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What's New for Essential Studio 2010 Volume 1

Essential Chart

  • Chart Visual Styles

    Essential chart Silverlight now comes with more than 50 inbuilt styles. Chart Silverlight skins also added in this enumeration. User can customize the chart area style, Axis style, Legend Style and the Series style.

  • Blue Screen Style
  • Chocolate Blend Style
  • Mixed Fancy Style
  • Template Editing Support for Blend

    Essential chart Silverlight allows the user to edit the templates of Chart, ChartArea, and ChartSeries controls.

  • Runtime Legend Editor

Essential Tools

  • ButtonAdv

    ButtonAdvButtonAdv Control

    MS Blend support has been added as well as command binding. Various size modes and built-in themes also available.

  • DropDownButtonAdv

    DropDownButtonAdvDropDownButtonAdv Control

    MS Blend has been supported, various size modes has been available, and built-in themes has been added.

  • SplitButtonAdv

    SplitButtonAdvSplitButtonAdv Control

    MS Blend support and command binding has been added. Built-in themes and drop-down styles has been included, and various size modes have been available.

  • Window Control

    Window ControlWindow Control

    The Syncfusion Window Control provides a highly customizable modal and modeless dialogs around the application. Predefined dialogs (Alert and Prompt) replace the traditional dialog boxes with huge customizations. The window state and position can also easily configure in XAML or code behind.

  • AutohideTabContextMenu

    AutohideTabContextMenuAutoHideTabContextMenu

    When we right click the autohide side panel, context menu will appear. It will contain the list of windows autohidden. Selecting any one of the item will actcivate the corresponding window.

  • DockAbilty and OuterDockAbility

    Using DockAbility and OuterDockAbility, we can show or hide docking hints for a window.

  • DockAbility
  • OuterDockAbility
  • Localization

    LocalizationLocalization

    DockingManager supports localization of strings for particular culture.

  • Maximize Window Support

    Maximize Window SupportMaximized Window

    DockingManager has a Maximize button. We can also control the visibility of this button. Using this feature we can maximize or restore the window.

  • Skins

    New skins- Office2010(Blue, Black, Silver) and Windows 7 have been implemented in DockingManager

  • Office2010Black
  • Office2010Silver
  • Office2010Black
  • Windows 7
  • TreeViewAdv

    TreeViewAdvContextMenu Support

    TreeViewAdv now supports context menu and blendability.

  • Context Menu

    Context MenuContext Menu

    Context menu provides support for boundary detection, checkbox, radio button, multilevel menu items, and customization through blend.

  • Watermark Support

    Watermark SupportWatermark Support

    All Editor controls now supports watermark.

  • DateTimeEdit

    DateTimeEditDateTimeEdit

    DateTimeEdit provides support for NullValue.

  • NullValue Support

Essential Gauge

  • Segment Count
    Segment CountSegment Count

    The segment count of a rolling gauge can be customized.

  • Units of Measure as Data
    Units of Measure as DataRolling Gauge with Unit

    The Rolling gauge control supports displaying units of measure as data.

Essential Grid

  • Office14 Skins

    The GridDataControl extends support to the following new Office 14 Skins: Blue, Black, and Silver.

  • Office 14 Black Skin
  • Office 14 Silver Skin
  • Office 14 Blue Skin
  • Excel Export

    Essential Grid for Silverlight now supports a grid-to-Excel exporting feature. Using this feature, GridDataControl content can be converted to .xls format. You can also export groups and a selected cell range as well.

  • GDC - to be exported
  • Exported grid in Excel
  • Formula Engine
    Formula Engine

    Essential Grid now comes with a new Formula Engine, which allows you to have Excel-like formulas in grid cells.

  • Font Properties from Root GridDataControl

    Font properties for an entire grid can now be easily set from the root grid.

  • Column Auto-sizing

    Now, grid columns can be resized automatically to fit cell content. Cell content can be adjusted based on options like Size to Cells, Size to Header, and Star Sizing.

  • Size To Cells
  • Size To Header
  • Star Sizing
  • Complex Property Binding
    Complex Property Binding

    The GridDataControl now supports binding to complex data, such as nested properties. It also supports data presentation techniques such as sorting, filtering, and grouping on complex-property bound columns.

  • Drag Columns
    Drag Columns

    You can rearrange grid columns during run time by dragging the desired column headers and dropping them into different positions.

  • Hierarchy Support
    Hierarchy Support

    The grid control and GridDataControl now support displaying nested grids, forming a hierarchical structure.

  • Excel-Like Dragging and Dropping
    Excel-Like Dragging and Dropping

    Grid control now supports cell’s content, including styles, to be dragged between different locations in a grid

Essential Schedule

  • Essential Schedule is an Outlook 2007-like scheduler control with many sophisticated features and a wide range of customization options.

  • View Modes

    Essential Schedule has two built-in viewing modes: Vertical and Horizontal. These viewing modes help display the content of a schedule either vertically or horizontally.

  • Vertical View Mode
  • Horizontal View Mode
  • Multiple Resources Support

    Multiple Resources SupportMultiple Resources in Schedule

    To effectively maintain time and work-related records, Essential Schedule can display appointments for multiple resources.

  • Multiple Views

    Essential Schedule ships with multiple views--such as Day, Week, Work Week, and Month. It also allows the number of resources in a view to be customized.

  • Work Week View
  • Week View
  • Month View
  • Recurring Appointments

    The recurring appointments feature enables users to schedule appointments that automatically repeat at fixed intervals. Users can also customize different recurring options.

  • Daily Appointments
  • Weekly Appointments
  • Monthly Appointments
  • Drag-Drop Support

    Drag-Drop SupportDrag and Drop Support in Schedule

    Essential Schedule can automatically adjust an appointment’s time when an appointment is dragged to a different time slot. Drag-and-drop support is available between resources and for recurring appointments.

  • Import and Export Support

    Appointments in Outlook can be exported and imported to Essential Schedule, and conversely by using an ICS or CSV file. Import and export support is provided for different time zones as well.

Essential Diagram

  • Data Binding
    Data BindingBinding to business object

    Binding to a business object with all its collections is now supported by using the hierarchical data template with a directed-tree layout. Hierarchical data templates can be used to generate a hierarchical tree view of the collection of items obtained by using the ItemsSource property.

  • Rulers
    RulersRulers

    Horizontal and vertical rulers are provided to indicate the coordinates of the mouse pointer position with respect to the view.

  • Connection Ports
    Connection PortsConnection Ports

    Essential Diagram for Silverlight now provides the ability to define custom ports for making connections. Any number of ports can be defined on a node. By default, every node has a center port. The ports can also be customized to improve their look and feel.

  • Serialization

    Essential Diagram for Silverlight supports saving and loading a diagram page into a XAML file. Users can save a diagram page in stream or in a XAML file for future use and load it back when necessary.

  • Saving the Diagram Page
  • Loading the Diagram Page
  • Symbol Palette Filter
    Symbol Palette FilterSymbol Palette Filter

    Symbol palette filters can be used to select a group to be displayed. Each symbol-palette group can be assigned a Filter Index to enable filtering of that group. This is particularly useful when there are a large number of groups in the symbol palette. The currently required group can be filtered out and displayed on the symbol palette.

  • Grouping and Ungrouping

    Essential Diagram for Silverlight supports the grouping and ungrouping of nodes. When grouping a set of objects, any operation performed on the group affects all grouped objects. However, items in the group can also be edited by selecting them individually. When ungrouping, items are removed from the group, and begin to act as individual entities.

  • Grouped Nodes
  • Ungrouped Nodes
  • Symbol Palette Filter
    Symbol Palette FilterRadial Tree Layout

    Radial Tree Layout Manager is a specialization of the Directed Tree Layout Manager that employs a circular layout algorithm for locating diagram nodes. RadialTreeLayout arranges nodes in a circular layout, positioning the root node at the center of the graph and child nodes in a circular fashion around the root. Sub-trees formed by the branching of child nodes are located radially around other child nodes.

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