Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms helps you rapidly create high-performance, user-friendly .NET applications. The suite’s UI offerings include a powerful grouping grid, a cell-oriented grid, charting, diagramming, syntax-editing, scheduling, a docking manager, menus, calendars, Ribbons, editors and wizards. It also includes libraries that enable your applications to read and write Microsoft Excel, Word and Project files and to create and view PDF files. For business intelligence needs, the suite offers a BI Pivot Grid.
Updates in 2016 Volume 1
- Spreadsheet - The Spreadsheet control for Windows Forms is an Excel-inspired component that allows you to create, edit, view and format Excel files without having Excel installed. It provides a seamless UI experience with an integrated ribbon.
- Alternate Chunks in Word to PDF conversion - An alternate chunk is an anchor in a Word document for external content imported from a specified file. DocIO converts Word documents with alternate chunks to PDF files.
- Data Bar - The grid grouping control supports visualizing numeric column values using an Excel-inspired data bar. Visualize negative and positive values using a different range of colors.
- Grid-to-Word Exporting - When exporting a grid to a Word file, cell data, styles, images and nested tables will be exported.
- Maps Bubble Legend - Displays circular representations of data in varying sizes based on data values.
- Maps Labels - Customized labels can be shown with map shapes.
- Navigation Drawer - The navigation drawer is a sliding panel menu that expands from the edge of the window and allows content to be hidden. It can be shown on demand or by swiping from any of the four screen edges. It provides options to slide content according to three transition effects: slide on top, reveal and push.
- PDF Enhancements
- Named Destinations - Named destinations can be added in PDF documents for interactive navigation. Destinations and properties can also be edited in existing PDF documents.
- Flattening Annotations - Annotations such as circle, rectangle, polygon and text markup can be flattened to disable the editing capability.
- Built-in Table Styles - With just a few lines of code, table styles similar to Microsoft Word can be added to PDF grids and light tables.
- GS1-128 Barcode - GS1-128 barcodes can be added in PDF documents, and the API supports exporting a barcode as an image.
- Predictive Analytics - Experimental support for PMML files generated by SAS has been added for the following models: Association rules, Clustering models, Neural networks, Regressions and Tree models.
- Presentation Notes - Allows notes to be added to slides (often called speaker notes) in a PowerPoint presentation. It also allows the content of existing notes to be edited or deleted.
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.
