What's New for Essential Studio User Interface

Essential Chart

Negative Axis Support

Previously, data series with negative values could only be charted in the same direction as the positive values. Now, you can use the negative axis support to implement a negative axis in a chart to allow positive and negative values to be plotted together. With this support, you can visually distinguish the positive values from negative values.

Negative Axis Support

Essential Tools

Localization Support

Essential Tools for Windows Phone now provides localization support for the DomainUpDown, ColorPicker, TimeSpanPicker, and Dialog controls. This support allows you to set the content such as date and time, according to the language or culture of a specific country or region. This support features the following cultures:

  • en-US (English)
  • es-ES (Spanish)
  • it-IT (Italian)
  • de-DE (German)
  • fr-FR (French)

TimeSpanPicker Control Set to Spanish
Dialog Control Set to Spanish
MaskEditTextBox Control

The MaskEditTextBox control is an enhanced TextBox control that contains a text box with a mask. You can use the control for inputting data such as phone numbers or times that follow a specific format. This control prevents users from entering invalid data and provides an easy way of collecting user input.

MaskEditTextBox Control
Toolbar Improvements

Essential Tools for Windows Phone now provides orientation options, docking support, and expand-collapse support for the Toolbar control.

  • Docking support allows you to dock the Toolbar control at a required position such as left, right, top, and bottom, which helps you to make efficient use of the screen size.
  • Orientation options allow you to adjust the Toolbar control automatically when the phone orientation changes.
  • Expand-collapse support allows you to expand or collapse the toolbar items according to your needs.

Toolbar Docked at Bottom
Toolbar Docked at Right
Toolbar in Collapse Mode
Toolbar with Orientation Support
RichTextEditor Control

The RichTextEditor control allows users to edit and format text with hyperlinks, images, multiple fonts, colors, and more. It also enables users to save the formatted text in various file formats such as HTML, XAML, and XML.

Rich Text Editor
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