ComponentOne Studio 2017 v1

• Full support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.

Data Visualization Updates

• New Chart Types and Features in FlexChart for WinForms, UWP, WPF, and MVC.
• Excel chart types
  • Box-and-whisker: WPF | WinForms | UWP | MVC.
  • ErrorBar: WPF | WinForms | UWP | MVC.
  • FlexRadar is now available in MVC.
• ​​Chart Features
  • Axis binding provide support for creating custom axis labels. WPF | WinForms | UWP.
  • Sunburst chart now displays the percentage share of each slice (with respect to the whole chart or parent) as data labels.
  • Multiple plot areas now allow you to add multiple series and areas on a single chart without data overlapping, thereby increasing the readability of the chart. WPF | WinForms | UWP.
• New Features in FinancialChart for WinForms, UWP, and WPF
  • MACD indicator series: The Moving Average Convergence Divergence indcator is a trend-following momentum indicator revealing change in the strength, direction, duration, and momentum of price of an asset. It helps users sport short-term price momentum. WPF | WinForms | UWP.
  • Stochastic indicator series: The Stochastic Oscillator Indicator foreshadows price turning points. It follows momentum of a price, and can be used to anticipate future reversals by identifying bull and bear set-ups. WPF | WinForms | UWP.
  • Bollinger Bands overlay series: Bollinger volatility bands display upper and lower limits of normal price movements. As volatility is based on standard deviation of prices, these bands widen when the volatility increases and narrow when it decreases. WPF | WinForms | UWP.
  • Envelope overlay series: These moving average envelopes are percentage-based envelopes set above and below a standard moving average. WPF | WinForms | UWP.
  • Fibonacci tool: The Fibonacci tool enables the calculation and plotting of various alert levels useful in financial charts, such as up-trends and down-trends. Now includes timezones, fans, and arcs, which visually depict Fibonacci trends in vertical lines, diagonal lines, and arcs, respectively. WPF | WinForms | UWP.

WPF Updates

• New GanttView for WPF - A project management control designed to efficiently create, schedule, execute and complete projects.
• New InputPanel - Manages the design, layout, appearance, and behavior of multiple input components.
• FlexChart updates
  • Axes binding.
  • Multiple Plot Areas.
  • Box-and-whisker plot.
  • ErrorBar chart.
• FinancialChart updates
  • Stochastic Oscillator Indicators.
  • MACD Indicators.
  • Bollinger Bands.
  • Envelopes.
  • Fibonacci Tools.

WinForms Updates

• CalendarView (beta) - A new feature-rich calendar control with improved performance that allows the user to select a date or range of dates. The control can display as one month or several months, and provide quick navigation through months and years.
  Top features include:
  • Selected dates.
  • Bolded dates.
  • Disabled dates.
  • Annually bolded dates.
  • WeekNumbers.
• TreeView custom nodes - Customize TreeView nodes using the CustomContentPresenter property of Column. This allows granular control over style and formatting of node content so you can define your own presentation of each node using a combination of objects such as images and text.
• Export TrueDBGrid C1Excel.
• FlexChart updates
  • Axes binding.
  • Multiple Plot Areas.
  • Box-and-whisker plot.
  • ErrorBar chart.
• FinancialChart updates
  • Stochastic Oscillator Indicators.
  • MACD Indicators.
  • Bollinger Bands.
  • Envelopes.
  • Fibonacci Tools.

UWP Updates

• New InputPanel - Manages the design, layout, appearance, and behavior of multiple input components.
• FlexChart updates
  • Axes binding
  • Multiple Plot Areas
  • Box-and-whisker plot
  • ErrorBar chart
• FinancialChart updates
  • Stochastic Oscillator Indicators
  • MACD Indicators
  • Bollinger Bands
  • Envelopes
  • Fibonacci Tools

ASP.NET MVC Updates

• New MultiRow Data Grid Control - Reduce scrolling in wide grids and spreadsheets with MultiRow, a cutting-edge control that allows you to wrap columns into a single view. MultiRow includes all the features of FlexGrid with the added benefit of a more compact view. (MultiRow is also available in Wijmo Enterprise).
• New FlexViewer Mobile released - A responsive MVC report viewer.
• FlexGrid column footer - Easily add custom footers to columns using the new columnFooter in FlexGrid. (Also available in Wijmo).
• New MVC OLAP released - Process and aggregate thousands of rows in seconds with the new MVC OLAP control. OLAP provides asynchronous processing that improves the performance of the controls, as multiple processes can occur simultaneously on separate threads.
• OLAP uses the following components to do online analytical processing.
  • Pivot Panel - The PivotPanel represents as the core component of OLAP, as it provides a user interface for interactively representing the regular data tables into PivotTable, PivotGrid and PivotChart. You can simply provide a database to the PivotPanel, and represent the data in a PivotTable that provides custom views summarizing the data according to your requirements.
  • Pivot Grid - The PivotGrid is an extension to an already existing FlexGrid class that helps users to create PivotTables and use the FlexGrid features in your OLAP control. There are many different features of FlexGrid that can be utilized in MVC OLAP such as, automatic data binding, grouped row and columns, resizing columns, filtering data and showing details for each cell in the grid.
  • Pivot Chart - The PivotChart component is an extension to FlexChart class that helps the user to automatically bind data to PivotPanel object, automatic tooltips, chart type selection, and palette selection. You can export these charts to different file formats such as PNG and JPEG, and you can customize the chart styles and interactivity according to your requirements.
  • Pivot Engine - The data engine is a a low-footprint C# component that can be easily integrated in your OLAP applications. The engine stores data in memory-mapped files, which are retrieved instantly without any delay in importing these files. The Pivot Engine does not put any restriction on the size of the dataset that you wish to analyze or display, and that too without compromising the performance.
• FlexChart updates
  • FlexRadar chart.
  • Box-and-whisker plot.
  • ErrorBar chart.

Web API Updates

• The DataEngine component of Web API is now out of beta. DataEngine provides a suite of APIs that allow the user to analyze the data from multiple data sources, including SQL Server, other SQL based RDMS servers, NoSQL service, web service, structured files from file/network systems, and more. The aggregating data can be consumed by other controls or application. Note: Web API Edition is available only with ComponentOne Studio and Ultimate.