Splitter control (new)

Create web pages with horizontal and vertical sections just like with frames. Allows for interactive resizing of the section panels by dragging the splitter bars. Place any controls inside the panel or link to a different web page.

Sliding panels

Using Splitter control, sliding panels can be created like the Toolbox in Visual Studio .NET. Panels can be locked for static display or auto hidden and displayed based on mouse movement.

Schedule Control

The newly improved Schedule control has several features that allow for efficiently organizing and listing various tasks for a day. Schedule control now includes the Office 2007 theme.

Loading indicator in Schedule Control

The Schedule control now supports a loading indicator during callback. A transparent background and the loading image are used to provide feedback about the callback process.

Calendar in Schedule Control

Just like Microsoft Outlook Calendar, the calendar in schedule control allows for selecting multiple dates to view appointments. Also allows drag and drop manipulation of appointments in the calendar.

Resizing appointments in Schedule Control

Appointment timings can be extended or changed by resizing its size by holding the corners of the appointment. Resizing can also be restricted the for an individual appointment.

View Strip in Schedule Control

View Strip toolbar provides options to view the today's date, full work week, week days and to delete the appointments. In full week view, it displays all the week days in Schedule Control with all the appointments, enabling easy drag-drop appointments manipulation.

Inline Form Editing

This version introduces the Inline Form Editing mode in the Grid control. In this mode, when the record enters a edit mode, a form can be shown right below the record for editing the details.

Built-in support for Edit/Delete column

Similar to Microsoft GridView, display the Edit/Delete column in GridGroupingControl. This column can be customized by providing user-defined text instead of the default text. Options are provided for setting images for Update, Delete and Cancel.

Built-in Filter Condition dialog

This version includes the “Custom...” option in Filter dropdown. When this option is selected, it displays the built-in dialog that allows for applying a list of filtering conditions.

Built-in Search TextBox

Eliminates the need to write any code to filter the records or to search any words in GridGroupingControl. This version provides the built-in Search Textbox for users to type in words to search in the Grid contents.

PaletteGroupBar

This version includes the palette groupbar that loads symbols from a pallete and allows for dragging and dropping the symbols from the groupbar to a diagram web control.

Built-in skins in PaletteGroupBar

Several pre-defined skins support “auto formatting” to create professional looking Palettes with ease.

Visual styles

Visual styles are improved in this version when dragging the nodes at runtime. Allow the user to drag the nodes in different modes - Horizontal, Vertical and FreeStyle. Supports different styles for displaying the nodes being dragged (transparent image, dashed outline or solid outline).

Loading indicator on callback

On callback, display the loading indicator image to indicate the callback process. Several predefined loading indicators included to choose from.

Panning feature

Panning support is added in this version. Move the diagram interactively by clicking and dragging.

Multi nodes drag

Multiple nodes can be selected by using the Ctrl key. Support for group operations such as dragging, grouping and resizing.

DockTab Context Menu

This version displays context menus on tabbed controls in Docking Manager. It adds flexibility for users to perform various operations like switching states (Docking, Floating, AutoHide, MDI Child, Hide) and the side to which the control has to be docked.

Extended Custom Captions

This version allows for different caption buttons in the docking control caption. Allows custom images and SuperToolTip that improves the look and feel of your applications.

Improved Vista Themes in Menus

Syncfusion XPMenus provides 100% compatibility with Microsoft Vista menus. Improve the look and feel to your application menus.

SuperToolTip support

Do you like to show SuperToolip with images and more description about a BarItem in Syncfusion XPMenus?. SuperToolTip component now extend its support for achieving it. It can be added easily for any BarItems and it will provide improved look and feel for your applications.

Extended Designer BarItems

This version now allows user to add Label and TextBox Items to XPToolBar and Popupmenu. Hence it helps you to add these BarItems to these controls used in their application with minimal effort and no code.

Customized Office2007 Colors

Do you want to change the customize the default Office2007 colors in Syncfusion XPMenus, Office 2007 Style GroupBar?. Syncfusion provides options to customize the colors directly by accessing the Office2007 colors. This will definitely improve the look and feel of rich menus applications with more rich colors.

Improved Office2007 Tabs

Office2007 Color Schemes (Black and Silver) are now extended in TabControlAdv control to provide improved look and feel for real world applications.

Mnemonic support

This version allows you to show mnemonics in Tabs and handle it to switch through tabs through mnemonics.

Customize Tab BackColor

This version allows user to change the tab panel backcolor even if the Visual Styles are applied. Hence you can set it to any color to improve the tabs appearance.

Tab image outside bounds

Extreme customization now possible. This version helps you to offset the image so that tab images are positioned outside of the tab bounds.

TabbedMDIManager designer support

TabbedMDIManager has been enhanced with full designer support. Design and customize child forms in tabbed mode at design time.

Renaming GroupBar Items

This GroupBar control now supports inline editing of items by users.

Office2007 Form

This version provides a new Office2007 Form which does not have any dependency in RibbonControlAdv. It comes with all three color schemes (Black, Blue, Silver).

Floating Ribbon

Display the Ribbon control on-demand. This version allows you to collapse the Ribbon and float it whenever needed by clicking on the Ribbon tabs.

Menu Button SuperToolTip

This version allows you to display SuperToolTip for Application Menu Button in RibbonControlAdv. Simply use the SuperToolTip component and set the SuperToolTip for the Menu Button.

Office2007 Style Scollbars

Enhance your applications with rich look and feel by enabling the Office2007 style scrollbars with Essential Grid. Version 5.2 adds support to the new Office2007 style scrollbars integrated with Essential Grid. It comes with all the three Office2007 skins, Blue, Black and Silver.

Dropdown Palettes with colors

The palettes now appear with the respective colors. The has been added to enhance the appearance of the dropdown list.

Support To create custom palettes

This new version has extended its functionalities to help the user create custom palettes for their Charts. Also, this version makes it very simple to create non-gradient palettes for the Charts using this custom palettes feature.

Multiple Chart Titles

This version has been extended to support multiple Chart titles with abilities to format the Title text.

Multiple Legends

This version allows creating multiple chart legends. The legend text values can be formatted and aligned as required.

Extended Tasks Window

The Smart Tag of the Chart control has been extended with sufficient properties in order help the users to get started intuitively. The most commonly used properties are provided handy.

Form Filling

Create form fields or fill existing form fields. This version adds the support for creating and filling of existing form fields in a Word document.

Replaced place holder with document elements

Navigate to any element in your word document and replace it with any document element. Version 5.2 makes it possible with “Enhanced Bookmark Replacement” and “Enhanced Find and Replace” features. Replace document elements with any element with or without preserving the formatting in the document.

Background / Watermark

Add pictures and text watermarks to your Word document. This version makes it simple to create and add picture / text watermark in your word document.

Tables Enhancement

This version includes enhanced support for Tables. Perform actions like copying an existing table, adding rows to it and pasting content. This version allows for manipulating cells, rows, columns and tables.

Improved Preservation

This version allows preserving embedded objects in the word document with DocIO. Spelling and Grammar data preservation is also added to this version and makes it possible to keep the spell checker ON even after the document has been re-saved by DocIO.

Support for HTML Pagination and HTML streams

Version 5.2 adds support for HTML web page pagination to render large web pages into PDF without any text truncation at page breaks. Also, render the web pages as streams which enable users to create PDF without any intermediate files on disk.

Enhanced Bookmarks support

Apply various rich styles for bookmark of PDF with this version. Apply new styles for the bookmarks and differentiate the child bookmarks with customized appearances. This version also provides support for inserting bookmarks between other bookmarks.

Rich EMF and RTF support

This version includes improved support for RTF and EMF images. Render RTF text that has rich formatting into PDF without any overlapping.

Page labels

Page labels are supported now (Pages tab in Adobe Reader). You can control the text with new version of PDF using Page label feature.

Dynamic Fields

Create special objects that display information calculated automatically with this version. Insert dynamic information into PDF document.

Advanced Digital Signature support

Secure your PDF document with high protection. Version 5.2 enables you to secure your document with author signature. Also create visible and invisible signatures in the document providing an option to preserve content or add signature of your interest respectively.

Excel 2007 XML-based file format support

This version introduces support for the primary features of Excel 2007. Get / set the values in the cells, merge cells, rows and column settings, open and save Excel 2007 files. Also supports more than 65K rows in a single worksheet with this new format.

Objects preservation when opening and saving Excel 2007 format

Version 5.2 adds the support for preserving basic objects like VBA, Pivot tables, Shapes, Chart as separate sheet document properties (built-in and custom), AutoFilters, Data validation and Conditional formatting while re-saving the Excel 2007 files with XlsIO.

Cell Styles support

Create rich styles in Excel 2007 format with the same APIs with this new version. Read, write and set all the existing cell styles for Excel 2007 files.