As an independent commercial Silverlight applications developer, we always search for ways to improve the competitiveness of our products. Since early 2008, the Syncfusion Enterprise Edition components have given us such an advantage. Release after release they have provided advanced data visualization, advanced user interface functionality and advanced spreadsheet, PDF, and .doc processing that has greatly enhanced the user experience afforded by our products. In particular, we have been able to incorporate a modern office-2007-style ribbon (with advanced functionality over the traditional ribbon) for user commands (Ribbon) and a very flexible visual-studio-like system of panels (Dockmanager) without needing to spend long hours redoing Silverlight templates. And, they keep on improving. Syncfusion has kept pace with Silverlight’s rapid release schedule and added new functionality with each version release of its component packages to stay one step ahead of other component suppliers. At the same time they have greatly improved their user documentation and added to the array of working example applications. What may be even more important is the excellent technical support we have received. Not only has Syncfusion been incredibly responsive in providing fixes and help with issues, we have also found that they listen to us and are willing to incorporate new functionality into their components based on our suggestions! It’s like having a virtual development partner.

Syncfusion Essential Studio provides the Microsoft Office look, feel and sophistication in a component form that makes it easy to give your applications the Office appearance and behavior that users are familiar with. I have used Essential Diagram extensively to replace the Visio behavior in a convenient component form. This was so much more convenient than creating a Visio addon. I was amazed by just how much Visio behavior Essential Diagram replicates. Having real C# classes to implement shapes was so much easier than using the Visio Shapesheet. I've also used their spreadsheet functions to provide my users with an Excel like spreadsheet look and feel embedded in my application. The formula engine is just like Excel and you can easily add your own custom functions. Probably more amazing was the level of tech support provided. I send a question at 5pm PST and awake to find a response in my Inbox the next morning. The response is always polite and where applicable contained some example code to illustrate the solution. Even more amazing than the support is that you can actually buy the source code at a very reasonable price. So I guess I would describe Syncfusion Essential Studio as just amazing value in terms of features, support and price. No other software company even comes close to providing this much value.

SyncFusion products are outstanding! After trying various other component products, decided that SyncFusion Reporting Edition offered the most feature rich and easy to use experience of the lot. The Essential PDF for example is extremely versatile and their object implementation is generally very easy to traverse with everything logically located. The best part, though, is the extensive support, with open forums/Knowledge Base, with many answered questions, often where SyncFusion will provide a sample project with the solution in it, or extremely relevant code snippets that seriously cut down development time. Finally, their API is generally very well documented and they appear to have a very aggressive bug fixing/release schedule that provides a lot of comfort to those of us who like to explore the edges of possibilities of their products! The support and samples are excellent and Thank you SyncFusion for making such a great product! I look forward to SyncFusion's future products.

I have used many third party controls as a .NET developer over the last 6 years and the main problem with the majority of them is complexity. You end up spending a lot of time trying to figure out their nonsensical namespaces, reading dated and useless documentation, and often they lack the feature you were looking for to being with., The reason I like Syncfusion is if I need to whip up an application that reads in data from excel sheets, displays it to the user on a grid that allows filtering and sorting, and then lets that used export data back to an excel sheet I can do it in only a few lines of code. Best of all, since it doesn't use the Excel application to do it, you don't end up hijacking the user's excel process or having to deal with strange environmental issues. Here is an example of actual code from an application I wrote this afternoon: sheet[1, 1, 1, sheet.UsedRange.LastColumn].CellStyle.Font.Bold = true; sheet.Range["C2"].FreezePanes(); sheet.AutoFilters.FilterRange = sheet[1, 1, 1, sheet.UsedRange.LastColumn]; sheet.UsedRange.AutofitColumns(); book.SaveAs(file); book.Close(); It makes sense even without comments. Their grid grouping control is very simple to use and very powerful, right out of the package you have sorting, filtering, drill down, etc...

We have been using Syncfusion tools for three years. There are several things we look for when selecting third party controls. They have to be light weight, work well with update panels, and they must have a great support program. We have found Syncfusion to have all of these traits. I recommend Syncfusion tools to anyone.