Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise 2019 Volume 3

Improves Xamarin, JavaScript and file format libraries.

Features

Xamarin Mobile

• This release introduced the following new components:
  • Rich Text Editor
  • Avatar View
  • Shimmer
  • Effects View
• Support for 11 controls in Xamarin.Forms WPF:
  • Scheduler
  • List View
  • Text Input Layout
  • Button
  • CheckBox
  • Radio Button
  • Switch
  • Border
  • Gradient View
  • Segmented Control
  • Chips
• The Switch control moved from preview state to final state, with support added for:
  • Pan gestures
  • Ripple effects
  • Dark theme
• In Image Editor, support was added to control hue, saturation, brightness, and the contrast of images.
• In PDF Viewer, single-page-view support, along with support to open password-protected PDF documents has been added.

Flutter

• New Radial Gauge widget, with support for axis, pointers, ranges, annotations, and animation.
• An additional seven chart types for the Charts widget:
  • Stacked chart
    • Stacked line
    • Stacked area
    • Stacked column
    • Stacked bar
  • Range-column chart
  • Pyramid chart
  • Funnel
• New features supported by the Charts widget:
  • Logarithmic axis
  • Axis crossing
  • Plot band
  • Recursive plot band
  • Dynamic update animation

Essential JS 2 Web

• A new Spreadsheet control with support for:
  • Data binding
  • Virtualization
  • Formulas
  • Number formatting
• The File Manager was enhanced to support the Amazon S3 cloud storage service provider.
• The Charts component has enhanced selection options, supporting lasso and multiple-region selection
• You can fill PDF forms interactively with the PDF Viewer
• You can paste content with images from MS Word and Outlook into the Rich Text Editor.
• In Pivot Table, you can connect and visualize SSAS OLAP cube and its elements, like dimensions, hierarchies, measures, and named sets.
• Tree Grid supports row drag and drop and freezing rows and columns.

PDF Library

• As per PDF specification 2.0, Syncfusion PDF Library now supports digital signatures based on CAdES (CMS Advanced Electronics Signature).
• Now, you can validate digital signatures in an existing PDF document.
• Encrypt PDF documents with following options in the PDF Library:
  • Encrypt all contents in the PDF document.
  • Encrypt all document contents except metadata.
  • Encrypt only file attachments.
• Support to find corrupted PDF documents.
• In .NET Core, you can now:
  • Convert XPS to PDF.
  • Create a PDF table with DataTable (ADO.NET) for PdfGrid and PdfLightTable

Excel Library

• Using Syncfusion Excel Library, you can now import data from nested collections to Microsoft Excel worksheets with the following layout options:
  • Default
  • Merge
  • Repeat
• You can skip a property while importing data from a collection to Excel.
• Excel Library allows you to export worksheet data to nested class objects.
• You can convert Excel documents with missing fonts in the machine by substituting fonts as streams from an embedded resource.

Word Library

• In Word Library, you can create and apply custom table styles in Microsoft Word documents (DOCX and WordML), and preserve them in DOCX-to-PDF, Word-to-image, and Word-to-HTML conversions.
• You can rotate shapes, text boxes, images, and group shapes in Word documents and preserve them in DOCX-to-PDF and Word-to-image conversions.

WPF Desktop

• New linear and circular progress bar controls to track the progress of a task.
• New Image Editor control with the following functionalities:
  • Annotate with text
  • Annotate with image
  • Crop image
  • Rotate image
  • Flip image
  • Use built-in toolbar
• The DataGrid control has a checkbox selector column to select multiple rows.
• The Ribbon control is more responsive and has MDI and TDI support to merge and combine items in two different Ribbon controls.
• PDF Viewer has sticky notes, along with support for the following shape annotations:
  • Arrow
  • Polygon
  • Polyline
• The AutoComplete control adds support to highlight searched characters in the suggestion list, and support to control diacritic sensitivity and insensitivity when searching.
• The performance of the ComboBox has been increased by approximately 20 times when opening and scrolling through items.
• The Diagram control supports listing various printers installed to the machine.

WinForms Desktop

• You can now configure images with different DPI to your application. This automatically upgrades and downgrades the images as needed when running on different machines with different DPI scaling.
• The ComboBox adds token support, which provides a clear separation between items and also makes it easy to clear the selection of an item by clicking its close button.
• Using the Spreadsheet control, you can now sort data in ascending order or descending order and automatically filter the specified data.