Syncfusion Essential Studio ASP.NET Core 2020 Volume 3

Common

• Compatibility support provided for Microsoft .NET 5.0 Release Candidate (RC1).
• The Kanban component is now marked as a production-ready component for Microsoft ASP.NET Core.

Charts

• Stacked stepped area chart - A new stacked stepped area chart has been added.
• Chart legend title - This feature allows you to display a title for a legend.

Diagram

• Fixed user handle - This feature allows users to add fixed user handles to nodes and connectors.

Word Library

• Paper source settings - Access and modify the paper source settings in a Microsoft 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 strike-through and underline styles, like in Microsoft Word.

Word Processor

• Content control preservation - Preserve the content control in a document opened and exported by the Word Processor.

Data Grid

• Lazy loading with grouping - This feature allows users to use server-side grouping in order to render records in a collapsed state while binding a large volume of data.
• Drag and drop frozen rows - This feature allows users to drag and drop grid rows in both frozen and movable parts of the Grid component.

MultiSelect

• Material Filled MultiSelect - This feature renders the MultiSelect control in filled style, which is the latest material design.

PDF Library

• Redaction - Redact text and images from PDF documents.
• PDF417Barcode - Essential PDF now provides support for rendering PDF417Barcode in PDF pages and images.
• PDF to PDF/A - Convert existing PDF documents to PDF A1B, A2B, A3B conformance.
• Sign the PDF document externally using hash - Added support to sign the PDF document externally using PDF document hash.
• Detect blank PDF page - Find empty PDF pages in existing PDF documents.
• Detect PDF conformance - Detect the PDF conformance of existing PDF document.
• Annotation import and export - Import and export annotations in JSON format.

Pivot Table

• Server-side pivot engine - Introduced a server-side engine where all the pivot calculations, filtering, sorting, etc. are done. Then, the information to be displayed in the viewport will be passed to the client side.
• Inline editing - An option to edit the pivot table value cell directly without the use of an external edit dialog has been provided.
• Template support in toolbar - Template support to create and add custom toolbar items to the toolbar panel.

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.

Spreadsheet

• Picture - Allows users to view, insert, and modify a picture in a spreadsheet with customizing options.
• Multiline editing - This feature allows users to insert a line break between paragraphs of the text within a cell in a spreadsheet.
• Range selection helper - Select a range or multiple ranges when editing a formula in a cell.

Stock Chart

• Stock events for individual series - This feature allows you to give the stock events for each series separately.

Tree Grid

• Autofill with frozen rows and columns - This feature allows users to drag the autofill icon across frozen and movable parts of the Tree Grid and update the selected cell values in the Tree Grid content.

Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions

• .NET 5.0 Support - Extended Syncfusion ASP.NET Core Visual Studio Extension by providing the .NET 5.0 support to create Syncfusion ASP.NET Core applications, Angular, and React.

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.