Released: Jan 15, 2016

Updates in this release

Updates in 2015 Volume 4

• Chart Control
  • Waterfall - The chart control supports waterfall series, which represent the cumulative effect of sequential positive or negative values.
  • Error Bars - Error bars can be used to plot possible errors or uncertainty in data points.
  • Empty Points Customization - Empty-point values can be easily handled with several customizable options.
  • Multiple Selections - Multiple data points or series can be selected by clicking them. Selected items can be customized with desired patterns and colors.
  • Legend Trim and Wrap - Legend text can be trimmed or wrapped.
  • Dash Array - Dash lines can be added to series borders.
  • Borders in Chart Titles - Titles and subtitles can be enhanced with rectangle and rounded borders.
  • Trackball - Trackball tooltips will render smartly to avoid intersecting with others.
• Date-Time Picker
  • Drill-Down Support - The date-time picker control allows drilling down on a selected date to time intervals grouped by a.m. and p.m.
• Drop-Down List - The drop-down list control is a graphical pop-up element, similar to a list box that allows users to choose one or multiple values from a list. When a drop-down list is inactive, it displays single or multiple values in the text box.
  • Virtual Scrolling - The virtual scrolling feature can be used to display a large number of records in the drop-down list.
  • Incremental Search - Items in the drop-down list can be searched to retrieve the exact item you are looking for. This feature is helpful when a large amount of data is loaded in the control.
• Essential Presentation
  • SmartArt diagrams - Essential Presentation supports creating and manipulating SmartArt diagrams. It also supports adding and removing nodes, editing node text, and formatting an individual node or entire SmartArt diagram.
• File Explorer
  • Advanced Search - Advanced search techniques add comprehensive search functionality to the file explorer control, such as wildcard search and extended search up to a specified depth level.
  • View Format - Large icons are available as an advanced view format in the file explorer control.
• Group Button
  • The group button allows multiple actions to be grouped and behave as radio buttons or check boxes.
• Essential PDF
  • Annotations - Annotations such as circles, ellipses, polylines, polygons, rectangles, and squares can be added in PDF documents, and existing annotations can be modified.
  • PDF Grid Enhancements - Support for adding HTML formatted text, hyperlinks, and more customizations through events has been added.
• Pivot Grid
  • Data Source - Previously, the pivot grid control communicated with WCF and Web API services for both data sources and data manipulation. Now, the pivot grid control is capable of working entirely on the client-side for relational data sources.
  • Transformation Dictionary Enhancements - Defined and built-in functions can be applied under the transformation dictionary.
• Ribbon Control
  • Quick Access Toolbar - The quick access toolbar provides shortcuts to the most commonly used controls. It can be placed at the top or bottom of the ribbon, and supports the button, split button, and toggle button controls.
• Schedule Control
  • PDF Export - The scheduler control comes with an additional PDF Export option that allows users to export content to PDF format.
  • Time Scale - A distinct time-interval option with well-classified and customizable major-minor slots allows users to clearly view the times of their appointments.
  • Work Cell Template - Aside from appointment and resource header templates, other schedule elements–like work cells, all-day cells, and date header cells–have a template option to allow customization.
  • Validation - Appointment window fields have client-side validation support that allows customized error messages to display when invalid values are entered into input elements.
  • Cell Auto-fit - Instead of displaying an overflow indicator, work cells in the timeline view automatically adjust their height based on the exceeding appointment count. The same behavior applies to the month view in the vertical schedule too.
• Spreadsheet Control - The Spreadsheet control for ASP.NET MVC provides a Microsoft Excel-like user interface for the web. It supports the following features:
  • Data validation
  • Drag to fill
  • Conditional formatting
  • Charts
  • Editing
  • Filtering
  • Formatting
  • Formulas
  • Freezing rows and columns
  • Importing and exporting
  • Pictures
  • Printing
  • Selecting
  • Sorting
  • Tables
  • Undo and redo operations
• Tree Grid
  • Columns can be frozen and unfrozen.
  • Column headers can be customized with templates.
  • Sub-context menu items can be customized.