All-new Microsoft Office 2007 user interface With Essential Tools you can add the new Office 2007 look and feel (Ribbon and Docking) to your applications in minutes.

Take grid performance to the next level Essential Grid now offers astounding performance with real-time grouping display. Check out the samples in this release - the possibilities are remarkable. Now your customers can have real-time data display and still benefit from the immense readability of grouped data, complete with summaries.

Completely revamped chart look-and-feel Essential Chart has an impressive new look and feel and now offers stylish shading and lighting effects. Upgrade your charts to the new look with no additional effort! The addition of all new chart wizards make it easy to configure the chart.

Atlas support All ASP.NET controls in Essential Studio have been Atlas-enabled. You can now host our controls inside an Atlas update panel and AJAX-enable your applications in minutes.

All web controls are now Atlas-enabled and can be used in Atlas update panels.

Support for IE7 browser.

New GenericDropDown control that allows any ASP.NET control or custom control to be hosted inside the dropdown.

New MultiColumnDropDownCombo that allows for a multi-column grid to be displayed in the dropdown.

XmlDataSource and SiteMapDataSource support for Menu, TreeView, TabStrip, and Groupbar.

Support for providing options for Navigation and Interpreting HTML tags in TreeView nodes.

All new look and feel.

New event support for Chart region event.

Support for zooming.

Support for CMYK colors.

Support for color shade mode.

Support for legend representation type None.

ChartSymbol shapes Star, HorizLine, and VertiLine added.

BackInterior color can now be set.

Chart pie types Bevel, Inside, Outside, and Round are now supported.

Support for an Error Bar in line chart.

Performance greatly enhanced in Grouping Grid.

Support for TableScroller to scroll in a selected record of the grid across Postbacks / Callbacks.

Template support enhanced for Column Headers.

Service pack release.

Support for performing iterative calculations (i.e. for row and column ranges such as Sum(3:5) and Sum(C:D).

Table creation support enhanced to make creation of richly formatted tables easier.

Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) support, allowing metadata to be read or written into a PDF document.

Support for creating PDF booklets.

Support for TIFF images, which allows for any kind of TIFF images to be rendered into a PDF within few seconds.

Memory usage optimized so reading and writing Excel spreadsheets requires less memory.

Chart support greatly enhanced.

Support for removing Global Styles.

Support for adding colors to pictures.

Support for importing a data table to a named range.

Bookmark support enhanced to allow for better manipulation within existing Word documents.

Support for inserting images into the Header / Footer section of a document.

Support for creating a document with RTL language text.

Improved Find and Replace support.

Added feature for inserting RTL formats, like Hebrew and Arabic text, to the document.

New Controls Office 2007 Style Ribbon Control Office 2007 Style ToolStripEx SuperToolTip SuperAccelerator

Docking Manager Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 Visual Style support for DockingManager. Visual Studio 2005 style DockContextMenu added. Visual Studio 2005 style ContextMenu on Autohidden tabs added. Docking window Maximize button added. Ability to show scroll buttons in AutoHideTab so that scroll buttons appear if the number of AutoHidden tabs exceeds the height/width of the parent form. EnableDoubleClickoncaption property added to control state transition upon double clicking on a docking window. Support to control the behavior of docking diamonds. PopupMenu added on AutoHidden tabs—similar to Visual Studio. Support for drag AutoHidden tabs. Support to prevent Dock Tab realignment when dragging with a mouse.

Menus Support to allow images to be directly assigned to BarItem instead of to ImageList. DoubleClick event for BarItems in Menus.

TreeViewAdv Support to host any control in a TreeNodeAdv. Support for realignment of the position of images, text, and checkboxes in a TreeNode.

TabControlAdv Docking Whidbey TabStyle support. Office 2007 Style for tabs. Internet Explorer 7 TabStyle added for tabs. Support implemented to allow for adding any control in a TreeNodeAdv. Support added to allow for realignment of the position of images, text, and checkboxes in a TreeNode. Support to serialize edited text when using ActiveTabPage and TabOrder in TabControlAdv. Support for listing TabPages in a PopupMenu.

Modified look and feel.

Structure and functionality of ChartWizard has been modified.

Support for CMYK colors.

Support for color shade mode.

Support for legend representation type None.

ChartSymbol shapes Star, HorizLine, and VertiLine added.

BackInterior color can now be set.

Chart pie types Bevel, Inside, Outside, and Round are now supported.

Support for an Error Bar in line chart.

Support for more user interaction in ToolBar.

GroupingGrid enhanced with optimized code to only include a few property settings.

More Grid and GridGrouping browser samples have been added, and all of the samples have been rearranged in categories for maximum ease of use.

HiddenScrollLogic feature for better performance when syncing hidden rows and columns with the ScrollGrid.

Service pack release.

Support for Auto Replace triggers.

Support for Visual Studio 2005-like CodeSnippets feature.

Support for schema definition file.

Support for horizontal and vertical scrollbar events.

Cursor supports the setting of custom images.

The user can display the same search history in any dialog by utilizing the new support for accessing and setting the search history of the find dialogue.

The following Intelli-sense methods are now supported:CloseContextChoice, CloseContextPrompt, and CloseContextTooltip.

Support for loading CSS from the string at runtime to make it easy to update the CSS to the current HTML document.

Support for printing multiple pages of the document displayed in the HTMLUI control.

Support for performing iterative calculations (i.e. for row and column ranges such as Sum(3:5) and Sum(C:D).

Table creation support enhanced to make creation of richly formatted tables easier.

Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) support, allowing metadata to be read or written into a PDF document.

Support for creating PDF booklets.

Support for TIFF images, which allows for any kind of TIFF images to be rendered into a PDF within few seconds.

Memory usage optimized so reading and writing Excel spreadsheets requires less memory.

Chart support greatly enhanced.

Support for removing Global Styles.

Support for adding colors to pictures.

Support for importing a data table to a named range.

Bookmark support enhanced to allow for better manipulation within existing Word documents.

Support for inserting images into the Header / Footer section of a document.

Support for creating a document with RTL language text.

Improved Find and Replace support.

Added feature for inserting RTL formats, like Hebrew and Arabic text, to the document.