24th
May
ROAD MAP FORESSENTIAL STUDIO 2013VOLUME 2
UI Suite of JavaScript Controls
New Controls Designed to enrich the user experience on the client side, this new suite of JavaScript controls offers all the common user interface elements—grids, charts, dialogs, tree views, numeric text boxes, and autocomplete controls, to name a few.
Essential Studio UI Controls for WinRT
Editing by touch Touch-friendly editing capabilities for the RTE.
PDF Viewer All new touch-friendly PDF Viewer control.
Scheduler All new touch-friendly scheduler control with advanced capabilities like recurrence and multiple resources view.
Tree Map All new TreeMap control.
Date range picker All new date range picker control that provides a touch-friendly approach to selecting a date range.
Sparklines All new Sparkline control.
Improved chart Added animation, printing, tooltip, scrollbar, and annotation functionalities to the Chart control.
Improved SfDataGrid control Added touch-friendly editing capabilities to the DataGrid control. Also includes several other new features like data validation, frozen columns, unbound columns, row headers, paging, serialization, filter bars, hierarchies, stacked headers, and exporting to Excel.
Calculator All new Calculator control.
Essential Report Viewer
Page break Ability to break the page by specifying the page break option in ReportItems and Groups.
Tablix headers on each page Repeats column headers on each page in Report Viewer.
Row number support Support for providing the row number for tablix cells.
Hierarchy group Enables rendering hierarchy grouping in Report Viewer.
Filters Support for filtering the following report elements: data source, tablix, chart, and gauge.
KeepItTogether for tablix Support for KeepItTogether for tablix groups.
Process large amount of data Enables processing a large amount of data in ReportViewer and ReportWriter.
Nested table Supports rendering a control inside tablix cells.
Hyperlink support Supports opening webpages from reports.
Drill through Enables opening another report through a hyperlink.
Document map Support for a document map.
Drill down Drill down in reports and handle ToggleItems in groups.
Data source and report server credentials Data source and report server credentials are provided on the server side.
Essential XlsIO
Support for new Excel 2013 formulas Support for new formulas added along with support for Microsoft Excel 2013.
Add and preserve AutoShapes in XlsIO and DocIO object model Support for adding and preserving AutoShapes in Excel worksheets and Word documents.
Page setup options in XlsIO API Exposes page setup properties in the XlsIO API.
Add and preserve formulas Allows users to add and preserve formulas within text boxes.
Conditional formatting rules Provides new conditional formatting constraints based on text present in a cell.
Custom scaling option Custom scaling option for converting from Excel to PDF.
Essential Diagram
Grouping Support for grouping diagram elements.
Rotation Support for rotation and rotation handles.
Connection points Support for connector ports that allow creating links between nodes on a diagram.
Drawing tools Support for drawing-area customization tools.
Essential Schedule
Time slot color options Options to change the color of a specific time slot for resources.
Essential BI PivotGrid
Export to CSV and PDF in OLAP Grid Extended options for exporting in the OLAP Grid MVC control.
Essential Report Viewer
Page break Ability to break the page by specifying the page break option in ReportItems and Groups.
Tablix headers on each page Repeats column headers on each page in Report Viewer.
Row number support Support for providing the row number for tablix cells.
Hierarchy group Enables rendering hierarchy grouping in Report Viewer.
Filters Support for filtering the following report elements: data source, tablix, chart, and gauge.
KeepItTogether for tablix Support for KeepItTogether for tablix groups.
Process large amount of data Enables processing a large amount of data in ReportViewer and ReportWriter.
Nested table Supports rendering a control inside tablix cells.
Hyperlink support Supports opening webpages from reports.
Drill through Enables opening another report through a hyperlink.
Document map Support for a document map.
Drill down Drill down in reports and handle ToggleItems in groups.
Data source and report server credentials Data source and report server credentials are provided on the server side.
Essential XlsIO
Support for new Excel 2013 formulas Support for new formulas added along with support for Microsoft Excel 2013.
Add and preserve AutoShapes in XlsIO and DocIO object model Support for adding and preserving AutoShapes in Excel worksheets and Word documents.
Page setup options in XlsIO API Exposes page setup properties in the XlsIO API.
Add and preserve formulas Allows users to add and preserve formulas within text boxes.
Conditional formatting rules Provides new conditional formatting constraints based on text present in a cell.
Custom scaling option Custom scaling option for converting from Excel to PDF.
Essential Studio UI Controls for ASP.NET
Nullable values Support for nullable values in editor controls.
Essential Report Viewer
Page break Ability to break the page by specifying the page break option in ReportItems and Groups.
Tablix headers on each page Repeats column headers on each page in Report Viewer.
Row number support Support for providing the row number for tablix cells.
Hierarchy group Enables rendering hierarchy grouping in Report Viewer.
Filters Support for filtering the following report elements: data source, tablix, chart, and gauge.
KeepItTogether for tablix Support for KeepItTogether for tablix groups.
Process large amount of data Enables processing a large amount of data in ReportViewer and ReportWriter.
Nested table Supports rendering a control inside tablix cells.
Hyperlink support Supports opening webpages from reports.
Drill through Enables opening another report through a hyperlink.
Document map Support for a document map.
Drill down Drill down in reports and handle ToggleItems in groups.
Data source and report server credentials Data source and report server credentials are provided on the server side.
Essential XlsIO
Support for new Excel 2013 formulas Support for new formulas added along with support for Microsoft Excel 2013.
Add and preserve AutoShapes in XlsIO and DocIO object model Support for adding and preserving AutoShapes in Excel worksheets and Word documents.
Page setup options in XlsIO API Exposes page setup properties in the XlsIO API.
Add and preserve formulas Allows users to add and preserve formulas within text boxes.
Conditional formatting rules Provides new conditional formatting constraints based on text present in a cell.
Custom scaling option Custom scaling option for converting from Excel to PDF.
Essential Studio UI Controls for WPF
Improved SfChart control Added animation, printing, tooltip, scrollbar, annotation, and export to image functionalities to the SfChart.
Radial menus All new RadialMenu control. The radial menu displays a hierarchical menu in a circular layout optimized for touch devices.
Radial sliders All new RadialSlider control. The radial slider provides an optimized interface for selecting a numeric value using a touch interface.
Hub tiles All new HubTile control for creating Windows Phone and Windows 8-style Start screen tile animations.
Busy indicators All new busy indicators. The BusyIndicator control includes over 30 built-in animations that can be shown within your applications.
Color palette All new touch-friendly color palette control. This control lets users select colors from a list of available swatches.
Tree navigator All new touch-friendly tree navigator control. The tree navigator control provides a unique interface that can expand a tree structure in place without taking up more space on the screen.
Essential BI PivotGrid
Summary type and summary level type Implements a new summary type and summary level type in the PivotGrid control.
Context menu User-configurable context menu support.
Filter calculation columns in RowPivotsOnly mode Supports filtering for calculation columns when the PivotGrid control's RowPivotsOnly mode is true.
Floatable pivot field list window Provides a floatable list window that displays pivot fields with check boxes when RowPivotsOnly is true.
Implementing asynchronous data load for the PivotGrid control Supports loading the PivotGrid control with a different UI thread.
Supports performing long running operations asynchronously in a background thread.
Support for asynchronous layout change operations such as filtering, sorting, drag and drop, field list selection, and pivot schema designer manipulation in a background thread.
Essential Report Viewer
Page break Ability to break the page by specifying the page break option in ReportItems and Groups.
Tablix headers on each page Repeats column headers on each page in Report Viewer.
Row number support Support for providing the row number for tablix cells.
Hierarchy group Enables rendering hierarchy grouping in Report Viewer.
Filters Support for filtering the following report elements: data source, tablix, chart, and gauge.
KeepItTogether for tablix Support for KeepItTogether for tablix groups.
Process large amount of data Enables processing a large amount of data in ReportViewer and ReportWriter.
Nested table Supports rendering a control inside tablix cells.
Hyperlink support Supports opening webpages from reports.
Drill through Enables opening another report through a hyperlink.
Document map Support for a document map.
Drill down Drill down in reports and handle ToggleItems in groups.
Data source and report server credentials Data source and report server credentials are provided on the server side.
Essential XlsIO
Support for new Excel 2013 formulas Support for new formulas added along with support for Microsoft Excel 2013.
Add and preserve AutoShapes in XlsIO and DocIO object model Support for adding and preserving AutoShapes in Excel worksheets and Word documents.
Page setup options in XlsIO API Exposes page setup properties in the XlsIO API.
Add and preserve formulas Allows users to add and preserve formulas within text boxes.
Conditional formatting rules Provides new conditional formatting constraints based on text present in a cell.
Custom scaling option Custom scaling option for converting from Excel to PDF.
Essential Studio UI Controls for Silverlight
Improved SfChart control Added animation, printing, tooltip, scrollbar, annotation, and export to image functionalities to the SfChart.
Radial menus All new RadialMenu control. The radial menu displays a hierarchical menu in a circular layout optimized for touch devices.
Range sliders All new RadialSlider control. The radial slider provides an optimized interface for selecting a numeric value using a touch interface.
Hub tiles All new HubTile control for creating Windows Phone and Windows 8-style Start screen tile animations.
Busy indicators All new busy indicators. The BusyIndicator control includes over 30 built-in animations that can be shown within your applications.
Color palette All new touch-friendly color palette control. This control lets users select colors from a list of available swatches.
Tree navigator All new touch-friendly tree navigator control. The tree navigator control provides a unique interface that can expand a tree structure in place without taking up more space on the screen.
Essential BI PivotGrid
Summary type and summary level type Implements a new summary type and summary level type in the PivotGrid control.
Context menu User-configurable context menu support.
Filter calculation columns in RowPivotsOnly mode Filtering support for calculation columns when the PivotGrid control's RowPivotsOnly mode is true.
Essential Report Viewer
Page break Ability to break the page by specifying the page break option in ReportItems and Groups.
Tablix headers on each page Repeats column headers on each page in Report Viewer.
Row number support Support for providing the row number for tablix cells.
Hierarchy group Enables rendering hierarchy grouping in Report Viewer.
Filters Support for filtering the following report elements: data source, tablix, chart, and gauge.
KeepItTogether for tablix Support for KeepItTogether for tablix groups.
Process large amount of data Enables processing a large amount of data in ReportViewer and ReportWriter.
Nested table Supports rendering a control inside tablix cells.
Hyperlink support Supports opening webpages from reports.
Drill through Enables opening another report through a hyperlink.
Document map Support for a document map.
Drill down Drill down in reports and handle ToggleItems in groups.
Data source and report server credentials Data source and report server credentials are provided on the server side.
Essential XlsIO
Support for new Excel 2013 formulas Support for new formulas added along with support for Microsoft Excel 2013.
Add and preserve AutoShapes in XlsIO and DocIO object model Support for adding and preserving AutoShapes in Excel worksheets and Word documents.
Page setup options in XlsIO API Exposes page setup properties in the XlsIO API.
Add and preserve formulas Allows users to add and preserve formulas within text boxes.
Conditional formatting rules Provides new conditional formatting constraints based on text present in a cell.
Custom scaling option Custom scaling option for converting from Excel to PDF.
Essential Studio UI Controls for Windows Forms
Fixed time Support for rendering the Clock control with a custom fixed time.
Custom styling in Docking Manager Support for custom styling in docking manager with Windows UI VisualStyle colors.
Essential Diagram
Orientation support Support for orientation in the Label control.
Essential Grid
Paging Built-in paging support for the Grid control.
Export/import user-defined formulas Support for exporting user-defined functions from the Grid control to Excel worksheets.
Resize-to-fit in AutoFit Supports resize-to-fit behavior in AutoSize when AutoSize is set as true.
Windows UI theme colors Support for providing different colors in Windows UI themes.
Essential BI PivotGrid
Editing and updating support Additional functionalities for editing and updating the pivot grid.
Serialization and deserialization Supports serialization and deserialization for the following:
  • XML
  • Binary
  • SOAP
Conditional formatting Support for applying conditional formatting to pivot cells based on specified conditions.
Essential Calculate
New math and trigonometry functions Support for new math, trigonometry, and information functions in CalcEngine, including AverageIF(), AverageIFs(),TINV(), T.INV.2T(), SUMIFS, and NETWORKDAYS.
Essential XlsIO
Support for new Excel 2013 formulas Support for new formulas added along with support for Microsoft Excel 2013.
Add and preserve AutoShapes in XlsIO and DocIO object model Support for adding and preserving AutoShapes in Excel worksheets and Word documents.
Page setup options in XlsIO API Exposes page setup properties in the XlsIO API.
Add and preserve formulas Allows users to add and preserve formulas within text boxes.
Conditional formatting rules Provides new conditional formatting constraints based on text present in a cell.
Custom scaling option Custom scaling option for converting from Excel to PDF.
Essential Studio UI Controls for Windows Phone
Tree map All new TreeMap control.
Date range picker All new date range picker control that provides a touch-friendly approach to selecting a date range.
Sparklines All new Sparkline control.
Improved chart Added animation, tooltip, and annotation functionalities to the Chart control.
Essential Report Viewer
Page break Ability to break the page by specifying the page break option in ReportItems and Groups.
Tablix headers on each page Repeats column headers on each page in Report Viewer.
Row number support Support for providing the row number for tablix cells.
Hierarchy group Enables rendering hierarchy grouping in Report Viewer.
Filters Support for filtering the following report elements: data source, tablix, chart, and gauge.
KeepItTogether for tablix Support for KeepItTogether for tablix groups.
Process large amount of data Enables processing a large amount of data in ReportViewer and ReportWriter.
Nested table Supports rendering a control inside tablix cells.
Hyperlink support Supports opening webpages from reports.
Drill through Enables opening another report through a hyperlink.
Document map Support for a document map.
Drill down Drill down in reports and handle ToggleItems in groups.
Data source and report server credentials Data source and report server credentials are provided on the server side.
Orubase
SplitView control A split view control for creating a two-pane layout.
Add signature capture for iOS Support for signature capture for iOS.
Add signature capture for Android Support for signature capture for Android.
Add signature capture for Windows Support for signature capture for Windows.
Windows Phone/Windows 8 Support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 platforms.
Upcoming Releases
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May
2013 Vol 2 (11.2)
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July
2013 Vol 3 (11.3)
14
Oct
2013 Vol 4 (11.4)
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Jan
2014 Vol 1 (12.1)
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