Syncfusion Essential Studio Windows Forms 2018 Volume 2

New data grid with master-detail view and cell merging, plus new List View and Combo Box controls.

Features

• Starting with version 2018 Vol 2, you need to include a valid license key (either paid or trial key) within your applications.
• New Combo Box - The combo box is an enhanced control that displays a list of items in a drop-down, allowing users to select one or more items.
• New List View - The list view control displays a collection of items with a check box next to each one. The items can be sorted, grouped, and filtered easily.
• Data Grid
  • Master-details view - Bind any data source with the master-details relationship. It displays related records in a nested hierarchical grid under the parent records. Users can define the relation for hierarchical view by using the GridViewDefinition.
  • Cell merging - Merge the cells programmatically by using the QueryCoveredRange in data grid. It merges the cells in either a horizontal or vertical direction with similar or dissimilar data.
  • Busy indicator - This feature allows you to display the busy indicator for data operations such as data loading, sorting, grouping, and filtering.
  • Font orientation - This feature allows you to rotate the text in the cells to any degree.
  • Combo box column type - New combo box column type support has been provided to change the cell values based on the data source bound in the combo box.
  • Multiselect combo box filter row editor - Filter more than one value which are equal to the selected items of multi select combo box filter row editor.
  • Combo box filter row editor - Filter a value which is equal to the selected item of combo box filter row editor.
• Essential XlsIO
  • Group shape support - XlsIO now allows grouping multiple shapes into a single grouped shape. This is used to apply shape settings to all the shapes in a group at the same time.
  • AutoShapes support in Excel to PDF conversion - Excel documents with AutoShapes can now be converted to PDF.
  • Pivot Table layout enhancement - Supports additional layout option to repeat data of specific fields or all fields.
  • Excel chart styles - By setting the style ID between 1 and 48, the chart style can now be changed easily. The default style ID is 2.
  • Copy and paste enhancement - Skips blank cells while copying data from source range to destination range.
• Essential PDF
  • PDF to PDF/A-1b - Convert existing PDF documents to PDF/A-1b documents.
  • Custom metadata - Add custom metadata to PDF documents.
  • Document timestamp - Add timestamp to PDF documents without using certificates.
  • Digital signature flattening - Flatten the digital signature fields in existing PDF documents.
  • Auto resize the text of text box field - Automatically resize the text of text box fields.
  • Adding annotations to the PDF layers
• Essential DocIO
  • Word-to-PDF enhancements - Essential DocIO now allows the following features in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • Preservation of the embedded fonts from a Word DOCX document in the resultant PDF document.
    • Editable form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, and drop-downs in the Word document are now converted to their equivalent AcroForm fields in the resultant PDF document.
    • Headings in the Word document are now converted to PDF bookmarks in the resultant PDF document.
    • Word documents are now converted into 508 compliant accessible PDF (Tagged PDF) documents.
    • Customization of font substitution with an option to set the alternate font stream.
  • Strict Open XML documents - Essential DocIO now allows you to open and save Strict Open XML format (*.docx) documents.
• Grid Grouping Control
  • Event to customize the data bar cells - The grid grouping control supports customizing the minimum and maximum values for specific data bar cells based on the record values by using an event.
  • ICustomTypeDescriptor binding support - The grid grouping control allows the adding or removing of visible columns in grid view at runtime by using the ICustomTypeDescriptor interface.
• DockingManager
  • Tab customization - The DockingManager now allows you to customize the tab header appearance by changing the background and foreground for active and inactive tabs.
  • Ribbon - Ribbon customization and Quick Access Toolbar windows combine into a single dialog like in Office Ribbon. We have also provided an option to hide application icons as well as tab scrolling support when more ribbon tabs are present in ribbon.
• Syntax Editor
  • IntelliSense enhancements - IntelliSense popup appearance and size based on filtered items have been improved similar to Visual Studio.
  • Localization - Now, all static texts used in built-in dialogs of EditControl can be localized.
• Pivot Grid
  • Save and Load - Users can easily save and load the pivot grid control’s report and settings anytime in either XML or stream format.
• Essential Presentation
  • Animation support - Support to create and edit animations in PowerPoint presentation.