This feature allows data points in a chart to be different colors. Data point colors can be specified with built-in color palettes or custom color palettes.

Watermark support allows an image or text to be placed in the background of a chart. Watermarks are useful for security purposes such as copyright protection.

Labels can be added to an origin axis in a chart. Different stroke colors can also be applied to the origin axis.

Smart labels provide information about chart data point values. They are especially useful for closely packed data points. The labels are added intelligently—their placement and numbers are automatically calculated—to make their appearance in the chart area as readable and user friendly as possible. Users can choose to hide smart labels in the event that they intersect. Smart labels are only available for column, line, spline, and area charts.

Essential Chart for WPF now has many properties that allow extensive customization of chart axes. The position and alignment of axis labels can be customized, prefixes and postfixes can be set for axis labels to automatically denote units of measurement, and a property has been added to keep long axis labels from being cut off.

Charts created in Essential Chart can now easily be exported to PDF.

Syncfusion has teamed up with CenterSpace Software to provide an integrated NMath library with Essential Chart. This library improves data visualization performance of NMath, allowing you to combine fundamental data analyzation operations, like polynomial fitting or linear regression, with clear data visualization.

Statistical formulas and utility functions, such as average, mean, standard deviation, variance, and covariance, are now supported in Essential Chart for WPF.

The baseline table view displays the variance between a baseline and the current progress of a task in the table view of a Gantt chart. These variance columns are added dynamically to the Gantt grid when users choose to view the variance of the progress.

This feature helps project managers analyze and modify the plan of existing tasks to meet their deadline.

This feature enables users to dynamically add baseline columns, namely Baseline Start, Baseline End, and Baseline Cost, to the Gantt grid to help them compare the current progress of a task with the estimated.

This will help project leads schedule their projects in efficient way by comparing the progress. With this feature users can load the Gantt control initially with the default set of columns and add the baseline column on an on demand basis.

Baseline statistics provide the current statistics of a project in object form. The object will have all the basic information about the project and also provide the variance between the initial plan and current progress, and the variance between other project values such as date and cost. Users can set their own visuals to render the baseline statistics object.

This is useful for project managers to make decisions about tasks based on their available time and budgets.

This feature allows users to change the dependency relationship between tasks dynamically with the help of the corresponding cells in the Gantt grid. This feature also allows Essential Gantt to listen to dynamic changes in the resource assignments of the tasks and reflect them in both the grid and chart areas of the Gantt control.

This feature acquires information from the user and draws the Gantt schedule with that information. With this feature, users can create a schedule based on their own units. Two new APIs are added to this feature in order to bind numeric units. With these new APIs, users can create the schedule for any measurement unit, without depending only on date and time for scheduling and tracking the progress of tasks.

Previously, the docking manager would calculate proportional sizes for all controls in a window. With the new absolute sizing feature, if a window is given an absolute size it will not be loaded with a proportional size as the other windows would.

This feature enhances the use of the Maximize button in docked windows. The button can be collapsed and replaced with a different icon, or disabled entirely in which the button will be visible but not functional.

We have added several resize properties to give you greater control over windows in docked and float states. You can enable or disable height and width resizing individually for docked and floating windows.

This feature provides a full-screen option for maximizing a window in a container of multiple windows. When this feature is enabled and a window is maximized, all other child windows in the container will be minimized.

This feature gives you the ability to choose whether to set a fixed height tor width for docked windows. Setting a fixed height or width automatically sets its corresponding CanResizeHeightInDockedState or CanResizeWidthInDockedState property to False. This feature also affects the behavior of other docking windows in a container. If one window has a fixed height, other windows that you try to dock to it will be restricted from docking to the top or bottom of the window because it would normally resize its height.

The rich-text editor available in Essential Tools for WPF is an intuitive control with extensive support for numerous features. Text formatting options are available to modify text size, font type, and emphasis styles such as bold and italic typefaces. Paragraph formatting options allow you to set line spacing, alignment, and indent options. Common clipboard features such as copy, paste, undo, and redo are also available. It also supports importing and exporting to file formats such as .docx, HTML, XAML, and .txt.

The rich-text editor can be combined with a control specially designed for it, the RichTextRibbon control, to give end users instant access to all the commands and functions they need.

The nested properties of a selected object in a property grid will expand by setting the PropertyVisibilityMode property as NestedMode. Previously a property grid had only a flat mode in which nested properties were not able to expand. With the implementation of a new nested mode, the nested properties of an object will expand when selected.