Road Map for Essential Studio for ASP.NET Core

Common

Preview to production-ready component

The Carousel component is to be marked as a production-ready component for ASP.NET Core.

DataGrid

Select rows using header checkbox

This feature allows users to select all the selectable rows when clicking the header checkbox in a data grid.

Header customization in PDF exporting

This feature allows users to customize the DataGrid header style when exporting to PDF format.

Virtual scrolling cell placeholder support

This feature helps improve the row and column visualization experience while scrolling by showing a placeholder in grid cells until the data operation is completed.

Data annotation support for validation

This feature provides data annotation support for server-side validation during CRUD operations. Custom, server-side validation messages are displayed on the client-side using a tooltip in edit form.

Charts

Keyboard interaction

This feature allows users to interact with the Charts control using keyboard shortcuts.

Highlight and select

This feature allows users to highlight and select data points based on range and point color mapping.

TreeGrid

Indent and outdent rows

This feature allows users to indent or outdent the selected row one level of the hierarchy.

Row drag and drop with virtualization

This feature allows users to drag and drop rows within the current viewport of a tree grid when row and column virtualization features are enabled.

Gantt Chart

Parent predecessor

This feature allows users to map predecessor dependency between parent-to-parent and parent-to-child tasks.

Critical path

Highlight a single task or a chain of linked tasks that has a direct impact on the project’s end date.

State persistence

Retain the state of a Gantt Chart control using local storage on browser reload. The Gantt Chart state can also be saved and restored manually.

Maps

Additional geometry types

This feature renders GeoJSON files with “MultiLineString”, “MultiPoint”, and “GeometryCollection” geometry types.

Additional online map providers

The Maps component will support online map providers such as ESRI, TomTom, and Mapbox. Markers, marker clusters, navigation lines, zooming, panning, and other necessary options will be supported by these providers.

Legend support for online map providers

This feature supports legends for markers on maps for online providers like OSM. A legend for layers and markers on sublayers over maps for online providers will also be supported.

Carousel

Partial view carousel

The Carousel control shows one complete slide and a partial view of adjacent (previous and next) slides at the same time.

Diagram

Bezier connector with multiple control points

This feature allows users to change the shape and height of the Bezier curve by using multiple control points.

Pivot Table

Custom sorting

This support provides the ability to define a sort order, so that members of a specific field are sorted accordingly.

Paging

This feature improves the rendering performance of the pivot table by dividing large amounts of data into sections and displaying them one page at a time.

Rich Text Editor

Mention integration

This feature allows users to show a list of suggestions when the @ key is pressed.

Insert video and audio files

This feature allows users to add video and audio files to the Rich Text Editor dynamically.

Execute Markdown command method

This feature allows users to apply a Markdown syntax dynamically to the selected text in the editable area when the executeMarkdownCommand method is called.

Word Processor

Track-changes-only restriction

This feature allows users to edit a Word document by tracking all the changes made but they are not allowed to accept or reject them.

Paragraph border

This feature allows users to apply borders to the paragraphs in a Word document.

RTL text enhancements

The following enhancements are being made in the Word Processor component specific to RTL text:

• Display right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR) text like the Microsoft Word app.
• Automatically detect font name from theme for RTL text.

File Manager

Folder upload support with Amazon S3 file provider

This feature allows users to upload a folder in File Manager component with the Amazon S3 file provider.

Scheduler

Delimiter in Excel export

This feature sets a delimiter when exporting Scheduler events to Excel.

Auto height adjustment

This feature adjusts the Scheduler height dynamically when adaptive rows is enabled.

Word Library

Word-to-image conversion

This feature allows users to convert a Word document into images (PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF) for printing and viewing without any document-processing application dependencies.

PowerPoint Library

PowerPoint-to-tagged PDF conversion

This feature allows users to convert the PowerPoint presentation to an accessible or tagged PDF (508 compliance) document.

PDF Library

RichMedia annotations

This feature allows users to embed sound and video files within a PDF document.

Watermark annotations

This feature allows users to add text or image watermarks to a PDF document.

PDF/A-4 conformance

This feature allows users to create a PDF document with PDF/A-4 conformance, which supports the new features introduced in PDF 2.0 (the latest version of the PDF standard).

PDF Viewer

Organize PDF pages

You can quickly rotate, reorder, or delete PDF pages within the PDF Viewer.