Released: Mar 29, 2019

Updates in 2019 Volume 1

Features

Common

• Starting with version 17.1 (2019 Vol 1), Syncfusion’s UWP controls have been updated to target Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (build 16299) to take advantage of .NET Standard 2.0 and support VS2019. So, retarget your applications to Windows 10 version 1709 (build 16299) or higher.

Diagram

• Built-in shapes - The Diagram control has added 445 built-in shapes under the Basic, Flow, Arrow, Electrical, DataFlow, and UML shape categories.

PDF Library

• ZUGFeRD - Create a ZUGFeRD PDF invoice document.
• PDF/A-2b conformance - Create a PDF/A-2b conforming document.
• PDF/A-3b conformance - Create a PDF/A-3b conforming document.
• Get review details from the PDF annotation - Get comment and review details from the PDF annotations.
• Import and export PDF annotations - Import and export PDF annotations as FDF and XFDF.

Report Viewer

• Performance - Report loading and processing performance has been improved by up to three times.
• Expressions - Scope parameter can now be considered for aggregate expressions such as Sum, Count, RunningValue, and more.
• Dynamic data expressions - Field expression support has been added to group and filter report data based on dynamic fields from parameters.

Chart

• Autoscrolling support - The autoscrolling feature allows focusing on a minimal set of data points by visualizing only a few items in the UI and viewing the remaining data points by scrolling. Configure this feature in real-time updates to view recently added data points.

PDF Viewer

• Free Text Annotatio - Free text annotation support allows adding, modifying, moving, and deleting free text annotations in PDF documents.
• Free Text with Callout - Free text with callout is an extension of free text annotation, adding a callout to point to specific locations in the PDF.
• Excel Library
• Conditional formatting enhancement - Formatting unique and duplicate values in Excel worksheets can be done simply using conditional formats.
• Custom table styles - Excel tables can be customized in different formats to visualize data.
• Excel 2019 compatibility - Support for Microsoft Excel 2019 file format version.