ComponentSource Topic | Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

Essential Studio Enterprise 2012 released

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:58:53 GMT

Sample applications written using Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

New controls include cross-platform mobile grid, HTML 5 gauge and client-side RDL reporting engine.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition lets you create rich applications that integrate business intelligence analysis and reporting with ease. It includes software components that enable developers to produce quality software for the most demanding of environments. It includes all the tools and libraries that are producted by Syncfusion in one package.

Updates in 2012

Essential BI Grid

Hide Summary Elements - Hide summary elements of an OLAP grid at different levels based on the level name or level number
Frozen Headers - Freeze the header of a grid so that headers are always visible when scrolling through a grid

Essential BI PivotGrid

Show or Hide Subtotals - Enables users to have an abstract view of data
Persist Expand/Collapse State - Maintain the expanded/collapsed state in a PivotGrid control when the pivot schema has changed
Disable Grouping by Specific Fields - Restrict users from dragging and dropping certain fields in the grouping area
Run-Time Custom Summary Type Setting - Set custom and built-in summaries at run time using the Pivot Computation Information dialog
Hide Field Support - Hide unnecessary fields from the pivot schema designer by using the ShowDisplayFields property

Essential BI Client

Paging Support - View large amounts of data by breaking the data into pages

Essential DocIO

Preserving Macro-Enabled Documents - Macros present in a macro-enabled document are preserved during conversion to other macro-enabled document formats

Essential PDF

Data Matrix Barcode Support - Render two-dimensional Data Matrix barcodes. The barcode can be generated from numeric or alphanumeric text. It supports different encoding structures such as ASCII (includes C40, Text, X12, and EDIFACT) and Base 256. Different sizes for the barcode symbol are available and can be chosen manually or according to the input. Data Matrix bar codes can be drawn directly in PDF or converted to an image.

Essential Diagram

HTML 5 Diagram Modes - SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) mode and Canvas mode
Export to Image - Export diagram area to multiple image formats (.jpeg, .bmp and .png)
Polyline Support - When in SVG mode, Essential Diagram can support polylines—multiple lines connected by intermediate points
Printing Support - Print diagram layouts when in SVG mode
Saving and Loading Diagram Edits - In SVG mode, the Diagram control can save and reload information regarding changes to nodes and line connectors to and from a database
Data Binding - Diagram data binding has been enhanced to support the ADO.NET Entity Model

Essential Grid

JSON Suppot (ASP.NET) - TJSON mode can be enabled to handle paging, sorting, grouping and filtering
Editing via Unbound Columns (ASP.NET MVC) - Make changes to multiple fields in a grid at the same time

Essential Tools

Calendar Navigation (ASP.NET) - New navigation pane that makes browsing by day, week, month, year or decade easier. This JavaScript implementation is fast and gives users a fluid experience
Rotator Control Improvements (ASP.NET) - An auto-play button can be added to the Rotator control to allow users to automatically scroll up or down, left or right with one click. While in this button mode, the rotator control retains all its other features
AutoComplete Enhancements (ASP.NET MVC) - Client-side data fetching has been added to increase performance
Captcha Control Refresh (ASP.NET MVC) - Refresh button allows regeneration of the code that has to be entered in the verification text box
Dragging and Dropping Tree Nodes (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
Splitter Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Create separate panes in a work area that can be resized or collapsed by dragging or clicking
TimePicker Control (ASP.NET MVC) - Four primary fields can be set: hours, minutes, seconds and a.m. or p.m

About Syncfusion

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion provides a broad range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet evolving development needs, whether working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight. Syncfusion strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to customers - from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies.

Essential Studio Enterprise adds HTML 5 support

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:33:00 GMT

Sample applications written using Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Version 2011 Vol 4 also includes Windows Phone 7, Android, iPhone, iPad, and Blackberry support.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition 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.

Updates in 2011

Complete studio for HTML 5, cross-platform, mobile development in ASP.NET MVC.
Windows Phone 7, Android, iPhone, iPad, and Blackberry support.
New charts and UI components as well as rating, tab, and slider controls - and more

Essential Studio Volume 4 advances Syncfusion's mobile and HTML 5 agendas, offering development solutions that can go from web to iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone 7 - and you'll be able to access them all by coding in the .NET environment you're already familiar with. Their WPF controls also add Metro theming, and Essential Maps now comes with street-level views with labels, allowing your users more detailed navigation. One of the most noteworthy additions to Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition is Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC, giving you all the power of the Syncfusion Grid control in an MVC environment. And their reporting studio introduces Essential ProjectIO - allowing you to read and write Microsoft Project files even if Project is not installed.

About Syncfusion

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering real business innovation -- the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you're working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or Silverlight. Syncfusion uncompromisingly strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to our customers - from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies.

Syncfusion releases PDF viewer - no Adobe required

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:28:11 GMT

Dashboards and Pivot Tables in Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Essential Studio Enterprise 2011 Vol 3 also adds new Upload, Rating, and ProgressBar controls.

Updates in 2011 Vol 3

Essential PDF

PDF Viewer - The implementation of this feature is very important for several reasons. It forms the foundation for several other features that may be implemented in the future. It can be used in both Windows Forms and WPF applications. This feature supports exporting PDF files to various image formats such as .bmp, .jpeg, and .png.
Background Image Support - Essential PDF provides options to customize the appearance of a PDF grid. Now, support is provided for positioning background images; that is, enabling background image alignment within a PDF grid cell.

Essential Grid

Filter Bar - The filter bar is displayed at the top of a grid, below the header row. This is very user friendly compared to the existing filtering feature. The filter bar can even be used in applications at run time.
PDF and Word Exporting - This feature allows users to export grouped and nested tables, grids with multi-row records, summary rows, grid headers and footers, and applied grid styles. Users can choose what grid content to export—visible, all, or custom.
Bulk and Excel-like Editing - Users can edit a large amount of data simultaneously and save it to the server instantly, instead of waiting for the server to save the edited data before being able to make another edit.

Essential Tools

Rotator Control - The Rotator control supports the following: images, text, and templates, horizontal, vertical, image viewer, circular, auto scroll, and slideshow modes, auto scrolling, button, button hover, and mouse wheel navigation types, data source and load-on-demand loading types, item highlight and resize on mouse hover, customizable animation and background, resize window and border for each item.
FileUpload Control - The FileUpload control makes uploading files easy for users, as multiple files can be uploaded at the same time.
Form Elements in a Rich-Text Editor - Give your end users the ability to insert form elements in a rich-text editor control that provides the control with greater interactivity.
Hyperlinks in a Rich-Text Editor - To apply hyperlinks to text in a rich-text editor, previously you had to enter the URL manually. Now, however, you can apply hyperlinks using a hyperlink manager, which contains properties such as anchor name, URL, and anchor target. Using this method, you can choose how you want to link URLs, and if they should open in a new window or in the same frame.
Clean up HTML - The RichTextEditor control allows you to remove unneeded tags from HTML code. Usually, when you cut and paste text from a Word document to a rich-text editor, unnecessary HTML tags will be generated in the editor. This feature cleans up the code, leaving only the relevant tags.

Essential Chart

Drill Down Support - When a click event occurs in a chart, the drill down support will be implemented by either replacing the current chart with another chart that features more detailed information, or reinitializing the current chart with new drill down information.
Axis Crossing - This feature can be used to customize the location of primary axes from their default location in the event that users want to add a number of negative and positive points to a chart.
Client-Side Mouse Events - Users can get needed chart region information using this feature. Thereby, users can customize chart details and also easily interact with a chart on the client side. The client-side mouse events that are supported are MouseDown, MouseUp, MouseMove, MouseClick, and MouseDoubleClick.

Essential Diagram

Save and Load a Diagram - All of a diagram's properties can be persisted in .xml format. This allows users to continue working on a particular diagram by reloading its .xml document.

Essential Gantt for WPF

Gantt Control - The Gantt control is a project management tool that includes a project viewer and editor. It has built-in scheduling, resource assignment, and constraint support. It also allows data to be imported and exported.

Essential Grid for WPF

Spreadsheet Control - The Spreadsheet control allows you to view and edit Excel files. It consists of three other controls: the Ribbon control, which provides commands above the grid; the Tab control, which allows you to select different sheets; and the Grid control, where rows and columns are contained.
Rich-Text-Box Cells - Rich-text-box cells support flow-document loading with all formatting intact. In these cell types, columns with images and multiple formats are supported, and cell values are provided with the flow document.
Exporting Styles from Rich Text Cells - Content contained in a grid's rich-text-box cell can be exported with all formatting intact. This cell type also supports printing, copying, and pasting.
Printing Rich-Text-Box Content - Content contained in a grid's rich-text-box cell can be printed with all formatting intact. This cell type also supports exporting, copying, and pasting.
Copying and Pasting Formulas - Formulas can be copied and pasted from the Grid control to Microsoft Excel. Copying cells from the Grid control to Microsoft Excel includes basic formatting like foreground, background, and font style and size.
Drop-Down Cells in Filter Bars - This feature provides a combo box with distinct values for a particular column. Based on selected items, filtering can be applied to the GridData control. Multiple items can be selected by first selecting the Select Multiple Items check box.
Unbound Fields - Unbound fields can be used when you need to add additional or custom information to the GridData control. You can also format the unbound rows or columns by using multiple properties.

Essential Tools for WPF

ToolBar Control - In the ToolBar control, the buttons and other UI elements are arranged both horizontally and vertically. Users can drag the toolbar and create a new row in the toolbar tray class. The ToolBar control also allows users to create multiple toolbars inside the toolbar tray.
TimeSpanEditor Control - The spin box of the TimeSpanEditor control can be used to increase or decrease the selected time options, namely days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds.
KeyTip for Collapsed Ribbon Bars - Ribbon bars can display KeyTips even when the ribbon is collapsed. Typically, this has not always been the case. This feature allows KeyTips to be displayed when the ALT key is pressed, even if the ribbon is in a collapsed state.
Drop-Down Button Keyboard Support - Keyboard support for the drop-down button allows you to open or close a drop-down menu by using different key combinations.
Docking Manager Scrollable Views - The docking manger allows you to scroll through items that have been automatically hidden because they do not fit into a panel. This is similar to the scrolling functionality found in Excel. The scroll button appears only when the number of items exceeds the panel size.

Essential Chart for WPF

Panels for Chart Legends - With panel support for legends, you can customize the layout of legend labels to make the best use of screen space. For example, when a legend with a large number of labels is positioned to the left or right of a chart, the legend items can be arranged so they do not overlap the chart area.
QTP Support - If you are using HP's QTP (Quick Test Professional) testing tools, Essential Chart offers an add-in that has very extensive APIs for testing all features of a chart, including user interaction features like zoom, scroll, pan, interactive cursors, and context menus.
Fast Scatter Series - The performance of fast scatter series has been enhanced to support zooming, scrolling, and better loading.

Essential Diagram for WPF

Overview Control - The Overview control is used to preview the content of the Diagram control in a rectangular box. When users resize the previewer box of the Overview control, the diagram's zoom adjusts accordingly. When users drag the box, the scroll viewer of the page is updated. When panning the page in the scroll viewer, the position of the previewer box in the Overview control is updated.
Bowtie-Style Diagram - Bowtie diagrams can be used for assessing any type of risk such as environmental, safety, business, political, security, and more. It is used in a wide range of companies, industries, countries, and regulatory agencies.
Arc Line Connector- An arc line connector represents an elliptical arc between two points or nodes. When users drag and drop the arc line connector from the symbol palette to the diagram view, an arc will be placed in the diagram view. Like other line connectors, the arc line connector is placed with correct positioning.

Essential Grid for Silverlight

Rich-Text-Box Cells - Rich-text-box cells support flow-document loading with all formatting intact. In these cell types, columns with images and multiple formats are supported, and cell vales are provided with the flow document.
Drop-Down Cells in Filter Bars - A grid column can be filtered based on items in the column's filter-bar combo box. Based on the selected item, filtering will be applied to the GridData control. You can
Essential Tools for Silverlight
Snap-To-Tick Support - Snap-to-tick support allows you to move a thumb to the nearest tick by dragging the range slider or clicking on a specific area within the range.

Essential Diagram for Silverlight

Financial Technical Graphs - Technical indicators are used to improve the data analysis capabilities of a chart with regard to information on pricing, volume, and other metrics used in business calculations. Essential Chart supports ten types of indicators, including Bollinger band, exponential average, and moving average.
Virtualization - Virtualization is the process of loading diagram page elements that are available in the visible area of a diagram. That is, page elements that lie inside the viewport will be loaded, and the rest will not until they come into view.
Size-To-Content Support - You can define the size of a diagram page or restrict a diagram element from moving out of a specified area. This option can be disabled.
Drawing Tools - Like Microsoft Paint and Expression Blend, Essential Diagram also supports drawing a particular shape continually without having to select it manually each time. The following shapes and lines are available as drawing tools: ellipse, rectangle, rounded rectangle, polygon, straight line, Bezier line, and orthogonal line.

Essential XlsIO

Sorting - A given range of cells can now be sorted in an XlSIO worksheet. When applying the sort feature to a row or column, the corresponding data is changed in the rows or columns. This feature is supported in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010.
Encryption- XlsIO already supports encryption and decryption for Excel 2007 and Excel 2003 files. Now, this feature enables encrypted files in Excel 2010 to be parsed and serialized using passwords. The type of encryption used in Excel 2010 is agile encryption, and Excel 2007 with Service Pack 2 can open Excel 2010 encrypted files. There will be no change in API, as it already supports Excel 2007 encrypted files.
Printing Titles - After setting the titles for rows and columns to be printed in an Excel worksheet, the same will be reflected in its converted PDF.

Essential DocIO

Encryption - Encryption is the process of transforming plain text to cipher text (encrypted text), and decryption is the process of transforming cipher text (encrypted text) to plain text. Encryption transforms a Word document into an unreadable state by using an encryption algorithm. The document remains unreadable until it is decrypted by using a password. Word 2007 and Word 2010 documents now support encryption and decryption.
Table Styles - Table styles define a set of formatting properties that can be applied to tables. This style also defines the paragraph properties and character properties for the contents of the tables. Support for table styles has been added to .doc to PDF conversion for Word 2007 and Word 2010 documents.

Essential Report Viewer

PDF Export - Report Writer is a class library that enables users to render reports defined in Microsoft's RDL format (2008 or 2008 R2) as a PDF document. Using Report Writer, you can convert a report that has tabular, graphical, or free-form reports, which make use of relational, multi-dimensional, .xml, and object data sources.

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering business innovation - the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Syncfusion's award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to grow with you, whether you're using Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight.

Syncfusion launch HTML 5 based diagramming package

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Dashboards and Pivot Tables in Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Essential Studio Enterprise 2011 Vol 2 adds an HTML 5 based diagram package and RDL compatible reporting engine.

Updates in 2011 Vol 2

HTML 5-based Diagramming Package - Allows developers to create web-based business applications complete with Visio-like diagramming using the HTML 5-based diagramming engine
Report Definition Language (RDL) compatible Silverlight/WPF Reporting Engine - Enables developers to create standards-based RDL reports without being locked into a vendor specific reporting format
Business Intelligence Support for Additional Data Warehousing Servers - Build business intelligence applications that can talk to any XMLA compliant server
Load and display Excel files - WPF and Silverlight grid now supports loading and displaying Excel files
Easily present geographic data - New Essential Maps for WPF and Silverlight allows for representing geographic information in your dashboards

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Essential Gauge adds MVC3 support

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

Automotive dashboard demo in Syncfusion Essential Gauge.

Syncfusion Essential Gauge 2011 Vol 1 also improves linear gauges and linear bar pointers.

Syncfusion Essential Gauge includes circular, digital and liner gauges. Each has a highly appealing appearance and can be easily customized. Syncfusion Essential Gauge can be used in a variety of applications, including dashboards, and they come with various features that make them easy to use. Syncfusion Essential Gauge allows C# code to be incorporated for drawing gauges of various designs. Syncfusion Essential Gauge includes ASP.NET MVC, WPF and Silverlight components.

Syncfusion Essential Gauge is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

ASP.NET MVC

MVC3 support has been added
The gauge memory leak has been fixed

WPF

FontSize now changes at run time in a rolling gauge.
A linear gauge will now automatically fit when changing orientation.
Issues with the FontFamily, FontSize, and IncludeFirstValue properties in CircularGauge have been fixed.

Silverlight

Label tick positions now render properly in a circular gauge.
Circular gauges now work properly when minor interval values exceed major interval values.
Linear bar pointers now render correctly.

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Syncfusion Essential Grid adds JSON mode

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

Card View and Filtering Performance demos in Syncfusion Essential Grid.

2011 Vol 1 release JSON mode supports filtering, editing, grouping, column formatting, custom formatting and summaries.

Syncfusion Essential Grid offers Microsoft Excel-like grid functionality and high-performance grouping support for both flat and hierarchical data sources. Syncfusion Essential Grid allows extremely detailed customization down to the cell level. Multilevel undo/redo, shared scrollbar support, data/view separation, floating cells, multiple cell types, and extensibility are features that are included. Syncfusion Essential Grid includes Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC controls.

Syncfusion Essential Grid is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

ASP.NET

A row-double-click event handler has been added on the client and server side.
GridGroupingControl's Excel-like edit now works correctly in the Chrome browser for .NET Framework 4.0.
The SourceListRecordChanging event will be canceled when setting e.cancel to True.
Styles can now be set to ButtonBar using the Style tag.
Changing PageSize now works for custom paging.
Caption-text customization now works for custom paging.
ViewState is now enabled for EditItemTemplate's child controls.
The sort indicator will be displayed correctly when a column's name and mapping name are different.
In a grid's child table, an empty cell will not be added to the caption row when the row header displays.
The UseAutoformat property now works correctly when exporting to Excel.
Cell navigation through the Tab key has been implemented for ExcelLikeEdit mode.
The ability to save an exported Excel file to a server has been implemented.
A script error is no longer raised when width is set for an unbound grid.
Rows are now expanded initially when an object's data source is bound to a grid.
Response during custom filtering has been improved.
Grid cell borders now display correctly in Internet Explorer 7 when the item template contains null data.
The ClientSideOnRecordClick event now fires with an event argument in Firefox.
A numeric text box containing a value greater than 999 now updates correctly in ExcelLikeEdit.

ASP.NET MVC

MVC3 support has been added.
Support for JSON mode has been added for filtering, editing, grouping, column formatting, custom formatting, and summaries.
Support for frozen rows and columns has been added.
In GridBuilder, width and height properties have been included.
Filtering now works when rendering a grid inside a form.
Filtering now works for a complex bound column.
The sorting extension no longer causes performance issues.
Grouping can now be disabled for a specific column, and unbound column grouping now works.
The Click action no longer fails in the upper part of grid toolbar items.

Windows Forms

Support for Office 2010 themes has been added.
Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI support for GridControl has been added.
Resizing support through standard cell boundaries for GridControl has been implemented.
Support has been added for exporting content from a GridDataBoundGrid to a Word document.

WPF

Data Template cell renderer revamping.
Implementing support for Minimum and Maximum value for Integer Edit cell.
Implementing support for customize the row and column re size pointer.
Column chooser feature has been implemented.
Context menu feature has been implemented.

Silverlight

Issues with data-template usage have been fixed.
The rendering mechanism has been changed to WriteableBitmap.

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Syncfusion patches Essential Grouping

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

Screenshot from Syncfusion Essential Grouping.

Syncfusion Essential Grouping is a high-performance engine that can group any data that implements the .NET framework's IList interface. Syncfusion Essential Grouping is ideal for use in projects where there is a need to group large amounts of dynamic data. Extremely optimized, Syncfusion Essential Grouping provides high performance and includes excellent support for summaries and related data at all levels. All aspects of Syncfusion Essential Grouping are extensible and users can add functionality as needed. Additional supported functions include sorting, filtering and Expression Fields. Syncfusion Essential Grouping is enabled for both Windows Forms and ASP.NET development.

Syncfusion Essential Grouping is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

The "Match" operator computation in RecordFilter has been fixed in the grouping engine.

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Syncfusion Essential HTMLUI patched

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

Displaying HTML with Syncfusion Essential HTMLUI.

Syncfusion Essential HTMLUI is a display engine for HTML. It is written from scratch in C#. It does not rely on IE for rendering HTML, and its functionality is similar to a Web browser for display purposes. Essential HTMLUI can be used for the provision of extremely flexible user interfaces generated on demand. It can also function as a complex layout management system for text, controls, and graphics.

Syncfusion Essential HTMLUI is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

Margins between the image and the boundary of a table have been corrected.

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Essential PDF adds cell-level formatting

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

A range of PDF documents created with Syncfusion Essential PDF.

2011 Vol 1 release also improves PDF forms, images in EMFs, text extraction and appending of PDF files.

Syncfusion Essential PDF exposes an intuitive API to let you create rich PDF content documents, including international languages support. The extensive feature set includes several text formatting options, drawing shapes and images, including multiple layers within a page, inserting tables with custom formatting, bookmarks, support for headers and footer and page layout during printing, encryption, etc. There is also support for creating Acroforms. You can also convert HTML web pages to PDF. Syncfusion Essential PDF does not use COM interop and is available with full 100% C# source code. Included with every license is a one-year subscription for unlimited technical support and updates.

Syncfusion Essential PDF is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

The TryGetField and TryGetValue methods have been added to obtain form fields and form-field values, respectively.
Images in an EMF are now properly preserved.
Font baseline is now properly preserved in HTML-to-PDF conversion.
A "Null Reference" exception is no longer thrown when merging documents.
PdfLoadedDocument is now released after opening a document with the wrong password.
Bookmarks with Unicode characters can now be rendered when merging.
The height of PdfLayoutResult Bounds is correct now.
Text can now be extracted after splitting a PDF document.
Text with special fonts will be rendered properly in HTML-to-PDF conversion.
A PDF form will now be properly filled.
Text lines will not be split over page breaks when the SplitTextLines property of the PdfMefileLayout class is set to False.
Appending PDF files works properly now.
PageBreak works correctly when converting large HTML files to PDF files.
Text box values will not rotate when flattening PDF forms.
A "Null Reference" exception no longer occurs when saving a PDF.
Cell-level formatting can now be performed in PdfGrid.
An HTML file with a table will now convert properly.
The height of a metafile will not remain the same as the height of the largest metafile when the HTMLConverter object is reused.
The issue with capturing pages with Silverlight controls has been fixed.

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Syncfusion Essential Tools supports MVC3

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

Dashboard, Menu and Media Center demos in Syncfusion Essential Tools.

Syncfusion Essential Tools 2011 Vol 1 also adds Visual Studio 2010 theme for Silverlight Gauge Grid Schedule and Chart.

Syncfusion Essential Tools is an extensive collection of nearly 80 user-interface components. You can easily create robust and usable application interfaces such as those emulating Visual Studio.NET and Microsoft Office. All the editor controls have been architected to provide a simple and feature-rich means for capturing data input, validating, and displaying appropriate formatting. Syncfusion Essential Tools includes components for Windows Forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC technologies.

Syncfusion Essential Tools is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

ASP.NET

Scrolling static menu items has been implemented for the Menu control.
A Selection Behavior feature has been merged in the Menu control.
A Track Selection feature has been merged in Menu control.
Support for an integrated pipeline mode has been added in the Upload control.

ASP.NET MVC

MVC3 support has been added.
Support for multiple selections has been added in the GenericDropdown control.
Support for a filtering mode has been added in the AutoCompleteTextbox control.

Windows Forms

A resizable Quick Access Customization dialog has been added for RibbonControlAdv.
Support has been added for customizing the foreground color of caption text for RibbonControlAdv.
Super accelerators now support items inside the office menu.
Icons can now be removed from menu bars when a child form is maximized.

WPF

The localization concept has changed from LOCBAML to RESX.
The drop-down button can now be restricted from adding a quick-access toolbar (QAT).
Selected Item property can now be implemented in two ways for MVVM binding.
Support has been added for enforcing minimum and maximum sizes for floating or docked windows.
Support is now included for adding custom context menu items
Support has been added for cancelling tab dragging
Default context menus can now be customized

Silverlight

Support has been added for hiding the Min Max button
Support has been added for disabling the number-group separator
Theme support has been added for the Diagram control
The Blend theme has been added for ribbons
The Visual Studio 2010 theme has been added for Gauge Grid Schedule and Chart controls

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Essential XlsIO adds Essential Calculate

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

A range of XLS files generated with Syncfusion Essential XlsIO.

Syncfusion Essential Calculate is now integrated into Essential XlsIO 2011 Vol 1.

Syncfusion Essential XlsIO has an extensive feature set that includes support for cell formatting, creating and applying custom styles, applying conditional formatting, formula processing, charts, security settings, etc. This .NET library features a full-fledged object model similar to the Microsoft Office COM libraries. Syncfusion Essential XlsIO does not use COM interop and is available with full 100% C# source code. Included with every license is a one-year subscription for unlimited technical support and updates.

Syncfusion Essential XlsIO is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition and Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

Essential Calculate is now integrated into Essential XlsIO.
The ability to read a pivot table has been implemented.

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Essential Studio adds MVC 3 support

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:06:00 GMT

Dashboards and Pivot Tables in Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise 2011 vol 1 also adds Word-to-EPUB conversion and Silverlight rich-text box.

Updates in 2011 Vol 1

All ASP.NET MVC controls now support MVC 3 - Microsoft's latest framework version.
MVC products help you simulate an Excel environment by freezing rows and columns
Enhancements to ASP.NET menus and schedules make Web apps more intuitive and dynamic.
A new rich-text box has been introduced for Silverlight
XlsIO has added integrated computation functionality, allowing it to compute formulas on its own.
DocIO now provides Word-to-EPUB conversion - allowing you to express your documents in a popular e-book format.

For more information visit:
http://www.syncfusion.com/company/news/press-releases/2011/eb5201ligenceco2011-02-05

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BI suite adds Silverlight PivotGrid

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:08:00 GMT

Report builder samples in Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition 2010 Vol 4 adds all-new PivotGrid control for Silverlight.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition includes OLAP aware Grid, Client, Chart and Gauge controls. You can also build reports interactively with the included Report Designer.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential BI Grid for WPF and Silverlight 2010 Vol 4

Conditional formatting
Conditional formatting allows you to format grid cells based on specified conditions. This can be achieved by defining OlapGridDataConditionalFormat, which allows you to specify the criteria for filtering the cells and set the styles to be applied. Background, foreground, font family, font size, and font weight can all be customized for value cells.
Selecting cells
Cell selection is now supported, similar to Excel, allowing you to select grid value cells.
Silverlight only - Hyperlinks for cells
Cells can be hyperlinked to retrieve a detailed description for a particular cell. The hyperlinked cells property generates a separate event called LinkClick, which is used for the clicked cell; LinkLabelEventArgs will return the clicked PivotCellDescriptor.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential BI PivotGrid for Silverlight 2010 Vol 4

PivotGrid
Essential BI PivotGrid has been implemented for Silverlight as a powerful, cell-oriented, extensible grid control. It simulates the pivot table feature of Excel, and, as the name implies, pivots data to organize it in a cross-tabulated form. The major advantage with a pivot grid is that you can extract desired information from a large list within seconds. Along with presenting data, a pivot grid also enables you to summarize and group data, something very useful for organizing and analyzing business information.
Grouping bar
The grouping bar allows you to drag fields between different areas, such as columns, rows, values, and filters. By using the grouping bar, you can add, rearrange, or remove fields to show data exactly the way you want. The grouping bar consists of filter, data, column, and row header areas.
Conditional formatting
Conditional formatting allows you to format grid cells based on specified conditions. This can be achieved by defining PivotGridDataConditionalFormat, which allows you to specify the criteria for filtering the cells and to set the styles to be applied. Background, foreground, font family, font size, and font weight can all be customized for value cells.
Hyperlinks for cells
Cells can be hyperlinked to retrieve a detailed description for a particular cell. The hyperlinked cells property generates a separate event called HyperLinkCellClick, which is used for the clicked cell; HyperLinkCellClickEventArgs will return the clicked PivotCellInfo.
Selecting cells
Cell selection is now supported, similar to Excel, allowing you to select grid value cells.
Exporting data
The exporting feature of BI PivotGrid enables you to view pivot grid data in Excel, Word, or as a PDF.
Expression Blend support
Expression Blend makes styling and customizing a control very easy. Now, BI PivotGrid for WPF supports loading and customizing a control in Blend.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential BI Chart for Silverlight 2010 Vol 4

New chart types
Essential BI Chart for Silverlight lets you select from a list of 20 versatile chart types, which can be used to visualize multi-dimensional OLAP data either from an Enumerable source or from SSAS, including horizontal, vertical, and circular chart types.
Themes
Themes can be used to enhance the look and feel of the Chart control, which is why BI Chart for Silverlight now comes with theme support. With over 50 themes to choose from, you can apply a wide variety of appearances to your control.
Excel exporting in ASP.NET
The BI Chart control can be exported to an Excel document as an image by using Essential XlsIO. The control provides APIs that will convert the OLAP Chart to an image while XlsIO lets you insert the image into an Excel document programmatically.
KPIs
Key points of interest (KPIs)—also known as scorecards—are a widely used performance analysis metric. KPIs are visualized in stock exchange or marketing dashboards for analyzing performance over medium or long periods of time. Now, BI Chart for Silverlight can render KPIs as two types: column KPIs and bar KPIs.
ToolTip support
ToolTips—those small pop-up elements used to display information to assist users—can now be utilized in BI Chart for Silverlight. Since advanced ToolTip support has been implemented, ToolTips can display series information such as measures, rows, columns, and values for a current segment of a particular series.
Expression Blend Support
The best way to style and customize a Silverlight control is to use Expression Blend. That's why with BI Chart you can now load a Silverlight Chart control into Blend and customize its look and feel.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential BI Client for WPF 2010 Vol 4

Localization
Localization is the key feature for providing solutions to global customers in different locales. Essential BI Client for WPF now supports localization, allowing you to localize the control to a specific culture.
Implementation of BI Client
Essential BI Client lets you efficiently browse and analyze multidimensional data from an OLAP data source. It lists all the cubes, dimensions, measures, and KPIs available in the data source, and it lets you slice and dice the cube. You can also create reports and store them for later use. And to make creating reports easier, you can preview a report in a chart or grid while the report is being created.

For more information visit:
http://www.syncfusion.com/company/news/press-releases/2010/ncnovsintellig2010-11-02

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Reporting suite supports Office 2010

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:08:00 GMT

A selection of reports created with Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition 2010 Vol 4 improves Office 2010 support and Word-to-PDF conversion.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition is an advanced reporting solution that allows you to integrate document-based reporting (PDF, Excel, Word) into your Windows and Web applications.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition includes:

Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential PDF 2010 Vol 4

AES 128- and 256-bit support
Essential PDF supports strong encryption using a 128- and 256-bit AES algorithm. Documents encrypted with Acrobat 7.0 and Acrobat 9.0 standards can now be decrypted and edited with Essential PDF.
Timestamp with digital signatures
Essential PDF supports timestamps with digital signatures, noting the date and time when a document is digitally signed.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential DocIO 2010 Vol 4

Word 2010 support
DocIO now supports Word 2010, enabling it to create or modify documents that are of the ISO/IEC-29500 transitional schema by incorporating the same APIs used for Word 97-2003 and Word 2007 documents.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential XlsIO 2010 Vol 4

Pivot chart support
The Essential XlsIO library provides a rich set of classes to create pivot tables and pivot charts—such as IPivotCache, which is responsible for retrieving the location of pivot-table data, and IPivotTable, which is the interface used to create pivot tables and set their respective objects. A pivot chart can be added by setting the PivotSource property of the IChart interface, which accepts the IPivotTable object.
Excel-to-PDF enhancements
Essential XlsIO supports Excel-to-PDF conversion, allowing you to open or create Excel documents and save them in PDF format. Now the Excel-to-PDF converter supports table styles, background images, text rotation, and right-to-left languages.
Option button support
Essential XlsIO can now read and write Option buttons in Excel 2007-2010 workbooks. The font and color of an Option button can be formatted, allowing you to increase the interactivity of application forms.
Compressing XLSX files
Essential XlsIO now provides support for an advanced compression technique that enables you to compress XlsIO-generated Excel 2007-2010 files to an optimal size, helping reduce the size of data transferred between applications.

For more information visit:
http://www.syncfusion.com/company/news/press-releases/2010/ncnovsintellig2010-11-02

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UI suite adds Expression Blend 4 support

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:08:00 GMT

Diagrams, charts, gauges and grids in Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition.

Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition 2010 Vol 4 supports Expression Blend 4 and includes property grid.

Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition is a complete set of User Interface components for Windows and Web development. It features high performance grid, docking and menu frameworks, data binding controls, scheduler, data visualization chart, gauge, diagram and more.

Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition includes the following individual products:

Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition is also available as part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Grid ASP.NET MVC 2010 Vol 4

Localization
Localization allows you to tailor a control to the language of a particular region. It is a key factor in readying an application for global use, making your product viable to a greater number of international markets.
Cell editing
A CellEditType feature has been implemented, which creates a delegated control for a specific data type, easing usability and improving client-side validation. The control that will be used to edit a particular column can be specified with the CellEditType property.
MultiColumnDropDown Revamp
The MultiColumnDropDown control has been revamped, with significant improvements to appearance, column mapping, and sorting.
Appearance
New built-in skins provide a very easy way to modify the control's visual style, just by setting a single property. Fourteen professional-looking skins can be applied to a drop-down column, enhancing readability and producing a contemporary look.
Column mapping
The MultiColumnDropDown control also supports column mapping, allowing you to filter columns in a bound table so you can choose which ones to display. This mapping also allows you to customize column styles and content. With new properties, you can set header text, control the visibility of a column, set column width, disable or enable sorting for a particular column, format text, and specify whether a column is bound or not.
Sorting
Sorting is best defined as the process of arranging items or records in an ordered sequence. The MultiColumnDropDown control supports sorting columns in ascending or descending order, based on which column header is clicked. As you click a column header, sorting order switches between ascending and descending.
Filtering improvements in UI
Essential Grid now provides an enhanced filter bar very similar to Excel. The new filter bar contains a checked list box for selecting values, a search box for easy filtering, and a DateTimePicker control for selecting date-time values.
Keyboard interface
Essential Grid now provides extensive support for keyboard handling. The following keyboard shortcuts for all operations can be customized through KeyConfigurator.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Grid WPF 2010 Vol 4

QTP support
Essential Grid for WPF now supports QuickTest Professional (QTP) automated testing, which has been implemented for GridControl, GridDataControl, and GridTreeControl. What's new in

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Tools ASP.NET MVC 2010 Vol 4

Localization
Localization in a control provides flexible support for displaying data in a language specific to a particular country or region. The following controls now include enhanced localization support.
Button controls
The Button control allows you to create buttons that perform specific actions when clicked. It can display both text and images, simulating an actual button being pushed and released.
GenericDropDown control data binding
The GenericDropDown control provides extensive data-binding support for mapping table columns to GenericDropDown properties (Id, Text, ImageUrl, SpriteCss, ImageAttributes, and HtmlAttributes), which are used to populate the control items. The GenericDropDown control can be bound to any collection that derives from IList.
Menu control data binding
The Menu control provides extensive data-binding support so columns can be mapped in order to populate a menu with items. It can be bound to any collection that derives from IList, and once the list collection is populated with list items, the menu renders the items using a parent-child relationship.
RichTextEditor tool set enhancements
With the RichTextEditor (RTE) control, you can format text easier than ever before and convert selected text to lowercase or uppercase letters. A function for inserting paragraphs has also been included.
Removing items
In the RichTextEditor control, toolbar items can be removed, allowing you to customize the control to a greater degree.
Toolbar data binding
The Toolbar control provides extensive data-binding support so columns can be mapped to toolbar properties (Id, Text, ImageUrl, SpriteCss, ImageAttributes, and HtmlAttributes) to populate the toolbar with items. The toolbar control can be bound to any collection that derives from IList. Once the list collection is populated with list items, the toolbar creates the items using a parent-child relationship.
Loading TreeView items on demand
TreeView nodes can be loaded on demand, through AJAX callbacks, as a user needs them, helping to reduce the roundtrip time. This load-on-demand feature allows data to be retrieved only when a user action warrants it, considerably reducing downtime by avoiding post-backs, making it ideal for large trees
Client-Side Methods
The TreeView control provides flexible client-side methods, so you can easily interact with a tree view and control its behavior. Now you can add or delete, select or unselect, and enable or disable nodes on the client side.
TreeView data binding
The TreeView control provides extensive data-binding support so columns can be mapped to TreeView properties (Id, ParentId, Text, ImageUrl, SpriteCss, ImageAttributes, and HtmlAttributes) to populate the tree view with items. The tree view can be bound to any collection that derives from IList. Once the list collection is populated with list items, the toolbar creates the items using a parent-child relationship.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Tools WPF and Silverlight 2010 Vol 4

Data binding
Data binding support in the AutoComplete control allows you to bind business objects to the control so it can set values to be displayed in a drop-down list.
Multiple selections
The AutoComplete control allows you to select more than one item by using a separator character to separate selected items. It supports two selection modes: Single and Multiple.
Drop-down list resizing
The AutoComplete control lets you resize the drop-down list by using the thumb provided in the bottom-right of the list. By using the thumb, you can adjust both height and width.
Command binding
The MenuAdv control supports command binding. When clicking or pressing Enter to select an item, the command will be triggered.
Radio button support
The MenuAdv control allows you to use radio buttons so that only one item in a menu group can be selected.
Input-gesture text
The MenuAdv control allows you to display input gesture text along with the header of an item.
Animation support
The MenuAdv control allows you to animate the way a pop-up window opens.
Keyboard navigation
The MenuAdv control supports keyboard navigation, allowing you to open a submenu, close a submenu, and select a submenu item with the keyboard.
Expression Blend support
The MenuAdv control allows you to customize its look and feel by editing a template in Expression Blend—specifically, items, scroll buttons, check boxes, and radio buttons can be modified.
Maximizing the Window control
Now you can maximize the Window control just by double-clicking on the window title bar, similar to the default behavior found in Windows.
Panel Visibility
The ColorPickerPalette control includes three panels: Theme, Standard Color, and Recently Used. You can control the visibility of these panels by using the ThemePanelVisibility, StandardPanelVisibility, and RecentlyUsedPanelVisibility properties.
Color Themes
The ColorPickerPalette control includes a list of predefined themes. Based on a selected theme, a combination of colors will be displayed in the Theme Color panel. You can also set the visibility of the theme panel through the ThemePanelVisibility property.
More color options
In addition to the colors found in themes and standard colors, the More Colors feature offers a wider range of color options—including custom colors. Standard colors include 140 colors clustered in the shape of a hexagon. A color chosen from this cluster will also be added to the Recently Used panel. The visibility of the More Colors feature can be set by using the MoreColorOptionVisibility property.
ToolTip support
ToolTips can be used to display information in the palette such as color name or other details—like the color's percentage difference from base colors.
Expanded Mode
Colors can be picked the from ColorPickerPalette control while it is in expanded mode by setting the IsExpanded property to "True."
Data-binding
The Carousel control can be bound to different data sources, such as IList, XML, or Observable Collection sources as well as WCF Services.
Path support
The carousel panel arranges its children in a path; you can specify any path you want and arrange items in any order—and newly added support allows you to do this in Expression Blend.
Plan Projection
The GlobalOffsetX, GlobalOffsetY, and GlobalOffsetZ properties direct an object along axes relative to the screen. They control where an object is positioned along the x-, y-, and z-axes, respectively, allowing you to customize the 3-D view of the Carousel control.
Expression Blend
The Carousel control can be easily edited in Expression Blend, allowing you to change templates for the control as well as carousel items.
PropertyGrid control
The PropertyGrid control provides an interface, with sorting and grouping support, which can be used to browse the properties of an object in Expression Blend, a custom editor, or a category editor. It provides features of the WinodwsForms PropertyGrid with support for many component model attributes, such as Browsable, Category, and Readonly. The PropertyGrid control supports several built-in editors, and custom or category editors can be added for a customized appearance.
Custom editor
The PropertyGrid control supports several built-in editors, allowing you to control the look and feel of an application. The custom editor lets you set custom value editors for particular properties, instead of the default editors.
Sorting and Grouping
The PropertyGrid control can group properties based on property category attribute, allowing you to sort properties in both ascending and descending order. Sorting is performed based on the SortDirection property.
AutoSearch
The TreeViewAdv control supports AutoSearch, a feature similar to that of File Explorer, which allows you to perform a search within a tree view. Based on keyboard input, it will automatically navigate to a particular item and select the appropriate one.
Multiple selection
With multiple-selection support, you can select multiple nodes at the same time. The TreeViewAdv control supports the following selection modes:
FileUpload customization features
The FileUpload control can be easily edited in Expression Blend, where you can provide a better look and feel for the control by editing its template.
Ribbon state persistence
The state persistence feature allows a state, before a ribbon is closed, to persist when the ribbon reopens. It allows you to save and load states at any time with a programmatic API when an application exits or starts. The state persistence feature is supported separately for the quick-access toolbar, ribbons, and ribbon windows.
Navigating ribbon tabs by scrolling
Tab scrolling in the Ribbon control provides flexible navigation of a ribbon's tabs. You can navigate ribbon tabs using the mouse wheel by scrolling down to navigate to tabs on the right of the currently selected tab, and scrolling up to navigate to tabs on the left.
Minimized/Maximized Item Template
The minimized and maximized item templates in the TileView control enable you to set different data templates for maximized and minimized items. The ItemTemplate property will be displayed in the TileViewItem Normal state. If you set MinimizedItemTemplate and do not set MaximizedItemTemplate, then the value in the ItemTemplate property will be displayed in a maximized state, and vice versa.
Minimized/Maximized Content
TileView items can be set with different types of content when in a maximized or minimized state. The Content property is used to set the content for the TileViewItem Normal state. If you set MinimizedItemContent and do not set MaximizedItemContent, then the value in the content property will be displayed in a maximized state, and vice versa.
Minimized/Maximized Header Template
The TileView control allows you to set different templates for headers in maximized and minimized items. The HeaderTemplate property sets the template for headers in the TileViewItem Normal state. If you set MinimizedHeaderTemplate and do not set MaximizedHeaderTemplate, then the value in the HeaderTemplate property will be displayed in a maximized state, and vice versa.
Windows 7 default window behaviour
The Windows 7 operating system's default window behavior has been added for ribbon windows. Now you can drag a ribbon window when it is in a maximized state.
Office 2010 UI
You can achieve an Office 2010 appearance in an application by implementing Office 2010-style menus and toolbars. This feature provides a BackStage user interface, which you can customize with your own commands.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Chart WPF and Silverlight 2010 Vol 4

Performance improvements for charts
Fast column and fast scatter charts are similar to normal column and scatter charts, as column charts use vertical bars and scattered charts use ellipses to display different values for one or more items. The difference is that fast charts are rendered by drawing visuals and they load faster than the other charts, ensuring high performance for displaying data. They can also be used as real-time charts to render a large number of data points.
Data-binding engine
Support has been added for all collection objects in the common data-binding engine that are used to generate chart data. The data-binding engine generates a view that can be used to bind a source collection object and initialize the event. It also generates and updates points based on an updated source.
Inversed axes
Essential Chart provides support for inverting values on an axis. Data on an inverted axis will be plotted in the opposite direction—top to bottom for the y-axis, and right to left for the x-axis.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Diagram WPF and Silverlight 2010 Vol 4

Snap to grid
The snap-to-grid feature is useful when dragging objects in multiples of offset values, so objects can be easily aligned at run time. For example, if SnapOffsetX is set to 25, and a node is dragged, its OffsetX value will be changed in multiples of 25.
Localization
Localization is the process of customizing a user interface (UI) in a language and culture specific to a particular country or region. Localization is the key feature that provides solutions to global customers with the help of localized resource files provided by the control.
Undo/redo support
The Undo command reverses the last performed action. For example, some basic operations can be reversed—like translation, rotation, resizing, grouping, ungrouping, changing z-order, addition, and deletion, which are performed on diagram objects (nodes and line connectors).
Gridlines
The drawing area of the Diagram control can be rendered with horizontal and vertical gridlines, enhancing the relative positioning and sizing of diagram objects. Gridlines are used as reference lines, which are helpful for viewing the relative distance between nodes and lines at run time.
Command mechanisms
Command mechanisms enable you to easily perform commonly used operations related to aligning, nudging, sizing, spacing, and z-order.
Alignment Commands
Alignment commands allow you to align selected objects (nodes and connectors) on a page with respect to a reference object—the first object in a selection. These commnds are useful for organizing the layout of objects on a page and creating a professional appearance.
Nudge commands
Nudge commands allow selected objects to be moved on a page one pixel at a time. These commands are particularly useful for accurately placing objects by allowimg the object to move in any direction.
Sizing commands
Sizing commands allow you to make selected objects (nodes and connectors) equal in size. Objects will be resized with respect to the first object in the selection list.
Spacing commands
Spacing commands allow you to place selected objects on a page at equal intervals from each other. The objects will be spaced from each other within the bounds of the first and last objects in the selection list.
Undo and redo commands
The Undo command reverses the last performed action. For example, some basic operations can be reversed—like translation, rotation, resizing, grouping, ungrouping, changing z-order, addition, and deletion, which are performed on diagram objects (nodes and line connectors).
Z-order commands
Ordering commands allow you to change the z-index value of selected objects (nodes and connectors) on a page. The objects can be moved backward or forward, so they are displayed over other objects when two or more objects overlap.
Context menu
Essential Diagram for Silverlight provides support for displaying context menus for nodes and connectors when they are right-clicked. The context menu contains these default commands: BringToFront, SendToBack, MoveForward, SendBackward, Group, Ungroup, and Delete.
Events
The Diagram control has several events that respond to actions performed on nodes and connections. These events are useful for notifying the user of changes in states, properties, etc.
Measurement units
Because different industries and geographies require different units of measure, several units have been provided for the Diagram control. All basic properties can be specified in the selected measurement unit, which can be dynamically changed at run time.

Updates in Syncfusion Essential Schedule WPF and Silverlight 2010 Vol 4

Localization support
Localization is the process of customizing a user interface in a language and culture specific to a particular country or region. Essential Schedule now supports localization so solutions can be provided to global customers with the help of localized resource files.

For more information visit:
http://www.syncfusion.com/company/news/press-releases/2010/ncnovsintellig2010-11-02

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Syncfusion site licenses now available

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:22:00 GMT

Syncfusion business intelligence and reporting controls.

Site licenses for up to 500 developers are now available from ComponentSource for all Syncfusion products.

ComponentSource Enterprise Partner Syncfusion offers a broad range of enterprise-quality UI, reporting and business intelligence controls for .NET platforms.

Site licenses are now available for all Syncfusion products, which allow up to 500 developers at a single address.

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion joins Enterprise Partner tier

Mon, 24 May 2010 14:25:00 GMT

ComponentSource welcomes its newest Enterprise Partner to the premier publisher marketing tier.

Syncfusion first partnered with ComponentSource in 2002 in order to market and sell its range of .NET components. The company has enjoyed continued success and won numerous ComponentSource Publisher and Product Awards. The Syncfusion product range includes:

The ComponentSource Publisher Program has four tiers, each tailored to the differing marketing goals of publishers that develop components and tools for resale. The Enterprise Partner tier - membership of which is offered by invitation only - represents ComponentSource's premier publisher marketing tier.

ComponentSource welcomes Syncfusion to the Enterprise Partner tier and looks forward to the future of this partnership.

About Syncfusion

Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion, Inc. provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform.

With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering real business innovation - the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Its award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you're working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or Silverlight.

Syncfusion uncompromisingly strives for excellence in order to offer the very best value to its customers - from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies.

What sets Syncfusion apart?

Product Breadth: UI, reporting, business intelligence on any .NET platform, all from one vendor
Uncompromising Quality: an almost brutal QA process makes our products truly enterprise-quality
No-Hassle Licensing: no royalties, run-time, or server-deployment fees-no surprises
Transparency: product road maps, feature requests, and dev builds are all available online
Outstanding Support: its team is in-house, accessible, and fast. The online forum, knowledge base, and Direct-Trac support system provide 24/7 access

Essential Studio 2010 Volume 1 released

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:21:00 GMT

A selection of Syncfusion UI controls.

Syncfusion's latest update adds support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RC for all products.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition includes Syncfusion Essential Tools, Essential Grid, Essential Grouping, Essential XlsIO, Essential Diagram, Essential Chart, and Essential Edit. It 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.

The following editions are available:

Updates in 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.

For more information visit:
http://www.syncfusion.com/company/news/press-releases/2010/cfebruaessintell2010-02-09/

About Syncfusion

Syncfusion has a mission to produce world-class Windows Forms, ASP.NET and WPF components that enable developers to produce quality software for the most demanding of environments. With Syncfusion components, developers can quickly and easily add cutting-edge functionality, high performance and the very latest look and feel to their .NET applications. Syncfusion's innovative libraries are designed to be extensible to ensure maximum benefit to customers. The company provides full source code to enable seamless integration of its libraries with its customers' projects. Syncfusion firmly believes that its success is closely tied to that of its customers, and to help its customers succeed, the company strives to offer technical support that is accessible, accurate and fast.

Syncfusion Essential Studio updated

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:04:00 GMT

Syncfusion components including charts, diagrams and ribbon bars.

Latest release includes improved WPF grid, Silverlight menus and RDL-compatible WPF report viewer.

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.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition includes OLAP aware Grid, Chart and Gauge controls. You can also build reports interactively with the included Report Designer. Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition includes the following individual products: Essential BI OLAP Grid WPF, Essential BI OLAP Grid ASP.NET, Essential BI OLAP Chart WPF, Essential BI OLAP Chart ASP.NET and Essential BI Report Builder.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise includes the following products:

Syncfusion Essential Tools
Collection of user interface controls including XP style controls, docking windows.
Syncfusion Essential Grid
Fully customizable industry standard grid control with extensive Excel like feature set.
Syncfusion Essential Chart
Full fledged business chart component with a unique point based styles architecture.
Syncfusion Essential Diagram
Essential Diagram is a .NET framework for developing Microsoft Visio like interactive 2D graphics and diagramming applications.
Syncfusion Essential Edit
Enhanced edit with great features such as syntax high lighting, multi-level Undo / Redo.
Syncfusion Essential Grouping
Essential Grouping is a high performance grouping engine that can group any list of data.
Syncfusion Essential XlsIO
Essential XLsIO is a .NET framework component that can read and write Microsoft Excel files (BIFF 8 format).
Syncfusion Essential Calculate
Essential Calculate is a full fledged stand-alone formula engine. It comes with over 150 commonly used formulas.
Syncfusion Essential PDF
Essential PDF is a full featured .NET library that can produce Adobe PDF files.
Syncfusion Essential HTML UI
Essential HTMLUI is a 100% .NET HTML display engine. It can be used to create extremely flexible user interfaces.
Syncfusion Essential DocIO
.NET library that can read and write Microsoft Word files, with a full-fledged object model similar to Microsoft Office COM libraries.
Syncfusion Essential Gauge
Allows you to use XAML and C# to draw circular gauge designs.

Updates in 2009 Vol. 4

Essential Chart ASP.NET

Custom Axes in Polar and Radar Charts
Multiple Pie or Bull's-Eye Type Charts

Essential Schedule ASP.NET

Appointment Rendering Time

Essential Grid ASP.NET MVC

Performance Enhancement
Summary Rows
Disable-Sorting Columns
Multicolumn Drop-Down Grid

Essential Tools ASP.NET MVC

Menu
Generic Drop-Down
AutoComplete Text Box

Essential DocIO

Native Silverlight Support
Performance Improvements
Improved Word to PDF Conversion

Essential PDF

Native Silverlight Support
Performance Improvements
Extraction and Replacement of Fonts
Attachments
HTML to PDF Conversion

Essential XlsIO

Native Silverlight Support
Excel Workbook/Worksheet to HTML Conversion

OLAP Chart ASP.NET

IList Data Binding
Filter Elements Based on Top Level Records

OLAP Client ASP.NET

The new OLAP Client control lets you efficiently browse and analyze multidimensional data from an OLAP data source.
Cube Selector
Cube Dimension Browser
Axis Element Builder Areas
Dimension Buttons
Measure Button
Data Visualization using OLAP Chart and OLAP Grid
OLAP Chart in Client Web Control
OLAP Grid in Client Web Control

OLAP Grid ASP.NET

Conditional Formatting
Exporting Feature
IList Data Binding
Grid Layouts
Hyperlink Cells
Filter Elements Based on Top-Level Records

OLAP Chart Silverlight

Chart Types
Loading Data from an OLAP Report

OLAP Gauge Silverlight

Loading Data from an OLAP Report
Layout for OLAP Gauge

OLAP Grid Silverlight

Loading Data from an OLAP Report
Frozen Headers
Grid Scorecards

OLAP Chart WPF

IList Data Binding
Filter Elements Based on Top-Level Records

OLAP Gauge WPF

Semi-Circle Gauge

OLAP Grid WPF

IList Data Binding
Exporting Feature
Grid Layouts
Filter Elements Based on Top-Level Records

Essential Grid Silverlight

Cell Types
Current Cell Selection Support
Excel-Like Selection Support
Basic Data Sources
New Skins for Grid Data Control
Advanced Filtering Mode
Text Filtering Pane
Slider Filtering Pane
Conditional Formatting
Unbound Columns
Expression Columns
Stacked Headers
Grouping Data
Summaries in Grouping

Essential Chart Windows Forms

Highlighting a Hidden Series
Custom Axes in Polar and Radar Charts
Multiple Pie or Bull's-Eye Charts
Chart Localization

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
Rolled-In and Rolled-Out Status of an AutoHidden Control
Changing Text for CAPS/SCROLL/INSERT/NUM Lock keys in a Status Bar Panel
AutoSize property for XP Taskbar
Hidden Bar Items under Chevron in XP Toolbar
AutoCheck for CheckBoxAdv
Automatically Hiding a Single Control in a Tabbed Group Programmatically

Essential Chart WPF

Data Binding for Child-Level Properties
AutoDiscard Property
Improved Performance for Fast-Line Chart
IsVisibleOnLegend Property

Essential Diagram WPF

Undo and Redo Support
Table Layout
Multiline Label Support
Gripper for Diagram Nodes
Event Mechanism
Simplified Context Menu

Essential Grid WPF

New Skins for Grid Data Control
Expression Columns
Custom Visual Style
Printing Support
Excel Exporting
Localization
Synchronize Current Selection
Essential Tools WPF
New Visual Style Support in Docking Manager
New Visual Style Support in Ribbon
Line Breaks in Ribbon Button Label
ScreenTip Placement for Ribbon Bar Items
Ribbon Bar Launcher Button Command Support

Editor Controls WPF

Null Option in all Editor Controls
MinMax Validation in all Editor Controls
Currency Symbol Position in Currency Text Box
Caret Animation in Editor Control
String Validation in a Masked Text Box
Negative Background in Up-Down Control
AutoComplete Sources
Custom Region Adapters for WPF Prism
Icon Size for Ribbon Menu Items, Simple Menu Buttons, and Split Menu Buttons
Tab Panel Background in TabControlExt
Localization Support
Binding a Custom Source to the Document Container

Essential Report Designer

Embedding an Image
Page Headers and Footers
Chart Data Regions
Gauge Data Regions
Essential Report Viewer for WPF

Silverlight Reporting

Exporting
Zooming
Printing

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