What's New in Essential Studio for WPF

Excel Library

Slicer support for Excel tables

Users can now programmatically create slicers for Excel tables to filter table data in Excel files. This feature provides a user-friendly interface that allows users to filter data quickly by selecting options from the slicer. With this new capability, users can quickly, more efficiently, and more accurately analyze and manipulate their data in Excel files.

Excel-to-PDF conversion enhancements

Our Excel-to-PDF conversion has been updated to provide the following enhancements. These enhancements ensure that the Excel document’s appearance is maintained in the resultant PDF document:

• Preserves gradient fill for cells and shapes.
• Preserves cell formats that are applied through date-occurring conditional formatting.

PDF Library

PDF accessibility tag extraction

PDF accessibility tags provide additional information to assistive technology, making it easier for users with disabilities to navigate and understand PDF documents.

Now, the Syncfusion .NET PDF Library supports extracting accessibility tags from (tagged) PDF documents to make them more accessible to users with disabilities.

QR barcode with logo

This feature allows you to enhance the visual appeal of your QR codes by adding a company or brand logo to the center of the code.

PDF Viewer

Built-in toolbar redesign

The PDF Viewer’s built-in toolbar was redesigned to enhance user interaction and provide better visualization.

Scheduler

Highlight appointments with mouse

This feature highlights the Scheduler appointments when the mouse pointer hovers over them.

Adapt appointments displayed to month cell size

This feature adjusts the number of appointments displayed in a month cell based on its size.

TreeGrid

Asynchronous on-demand loading

This feature allows users to asynchronously load records on-demand using the RequestTreeItems event.

Word Library

Markdown-to-Word conversion

The Syncfusion .NET Word Library now supports converting an existing Markdown file to a Word document. Also, load images based on the image source path using an event while converting Markdown file to a Word document.

Find Word document elements

The Syncfusion .NET Word Library now supports finding Word document elements based on specified properties and their corresponding values.

For example, with this new functionality, you can find

• An image with an alternative text (Alt text) value as “logo”.
• The content control with type “plain text” and “first name” as the title.
• Block content controls with “address” as the title.
• Charts with type “pie” and “analysis report” as the title.