Released: Aug 7, 2017

Updates in 2017 Volume 3

Features

• Picker
  • New control - The new picker control is used to pick an item from a list of items that can be customized or templated with a custom view. This control can also be opened as a dialog.
  • Key Features
    • Multicolumn
    • Header View
    • Footer View with Default Buttons
    • Item Template
    • Custom View
• Radial Menu
  • New control - The new radial menu is useful for displaying a hierarchical menu in a circular layout. Typically used as a context menu, it can expose more menu items in the same space than traditional menus.
  • Key Features
    • Multi-level items
    • Custom views
    • Custom segmentation
    • Font icons
    • Drag on view
    • Rim rotation
• Chart
  • Multiple spline types - The chart control now supports multiple spline types for spline and spline-area series.
    • Cardinal
    • Natural
    • Clamped
    • Monotonic
  • Enhancement - The chart control supports show/hide the trackball information for series.
• DocIO
  • Content Control Support - DocIO now allows creating and modifying content controls in Word documents and provides a way to design documents with the following features:
    • Create a form-like user interface.
    • Prevent users from editing the contents of a content control.
    • Bind content to XML data.
• Image Editor
  • Arrow Annotation - Supports annotating arrow shape on image. This shape can be dragged-and-dropped, rotated, and resized.
• List View
  • Pull-to-Refresh - List view provides support for refreshing the data source at runtime upon performing pull-to-refresh action.
• PDF
  • Digital Signature - Digitally sign documents such as .pfx files using PKCS#12 certificates with private keys.
  • Tagged PDF - Provide accessibility support by allowing users to create PDF/Universal Accessibility (PDF/UA) or section 508 compliant PDF documents.
• PDF Viewer
  • Select and copy text - Select text content in PDF documents and copy it to the clipboard. The copied text can be pasted in any applications on the device.
• Presentation
  • Support to insert columns - Presentation now allows inserting columns in tables in PowerPoint presentations.
• Data Grid
  • Drag-and-drop indicators - The data grid control provides support to customize the row drag-and-drop and column drag-and-drop icons based on requirements.
  • Other enhancements
    • The data grid control provides extensibility to animate rows upon selection.
    • The data grid control now supports row drag-and-drop using mouse in Xamarin.Forms.UWP desktop platform.
    • The data grid control supports exporting date-time columns and numeric columns to Excel and PDF formats.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Filter Enhancements - Essential XlsIO allows users to sort filtered data by text, number, cell color, and font color. Data can also be filtered based on a custom text filter.
  • Automatically fit rows and columns - Users can specify row height and column width to automatically fit content for a range of cells.