Essential Tools

VS 2008 style Tab Splitter

The new control 'TabSplitterContainer' supports creating interfaces similar to the Visual Studio 2008 designer. This control has advanced features such as arranging the split tab pages in horizontal or vertical alignment, collapsing or swapping panes.

VS 2008 Style for TabcontrolAdv

The advanced Tab Control (TabControlAdv) included with Essential Tools now supports the VS 2008 tabbed appearance by just setting a new style property. The VS 2008 tabs allow for a border around tabs and this feature is also supported.

Watermark (cue) Text for Editable controls

The new BannerTextProvider component provides cue banner help text for editor controls (such as TextBox, ComboBox based controls) and the same controls hosted in Menus. It provides two editing modes, FocusMode and EditMode and other customizable options too. BannerText can also be set for Microsoft Editor controls.

Docking Windows – VS 2008 style dragging

Docking manager offers a new dragging style for complete compatibility with VS 2008 docking. It provides VS2008 IDE look and feel for your application using Syncfusion Docking manager.

Office 2007 Docking MdiChild Form

Office 2007 UI is integrated further into the Docking Windows framework by supporting the use of “Office 2007 Form” for Docking Wrapper Form when changing the state to MDI. Standard color schemes as well as custom color schemes are supported for the Docking MDI child forms.

Office 2007 Ribbon - ToolStripComboBoxEx

The Office 2007 Ribbon implementation now supports Office 2007 appearance for the scrollbars in ComboBoxItem. With this new feature, you get full Office 2007 look for the ComboBoxItem in ToolStripEx. Scrollbars can also apply custom color schemes based on Office 2007.

    

Office 2007 - Managed Color Scheme

Custom color schemes can be provided to change the look and feel of any application using the Syncfusion controls. User defined colors can now be applied to all the parts of the application including the Ribbon control, ToolStrip control, StatusStrips, Office2007 form and other Office2007 Style supported controls. The new version of Essential Studio extends the managed color scheme support for the editor controls also. Now user can set managed custom colors to more than 20 different Office2007 Styled controls.

Tab Splitter - Excel 2007 Style

TabBarSplitterControl is now available with Office 2007 (Excel) style. Includes all three color schemes and custom color support too.

Controls rearrangement in Layout Management

Controls laid out by Flow layout, Grid Layout can now be rearranged simply be dragging the controls in the designer.

Advanced Tab Control – New events

You can now handle the closing of TabPages in TabControlAdv with the help of TabPageClosing and Closed events.

XPTaskBar with Office 2007 Style

Office2007 Style has been extended to XPTaskbar control in this version. Create a clean looking Office 2007 like task bar easily and also customize the appearance as needed.

Essential Diagram

Performance improvements

Got more data to visualize? This version of Diagram provides further performance improvements for loading large number of nodes and for user manipulation of the nodes. Try this evaluation and experience the difference.

PolyLine Link Tool

Another tool added to enhance your users’ experience designing diagrams - Check out the new PolyLine Link Tool that can create PolyLine links.

Selection Handle Customization

Improve or customize the look and feel of Diagram node selection handles. You can change the colors and also allow users to show or hide the handles.

Connection Point improvement

Connection Points are now extended to support custom ports and changing the port highlighting color.

Selection Tool Customization

Selection Tool is now extended to change its line color, width, line style etc., to provide added look and feel.

Localization support

Easily localize your diagram based User Interfaces as we now support full localization of the Diagram dialogs.

Essential Chart

Range Area ChartType

New chart type which can be used to display selected area range. This chart is similar to Area chart but with selected range only.

Performance improvements

Large number of points can now be loaded into chart with a minimal impact on system resources.

Chart and Template Wizards improvement

Check out the new look and feel of Chart and Template wizards with many other improvements. Chart Series can now be generated through the designer itself.

Toolbar improvement

The Chart Toolbar has been improved with better styles and additional customization options.

Binding with ArrayList

Now chart can be easily bound with IEnumerable based collections like ArrayList. This extends chart to be easily used with LINQ.