Released: Dec 7, 2016

Updates in 2016 Volume 4

Features

• Compatible with Visual Studio 2017.
• Product Version Switching - Theme studio now has the option to switch to the previous version in order to customize the corresponding version’s themes.
• New Signature Control - The signature control can be used for capturing or drawing smooth signatures.
• Chart
  • DateTimeCategoryAxis - Data points can be plotted with equal spaces along the category axis while the range and interval can be calculated by both date and time.
  • Data Editing - Data points can be edited through mouse or touch interactions.
• Check Box
  • Enhanced Data Binding - Strongly typed helper support has been added for the check box control. Now data models can be easily bound using lambda expressions, even with complex data models.
• DocIO
  • Faster PDF Conversion - DocIO now converts a Word document to PDF 30% faster than the previous version.
• Gantt
  • Excel Export - The Gantt chart now supports exporting content to Excel.
• PDF
  • UPC-A Barcode Support - Essential PDF provides support for rendering UPC-A barcodes in a PDF file.
• PDF viewer
  • Form Filling - Form filling support has been added to PDF viewer control, allowing users to fill, edit, and save values in the form fields of AcroForms in a PDF document.
  • Client Buffering - The PDF viewer control supports buffering of page contents from the server to the client in the background to avoid server side interactions during virtualization of the pages. After the completion of this buffering process, there will be no interaction between the client and the server in viewing and printing pages of the PDF document.
• Pivot Client
  • Label and Value Filtering - The pivot client supports filtering values by label and value. This is available for OLAP data sources (in both server and client mode) and relational data sources (in client mode alone).
• Pivot Grid
  • Label and Value Filtering - The pivot grid supports filtering values by label and value. This is available for OLAP data sources (in both server and client mode) and relational data sources (in client mode alone).
• Radio Button
  • Enhanced Data Binding - Strongly typed helper support has been added for the radio button control. Now data models can be easily bound using lambda expressions, even with complex data models.
• Ribbon
  • On-Demand Rendering - Loading content on demand improves the initial rendering time of the ribbon by rendering tab and backstage content when tabs and backstage items are clicked. This feature also supports initial collapsible rendering of the ribbon, which results in ribbon tabs rendering without any content initially.
• Schedule
  • Month Name Display in Horizontal Custom View - Visual improvement to horizontal custom view has been made to identify to which month the consecutive date belongs when more than one month is rendered. Hovering over these dates will also reveal the full date details.
• Spreadsheet
  • Excel-Like Pivot Table Support - The look and feel of pivot tables in the spreadsheet control has been modified to be similar to Excel pivot tables.
• Tree Grid
  • Column Reordering - The tree grid now supports reordering columns interactively.
  • Column Resize Modes - The tree grid now provides column resizing modes for setting column widths dynamically.
  • Column Menu Filtering - The tree grid now provides support for menu filtering with built-in predicates.
• Tree View
  • Full Row Selection - The tree view control provides the option to highlight a full row of tree view nodes.
• XlsIO
  • Excel Advanced Filter - XlsIO can filter a range of cells dynamically using complex criteria.