Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms

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 Windows Forms Office Controls
Essential Tools includes Office controls to design your applications with the theme of the Microsoft Office user interfaces.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Docking Package
The Docking Package consists of the Essential Tools docking windows architecture. It allows users to add Visual Studio.NET-type controls that can be docked to Windows Forms applications. Any control can be set as a docking window. Docking layouts can be hosted within forms, user controls, or any derivative of the container-control type. An advanced designer allows users to harness full WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) configuration of a docked layout.

• Accurate State Transitions
• AutoHide
• Context Menu AutoHide
• Caption Bar State
• Container Control
• Caption Bar Appearance
• Caption Buttons
• Design-Time DND
• Design-Time Floating Window
• Design-Time Tabbed Window
• Dock Prediction Band
• Dock Tab Alignment
• Docking Window Caption
• Docking Window Maximize
• Docking Window-MDIChild Interchangeability
• Extender Provider Architecture
• Fill and Non-Float Modes
• Dock State Persistence
• Docked Control Icons
• Linked Manager
• Multilevel Nested Dock
• Nested Floating
• Docked Control Context Menu
• Tabbed Docking
• Docking Arrows
• Freeze Docked Control Size
• Caption Button Super ToolTip
• Appearance
• VS.Net-Style Docking Window
• Drag-Cue Style
• WYSIWYG Designer

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Ribbon Control
The RibbonControl functions like the Microsoft Ribbon Control and serves as an optimal alternative for menus, task panes, and tool strips.

• Ribbon Form Style
• Help Button
• Office Menu Button
• Super ToolTip-Office Menu Button
• Super Accelerator-Office Menu Button
• Quick Access Toolbar
• Tool Strip Tab Item
• Tab Position
• Customizable Tab Groups
• Ribbon Panel States
• Tool StripEx
• Tool Strip Panel Item
• Gallery
• Status Strip
• Track BarEx
• Ribbon Merge
• Host .NET Controls
• Launcher Style
• Layout Style
• Border Style
• Office Color Schemes
• Custom Color Schemes

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Super Accelerator
The Super Accelerator component is used to accelerate the click event of items by using a single key stroke without the pointer hovering over it.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Tabbed MDI Package
The Tabbed MDI (Multiple Document Interface) package provides a new Tabbed MDI layout mode (as an alternative to the default 'Cascade' and 'Tiled' modes) popularized by VS.NET. This framework was built with great consideration for ease of use. You do not have to modify your existing MDI applications in any way to enable Tabbed MDI mode. With a single method call, you can switch between Tabbed and regular MDI layout modes. Syncfusion's Tabbed MDI framework will retain the MDI scheme when in tabbed mode. The child forms will still be MDI children of the parent (they will not be moved into a tab control; this results in loss of MDI functionality like merged menus, or switching using 'CTRL-?'), thereby enhancing your applications without interfering with the general MDI scheme. The Tabbed MDI framework provides users with the exact functionality and appearance of VS.NET tabbed child windows.

• Multiple Tab Groups
• Complete User Customization
• Dynamic Tab Group Splitters
• Tabbed MDI Manager
• Automatic State Persistence
• Customize Tab Context Menus
• Tab Style
• Tabbed-Grouped MDI Children
• Individual Close Button
• Drop-Down List Button
• Multiple Tab Alignments
• 3D-Style Close Button

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms MultiColumnTreeView
MultiColumnTreeView is an advanced treeview control with multiple columns. This control displays the contents in the form of tree with additional columns displaying related data for the tree nodes.With its robust features, it gives a visually appealing tree structure. It supports almost all the features of the treeview control like settings images, check box and option buttons, help text capabilities, Gutter space, Indent Space, advanced drag-and-drop UI support, context-menu association, gradient backgrounds and multiple border styles, etc.,

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Editor Package
The Editor package is a comprehensive collection of controls most commonly used in creating data entry forms. All editor controls have been architected to provide a simple and powerful means for capturing data input, validating, and displaying appropriate formatting. They also support data binding, internationalization, and localization. Web Forms and ASP.NET versions of some data editors are also included in this package.

• Custom Colors
• Curved Corners
• AutoAppend
• AutoComplete
• Combo Box-AutoComplete
• Combo Box Base
• Combo Drop-Down
• ComboBoxAdv
• Multicolumn Combo Box
• Pop-up Control Container
• Date-Time PickerAdv
• Month CalendarAdv
• Calculator
• ButtonAdv
• Button Edit
• Currency Edit
• Currency Text Box
• Double Text Box
• Integer Text Box
• Percent Text Box
• Masked Edit Box
• Domain Up-DownExt
• Numeric Up-DownExt
• Color-Picker Button
• Color UI Control
• Office 2007 Style-Color Picker Cells
• Check BoxAdv
• Radio ButtonAdv
• Gradient Label
• Editable List
• Folder Browser
• Font Combo Box
• Font List Box
• Text BoxExt
• Banner Text Provider

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Command Bars
The Command Bars package includes the Command Bars framework. Command bars implement the framework support that is required for creating Visual Studio.NET-type dockable or floatable menus and toolbars. A command bar, in itself, provides only the dockable host; it is up to the user to implement the menu or toolbar that imparts the command bar its functionality. The Essential Tools Menus Package uses the command bars framework for creating XP menus and toolbars.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Layout Manager
The Layout Manager package provides a comprehensive set of layout managers that manage advanced layouts on a form. The layout management support of Windows Forms such as docking, anchoring, and padding is adequate for many layout management needs. However, your complex layout management needs can be met by the following layout managers that provide full design-time support.

• Flow Layout
• Card Layout
• Grid Layout
• Grid Bag Layout
• Border Layout
• Designers
• Layout Elements
• Selective Participation
• Custom Layout Bounds

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Menu Package
The Essential Tools Menu Package comes with the Windows Menus framework, which provides users with the latest Office and Windows style as well as functionality for menus, toolbars, and context menus.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Super ToolTip
The Super ToolTip control enables users to provide ToolTip information. It is composed of three sections, namely a header, body, and footer.

• Faded Effect
• Multiline Text
• Right-to-Left
• Properties
• SuperToolTip Style
• HTML In SuperToolTip
• SuperToolTip In MFC Dialog

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Scroller Frame
The Scroller Frame control offers the ability to include horizontal and vertical scroll bars with an Office-style to any scrollable control. The control comes with three different styles that offer context menu support. The scroll bars can be displayed with a size gripper. The distance for scrolling up, down, right, and left can also be defined.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Mini-Toolbar
The MiniToolBar is a custom toolbar that includes tools for fast and easy access. The Essential Tools MiniToolbar can host a wide range of controls ranging from buttons to panels.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Tree Package
The Tree package provides an advanced Tree View control with numerous appearance options, extensive customization capabilities, and a data-bound mode that supports data binding by taking a relational data source with rows and columns (Data Set, Data View, Array List) and grouping the rows based on one or more specified fields.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Navigation Package
The Navigation package includes controls such as group bars, group views, and TaskBars. These are primarily used for implementing command lists where each command is represented by an image or text. The group bar implements a tab-type container that can serve as a host for a collection of group views or other Windows Forms controls. The group view is an extensively customizable list-type control capable of cloning the above listed popular command interfaces. The TaskBar may be used for displaying standard command items or as a container that can host several other controls.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Notification Package
The Notification package consists of controls providing visual feedback to the user regarding the status of application events. Common applications of the Notification package include enhanced progress bars, splash screens, and customized message boxes with animations.

Syncfusion Essential Tools for Windows Forms Wizard Package
The Wizard Package provides controls that use the Wizard interface (a series of tabs laid out with next, back, and other buttons) popularized by many Windows-based applications. The Wizard control lets users quickly create such applications.