Essential Chart

Interlaced Grid

You can now interlace major and minor grids on the x and y-axis. Fill color can also be specified.

Watermark Support

Essential Chart now allows users to add watermarks to chart areas. The watermark can be a text, image, or a combination of both. Font color and the position of the watermark can also be customized.

Minor Gridlines

Essential Chart provides support for minor gridlines. You can differentiate between major and minor gridlines using different colors and styles.

AutoFormat support

Along with its existing palette support, Essential Chart now provides support for various AutoFormats, which can change the entire appearance of the chart’s background, gridlines, and font color with a single click.

Improved Divide-Area Support

The divide area has been improved for Pie, Pyramid, and Funnel charts to separately show the series title under each section.

Space Between Points in 2-D Mode

Now, you can specify spacing between points in addition to spacing between series.

Class Reference

The Essential Chart ASP.NET class reference has been completely revamped.

Essential Grid

GridPager enhancements

Implementation of design-time features for GridPager.

Addition of some editing PagerItems for GridPager.

Excel-like Editing

Support for in-line editing just as in MS Excel. Provides an efficient way to update multiple cells easily. Save the changed data on postback.

Load Hierarchy Tables On-Demand with PassThrough-Grouping

You can now load the child tables on-demand with PassThrough-Grouping datasource.

Essential Diagram

Port Connection Support

Essential Diagram now supports port connections, allowing you to drag the end points of a connector to the port of a shape.

Overview Control

A new overview control, similar to the one found in Windows Forms, has been implemented. You can now preview your diagram by simply passing it to the overview control.

Smart Tag

Smart tag support, listing the most common properties used in the designer, has been developed for the Diagram Web control.

Size-to-text Support for Label

Text inside a label won't flow out of diagram symbols or shapes. It will automatically wrap inside the symbol or shape.

Class Reference

The Essential Diagram ASP.NET class reference has been completely revamped.

Essential Tools

RTL Support

Right-to-left language support is now provided for toolbars, menus, tree views, group bars, generic drop-downs, spell checking, windows, and rich-text editors.

Localization Support

Essential Tools now provides localization support for rich-text-editor controls and spelling checker controls. With localization support, you can alter existing labels in a control or create new language sets.

Data Binding Support

Syncfusion provides data-binding support for toolbars, menus, tree views, group bars, and TabStrips. Therefore, you can bind data from the following data sources:

Access
Object
SQL
XML
Site Map
LINQ

Close-button Support for TabStrip

Essential Tools now provides support for displaying “Close” buttons that allow you to close the tabs for a tabstrip. These buttons are supported in all the built-in skins and custom styles.

New Caption Buttons for Window Control

Syncfusion now provides new caption buttons that allow you to maximize, minimize, restore, refresh, pin, or unpin a control. Also, hover effects for caption buttons have been added.

Server-side Support for Dialog Box

To interact with a server when performing any button-click option, Syncfusion now has raised server-side events for dialog boxes (SFAlert, SFPrompt, SFConfirm) in a window control.

Customize Text in Progress Bar

Syncfusion now provides an option for displaying custom text in a progress bar control while the control is being displayed. With this feature, you can display text on the progress bar based on progress values.

External Dictionary Support for Spelling Checker Control

The spelling checker control now allows suggestions from external dictionary files. This is achieved by setting the dictionary path to a custom file with extension: .dic. The spelling checker algorithm has been improved to perform faster spelling check over a large text while offering suggestions that are more accurate.

Show drop-down support for AutoComplete text box control

You can now display a list of options that are bound to the AutoComplete text box through the client-side (ShowDropDown) and server-side (InitiallyShown) properties without entering text into the control, the same way you do for a generic drop-down.

New Waiting Pop-up Window Indicator Formats

Syncfusion has added indicator formats that improve the appearance of waiting pop-up window controls.

Documentation

Product documentation has been updated with a new User Guide that instructs you on getting started with the following controls: waiting pop-up, upload box, generic drop-down, multi-selection drop-down, and multi-column drop-down; this documentation details the control’s usage with its client and server-side properties and events.

Essential Schedule

Data Binding Support

Codeless data binding support added to Schedule. Map database fields with the Schedule control to display. Perform CUD operations with bound source.

Templates support

Define your templates with images and other elements along with schedule data