Syncfusion Essential Studio WPF 2021 Volume 2

Improves Fluent, Material and Office themes with more than 30 color palettes.

Features

• WPF Designer Improvements
  • Smart tags have been added for all WPF controls to customize the properties easily in the designer. This support will be available for Microsoft Visual Studio version 16.10 and above.
• Theme Studio
  • Added 30+ new color palettes in Fluent, Material and Microsoft Office 2019 themes.
• ComboBox
  • Multiselect edit using tokens - Users can now find a suggestion list of filtered items in the drop-down list of the ComboBox and edit multiple items in the display text area using tokens.
  • Dynamic checked items - Users can now override the selected items programmatically by using the OnItemChecked and OnItemUnchecked methods of the ComboBox.
• Currency TextBox
  • Crop trailing zeros - The currency textbox now provides an option to display currencies without trailing zeros.
• DataGrid
  • Grid lines - This feature enables users to show grid lines horizontally, vertically or in both directions.
• Diagram
  • Ripple animation effect - You can now display ripple animation effects when hovering over ports.
  • Stencil improvement like Microsoft Visio:
    • Multiple symbol selection - This feature allows the users to select multiple stencil symbols and add them to the diagram by simply dragging and dropping onto the diagram page.
    • Symbol rearrangement - You can now rearrange the symbol’s position within the symbol group by dragging and dropping the selected symbol to a new position.
    • Context menu support for symbols - Added a built-in context menu with cut, copy and paste items. Custom context menu items can also be defined.
    • Symbol display mode - Allows the users to display symbols in the stencil in two different modes: icons only and names under icons.
    • Search tags for symbols - You can now add more search keywords to search for stencil symbols.
• Microsoft Word Library
  • Locale identifier for bidirectional language text - You can now access and modify the locale identifier for bidirectional language text in a Word document.
  • Parent comment - Added the option to access the parent comment instance in a Word document.
  • Word-to-PDF conversion enhancements - Word Library now supports the following underline styles in Word-to-PDF conversion:
    • DashLong.
    • Words.
    • DashHeavy.
    • DashLongHeavy.
    • DotDashHeavy.
• Maps
  • Add multiple shapes to a single ShapeFileLayer - This feature allows users to add multiple shapes such as polygons, polylines and circles to a single ShapeFileLayer on a map.
• PDF Library
  • PDF redaction enhancements:
    • Users can now redact PDF paths and shapes in PDF documents.
    • Added an event handler to track the progress of the redaction.
  • Remove images from PDF documents - This feature allows users to completely remove images from the existing PDF documents.
• PDF Viewer
  • Cloud annotation - Users can now add, remove and modify cloud shaped annotations in PDF files.
  • Import and export annotations - Users can now import and export information about annotations in PDF files in the FDF and XFDF formats.
• Microsoft PowerPoint Library
  • Multi-column support - Now preserves multi-column content when converting a presentation to PDF or image formats.
• Ribbon
  • Ribbon bar positioning - Added the ability to place the ribbon bars at right side of the ribbon.
  • Resize based on the specified order - The ribbon bars are now resized according to the order specified in the ribbon tab.
• Ribbon Window
  • Load user control - You can now load any user control at the right side of the title bar in the Ribbon Window.
• Scheduler
  • Background and foreground color editors in the built-in appointment editor - You can now edit the appointment background and foreground colors using the Scheduler’s built-in appointment editor.
  • Event for changing appointment reminder’s alert action - Users can now receive notification when an appointment reminder’s dismiss, dismiss all or snooze action is changed in the Scheduler reminder alert window.
• RichTextBox
  • Text box shape with square wrapping style - This feature preserves the text box shape with square wrapping style when viewing a Word document.
• Autocomplete (TextBoxExt)
  • Clear button support - You can now delete the whole text in a single click.
  • Highlight the unmatched text - The unmatched characters shown in the drop-down can now be styled.
  • Maximum suggestion support - You can now set the maximum number of items to be filtered.
• Tile view
  • Reorder items programmatically - You can now reorder items of TileView control programmatically.
• TreeGrid
  • Grid lines - This feature enables users to show grid lines horizontally, vertically or in both directions.
• TreeView
  • Select or deselect nodes - This feature allows users to select or deselect nodes on loading or at runtime by mapping a property of the data object.
  • Select nodes on right-click - This feature allows users to select a node by right clicking on it.
• Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions
  • Project Template - Improved user experience in Syncfusion WPF Project Template. Touch support is now provided to WPF applications.