Road Map for Essential Studio for UWP

DataGrid

Columns display formatting using data annotation

This feature allows users to format columns based on the DisplayFormatString attribute of the Entity Framework models.

Displaying group caption text with group caption summary

This feature allows users to show group caption text with the group caption summary of the columns.

Autogenerating custom type property

This feature allows users to autogenerate the custom type properties alone as a single column without autogenerating all the inner properties as a separate column.

Essential DocIO

Update Auto-Number field

This feature provides support to update the Auto-Number field in a Word document.

RichTextBox

UI container

This feature allows users to add UI elements to the rich text box content.

Essential PDF

Open Type Font support

• This feature allows users to draw text with OTF in the PDF document.

Essential XlsIO

Excel to PDF

This feature allows users to convert Excel files into PDFs.

Essential Presentation

Draw connector between shapes

This feature supports creating, editing, and removing connectors in the PowerPoint shapes.

Chart

Series selection support

This feature allows users to highlight an entire series by touching any place on the series.

Custom axis

This feature allows users to add an axis to the chart without mapping it to any series. This is typically used to duplicate the Y axis and display it on the opposite side of the Y axis. The axis can always be kept in the UI even though the respective series is removed or added at runtime.

Straight line support in data marker connector

This feature allows users to change the connector of a data marker to a horizontal line in circular charts. At present, the connector line of a data marker is rendered based on the angle of the respective segment.

Plot range column chart type with single Y value

A typical range column chart requires two values, such as high and low, but this feature allows users to plot the range column chart with a single Y value. This is possible when the Y value is considered the delta value for a range column chart and the segments are arranged at the center of the chart area.

Multiple circle doughnut chart

This feature allows users to render their data with multiple circles in doughnut charts instead of separate arc segments in a single circle.

Group small data points into “Others” category in pie and doughnut series

Pie and doughnut charts with too many small slices look cluttered. To overcome this, this feature provides an option to merge the small slices into a single slice based on a threshold value.

Dashes support

This feature allows users to use dashes in polar and radar series when they are rendered as lines.

Kanban

DataTemplateSelector support for card template

This feature allows users to customize the data template of cards based on DataTemplateSelector.

Image Editor

Image quality improvement

This improvement allows users to save an image without losing its original quality.

Report Viewer

Report Localization

This feature supports the use of language property of the report items.

Multi Column Report

This feature renders a single page into multiple columns.