Syncfusion Essential Studio WPF adds Navigation Drawer Control

Syncfusion Essential Studio WPF lets you easily create powerful, compelling .NET desktop applications. All the included components have been built from scratch and include features that make it easy to adhere to MVVM design patterns. The suite’s UI offerings include grids, charting, diagramming, syntax-editing, scheduling, a docking manager, menus, calendars, editors, Ribbons and wizards.

Updates in 2016 Volume 1

• Accordion Control - Provides an interface where a long list of items can be collapsed and one or more items can be expanded on demand.
• Chart Enhancements
  • QTP Support - The chart control supports QTP (UFT) automation.
  • Selection Cursor - Selectable series or segments can be identified by changing the cursor symbol.
  • Axis Header Alignment - Axis headers can be positioned outside of the plot area when an axis is placed inside the plot area with a custom origin.
  • Axis Label Rotation Enhancement - Axis label rotation will always correspond to tick lines for better readability.
  • Toolbar Customization - The size and margins of toolbar items can be customized.
  • Support for Null Values - Null points will be considered as empty points.
• Data Grid Filtering Rows - Provides row filtering with different options to filter data in an efficient manner.
• Date Picker - Provides an interface for quickly selecting date values in a touch-friendly manner.
• Date Selector - Opens inside the drop-down window and allows users to select a specific date. The date selection UI can be completely customized with templates.
• Diagram Shapes - The diagram control provides predefined shapes such as basic, flow and arrow.
• 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.
• Grid Splitter - Similar to the snapping view in Windows. It can be snapped and moved to resize content inside an application.
• Heat Map - Represents tabular data values as gradient colors instead of numbers. Low and high values are different colors with different gradients.
• Navigation Drawer - An interactive panel that emerges from the edge of the window and allows you to store content in a hidden panel.
• 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 the PDF document, and the API supports exporting a barcode as an image.
  • PDF Viewer Touch Support - Touch support has been added for the PDF document view control.
  • PDF Viewer Search Multiple Terms - APIs allow searching multiple terms within a PDF document swiftly in a manner optimized for multicore machines.
• 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 - Presentation 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.
• Time Picker - The time picker control provides an interface for quickly selecting time intervals in a touch-friendly manner.
• Time Selector - The time selector control opens inside the drop-down window and allows users to select a specific date. The time selection UI can be completely customized with templates.

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.