What's New in Essential Studio^® for WPF

Tabbed Window (New)

The Syncfusion® WPF Tabbed Window control provides a compact, browser-style tabbed interface for managing multiple child windows inside one application window. It supports drag-and-drop reordering, detachable floating tabs, customizable headers, theming, and keyboard shortcuts for efficient navigation.

Key features

• Seamless tab management: Open, close, reorder, and switch between tabs effortlessly.
• Drag‑and‑drop reordering: Rearrange tabs interactively for better workspace organization.
• Detach and reattach tabs: Pop out tabs as floating, standalone windows and dock them back later.
• Theming: Integrates smoothly with all Syncfusion themes—including light, dark, and high‑contrast modes—for a visually consistent UI.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Quickly navigate between tabs using built‑in keyboard accelerators.

Smart DataGrid (New)

The Smart DataGrid is an AI-powered data grid that lets users query, retrieve details for, and act on data using natural-language prompts, simplifying complex data tasks and boosting productivity.

Key features

• AI sorting: Sort data using natural language prompts; the grid interprets intent and applies the appropriate sort order.
• Intelligent filtering: Apply advanced filters through natural language instructions, including for contextual and multiple-condition scenarios.
• AI grouping: Group related records using AI prompts to organize data for clarity.
• AI highlighting: Conditionally highlight rows or cells based on prompt-defined rules to surface important information.

Smart Text Editor (New)

The Syncfusion® WPF Smart Text Editor is an intelligent text input control that provides inline and pop-up autocomplete and suggestion capabilities. It offers optional AI-powered, context-aware sentence completions with offline fallback, helping users compose text faster and more accurately in WPF apps such as chat interfaces, note-takers, and intelligent form-filling.

Key features

• Suggestion display modes: Supports both inline ghost-text and pop-up suggestion presentations.
• AI-powered suggestions: Integrates with IChatInferenceService for intelligent, contextual completions.
• Offline phrase library: Uses a UserPhrases fallback list when AI suggestions are unavailable.
• Quick acceptance: Lets users accept suggestions via Tab or right arrow keys; pop-up suggestions can be accepted by clicking or tapping on them or by pressing the right arrow key.
• Caret-aware behavior: Displays suggestions when the caret is at the end of the text and updates them as typing continues.
• Placeholder support: Offers configurable placeholder text and styling for when the editor is empty.
• MVVM-friendly: Raises TextChangedCommand on each change for easy view-model integration.
• Full customization: Gives users full control over fonts, colors, sizes, and styles for complete UI customization.

Markdown Viewer (New)

The WPF Markdown Viewer is a UI control that converts Markdown input into a fully formatted visual representation without requiring external rendering engines or manual formatting. It provides a flexible way to display rich Markdown content within WPF applications, making it ideal for presenting documentation, release notes, help content, and other Markdown‑based information.

Key features

• Markdown rendering: Converts Markdown syntax such as headings, lists, links, images, tables, code blocks, block quotes, and more into styled, readable content.
• Multiple content sources: Supports loading Markdown from a string, file, or URL.
• Hyperlink navigation: Supports clickable links that open external URLs or trigger in-app navigation.

Toast Notification (New)

The Syncfusion® WPF Toast Notification control displays lightweight alerts either inside your app or as native Windows toasts. It supports customizable layouts, placement options, severity variants, animations, icons, and action buttons for flexible, non-intrusive notifications.

Key features

• Custom and system toasts: Fully customizable toast notifications and Windows system toasts.
• Flexible placement: Toasts display inside a window or anywhere on the screen with 8 standard positions.
• Severity and variants: Built‑in severity levels and multiple layout variants.
• Content customization: Customizable title, header, content, close button, and action buttons. Hide buttons when needed.
• Timing: Configurable toast size and duration. Enable preventAutoClose.
• Smooth animations: Built‑in show and close animations.
• Toast management: Programmatically close individual toasts or close all at once.

DataGrid

Excel-like selection

Perform Excel‑style selections of multiple cells, rows, and columns with both mouse and keyboard interactions.

Gantt

UI virtualization of tasks

This feature renders only the tasks within the visible timeline viewport, improving performance and reducing memory usage during horizontal scrolling.

Map

Azure Maps

Integrate Azure Maps with the control to render interactive maps that load smoothly and display detailed map regions.

SfDiagram

Force-directed tree layout

This feature utilizes a physics-based algorithm to dynamically arrange nodes for improved visualization. It attracts and repulses connected nodes to reduce overlaps and edge crossings. The result is a clean, intuitive layout that clarifies complex relationships in network analysis.

TreeGrid

Cell-level selection

Select one or more individual cells across multiple rows. Use mouse or keyboard interactions.

TreeView

Empty view

Display a fully customizable empty-state UI when there are no available nodes.