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In 2024 Volume 2, WPF developers can enjoy a stunning Material 3 theme with light and dark variants; enhanced filtering, sorting, and row reordering in the Gantt component; and support for adding, editing, and deleting comments on annotations in PDF documents.
What’s New
What's New in Essential Studio for WPF
New Material 3 light and dark themes support provided for Syncfusion and framework controls.
This feature allows users to open a pop-up menu that contains different actions and options relevant to symbol groups by right-clicking a symbol group header.
This feature displays a marker in the ruler, indicating the current pointer position within the diagram canvas. This indicator helps you precisely place and align shapes, enhancing diagramming accuracy and ease of use.
This feature enables users to efficiently select, deselect, move, and delete symbols in the stencil using convenient keyboard shortcuts. Enhance your workflow and productivity with quick and easy keyboard commands for managing stencil symbols.
This feature enables users to easily reorder rows by dragging and dropping them within the Gantt control.
This feature allows users to filter nodes using an intuitive, built-in, Excel-inspired filtering UI with various filter-level options.
The Gantt control allows users to sort a column in either ascending or descending order by simply clicking on the header.
The Gantt control enables users to change the appearance of their Gantt grid, schedule, and chart with different built-in themes.
The WPF PDF Viewer now provides support for adding, editing, and deleting comments on annotations within PDF documents. Users can reply to comments and set their status through the comment panel, facilitating dynamic and interactive document review.
An interactive tooltip provides additional details about the appointments on hovering the mouse over them.
This feature allows you to add spacing between a cell’s appointment and its border. The spacing can be applied to the right side in day and month views, and to the bottom side in timeline views.
The show values row option is provided in pivot table creation and Excel to PDF conversion. This feature allows users to add “Values” row to the pivot table when two or more data fields exist.
Support for gradient fill style in conditional formatting is provided in Excel document creation and Excel to PDF conversion. This feature improves the appearance of the conditional formatting and easily highlights the data in the reports containing large data.
This functionality allows users to merge PDF documents without compromising their accessibility. Accessibility is crucial for users relying on screen readers and other assistive technologies.
This feature enables users to add various pop-up icons to a PDF document, including custom icons with unique appearances, by using appearance streams. The appearance stream ensures that each pop-up icon is displayed uniformly when the PDF document is viewed in any standard PDF viewers.
This feature allows users to duplicate pages within the same PDF document, facilitating easier content replication and organization. This support is useful for quickly creating templates, maintaining consistency across multiple sections, and streamlining document editing processes.
The .NET PowerPoint Library includes an API to access the font properties of the end paragraph in PowerPoint Presentations.
The Syncfusion PowerPoint Library includes the following enhancements when converting any PowerPoint Presentation to a PDF file or image:
Note rendering: Use a notes-publishing option to improve the rendering of slides with notes that exceed a page when converting to PDF.
Highlight preservation: Highlights within the original presentation will be maintained with their exact colors during the conversion process, ensuring a precise representation in the resulting PDF or image file.
The .NET Word Library (DocIO) now includes an API to extract LaTeX code from mathematical equation in Word documents. Additionally, users can modify existing equations using the LaTeX code.
With this feature, users can convert mathematical equations from Word documents to LaTeX, and integrate them into LaTeX-based equation editors.
The Syncfusion Word Library includes the following enhancements when converting any Word document to a PDF file:
