Syncfusion Essential Studio WPF 2020 Volume 3

Common

• Designer for Microsoft .NET Core - Microsoft announced the general availability of the new XAML Designer for WPF .NET Core applications and the control designer experience is enhanced with smart tags to provide quick suggestions.
• Microsoft Office 2019 dark gray, white, and high contrast themes - New Office2019 dark gray, white, black and high contrast themes have been provided for both frameworks and Syncfusion controls.

Step ProgressBar (Preview)

• The new Step ProgressBar control is used to show the progress of a multi-step process. Customize its appearance by changing the step shape, progress bar color, step template, and content template. Features:
  • Data binding - Bind any business object as the ItemsSource and control the last active item using SelectedIndex.
  • Step shape - The shape of a step marker can be circle or square. Custom templates can also be loaded.
  • Status - Supports active, inactive, and indeterminate statuses to show progress.
  • Orientation - Visualize the progress of a multi-step process in horizontal or vertical orientation.
  • Customization - Customize progress bar styles, markers, and contents using templates.

Scheduler (Preview)

• Resources - This feature allows users to define resources and group appointments based on the resources associated with them in day, week, workweek, and timeline views. You can also customize the resource UI using a template and template selectors.
• Disable date - This feature allows dates to be disabled when the visible dates exceed the Scheduler’s minimum and maximum date range.
• Context menu - The Scheduler provides support to define a context menu for appointments, time slots, and month cells. It also features built-in RoutedUICommands support for handling a context menu to add, edit, and delete appointments in the Scheduler.
• Drag-and-drop support in month view - Drag and drop appointments in the month view when the display mode is set to appointment.
• Theme support - Material light and dark, Office2019Colorful, and Office2019Black themes have been provided for the Scheduler control.

TreeView

• Editing - Users can edit the display text of tree nodes.
• Theme support - Use the Material and Office 2019 themes to adapt the TreeView to the rest of a business application.
• Horizontal scrolling - Users can scroll the TreeView horizontally to read the content of node properly.

Skin Manager

• Customize theme colors and font - Modify theme-specific color values and font of themes supported in Theme Studio at the application level.

Ribbon

• Icon template support for Ribbon items - Add any form of images like path data, font icons, etc. as template to Ribbon items such as DropDownButton, SplitButton, Gallery, RibbonBar, and BackstageCommandButton.
• Header and footer support for Backstage - Previously, the backstage items could only be placed at the top of the backstage. Now, support has been provided to arrange the backstage items either at the top or bottom.

Diagram

• Business process model and notation (BPMN) - Business process model and notation (BPMN) is a standard way to represent business processes graphically. You can create a BPMN diagram from code or the visual interface with the built-in BPMN shapes described by the BPMN 2.0 specification.
• Automatic mind map layout - Create mind map diagrams with a built-in, automatic layout algorithm, which allows you to define which node should be at the center and which nodes should be placed around the center node in the diagram surface automatically.

PDF Library

• PDF417Barcode - Render PDF417Barcode in PDF pages and images.
• PDF to PDF/A - Convert existing PDF documents to PDF A2B, A3B conformance.
• Sign PDF documents externally using hash - Sign PDF documents externally using PDF document hash.
• Detect blank PDF page - Find empty PDF pages in existing PDF documents.
• Annotation import and export - Import and export annotations in JSON format.

Microsoft Excel Library

• Excel to PDF enhancements
  • Convert Excel charts with images and shapes to a PDF or image.
  • Convert data bars and color scales of conditional formats to PDF.
  • Convert Excel form controls to PDF AcroForm fields or flattened images.

Microsoft Word Library

• Paper source settings - Access and modify the paper source settings in a Word document with the FirstPageTray and OtherPagesTray APIs.
• Shapes in RTF format - Preserve shapes in RTF-to-DOCX conversion and vice versa.
• Word-to-PDF enhancements
  • Justify the text in a paragraph, like in Microsoft Word 2013.
  • Automatically detect font names from themes for East Asian text.
  • Draw double strikethrough and underline styles, like in Microsoft Word.

Microsoft PowerPoint Library

• PPTX-to-PDF enhancements
  • Automatically detect font names from themes for complex script and East Asian text.
  • Use an API to define a fallback font for any Unicode character range. This fallback font is used to render characters that do not have glyphs in the original font.

Property Grid

• Configure properties manually - You can now stop the auto generation of properties and configure each property manually. You can also configure properties directly in XAML instead of attributes or events.
• Property description height - Property description panel height can be programmatically set. Auto size, relative size, and absolute size are supported.

DataGrid

• Text wrapping in combo box columns - Users can wrap the text in combo box columns.

Circular Gauge

• Rotate labels - Rotate the scale labels based on angle.
  • Dragging events - Use the following events when the user drags the pointer.
  • ValueChangeStarted: Called when the user starts selecting a new value for the pointer by dragging.
  • ValueChanging: Called during a drag when the user is selecting but before there’s a new value for the pointer.
  • ValueChanged: Called when the user is selecting a new value for the pointer by dragging.
  • ValueChangeCompleted: Called when the user is done selecting a new value for the pointer by dragging.

Range Slider

• Major and minor tick support - Support has been provided to add major and minor ticks in the Range Slider.
• Active and inactive customizations - Support has been provided for customizing active and inactive ranges.

RichTextBox

• Word template format - Open and save a document in Word template format (DOT and DOTX).

PDF Viewer

• Annotation events - Users can track the changes made in annotations, like add, move, resize, and delete.

Carousel

• Scroll items using scroll bar - You can now scroll items in the Carousel control using horizontal or vertical scroll bars.

ChromelessWindow

• Hide the maximize and minimize buttons - Options to show or hide minimize and maximize buttons in ChromelessWindow.

Button Controls

• Icon template - Button controls (ButtonAdv, SplitButtonAdv, DropDownButtonAdv) add support to customize icons using templates. Now, path data, font icons, images, or any UI can be loaded as icons.

AutoComplete (SfTextBoxExt)

• Clear button support - Support has been provided for including a clear button in tokens.

Color Picker Palette

• No color button - You can now choose transparent color by clicking a ‘No Color’ button.
• Selected brush - You can now use SolidColorBrush directly instead of converting from Color to SolidColorBrush. The SelectedBrushChanged event will send notification when color is selected.

HierarchyNavigator

• Filter support - When in edit mode, suggests matching nodes based on the path entered in the editor like the Microsoft Windows Explorer.