Released: Oct 3, 2019

Updates in 2019 Volume 3

Features

Common

• Toolbox for NuGet package - When NuGet packages are installed, the controls in the package are added to the toolbox, for better designer experience.

ProgressBar (Preview)

• The progressbar control provides a customizable visual to indicate the progress of a task. Key features
  • Visualizes the progress in different shapes, such as rectangle and circle.
  • Determinate shows a specific amount of progress and indeterminate shows redundant animations of progress.
  • Customize ranges with different colors inside the progress bar.
  • Visualizes the progress in segments.
  • Displays the custom content at the center of the circular progress bar.
  • Customizes the angle of the circular progress bar.

ImageEditor (Preview)

• SfImageEditor is a very handy tool that is used to edit an image by annotating a text and built-in shapes. It allows you to crop, rotate, and flip an image. It has a built-in toolbar, which helps perform editing operations. Key features
  • Built-in toolbar
  • Flip
  • Crop
  • Rotate
  • Support to add shapes like rectangle, circle, and arrow.
  • Annotating a text.
  • Support to save edited images.
  • Zooming and panning.
  • Undo, redo
  • Reset

DataGrid

• Checkbox selector column - This feature allows you to show check boxes in a column to select or deselect rows in a data grids. All the rows can also be selected using an intuitive check box in the header.

ComboBox

• Performance improvement - The performance of the ComboBox control has been improved. Now, ComboBox is much faster (approximately 20x faster) at opening and scrolling items in the drop-down.

AutoComplete(TextBoxExt)

• Highlighting matched text - Highlight matching characters in a suggestion list to pick an item with more clarity. The matching texts can be highlighted in the following two ways:
  • First occurrence: This highlights the first position of the matching characters in the suggestion list.
  • Multiple occurrences: This highlights a matching character present in any list item when SuggestionMode is set to Contains.
• Diacritic sensitivity - Populate items from a language with letters containing diacritics and search for them with English characters from an en-US keyboard.

PDF Viewer

• Sticky note annotation - This support allows users to add and modify it in PDF files.
• Shape annotation enhancements - Users can now add and modify arrow, polygon, and polyline-shaped annotations in PDF files.

PDF Library

• PDF digital signatures with CAdES - Digitally sign PDF documents with an advanced digital signature standard called CAdES (CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures).
• Validating PDF digital signatures - Validate digital signatures in existing PDF documents.
• Encrypt only file attachments - Encrypt only file attachments in a PDF document.
• Find corrupted PDF documents - Find out whether a PDF document is corrupted or not.

Excel Library

• Data import enhancements
  • Import data from a nested collection to Microsoft Excel and group it in a hierarchy.
  • mport column headers when using the ImportOnSave option.
  • Skip a property while importing data from a collection.
• Data export enhancement - Data from Excel can be exported to collection objects so that the values can be used as models. Now, XlsIO allows exporting data to nested classes to visualize data in a relative structure.
• Excel-to-PDF conversion enhancements
  • Unsupported fonts will be substituted by a font stream in Excel-to-PDF conversions.
  • Capture and log warnings intentionally raised in Excel-to-PDF conversions.

Word Library

• Custom table styles - Word Library now allows creating and applying custom table styles in Microsoft Word documents (DOCX and WordML), and preserving them in DOCX-to-PDF, Word-to-image, and Word-to-HTML conversions.
• Rotation support for shape, text box, image, and group shape - Word Library now allows rotating shapes, text boxes, and group shapes in Word documents and preserving them in DOCX-to-PDF and Word-to-image conversions.

Diagram

• Print preview enhancements - The print preview window of SfDiagram has been enhanced like Microsoft Visio with the following new features:
  • Support to select various printers installed in the machine.
  • Ability to control the number of copies.
  • Option to print all the pages or custom page range.
  • Option to select the printing order either collated or uncollated.

Checked ListBox

• Select all elements - A new “select all” check box is available at the top of a list box to select all items in a list.
• Grouping - Items can be grouped, and all items in the group can be selected or cleared in a single click. Nested grouping is also supported.
• Sorting - Items can be sorted in ascending or descending order based on their properties.
• Virtualization - A large set of items can be added with solid loading and interaction performance.
• Selected items - You can define your own collection for selected items.

Docking

• Auto hidden panels can now be moved to dock, float, or document state using the context menu.
• Document tabs can be reordered or floated simultaneously.
• A floating panel can be maximized or set to dock state when header is double-clicked.
• The UI of an individual child header can be customized.
• The size of a side panel can now be customized.

Property Grid

• Keyboard interaction support is provided.
• Define a custom editor through attributes based on property type or name.
• Reorder properties using the Order attribute.
• Define property order, name, description, and group by using the Display attribute.
• Define property order, name, description, and group through event.
• Hide a property by using the Bindable attribute.
• Mark a read-only property by using the Editable attribute.

Ribbon

• Responsive ribbon gallery - On resizing the window, ribbon gallery and its items rearrange itself based on the available size for precise view.
• MDI and TDI - MDI and TDI (tabbed) merging combines items of two different ribbon controls aligned in two different windows.

TreeGrid

• Sort columns when mapped to indexer property - This feature allows you to sort the columns that are mapped to the indexer property.

Visual Studio Extensions

• NuGet Toolbox - After installation of Syncfusion NuGet packages, Syncfusion UI for WPF components can be accessed from Visual Studio toolbox.