What's New for Essential Studio 2010 Volume 1
Toolbar
ToolbarEssential Tools Toolbar can be used to display items within a pane. It also allows custom functionalities for every item’s click, mouseover, and mouseout events.
Enhanced RTE
Rich Text EditorRich Text Editor in Essential Tools provides an option for inserting images within the editor from a path defined by the user. This option allows you to surf image files over a defined path and choose the image you want.Also, this enhanced Rich Text Editor comes with options for inserting smileys and hyperlinks.
Context Menu
Context MenuThe Essential Tools menu control now supports a context menu. The context menu can be bound to any target control, preventing the default browser’s context from appearing in the target control
Waiting Popup
Waiting Pop upThe Essential Tools WaitingPopup control for MVC supports displaying a pop-up indicator over a target area to prevent an end-user from interacting with the target area when loading. The pop-up indicator has a wide application of Ajax posts. It can also be used to disable a target control
Accordion Skins
AccordionEssential Tools MVC supports fourteen predefined skins that enhances the look and feel
Editors Skins
EditorsRichTextEditor Skins
RichTextEditorDatePicker Skins
DatePickerDialog Skins
DialogSlider Skins
SliderAutoCompleteTexBox Skins
AutoCompleteTexBoxTabs Skins
TabsMenu Skins
MenuTreeView Skins
TreeViewGenericDropDown Skins
GenericDropDownSupport for Filtering data
Grid with Filtered DataEssential Grid for ASP.NET MVC now provides data-filter support, letting you call out only the required data. Each filter also comes with filter-bar support for displaying relevant records, which is very useful when dealing with large amounts of data.
Filter options are automatically populated based on field values present in the records.
Support for Grid and Individual Column Width
Grid with Scroll BarsEssential Grid now allows you to specify the width and height of a grid. This allows the scrolling feature to be used to its fullest extent, enabling a grid to be scrolled manually. Also, the width property in the Column Builder can be used to set the individual width of a grid column during design time or run time.
Passing values through Querystring
QueryParam property allow user to pass and share the value between grid actions. Grid internally set the all mapping action name from its parent action name.The value passed in QueryParam is shared among all other Grid actions like Pagingrequest, Sorting request, Grouping request, Group expand request and Filtering request.
Scrolling and Panning
Scrolling and PanningAfter zooming, scrolling and panning can be used to see all the visible areas of a chart. Scroll the chart area vertically by using the mouse wheel, and scroll horizontally by using the mouse wheel while pressing the space bar.To pan, you can click and drag the chart area to reveal hidden sections.
RealTime Chart
RealTime ChartEssential Chart is optimized to deal with real-time data. It can work with a large amount of real-time data to render any type of dynamic chart.
Interactive Cursor
Interactive CursorThe interactive cursor feature allows the mouse pointer to be placed on a specific data point in a series, creating horizontal and vertical lines that indicate the x- and y-values. These lines can be dragged in order to position them at specific data points.
Skins Support
Essential Chart supports 14 different Chart Model Skins which gives good look and feel of the chart. It affects the Chart BackInterior and ChartInterior property.
Office2007Blue Skin for Chart Mvc
Blend Skin for Chart Mvc
Sandune Skin for Chart Mvc
Marble Skin for Chart Mvc
Olive Skin for Chart Mvc
Vista Skin for Chart MvcLinear Gauge
LinearGaugeLinear gauge provides various features such as indicating the state of the gauge, orientation adjustment, and a collection of built-in styles for frames, scales, pointers, and label ticks.
Digital Gauge
DigitalGaugeDigital Gauges are used to display alpha-numeric values in a virtual digital display. It provides many powerful functionalities such as 7-segment display, 14-segment display, segment spacing and customization.
Half-Circular Gauge
Half-Circular GaugeEssential Gauge for MVC now provides the support to craete Half-Circular gauges by setting the FrameType to Half Circle.
Interaction and Animation
Gauge InteractionEssential Gauge supports user interaction and animation to dynamically change the pointer value of the gauge.
Visual Styles
Visual StylesEssential Gauge comes with 14 built-in themes that includes Office2007Blue, Office2007Silver, Office2007Black, Vista, VS2010 and Blend. Several other skins are provided in order to enhance the appearance of an application.
Midnight Skin for Circular Gauge
VS2010 Skin for Circular Gauge
Sandune Skin for Circular Gauge
Blend Skin for Linear Gauge
Vista Skin for Linear Gauge
Olive Skin for Linear Gauge
Monochrome Skin for Digital Gauge
Almond Skin for Digital Gauge
Marble Skin for Digital GaugeView Type for an Appointment
View TypesEssential Schedule supports three view types: day, week, and workweek.
Multiple Resources Features
Multiple ResourcesSchedule control manages multiple resources with multiple appointments. User can be assign/re-assign, create, edit, and delete appointments to multiple resources in a Schedule control.
Appointment Priority
Appointment PriorityThe Schedule control supports to set the priority level for appointments to indicate the importance of appointments.
Recurring Appointment
Recurring AppointmentThe Schedule control provides option to set the recurrence for appointments.
Reminder
ReminderThe Schedule control provides option to set reminder for appointments.
Skins
AppearanceEssential Schedule supports several built-in skins to customize the appearance of the Schedule control. The Skins property can be used to change the appearance of the Schedule control. Some of the skins available are Office 2007 Blue, Vista, Office 2007 Silver, Office 2007 Black etc.