Syncfusion Essential Studio for WinUI 2021 Volume 4

Adds new Autocomplete control along with contextual tab groups and key tip support.
January 4, 2022
New Version

Features

  • Common
    • Syncfusion WinUI controls are now compatible with Microsoft Windows App SDK 1.0.0.
  • AutoComplete (New)
    • The WinUI AutoComplete control is a text box component that allows users to type a value and have the related data loaded automatically. It has several out-of-the-box features, such as multiple selections, filtering, UI customization, grouping, and custom templates.
    • Filtering - The AutoComplete has built-in support to filter data items. The filter operation starts as soon as you start typing characters in the text box and the related data is automatically updated.
    • Custom filtering - The AutoComplete control supports custom filtering, which allows users to create their own filtering logic.
    • Grouping - The AutoComplete control supports grouping, which allows the user to group the items’ collection using custom filtering.
    • Single and multiple selection - The AutoComplete control allows single and multiple selection. The required selection can easily be specified using the SelectionMode property.
    • Watermark - Display placeholder text inside the control until the user inputs text.
    • Templates - Dropdown list items can be customized with an image or custom control using templates.
  • Microsoft Excel Library (New)
    • The WinUI XlsIO library allows you to create, read, edit, and convert Excel documents programmatically, without any Microsoft Office dependencies.
    • Key features:
      • Easily import and export data from and to common data sources.
      • Perform quick evaluations with 400+ functions.
      • Import data into a customized format using template markers.
      • Create and edit all chart types including Excel 2016 charts.
      • Apply cell data validations with operators, alert messages, custom formulas, and drop-down lists.
      • Highlight important cells with conditional formatting.
      • Perform various cell-level operations like resize, hide or unhide, insert or delete, group and ungroup.
      • Customize formatting like number formats, text alignments, font settings, border settings, color settings, and rich text.
      • Read and write protected Excel workbooks, and worksheets.
      • Create and edit AutoShapes, comments, text boxes, combo boxes, check-boxes, and option buttons.
      • Create and edit pivot tables and pivot charts.
      • Convert Excel documents into PDF, ODS, HTML, and image formats.
      • Convert Excel charts into image formats.
  • PDF Library (New)
    • The WINUI PDF library allows you to create, read, and edit PDF documents programmatically. This library also offers functionality to merge, split, stamp, form-fill, sign digitally, and protect and secure PDF data.
    • Key features:
      • Create PDF files from scratch.
      • Add text, images, tables, and shapes.
      • Create, fill, and flatten PDF form fields.
      • Add headers and footers to PDF documents.
      • Open, modify, and save existing PDF documents.
      • Merge and split PDF files.
      • Encrypt and decrypt PDF files with advanced standards.
      • Add, modify, and remove interactive elements such as bookmarks, annotations, and attachments.
      • Digitally sign and validate signatures in PDF documents.
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Library (New)
    • The WinUI PowerPoint Library (Essential Presentation) allows you to add advanced PowerPoint presentation processing functionalities to any WinUI application and does not require Microsoft PowerPoint to be installed on the machine. It is a non-UI component that provides a full-fledged document instance model, similar to the Microsoft Office COM libraries, to iterate the PowerPoint presentation elements explicitly and perform necessary manipulations. Using this library, you can create, read, edit, and convert PowerPoint presentations programmatically.
    • Key features:
      • Create PowerPoint presentations from scratch.
      • Open, modify, and save existing presentations.
      • Convert PowerPoint presentations to PDF.
      • Convert PowerPoint slides to images.
      • Create and edit charts.
      • Convert charts in a slide to images.
      • Clone and merge slides in presentations.
      • Create and edit animations.
      • Create and edit transition effects.
      • Create and edit comments.
      • Encrypt and decrypt PowerPoint presentations.
      • Set and remove write protection for PowerPoint presentations.
      • Access built-in and custom document properties.
      • Create and modify sections in PowerPoint presentations.
  • Microsoft Word Library (New)
    • The WinUI Word Library (Essential DocIO) allows you to add advanced Word document processing functionalities to any WinUI application and does not require Microsoft Word to be installed on the machine. It is a non-UI component that provides a full-fledged document instance model, similar to the Microsoft Office COM libraries, to iterate the document elements explicitly and perform necessary manipulations. Using this library, you can create, read, edit, and convert Word documents programmatically.
    • Key features:
      • Create Word documents from scratch.
      • Open (read), modify, and save existing Word documents.
      • Advanced mail merge support with different data sources.
      • Create or edit Word 97-2003 and later (DOCX) documents, and convert them to commonly used file formats such as RTF, WordML, TXT, and HTML, and vice versa.
      • Export a Word document as a PDF file.
      • Create and manipulate charts and shapes, and group shapes in DOCX- and WordML-format documents.
      • Read and write built-in and custom document properties.
      • Find and replace text while maintaining the original formatting.
      • Insert bookmarks and navigate to them to insert, replace, and delete content.
      • Insert and edit form fields.
      • Protect a document to restrict access to its elements.
      • Encrypt and decrypt Word documents.
      • Insert and extract OLE objects.
      • Run Word Library applications as multi-threaded apps and enjoy thread safety.
  • ComboBox (Preview)
    • Custom search and filtering - The ComboBox control allows users to create their own custom filtering logic.
    • Token support for multiple selection - The ComboBox control allows users to search and filter items in multiple selection mode using tokens.
  • Ribbon (Preview)
    • Ribbon key tip - Ribbon key tip support allows access to all ribbon commands through the keyboard.
    • Ribbon gallery preview support - The effect of ribbon gallery commands can be previewed before applying the changes.
    • Ribbon Contextual Tab Group - Ribbon Contextual Tab Groups are used to group the ribbon tabs for easier navigation. This Contextual Tab Groups appear when a user enables their context.
  • Segmented Control (Preview)
    • Shadow effect - This feature provides an option to enable a shadow effect for selected segment items.
Syncfusion Essential Studio for WinUI 2021 Volume 4
New Autocomplete control and contextual tab groups and key tip support

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