Road Map for Essential Studio for WPF

DataGrid

Gridlines

This feature enables users to show gridlines horizontally, vertically, or in both directions.

TreeView

Select or deselect nodes

This feature allows users to select or deselect nodes on loading or at runtime by mapping a property of data object.

Select nodes on right-click

This feature allows users to select a node by right clicking on it.

Diagram

Stencil improvements like Visio

The following features are planned

• Multiple symbol selection.
• Drag and drop multiple symbols from stencil to diagram.
• Rearrange symbols within stencil.

PDF

Remove images from PDF documents

This feature allows users to completely remove the images from a PDF document.

PDF redaction improvements

• Redact PDF paths such as line, text path, circle, and other shapes.
• Track the progress of the PDF file redaction.

Insert and retrieve XFAResources

This feature allows users to insert and retrieve XFAResources from a PDF document.

PowerPoint Library

Multicolumn

This feature allows users to preserve multicolumn content when converting a presentation to an image format.

PDF Viewer

Cloud-shaped annotation

This feature allows users to add and modify cloud-shaped annotations in PDF files.

Callout text box

This feature allows users to add, remove, or modify callout text boxes in PDF files.

Import and export annotations

This feature allows users to import and export information from annotations in PDF files.

Scheduler

Background and foreground color editors in the built-in appointment editor

Allows users to edit the appointment background and foreground colors using the Scheduler’s built-in appointment editor.

Event for changing appointment reminder’s alert action

Allows users to receive notification when an appointment reminder’s dismiss, dismiss all, or snooze action is changed in the Scheduler reminder alert window.

Business object converters

Supports converting appointment, reminder, and resource business objects to Scheduler appointment, reminder, and resource objects, and vice versa.

RichTextBox

Text box shape and image with square wrapping style

This feature preserves the text box shape and image with square wrapping style while viewing a Word document.

Range Slider

Keyboard navigation

This feature allows users to move the slider thumbs through keyboard interactions.

Rating

Keyboard navigation

This feature allows users to change the rating values through keyboard interactions.

TextBoxExt

Text highlight

This feature allows users to highlight typed text in the suggestion box with either prefix characters or suffix characters.

Clear button

This feature allows users to have a clear button for single selection.

Restrict filter count

This feature allows users to define the number of items to be filtered and shown in the suggestion box.

Busy Indicator

Fluent style

The Busy Indicator control will be provided with a new Fluent-style animation.

Maps

Add multiple shapes to a single ShapeFileLayer

This feature allows users to add multiple shapes such as polygons, polylines, and circles to a single ShapeFileLayer on a map.