We at Syncfusion are excited to announce the release of Essential Studio 2016 Volume
1. This release sees a number of new features that provide tools to
developers working on all of our supported platforms.
Universal Windows Platform developers now have access to more
than 35 controls for the platform, broadening their options considerably. These
controls include the new Excel-like spreadsheet control that supports over 400 built-in
formulas, conditional formatting, PDF conversion, and much more. The new report
viewer features adaptive rendering to facilitate development across phones,
tablets, and desktops. Other features include major improvements to the chart,
data grid, diagram, pivot chart, pivot grid, pivot gauge, and more.
Adaptive
rendering allows development to flow smoothly across devices.
Xamarin developers also receive a number of exciting new
options. Our Xamarin suite now includes over 50 controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android,
and Xamarin.Forms. The new carousel control allows visuals to be displayed in
an interactive rotation that’s pleasing to use and view. The rotator control,
also new, offers flexible choices for navigating an interface, and the new
numeric up-down control allows numeric values to be increased or decreased at
the push of a button. This release is rounded out by significant updates to the
chart, grid, PDF library, and other controls.
The carousel
control makes navigating through images a tactile pleasure.
Desktop developers aren’t forgotten. Our Windows Forms
controls have received a number of additions and updates, including a new
Excel-like spreadsheet control, new navigation drawer, and updates to
reporting, maps, PDF, and other controls. For WPF, we now include a new date
picker, accordion, and navigation drawer, and have improved our data grid,
chart, diagram, reporting, and heat map controls, among others.
You can now
create, edit, view, and format Microsoft Excel files without Excel.
JavaScript developers will find a wide array of new and
improved controls as well. We now offer support for Angular 2 across our more
than 80 JavaScript controls. Our new kanban board makes it easier than ever to
visualize and organize workflows. The chart control has nine new features,
while the Excel-like spreadsheet control and Word-like rich text editor have
been updated and enhanced. Android M and Windows 10 mobile themes are now
available across all controls to provide a uniform appearance to web apps, and
major updates have been applied to our diagram, Gantt, grid, PDF viewer, and
pivot grid controls, among others.
The kanban
control makes workflow simple to understand.
As ever, we are proud of the numerous updates and additions
to Essential Studio in this release. Syncfusion strives to offer the broadest
collection of controls for enterprise application development across mobile,
web, and desktop platforms. We hope that you will find this update as exciting
as we do. You can see the complete list of new features in What’s New, and download
a free 30-day trial of Essential
Studio 2016 Volume 1. If you’re already a Syncfusion user, you can download
the updates right now by logging into Direct-Trac. As always, we
want to know what you’re eager to try. Leave a comment below, send us a message
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