Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight

Please note: Syncfusion Essential Tools includes Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET components.

What’s new in Essential Tools 2012 Volume 1?

• Calendar Navigation for ASP.NET - The Calendar control has a navigation pane that makes browsing by day, week, month, year, and even decade easier. This JavaScript implementation is fast and gives users a fluid experience.
• Rotator Control Improvements for ASP.NET - An auto-play button can be added to the Rotator control to allow users to automatically scroll a list up or down, and left or right, with one simple click. While in this button mode, the rotator control retains all its other features.
• AutoComplete Control Enhancements for ASP.NET MVC - The AutoComplete control, used to suggest entries as users type in a text box, has been enhanced with client-side data fetching to increase performance, highlighting for searched text, customizable list positioning, and support for left-to-right text alignment.
• Captcha Control Refresh for ASP.NET MVC - The Captcha control has a refresh button that allows you to regenerate an image of the code that has to be entered in the verification text box.
• Dragging and Dropping Tree Nodes for ASP.NET MVC - With drag and drop support, tree nodes can be repositioned at different levels in the same tree or dropped into a different tree, even if the other tree has different characteristics. For example, when dragging a node that doesn’t have a check box to a tree where nodes do have check boxes, the dragged node will automatically take on a check box.
• Splitter Control for ASP.NET MVC - The Splitter control can be used to create separate panes in a work area that can be resized or collapsed by dragging or clicking. Any number of panes and split bars can be created. Features include horizontal or vertical orientation, pane resizing, content template support and collapsible panes.
• TimePicker Control for ASP.NET MVC - When you need to set a time, the TimePicker control makes time selection easy by giving users a grid of values that can be selected just by clicking. Four primary fields can be set: hours, minutes, seconds, and a.m. or p.m. Also, by just hovering over a value, the display will be updated instantly—a live update. Minimum and maximum values are also supported.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Ribbon Control
The ribbon control enables developers to add an Office-like ribbon interface to Silverlight applications. It also ships with several Office themes.

• Ribbon Tab
• Ribbon Bar
• Split Button
• Ribbon Controls
• Ribbon-Control Appearance
• Application Menu
• Quick Access Toolbar
• Mini Toolbar
• Ribbon Gallery
• Ribbon Skins

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Tabs
The TabControlAdv control enables users to display the content of multiple pages within a limited area. It ships with a rich feature set, including multiple tab-strip placements, automatic text rotation on vertical placements, drag-and-drop tab items, item-header images with multiple alignments, in-place editing of headers, tab-list context menus, and scrolling support.

• Tab-Strip Placement
• Tab-Item Layout
• Tab-List Context Menu
• Drag-and-Drop
• Tab Scrolling Mode
• Tab Skins

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Group Bar
The group bar is a UI for grouping a collection of commands within categories. It displays these categories within collapsible panels. The group bar lets you recreate the popular Microsoft Outlook bar interface in applications. Each panel in a group bar can host a number of commands or any other control, such as a calendar.

• Expansion Modes
• Orientation
• Header-Text Alignment
• State Persistence
• Navigation Pane
• Group Bar Skins

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Checked List Box
The check list box control is a list box with check boxes. It includes list box items and allows multiple items to be selected.

• Check on Click
• Right-to-Left
• Selected Item and Mouse-over Background
• Skins

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Editors
All editor controls have been architected to provide a simple and powerful means for capturing data input, and validating and displaying data with the appropriate formatting. They include the integer text box, double text box, AutoComplete, masked text box, percent text box, currency text box, numeric up-down, and domain up-down controls.

• Integer Text Box
• Double Text Box
• Masked-Edit Text Box
• AutoComplete Text Box
• Numeric Up-Down
• Domain Up-Down
• Currency Text Box
• Percent Text Box

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Date-Time Edit
The date-time edit control enables users to capture date-time input in a Silverlight application. It ships with a variety of built-in features, including custom date-time formats, different cultures, a built-in calendar to navigate through dates, empty date options, and customizable carets.

• Non-Date Text
• Date Format
• Caret Appearance
• Appearance
• Control Dimensions
• Step Value

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Range Slider
Range Slider is a slider control with two thumbs showing a selected range. It lets users input two values, typically an upper and a lower bound for two thumbs, thus providing enhanced feature support for a standard slider control.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Panels
The fish-eye panel is a toolbar-like control that magnifies a child element when the pointer hovers over it.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Skin Manager
The Silverlight Skin Manager framework provides a convenient way to apply a consistent visual appearance across the application. Skin Manager applies skin for both the Syncfusion and Silverlight Framework controls.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Brush Selector
The brush selector control is a UI control similar to the color picker control used in graphics software. It has a sub-control, named Brush Edit, with similar properties.

• Color Selection Mode
• Brush Mode
• Enable Gradient to Solid Switch

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Docking Manager
The docking manager control lets you add Visual Studio-like docking functionality to applications.

• Animation Speed
• Context Menu
• Custom Menu Items
• Custom Button
• Custom Header
• Custom AutoHide Tab Buttons
• Custom Drag Provider
• ToolTip
• Docking Modes
• Docking Ability
• Dock Fill
• State Persistence
• No Header
• Floating Window Rect
• Header Height
• Size to Content in Float
• Skins

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Tree View
The TreeViewAdv control implements a tree UI with advanced customization capabilities. Its feature set includes dragging and dropping, multi-node selection, and in-line editing support. It supports adding images--such as left, right, expand, and collapse images. It also provides built-in support for sorting and searching tree nodes.

• Tree Skins
• Drag Indicator
• Image Settings
• Multiple Selection
• Expand and Collapse State
• Sorting
• Searching
• Item Editing

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Taskbar
A taskbar is similar to a group bar in its ability to host a collection of grouped command items. The look and feel, however, is closer to the Windows XP Taskbar. Just like the group bar, taskbar boxes can be expanded and collapsed.

• Group Orientation
• Flow Direction
• Show Header
• Expand Details
• Header Height
• Taskbar Skins
• Arrow Style

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Uploading Files
The file upload control is used to upload multiple files simultaneously. With the auto-upload feature, file uploading can be performed automatically upon selection, eliminating the need to click the Upload button. Other features of this control include asynchronous file uploading, a thumbnail view of uploaded images, size limits on files to be uploaded, and restrictions on file types.

• Multiple File Uploading
• Asynchronous File Uploading
• Size Limitation
• Image Thumbnail View
• Hiding Columns
• Style and Appearance

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Calendar Edit
The calendar edit control implements a classic calendar control with certain advanced features. Any date ranging from year 0 to year 9999 A.D. can be displayed. The control displays a calendar that users can utilize to navigate to any day of any year.

• Show Prev-Next Months
• Navigating Years
• Abbreviating Month-Day Names
• Custom Calendar Info
• Localization
• Calendar Modes
• Color Settings

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Heat Map
A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable in a two-dimensional map are represented as colors.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Menu Package
The Menu package contains three controls--menu, toolbar, and context menu controls. These controls enable users to choose from a list of commands or options.

• Menu
• Toolbar
• Context Menu

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight HTML Host
The HTML host acts as a container for hosting HTML content inside a Silverlight environment. It has the ability to navigate to any Web URL, parse HTML tags, and display them in Silverlight.

• Display HTML Source
• Navigating URLs

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Silverlight Color Picker
The color picker control provides a rich visual interface for color selection. The structure of the control represents a palette with ToolTip support and a More Colors option.

• Panel Visibility
• Color Themes
• Variants Generation
• More Colors Option
• Color Picker Expanded Mode