What's New for Essential Studio 2010 Volume 1
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 StyleEssential chart Silverlight allows the user to edit the templates of Chart, ChartArea, and ChartSeries controls.
Runtime Legend EditorButtonAdv
ButtonAdv ControlMS Blend support has been added as well as command binding. Various size modes and built-in themes also available.
DropDownButtonAdv
DropDownButtonAdv ControlMS Blend has been supported, various size modes has been available, and built-in themes has been added.
SplitButtonAdv
SplitButtonAdv ControlMS 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 ControlThe 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
AutoHideTabContextMenuWhen 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
OuterDockAbilityLocalization
LocalizationDockingManager supports localization of strings for particular culture.
Maximize Window Support
Maximized WindowDockingManager 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 7TreeViewAdv
ContextMenu SupportTreeViewAdv now supports context menu and blendability.
Context Menu
Context MenuContext menu provides support for boundary detection, checkbox, radio button, multilevel menu items, and customization through blend.
Watermark Support
Watermark SupportAll Editor controls now supports watermark.
DateTimeEdit
DateTimeEditDateTimeEdit provides support for NullValue.
NullValue Support
Segment CountThe segment count of a rolling gauge can be customized.
Rolling Gauge with UnitThe Rolling gauge control supports displaying units of measure as data.
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 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
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.
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
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.

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

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

Grid control now supports cell’s content, including styles, to be dragged between different locations in a grid
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 ModeMultiple Resources Support
Multiple Resources in ScheduleTo 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 ViewRecurring 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 AppointmentsDrag-Drop Support
Drag and Drop Support in ScheduleEssential 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.
Binding to business objectBinding 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.
RulersHorizontal and vertical rulers are provided to indicate the coordinates of the mouse pointer position with respect to the view.
Connection PortsEssential 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.
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 FilterSymbol 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.
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
Radial Tree LayoutRadial 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.