With Volume 1, you can experience many new controls, including the Dashboard Layout, File Manager, Gantt Chart, and ListBox controls, as well as improvements such as a new Bootstrap v4 theme and pivot chart support for the Pivot View control.
The following components have been added to Essential JS 2 for ASP.NET Core.
The Dashboard Layout is a grid-structured layout control that helps create a dashboard with panels. Panels hold the UI components and allow resize, reorder, drag-n-drop, remove, and add options. This allows users to easily place the components at the desired position within the grid layout.
The File Manager is a graphical user interface component used to manage the file system. It enables the user to perform common file operations such as accessing, editing, and sorting files and folders. This component also allows easy navigation for browsing or selecting a file or folder from the file system.
The Gantt chart is a project management tool that helps to schedule, manage, and track the tasks in a project. Its intuitive user interface allows you to visually manage tasks, task relationships, and effectively allocate resources for the tasks.
The ListBox is a graphical user interface component used to display a list of items. Users can select one or more items in the list using a checkbox or by keyboard selection. It supports sorting, grouping, reordering, and drag and drop of items.
The following components have been moved from preview to production in Essential JS 2 for ASP.NET Core:
A new Bootstrap v4 design theme is implemented for all Essential JS 2 components, and it is now available in the demos.
Chart supports stacked line and 100% stacked line series.
Chart can wrap axis labels onto multiple lines.
Chart supports animation when data updates.
Display the last label, even if it isn’t in the visible range.
This feature allows users to create a swimlane diagram from code or a visual interface with the built-in swimlane shapes.
This feature allows users to prevent the serializing of default properties of diagram objects when saving the diagram in JSON format.
Word Library now preserves 2D and 3D charts in a Word document as images while converting Word documents to PDF.
The charts in a Word document can be converted to JPEG or PNG images using the .NET Standard library. All 2D and 3D charts can be converted along with their elements like chart titles, axis titles, data labels, and legends.
Add custom options with user-defined actions in the context menu.
Create a ZUGFeRD PDF invoice document.
Create a PDF/A-2b conforming document.
Create a PDF/A-3b conforming document.
Get comment and review details from the PDF annotations.
Import and export PDF annotations as FDF and XFDF.
Create and fill XFA form field documents.
When reviewing PDF files, important text should be distinct. The PDF Viewer allows highlighting, underlining, or strikethrough of this text. The color of these also can be changed.
The PDF Viewer now supports right to left flow direction for UI elements like toolbars, bookmark view, thumbnail view, and dialogs.
Charts can now be plotted against the pivot data independently. Users can also modify the data using the Pivot Grid field list at runtime.
A toolbar option has been provided to the pivot controls, allowing users easy access to frequently used features. Also, users can save the state of the pivot grid and load it back whenever required.
Date type can be formatted and displayed based on year, quarter, month, date, etc. Also, the number type can be grouped range-wise, such as 1-5, 6-10, etc.
Users can select a group of cells and access its information through the selection event for further manipulation.
Users can add templates to the existing pivot table cells based on their needs.
PowerPoint Library now allows converting PowerPoint presentations containing text, shapes, SmartArt diagrams, charts, tables, and more to PDFs while preserving their formatting.
PowerPoint Library now allows converting PowerPoint slides containing text, shapes, SmartArt diagrams, charts, tables, and more to images while preserving their formatting. Slides can be converted to JPEG and PNG formats.
The ASP.NET Core Rich Text Editor has an option to filter out the denied tags and attributes on pasting the content to the editor.
The Scheduler offers a way to export all its events to an .ICS file and also allows importing events from an ICS extension file.
The Scheduler supports exporting events to Excel format.
The Timeline and Month views of the Scheduler automatically adjusts its row height as per the number of events each row holds.
The Sparkline Charts control now supports right-to-left rendering.
Expand and collapse support has been added to the panes of the ASP.NET Core Splitter.
Stock chart now allows stock events to highlight important dates.
This feature allows the Textbox to accept one or more lines of text like address, description, comments, and more.
The checkbox selection feature offers a way to select multiple tree grid records with the help of a checkbox in each row. It also provides an option to select or deselect all the rows in a tree grid using a checkbox in the corresponding column header.
The checkbox column feature renders a checkbox in an already existing column to check or uncheck a row. It behaves hierarchically.
The TreeMap control supports right-to-left rendering for all its elements like nodes, data labels, and legends.
The TreeMap control supports on-demand loading of data for inner levels while drilling down.
Use a responsive legend that switches positions between the right and bottom based on the available height and width.
Excel charts can be converted into images in .NET Core applications. All 2D and 3D charts can be converted, along with their elements like chart titles, axis titles, data labels, and legends. The charts can be converted to JPEG and PNG.
In Excel-to-PDF conversion, all the 2D and 3D charts are preserved in the PDF document.
Formatting unique and duplicate values in Excel worksheets can be done simply using conditional formats.
Excel tables can be customized in different formats to visualize data.
Support for Microsoft Excel 2019 file format version.
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