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Accelerating the development cycle

As a .NET component vendor focused on helping developers enhance their applications and maximize their productivity, Syncfusion is particularly excited about the recent release of the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework and Visual Studio 2005. Microsoft’s release of this new technology allows Windows Forms and ASP.NET developers to make great leaps and bounds in application development productivity. Syncfusion has taken advantage of Visual Studio 2005’s enhancements and is providing developers with numerous features above and beyond those included in the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox.

The new technologies included in Visual Studio 2005 usher in an era of exciting opportunities for Syncfusion to provide a line of products that no .NET developer should go without. We have added a wide array of features in our Essential Studio 4.1 release, many of which capitalize on the most cutting edge elements of Visual Studio 2005. Below are details on some of the powerful features of this release. Syncfusion invites you to share with us in our excitement by checking out the latest evaluation version of Essential Studio, which will give you a firsthand look at what Syncfusion has to offer.

Syncfusion’s support for Visual Studio 2005’s advancements

It is important to Syncfusion that we evolve with new technologies introduced by the innovators at Microsoft.   Essential Studio 4.1  builds upon the IDE and functionality enhancements offered by the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework and Visual Studio 2005.  This release adds support for features such as the AJAX-style Callback features, support for Themes and Visual Styles, support for the new 2.0 data sources, SmartTags, and more.  Essential Studio 4.1 includes new ASP.NET controls such as the Callback Panel, Chart, Advanced Menus, Rotator, Grid, and AutoComplete.

Essential Studio’s ASP.NET controls make full use of the ASP.NET 2.0 Callback framework to provide cutting edge AJAX functionality to create a rich user experience.  Our Callback Panel control  allows developers to AJAX-enable any portion of their pages.  There is also support for developers to AJAX-enable any control, including third party controls in their pages.

	Essential Studio Web Grid refreshing itself using Callbacks
	Essential Studio Web Chart refreshing itself using Callbacks

Support for the new ASP.NET 2.0 data sources is included in Essential Studio 4.1.  Commonly used skins are provided for controls, such as menus in skin files.  This new release also employes .NET framework 2.0 support for loading our script and image files.  With this support there will be no need to perform any additional steps to handle our resources while deploying applications.

	Essential Studio Web Menus using Skins

Essential Studio 4.1 provides support for SmartTags, with Essential Chart, Essential HTMLUI, and many of the controls in Essential Tools all supporting this functionality.  The addition of SmartTags allows access to the most commonly used functionality when developing with the controls.  Developers will appreciate the ability to continue with their projects without having to navigate away to the properties windows and menus.

All ten products included in Essential Studio have been revised to ensure compatibility with Visual Studio 2005.  Syncfusion is dedicated to quickly integrating new technologies into our products, ensuring that we stand ready to assist you with your development needs as you move forward with Visual Studio 2005.

Take .NET development further with Syncfusion Essential Studio

For developers intent on taking their applications to the next level, Essential Studio is the solution.  While Microsoft has enhanced a number of its existing controls and added additional ones, Essential Studio provides a wide array of features and controls not included in Visual Studio 2005.  For example, Essential Diagram enhances the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox by providing a powerful diagramming control for creating Visio-like static and interactive diagrams in Windows Forms and ASP.NET-based applications.  From Essential Grid’s Outlook-style grouping support to Essential PDF’s dynamic PDF-creation capabilities, Syncfusion Essential Studio provides Microsoft .NET Framework developers with a range of sophisticated features that go beyond the out of the box controls provided by Visual Studio 2005.  This wide range of functionality is further enhanced by access to each product’s full C# source code, which developers can step directly into from their own application projects.

For full details on the countless pieces of functionality provided by Syncfusion Essential Studio’s wide array of products, please visit http://www.syncfusion.com/Products/Studio.aspx.

 For more details on Essential Studio 4.1's new features and enhancements, and to take a look at this release's screenshot gallery please click here.

To learn more about AJAX and how syncfusion is taking advantage of this new technology click here.

Key features in Essential Studio 4.1