---

Please note: This page was retired in December 2009.

You can find current information from the links below

Publisher

• Syncfusion (69)

Categories

• Charting and Graphing (225)
• Flow Diagramming (69)
• Datagrids (179)
• Product Suites (218)
• Spreadsheet (69)
• User Interface Collections (148)

If you need to buy a license for this specific version, please contact us for availability and pricing.

Other information on this page is shown for historical reference only and may have changed considerably since.

---

What’s new in Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms Edition 2009 Vol. 3?

Essential Chart Windows Forms

• Heat Map - A heat map chart is a graphical representation of data where the values of variables in a two-dimensional map are represented as colors.
• Inversed Polar and Radar Chart - Essential Chart supports the rendering of inversed radar and polar charts. This feature is used to render polar and radar charts in a clockwise direction.
• Fixed-Width Strip Line - Essential Chart now supports setting fixed widths for strip lines, irrespective of the axis range. The default settings specify the value of the fixed-width property as zero.
• Percentile Mode in Box-and-Whisker Chart -Essential Chart supports specifying the values of whiskers as a percentage. The ends of the vertical lines, or whiskers, are based on the value of the Series1.ConfigItems.BoxAndWhiskerItem.Percentile property.

Essential Tools Windows Forms

• Ribbon Tab Position - The RibbonControlAdv control now provides a Position property to define the position of tab items.

What’s new in Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms Edition 2009 Vol. 2?

Essential Chart Windows Forms              

• Axis Label Binding - Essential chart supports binding axis labels to pie, funnel, and pyramid charts. This feature displays data-bound labels in charts.
• Hide Chart-Series Gaps - Essential Chart supports hiding the gap that occurs between chart series points. This feature works only when the Axes Indexed property is set to true. This feature allows users to hide unwanted spaces in the chart area.
• Chart Panning - Essential Chart supports panning a chart area when the chart control is zoomed-in. Users can set the ChartControl.MouseAction property to Panning and enable this feature. The panning action can be controlled using the Zoom Actions property, which is available for an individual axis.
• Axis-Title Draw Mode - Essential Chart now supports displaying ellipses at the end of an axis title when the title text exceeds axis bounds. This feature is supported for both primary and secondary axes.
• Chart Toolbar - Zoom In, Zoom Out, and Panning Icons have been added to the chart toolbar to support their respective properties.

Essential Grid Windows Forms

• Filter by Display Member - Filter by Display Member is a new addition to Grid Helper Utilities. It allows the filtering of grid data by display member instead of value member. With this feature, the filter bar’s drop-down displays the member strings of the filtering column instead of the value member strings. You can use this feature with both GridDataBoundGrid and GridGroupingControl.
• Print Page Layout - The print page layout feature helps view the layout of the print on the grid by displaying a segment line and a page number with each segment. This helps users analyze page breaks within the grid and manage them accordingly. Properties are available to define colors for the line and text of the page layout.

Essential Tools Windows Forms

• New blend styles (TabRendererBlendDark and TabRendererBlendLight) have been added to TabControlAdv's Tab Styles collection. Now Syncfusion have a total of 16 tab styles for TabControlAdv. These styles can also be used in the Tabbed MDI Manager.

Essential Diagram Windows Forms

• Org Chart Layout with Vertical Node Alignment - The Org Chart Layout Manager now supports vertical layouts (waterfall model) in addition to the existing horizontal layout. Users can specify the rank (level) from which the vertical layout must be applied.
• Scrolling to Node - Users can now scroll to a particular node in the diagram model and bring it into view by providing the node name or the node itself. This will help users locate any node with ease among a large number of nodes in real-world diagrams.
• Background Image Stretch - Users can now set background images to the view area and stretch the image using the Background Image Layout property.
• User Guide and Class Reference - Essential Diagram’s User Guide and Class Reference have been completely revamped, providing users with a clear walk-through of the features and Diagram usage.
• Performance Improvement - Essential Diagram’s performance has been greatly improved. This performance enhancement offers the addition of a large number of nodes, with or without connections, within a few seconds.

What’s new in Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms Edition 2009 Vol. 1?

Essential Tools Windows Forms

• Navigation View Control - A new Vista-based Navigation View control will be available with this release of Essential Studio. Navigation View control uses the breadcrumbs technique to keep track of locations and folders. This control includes features such as Drop-Down Selection, Image Support, Drop-Down History, and History buttons that support creating a navigation bar as seen in Windows Vista. With this control, users can implement vista-styled navigation in Windows Forms applications.
• Pressed Image List Support for Menu Items - In addition to Disabled and Highlighted Image support for XP menu items, pressed image list support is included with the new version of Essential Studio. When a bar item is pressed, the image for it can be set; this is achieved by associating the image list to the Pressed Image List property of the bar item.
• Curved Corners for Editor Controls - With this version, border styles can be customized with curved corners in Editor controls such as TextBoxExt, Double Text Box, Integer Text Box, Mask Edit Text Box, and Percentage Text Box.
• Customize Status Bar Context Menu Just Like MS Word 2007 - It is possible to customize the Status Bar Context Menu display in StatusStripEx to resemble Microsoft Word 2007. This can be achieved by setting the Status String property for notification items such as Status Strip Button and Status Strip Label.
• Support for Super ToolTip on Tabs - Users can customize the appearance of the TabControlAdv with a Super ToolTip. With this version, the tab will display a Super ToolTip when the mouse pointer hovers over it.
• XP Taskbar Item Sorting Support - This version of Essential studio has an added feature for sorting items in the XP Taskbar Box. Using this feature, items can be arranged inside the Taskbar Box by writing only a single line of code.
• XP Taskbar Item Alignment - With this new property, XP Taskbar Box items can now be horizontally aligned or vertically aligned.
• Wizard Control with ButtonAdv - With the latest version of Essential studio, users can customize new looks for buttons in the Wizard control. The system button control is replaced with ButtonAdv. With this, Office 2007-styled appearances for buttons can be set as needed.

Essential Grid Windows Forms

• Grid Skins - Grid Skins are an extension of Grid Visual Styles, which is built to provide advanced themes for a grid in addition to the basic themes defined. Grid Skins now include the new Vista skin, which displays grid components in a Vista-like appearance. The following image illustrates the Vista skin.
• Grid Format Cell Dialog Box - Grid Format Cell Dialog simulates the Format Cells dialog box feature of Microsoft Excel. It provides numerous formatting options—such as Font, Alignment, Background, Number, and Borders—which aid in dynamically formatting grid cells. The following image illustrates this feature.
• Dynamic Filter - Dynamic Filter serves as good replacement for the default Filter Bar, which provides advanced filtering capabilities. It is built on the foundation of the regular filter bar with added provisions to support dynamic filtering, user-friendliness, and so on. It can be used with nested tables and nested groups as well. The following image illustrates Dynamic Filter.
• Grid Foreign Key Helper - Grid Foreign Key Helper is a helper class that makes it easy to use foreign-key relations to perform foreign-key look-ups. With this class, users can easily hook up a foreign table with a single method call instead of going through numerous of steps.
• Grid Word Converter - Grid Word Converter allows users to convert grid content into a Microsoft Word document. With this feature, users can download a grid control to a Word document for offline verification and computation. Nested tables can also be exported. The following images illustrate this conversion.

Essential Diagram Windows Forms

• Organization Layout - A new Org Chart Layout Manager with exact layout and line routing has been added for this release. This layout manager uses Org Line Connector to connect nodes, providing the perfect organizational layout appearance.
•  Diagram Wizard - The Diagram control now provides a wizard, which helps users open the Diagram Builder and Symbol Designer utilities from inside Visual Studio. Users can also load diagram files (*.EDD) or palette files (*.EDP) through the wizard.
• Overview Control Events - View Port Bounds Changing and View Port Bounds Changed events have been added to trigger when View Port Bounds changes in the Overview control. Users can cancel the zooming behavior by handling this event.

Essential Chart Windows Forms

• Disable Drag-and-Drop - Essential Chart control now provides support to disable the Drag functionality. With the Drag Behavior style, users can now disable the Drag functionality of legends, titles, and toolbars. It also supports allowing or restricting the movement of controls in horizontal or vertical directions.
• Multiple Axes Layout Support - Multiple axes allow greater control and flexibility when dealing with large amounts of data. Essential chart now supports a combination of both Stacking and Side-by-Side Chart Axes Layouts when multiple axes are used. This feature allows you to create immediate visual comparisons when viewing complementary data sets.
• Printing in Black and White - The Essential Chart control now provides Black and White mode print support for charts. When a chart is printed in Black and White mode, the series is printed with textures. Optionally, the chart’s toolbar can also be displayed when printing a chart.
•  Events - The Chart Region Double Click event has been implemented. Users can access left, right, and middle mouse clicks in chart-region mouse events. This event also provides an index of the points as well as the series.  Accessing mouse clicks gives users greater flexibility when coding.
• Chart Interior Background Image - Essential Chart now provides support for displaying background images in the chart interior. This feature may be utilized to stamp the chart with custom images to suit your business requirements.
• Axis Title Colors - Customizing Essential Chart axes titles can now be achieved through separate properties. With the Axis.Title Font property, users can customize font styles for the title of an axis. Similarly, using the Axis.Title Color property, users can customize the color of the title of an axis, highlighting it when text labels are used.
• Symbol Border and Color - Chart Symbol border styles, colors, and border width can now be customized using separate properties. Chart supports all Dash, Dash Dot Dot, Dash Dot, Dot, Custom, and Solid dash styles. This enhances a chart’s appearance by allowing greater customization.
• Multiline Support - The Chart control now provides multiline text support directly through the designer. This editor window can be used to easily edit Chart control titles, legend text, and axis titles. Use the “Enter” key to start a new line and press the “CTRL + Enter” keys to complete the typing.

Essential DocIO Windows Forms

• Medium Trust Support - Essential DocIO adds support for creating applications in partial-trust environments. This function allows users to work with shared hosting environments using the same APIs.
• Word 2003 - Encryption and Decryption  - This release, Version 7.1, includes the most requested Essential DocIO feature for securing Word documents with password encryption. Now, with Essential DocIO, you can decrypt encrypted documents using a password. This allows you to save document files with added security.
• Export to RTF - Version 7.1 introduces support for exporting Word documents into a Rich Text Format (RTF), enabling RTF conversion using Essential DocIO with the same APIs.
• OLE Object from OLE Container - The ability to insert OLE objects from another OLE container, say another Word document with OLE objects, has been implemented in this new version. Users can now embed or link files or objects of another format in Word documents.

Essential PDF Windows Forms

Improved Bar Code Support - This version of Essential PDF introduces additional symbologies, enabling users to work with even more types of bar codes.  The following list includes a few.

• Code 32
• Code 93
• Code 93 extended
• Code 128
• Code 128 A
• Code 128 B
• Code 128 C

Partial Trust - This version supports creating PDF applications in partial-trust environments, allowing users to work in shared hosting environments with the same APIs. This can be done by using the Pdf.Web library.

PDF/X1a:2001 Compliance - This version of Essential PDF has PDF/X1a:2001 compliance, a best-practice standard for exchanging graphic art files. Now users can create documents with high-quality, print-production output.

Signature Field Support - Modifying signature fields, and applying signatures to these fields with certificates, are two new features implemented in Version 7.1. Now users can dynamically sign PDF forms.

Improved HTML to PDF Conversion - This version improves HTML to PDF conversion in the following ways.

• Improved image quality and support for Web pages with transparent PNG and GIF images
• Ability to split or avoid splitting large images that break across pages
• Improved performance in conversion
• Ability to enable or disable live links on a Web page

Essential Studio Windows Forms Edition includes the following libraries – each with a unique and useful feature set - in one great package:

• Essential Tools – Extensive collection of user interface controls including Office 2007-like controls, IE7-like tabs, VS-like docking windows, and more.
• Essential Grid - Fully customizable industry-standard grid control with extensive Excel-like feature set and data binding capabilities.
• Essential Chart – Full-fledged business chart component with a full set of chart types, 3D, data binding support, several export formats, etc. High performance and fully customizable.
• Essential Diagram – Diagramming package with several built-in symbol palettes and layouts that let you create diagrams programmatically or let your users visually create diagrams, as in Visio.
• Essential Edit - Enhanced editor control with support for Visual Studio-like syntax highlighting, Intellisense, outlining, bookmarks, etc.  Lets you specify config files for custom languages.
• Essential Grouping - A grouping engine that can work with live data and provide summaries, filtered and grouped views of data, etc. Can act as a data source for UI controls.
• Essential XlsIO - A native, high-performance .NET framework library that can read and write Microsoft Excel files (BIFF 8 and XLSX format).
• Essential HTMLUI - A 100% native .NET Windows Forms HTML display engine that also supports CSS. Use this instead of the MSHTML ActiveX to create rich webpage-like interfaces.
• Essential Schedule - a UI control library available for both Windows Forms and ASP.Net that lets you add scheduling support for your applications.
• Essential PDF - a .NET library that can produce Adobe PDF files from your data. It features a full-fledged object model allowing for the easy creation of PDF files using any .NET language. It does not have any external dependencies.
• Essential DocIO - a .NET library that can read and write Microsoft Word files. It features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office automation libraries. Essential DocIO makes it easy to create rich Word documents from your applications.
• Essential Calculate - allows you to add extensive calculation support to your business objects. Easily setup forms that have calculation dependencies among various controls. Essential Calculate comes with a functions library of more than 150 entries, and it supports cross-sheet references. When used in conjunction with Essential ExcelRW, you can fully load, manipulate, and compute Excel spreadsheets with no dependence on Excel.

Benefits of working with Syncfusion:

• Standardize to simplify: One vendor, one license, one suite of .NET components.  Syncfusion’s wide range of solidly built components allows developers to streamline their toolkits and reduce dependence on multiple vendors.
• Trusted architects: Industry-leading architects ensure each product is built for the most demanding of environments.
• Full source code: 100% C# source code available, enabling seamless integration of our libraries with your projects.
• Solid support infrastructure: First-rate tech support is available via Syncfusion’s online tracking system Direct-Trac, email, and phone.  No per-incident charges.  Syncfusion also provides an extensive knowledgebase, FAQs, and forums.
• Built with the future in mind: Syncfusion components are geared towards long-lifecycle applications and architected to meet high standards for flexibility and long-term maintainability.
• Flexible licensing model: Straight-forward per-developer licensing, with no runtimes, server deployment fees, or royalties.  Each licensee may install on multiple personal machines.

Technical Support - Each Syncfusion license includes a one-year subscription for unlimited technical support and updates.  Support for Syncfusion products is available 24 / 5 through a custom-built support system, with responses guaranteed within a single business day. Support is also available by e-mail and phone. Syncfusion’s Direct-Trac system can be used to create support incidents and track them to completion 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and allows Syncfusion licensees to maintain a complete overview of their support history.

Syncfusion suites - Syncfusion also offers several additional Essential Studio options: Essential Studio ASP.NET Edition, Essential Studio BackOffice Edition (for processing data and developing integration solutions with Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF), Essential Studio WPF Edition, and Essential Studio Enterprise Edition (all Syncfusion component libraries plus Essential TestStudio, which enables automated testing of Syncfusion controls using Mercury Quick Test Professional).