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Road Map for Essential Studio 2011 Volume 4

Syncfusion Road Map. Updated on October 3, 2011. Version 9.4.0.37 (2011 Volume 4). Subject to change.

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Essential Studio User Interface Edition ....................................................................................................... 4

ASP.NET .........................................................................................................................................4

Essential Tools for ASP.NET ................................................................................................................... 4

Essential Chart for ASP.NET .................................................................................................................. 4

Essential Diagram for ASP.NET.............................................................................................................. 4

Essential Gauge for ASP.NET ................................................................................................................. 4

ASP.NET MVC .................................................................................................................................4

Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC ............................................................................................................ 4

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC .......................................................................................................... 5

Essential Diagram for ASP.NET MVC ..................................................................................................... 5

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC .......................................................................................................... 5

ASP.NET MVC Mobile .....................................................................................................................6

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC Mobile ............................................................................................. 6

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC Mobile .............................................................................................. 6

WPF ...............................................................................................................................................7

All WPF Products ................................................................................................................................... 7

Essential Diagram for WPF .................................................................................................................... 7

Essential Gantt for WPF ........................................................................................................................ 8

Essential Spreadsheet for WPF ............................................................................................................. 8

Essential Tools for WPF ......................................................................................................................... 8

Essential Maps for WPF ........................................................................................................................ 8

Silverlight .......................................................................................................................................9

Essential Gantt for Silverlight ................................................................................................................ 9

Essential Diagram for Silverlight ........................................................................................................... 9

Essential Spreadsheet for Silverlight ................................................................................................... 10

Essential Maps for Silverlight .............................................................................................................. 10

Windows Forms ........................................................................................................................... 10

Essential Grid for Windows Forms ...................................................................................................... 10

Essential Chart for Windows Forms .................................................................................................... 10

Essential Tools for Windows Forms .................................................................................................... 11

Windows Phone ........................................................................................................................... 11


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Essential Tools for Windows Phone .................................................................................................... 11

Essential Maps for Windows Phone ................................................................................................... 11

Essential Studio Reporting Edition ............................................................................................................ 13

Essential ProjectIO .............................................................................................................................. 13

Essential Report Viewer for Silverlight................................................................................................ 13

Essential Report Viewer for WPF ........................................................................................................ 13

Essential PDF ....................................................................................................................................... 13

Essential PDF Viewer ........................................................................................................................... 14

Essential DocIO ................................................................................................................................... 14

Essential XlsIO ..................................................................................................................................... 14

Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition .......................................................................................... 15

All Business Intelligence Products ....................................................................................................... 15

Essential BI Chart ................................................................................................................................ 15

Essential BI Grid .................................................................................................................................. 15

Essential BI Client for Silverlight ......................................................................................................... 15


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Essential Studio User Interface Edition

Essential Studio User Interface Edition contains the most complete set of user-interface components on

the market—including the best performing grid control in the industry, docking and menu frameworks,

data-binding controls, and schedulers. With the visualizations found in Essential Chart, Gauge, and

Diagram, data can be presented in more engaging, meaningful ways.

ASP.NET

Essential Tools for ASP.NET

Client-side events for the TreeView control

Customize the client-side behavior of the control more efficiently.

Essential Chart for ASP.NET

ToolTips for chart axis labels

Enables users to add custom ToolTips to chart axis labels.

Localization support Allows you to customize the user interface of a chart to be locale-specific.

Essential Diagram for ASP.NET

Show or hide text in symbol palette

Allows you to show or hide text added to nodes in the symbol palette.

Essential Gauge for ASP.NET

Gauge control using HTML 5 Helps users visualize data as a point or a range in a compact and scaled manner.

ASP.NET MVC

Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC

Stacked headers Helps users categorize various columns and group related columns together under a single header.

http://www.syncfusion.com/products/user-interface-edition


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Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC

Auto-wrap in column cells Allows text in a grid to be wrapped automatically based on the width of the column.

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC

Essential Chart with HTML 5 A lightweight, canvas-based chart control that utilizes HTML 5 to implement a very high-performance and interactive chart control.

Localization support Allows you to customize the user interface of a chart so that it is locale-specific.

Essential Diagram for ASP.NET MVC

Persistence support for diagrams

Diagram contents will be able to be persisted in XML format.

Multiple selection Select, drag, resize, or delete more than one node and its connector at a time.

Z-order commands Allows you to change the z-order values of selected nodes and connectors on a diagram page by means of ordering commands.

Adding custom shapes Define custom shapes that can be added as nodes to a diagram. Custom shapes can also be added to the symbol palette.

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC

Rotator improvements Includes better animation support, data binding, displaying items in a random order, and integrating a pager with the rotator.

Time picker control Integrate time selection options into your applications. It can have up to four primary fields: hours, minutes, seconds, and AM/PM.


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ASP.NET MVC Mobile

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC Mobile

Chart control A lightweight control that lets you visualize business data in visually pleasing charts on mobile platforms.

Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC Mobile

Menu control Provides a menu control with horizontal and vertical layout modes.

Dialog control Implements a modal dialog box-like window.

Progress bar control Implements a standard progress bar.

Button control Allows you to implement a toggle, drop-down, or split button in an application. Images can be included in a button as icons if desired.

ListBox control Implements a dynamic, interactive list view interface.

Tab control Implements a dynamic, interactive, menu-driven tabbed interface in your mobile applications.

WaitingPopUp control Allows you to display a customizable waiting message while your page is performing a long operation or waiting for a response from the server.

Rating control

Provides an intuitive rating experience that allows end users to select a number of stars to represent their rating. Developers can specify the initial rating, the maximum rating to allow, and the alignment and direction of the stars. Also allows developers to specify a custom shape instead of stars.

Toggle button control Indicates the on/off state of a function in an application. It will remain in a particular state (i.e. on or off) until clicked again.

File upload control Allows you to upload files to a server. It allows uploading multiple files and accepts files of any format. It uses progress bars to show the status of the file upload.

Scroll panel control Implements an interactive panel for scrolling through large content.

Slider control Allows users to select a value from a range of values by dragging a slider thumb.


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Essential Tools for ASP.NET MVC Mobile

Toolbar control Allows you to customize and display a list of command items in a standard toolbar interface.

Accordion control

Allows you to categorize items within multiple panes with the option to expand, collapse, and display them one at a time. Each accordion pane has a template for its header and content. It also supports an auto-size mode that allows it to fit in a variety of layouts.

WPF

All WPF Products

WPF 4 manipulation WPF controls will support multi-touch interaction. This will make them very usable in touch-screen devices.

Metro theme A new theme that will be available in all our WPF controls. It is based on the Windows Phone look and feel.

Essential Diagram for WPF

Serializing the symbol palette

Symbol palettes can be serialized and saved as .xaml files and loaded back into a diagram at a later point in time.

Symbol designer A new tool for creating, designing, and editing symbol palettes that can be used in a diagram builder application.

Import symbols Import symbols from Microsoft Expression Blend and Visio, and Syncfusion Essential Diagram for Windows Forms into a diagram’s symbol palette.

Expanded decorator support

Decorator shapes can be customized in such a way that each line segment of a line connector can have a decorator.

Line routing If a line connector is drawn between two nodes and crosses other nodes, the line will be automatically rerouted around interfering nodes. This feature will avoid overlapping links with nodes.


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Essential Gantt for WPF

Filter and sort the task list Sort and filter tasks in the grid view of a Gantt chart.

Baseline table view support Display the variance between a baseline and current progress in the table view of a Gantt chart.

Virtualization Virtualization support will be added to improve performance.

Essential Spreadsheet for WPF

Center across selection alignment support

Group text between two cells to form one single cell, similar to merged cells in Excel, and center the text.

Document settings options Options such as author, tags, category, etc., will be provided.

Advanced encryption and decryption

Using a password, users will be able to encrypt and decrypt spreadsheets for the sake of privacy.

PDF export Support for exporting spreadsheet contents to PDF.

Text wrap support Users will be able to wrap text in a cell.

Import from ADO.NET DataTable

Directly import data into a spreadsheet from ADO.NET DataTables and convert the data to an Excel-readable format.

Essential Tools for WPF

Multiple selection in property grid

Select multiple objects and view the values of properties common to all objects.

Rich-text editor

Create rich-text content in an editor that allows you to easily specify, among other things, text formatting, bulleted lists, tables, and undo and redo operations.

Essential Maps for WPF

Path support Display a path in a map from one point to another. Using paths, a map can support a street-level view.


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Essential Maps for WPF

Data binding support Generate map labels, symbols, and paths from a bound ItemsSource collection.

Virtualization Virtualization support will improve performance.

Importing and exporting map elements

Import and export map elements such as paths, symbols, and labels through an .xml file via serialization.

Silverlight

Essential Gantt for Silverlight

Baseline table view support Display the variance between a baseline and current progress in the table view of a Gantt chart.

Filter and sort the task list Sort and filter operations will be supported in the grid view of a Gantt chart.

Virtualization Virtualization support will be added to improve performance.

Essential Diagram for Silverlight

Serializing the symbol palette

Symbol palettes can be serialized and saved as .xml files and loaded back into a diagram later.

Line routing Avoids overlapping links and nodes to create better, easily readable diagrams.

Polyline and poly orthogonal lines

Polylines and orthogonal lines are alternatives to straight line connectors. They are very useful when there are other nodes between two nodes that are being connected. End users can clearly indicate what kind of polylines (by specifying exact points of directional changes) or orthogonal lines should be used to connect nodes.

Underline option for label text

Users will be able to underline labels for nodes and lines.


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Essential Spreadsheet for Silverlight

Center across selection alignment support

Group text between two cells to form one single cell, similar to merged cells in Excel, and center the text.

Document settings options Options such as author, tags, category, etc., will be provided.

Advanced encryption and decryption

Using a password, users will be able to encrypt and decrypt spreadsheets for the sake of privacy.

PDF export Export spreadsheet contents to PDF.

Text wrap support Users will be able to wrap text in a cell.

Essential Maps for Silverlight

Path support Maps will be able to display a path from one point to another. Using paths, a street view can be created in a map.

Data binding support Generate map labels, symbols, and paths from a bound ItemsSource collection.

Map element import and export

Import and export map elements such as paths, symbols, and labels through an .xml file.

Virtualization Virtualization support will improve performance.

Windows Forms

Essential Grid for Windows Forms

Visual styles Apply professional-looking visual styles to a grid and its associated controls.

Essential Chart for Windows Forms

Localization support Display chart data according to the language and culture specific to a particular country or region.


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Essential Chart for Windows Forms

ToolTips for chart axis labels

Enables users to add custom ToolTips to chart axis labels.

Essential Tools for Windows Forms

Split button control Create a drop-down button-like interface that is a combination of a regular button and a drop-down list.

Windows Phone

Essential Tools for Windows Phone

Jump List Useful for easily navigating through a long list of items by grouping them into desired categories.

Range slider control Enables users to specify a range as an input value.

Toolbar control Provides support for creating toolbars—graphical presentations of commands optimized for efficient access.

Color picker control Enables you to choose a desired color easily.

Timespan picker control Enables you to provide the option to select a time span in your applications.

ToolTip control Allows you to display more information about a UI element when the end user taps on it.

Window control Enables you to display modal or non-modal content in your applications. You can also use it to display alert or prompt dialogs.

Essential Maps for Windows Phone

Importing and exporting map elements

Save and load maps as .xml files, and export maps as images.

Path support Draw paths that depict routes in a map.


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Essential Maps for Windows Phone

Data Binding Data binding support for map labels, symbols, and paths will be added.

Virtualization Enhances rendering speed during zoom and pan operations.


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Essential Studio Reporting Edition

The only reporting solution you will ever need—with Essential Studio Reporting Edition you can create

advanced reports with the WPF-based reporting solution or integrate document-based reporting (PDF,

Excel, Word) into your Windows and Web applications.

Essential ProjectIO

Microsoft Project read/write library

ProjectIO is a project management component (.NET class library) that facilitates reading and manipulating Microsoft Project documents in .xml formats without relying on Microsoft Project.

Essential Report Viewer for Silverlight

PDF export Allows users to export RDL reports as PDF files.

Document map Helps users view specific product details in a report by using document map navigation.

Sub-report support Load sub-reports in a main report from both local and reporting servers.

Essential Report Viewer for WPF

PDF export Allows users to export RDL reports as PDF files.

Sub-report support Allows sub-reports to be embedded inside a main report.

Document map Allows users to browse specific product details in a report by using document map navigation.

Essential PDF

HTML to PDF conversion via Gecko

Improved HTML to PDF conversion via the Gecko browser (Mozilla).

Improved merging performance

Performance when merging PDF documents will be improved.

http://www.syncfusion.com/products/reporting-edition


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Essential PDF

Improved performance when saving PDFs with form fields

Saving a PDF that includes a very large number of form fields will have improved performance.

Essential PDF Viewer

ASP.NET MVC implementation

Gives users the ability to view and print PDF files from MVC applications without any reliance on Adobe Acrobat.

Essential DocIO

Write protection with password support for Word 2007 and Word 2010 documents

Prevents third parties from editing or modifying the content of a document.

Support for updating fields A field updating engine will now evaluate field results before exporting them.

Essential XlsIO

Binding business objects to template markers

Users will be able to bind business objects to template markers.

Improved performance for importing data

Importing a large amount of data into a workbook using XlsIO will consume less time.


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Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition

With Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition, executive dashboards are a snap, and BI analysis can

be integrated into your applications with ease. Controls such as Essential BI Chart, Grid, Gauge, and

Client can be used to present key performance indicators fed by OLAP data.

All Business Intelligence Products

Drill-down support for “all” level type

OLAP controls now provide drill-down support for members with the “all” level type.

Essential BI Chart

Drill position support Enables you to restrict drilling operations to a specific level of a dimension rather than drilling down into all levels of that dimension.

Essential BI Grid

ASP.NET MVC implementation

Essential BI Grid will be available for the ASP.NET MVC platform, allowing users to visualize multidimensional data in a high-performance pivot grid interface.

Drill position support Enables you to restrict drilling operations to a specific level of a dimension rather than drilling down into all levels of that dimension.

Essential BI Client for Silverlight

Dynamic connection setting Allows you to dynamically specify the connection string for the XMLA data source in your Silverlight code instead of in server-side web.config files.

http://www.syncfusion.com/products/business-intelligence-edition

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