Road Map for Essential Studio for ASP.NET MVC

Common

New components

The following components are to be added to Essential JS 2 for ASP.NET MVC:

• Kanban
• Progress Bar
• Dropdown Tree

Chart

Highlight

This feature allows users to highlight data points in a chart to read and compare with others easily.

Pattern selection

Supports selecting the data points with more than 20 built-in patterns.

Custom icon for legend

Supports custom icons for legends in charts.

Bullet Chart

Legend

Supports legends for the bullet chart.

Print and export

Support to print and export the rendered bullet chart in various formats.

Range Selector

Time zone

This feature allows users to use range selector in different time zones.

DataManager

IQueryable support for data manipulation

This feature helps provide IQueryable support to perform data operations and CRUD actions in server-side.

Grid

Infinite scrolling

This feature helps users fetch and load data in grids instantly whenever the scrollbar reaches the end vertically while binding high volumes of data.

Virtual scrolling with inline and dialog editing

This feature allows users to perform CRUD operations in virtual scrolling-enabled grids through inline and dialog modes of editing.

Perform searching with foreign key columns

This feature allows users to perform searching in foreign key column-enabled grids.

TreeGrid

Batch editing

This feature allows users to bulk save added, changed, and deleted data in a single request to the data source using batch edit mode.

Virtual scrolling with data virtualization

This feature helps users fetch and load data in a tree grid instantly while scrolling the scrollbar vertically.

Clipboard

This feature allows users to copy the row or cell data to the clipboard with or without headers.

Spreadsheet

Insert/delete rows and columns

This feature allows users to insert and delete rows and columns in a spreadsheet.

Merge cell

This feature allows users to span two or more cells in the same row or column into a single cell.

Wrap text

Wrap text allows you to display large content as multiple lines in a single cell.

Border

You can add borders around a cell or range of cells to define a section of worksheet or a table.

Protect sheet

Protect sheet provides an option to restrict user actions like cell editing, row and column insertion, deletion, and resizing.

Data validation

Support to validate edited values based on data validation rules defined for a cell or range of cells.

Find and replace

This feature allows users to search and replace the content of a cell.

Cell template

This feature allows users to insert custom elements like button, checkbox, radio button, datepicker, etc. into a cell or range of cells.

Maps

Zoom maps based on the latitude and longitude values dynamically

Support to zoom maps dynamically, based on the latitude and longitude values.

Improvements in Bing maps

The following improvements are considered in Bing maps.

• Support to repeatedly render the tiles instead of displaying white space at the edges.
• Support to maintain the center position of the maps on resizing.
• Animation for tiles on zooming and panning the maps.

Option to disable panning

Support to enable/disable the panning functionality in maps.

Export support for the tile layers in Maps

Support to export imagery tile layers such as Bing, OSM and Google maps.

Complex data source support

This feature allows binding a complex data source to the shapes and markers in maps.

TreeMap

Header customization

Allows customizing the header of the treemap items, dynamically.

Circular gauge

Print and export

Support to print and export the rendered circular gauge in various formats.

Linear Gauge

Print and export

Support to print and export the rendered linear gauge in various formats.

Word Library

Mathematical equations in Word-to-PDF conversions

This feature allows users to preserve mathematical equations (MathML) while converting Word documents (DOCX and WordML) to PDF.

PowerPoint Library

Header and footer

This feature allows users to add and edit headers and footers in PowerPoint presentations.

Rich Text Editor

Get Selected HTML

This method is helpful to retrieve the HTML content or plain text from a range of selection or from the cursor position.

Schedule

Inline editing

This feature makes adding and editing the appointment’s subject easy. You can add or edit by selecting cells or appointments, then simply pressing the enter key.

Tab

Show or hide Tab

This option enables you to show/hide every tab item that controls its visibility dynamically using condition-based rendering.

Excel Library

Enhancements in pivot tables

The following enhancements are being made to pivot table functionality in the Excel Library:

• Support for outline layout and tabular layout.
• Inline formatting support in pivot table cell range.

Enhancements in shapes

The following enhancements are being made to shapes in the Excel Library:

• Font size adjusts according to the indent level within a shape.
• Bullets supported in shapes.
• Access and modify border properties in shapes.

Gantt Chart

PDF Export

Support to export gantt charts into pdf files.

Resource Unit & Work mapping

This feature allows the users to map units for each resources and work for each task. Support to print and export the rendered linear gauge in various formats.

Word Processor

Web layout

This feature enables users to view documents as they would appear in a browser.

Word Processor server library in Java

This feature enables users to convert Word documents (DOCX) to SFDT format (Syncfusion Document Text) in Java.

PDF

Redaction annotation

This feature allows creating redaction annotations in PDF documents.