Syncfusion Essential Studio WPF 2018 Volume 4

Common

• System Theme - Now, system theme support is provided where the controls will be rendered based on the current Windows system theme. When high contrast theme is enabled in the system, UI controls will be rendered based on high contrast theme of the Windows.

DataGrid

• Improvements
  • Improved the display-rendering quality of DataGrid in UseDrawing mode.
  • You can format columns based on the DataFormatString attribute of the Entity Framework model.
• Auto-generating custom type property - Autogenerate the custom type property as a single column without auto-generating all inner properties as separate columns.

Diagram

• Print scaling - You can now reduce or enlarge your diagram when you print it.
• Custom cursor - Default cursors used in a diagram can be changed.

Essential DocIO

• Update field enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows updating the AutoNum and Set fields in a Word document.
• Restart numbering in lists - Essential DocIO now allows numbering in lists to be restarted in the Word documents while performing mail merge and merging multiple Word documents.
• Hyphenation in Word-to-PDF and Word-to-image conversions - Essential DocIO now allows hyphenating text in a Word document while converting it to PDF or image format.
• Track changes in Word-to-PDF conversion - Essential DocIO now allows showing revision marks in a generated PDF when converting Word documents with tracked changes or revisions.
• Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now provides the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
  • Preservation of complex script text.

Essential PDF

• OpenType font - Add text to a PDF document using OpenType font.
• Get certificate details from PDF - Get certificate details from an existing signed PDF document.

PDF Viewer

• Organize pages - Organize pages support allows you to rotate, rearrange, and delete pages from a PDF document using a miniature preview of the PDF pages.
• Redaction - Redaction support allows you to remove sensitive text and graphics from a PDF document.
• Stamp annotation - Stamp annotation allows you to include stamps anywhere in the PDF document pages. You can also add, move, resize, and delete existing stamp annotations.
• Handwritten signature - Handwritten signature support allows you to sign a PDF document by drawing a signature.

Essential Presentation
Connector - Add, edit, and remove connectors in PowerPoint files.

• Chart
• Add text to the center of a doughnut chart - Text or any view can be added at the center of a doughnut chart to show any information about the data presented.
• Stacked doughnut chart - This feature allows users to render their data with multiple circles in doughnut charts instead of separate arc segments in a single circle.
• Straight line support in data marker connector - This feature allows users to change the connector of a data marker to a horizontal line in circular charts. Currently, the connector line of a data marker is rendered based on the angle of the respective segment.
• Straight line support in data marker of circular series - Group small data points into “Others” category in pie and doughnut series The pie and doughnut charts with too many small slices are cluttered. To overcome this, this feature provides an option to merge the small slices into a single slice based on a threshold value.
• Plot range column chart type with single Y value - A typical range column chart requires two values, namely high and low, but this feature allows users to plot the range column chart with a single y-value. This is possible when the y-value is considered the delta value for a range column chart and the segments are arranged at the center of the chart area.

RichTextBox

• UI container - The RichTextBox control supports a UI container to embed (host) UI elements within a document. UI container support in RichTextBox.

TabControl

• Pin and unpin tabs - Pin and unpin support helps users access their favorite tabs quickly. It allows tabs to be pinned and unpinned through the context menu and user interaction.