Released: Apr 21, 2016

Updates in this release

Updates in 2016 Volume 1

DocIO

• Alternate Chunks in Word to PDF conversion - An alternate chunk is an anchor in a Word document for external content imported from a specified file. DocIO converts Word documents with alternate chunks to PDF files.

Grid Grouping

• Data Bar - The grid grouping control supports visualizing numeric column values using an Excel-inspired data bar, which can visualize negative and positive values using a different range of colors.
• Enhancements in Grid-to-Word Exporting - When exporting a grid to a Word file, cell data, styles, images, and nested tables will be exported.

Maps

• Bubble Legend - The bubble legend displays circular representations of data in varying sizes based on data values.
• Labels - Customized labels can be shown with map shapes.
• Navigation Drawer - The navigation drawer is a sliding panel menu that expands from the edge of the window and allows content to be hidden. It can be shown on demand or by swiping from any of the four screen edges.
• Transition - The navigation drawer provides options to slide content according to three transition effects: slide on top, reveal, and push.

PDF

• Named Destinations - Named destinations can be added in PDF documents for interactive navigation. Destinations and properties can also be edited in existing PDF documents.
• Flattening Annotations - Annotations such as circle, rectangle, polygon, and text markup can be flattened to disable the editing capability.
• Built-in Table Styles - With just a few lines of code, table styles similar to Microsoft Word can be added to PDF grids and light tables.
• GS1-128 Bar Code - GS1-128 bar codes can be added in the PDF document, and the API supports exporting a bar code as an image.

Predictive Analytics

• SAS PMML Compatibility Support - Experimental support for PMML files generated by SAS has been added for the following models: Association rules, Clustering models, Neural networks, Regressions and Tree models.

Presentation

• Notes - Presentation allows notes to be added to slides (often called speaker notes) in a PowerPoint presentation. It also allows the content of existing notes to be edited or deleted.

Spreadsheet

The Spreadsheet control for Windows Forms is an Excel-inspired component that allows you to create, edit, view, and format Excel files without having Excel installed. It provides a seamless UI experience with an integrated ribbon. It includes several advanced features, including the following:

• Excel-like selection
• Editing and data validation
• More than 400 widely used formulas
• Name manager
• Undo-redo operations
• Clipboard operations (cut, copy, and paste)
• Fill series
• Floating cells and merging cells
• Conditional formatting (highlighting, cell rules, data bars, icon sets, and color scales)
• Charts, sparklines, pictures, and text boxes
• Hyperlinks and bookmarks
• Freeze panes
• Resizing and hiding
• Cell comments
• Context menus
• Outlines (grouping and ungrouping)
• Workbook and worksheet protection
• PDF, HTML, and image conversion
• Printing
• Zooming
• Localization