, and Split Menu Buttons - Essential Tools WPF now comes with options to control the icon size of ribbon menu items, simple menu buttons, and split menu buttons. The icon size can be controlled by the IconSize property.

Tab Panel Background in TabControlExt - Essential Tools WPF introduces a new feature in TabControlExt to set the color for a tab host area. This can be set by using the TabPanelBackground property.

Localization Support - Essential Tools WPF now comes with localization support for all its controls, which enables the controls to adapt to the language and culture of a particular country or region.

Binding a Custom Source to the Document Container - Essential Tools WPF now provides item source support in the document container. It supports binding all enumerable collections as a source.

Essential Report Designer

Embedding an Image - With the help of an image control, Report Designer allows users to embed an image onto its working area. Any image embedded in the Report Designer’s working area is encoded and saved as text in the report definition file.

Page Headers and Footers - Report Designer’s designing surface comprises the body and footer areas. You can insert the header area by right-clicking the mouse over the designer surface and then choosing Add Header. Alternatively, the header and footer can be inserted or removed with the help of the Header/Footer buttons available under the Insert tab.

Chart Data Regions - Users can display a chart in Report Designer. The state-of-the-art reporting service allows you to insert a chart in the report designing surface and bind it to the required data set under the data source. Report Designer currently supports basic chart types.

Gauge Data Regions - Users can display a gauge in Report Designer. The gauge displays a single value from a data set. The state-of-the-art reporting service allows you to insert a chart in the report designing surface and bind it to the required data set under the data source.

Essential Report Viewer for WPF - Report Viewer for WPF supports visualizing reports generated in a powerful, lightweight, and flexible report definition language (RDL) format. This control provides a wide range of customization options for interactive features like showing or hiding toolbars, status bars, etc. It also allows you to export reports into XPS—a more flexible and easy-to-share document format. Documents can also be printed using a selected printing device.

Silverlight Reporting

Exporting - Easily export the Report Viewer to XPS format, which is an XML paper specification.

Zooming - Easily bind a chart with large sets of data and use the built-in zooming and scrolling capabilities to view that data at different zoom-levels. For example, instead of shrinking large data to an unreadable size, enlarge the view horizontally, using an optimal zoom factor, and let your users scroll through the different parts of the Report Viewer.

Printing - Report Viewer allows you to print a report.

Add sophisticated grid, grouping, charting, diagramming, Excel reporting, enhanced editing, and many more user-interface capabilities to your .NET Windows forms, WPF and ASP.NET applications.

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Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS), .NET WinForms, .NET WPF, Silverlight, 100% Managed Code, JavaScript, AJAX

Built Using: Visual C# .NET

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Delphi 8.0, C#Builder, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, Silverlight 3

Product Class: User Interface Components

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