Essential Chart

Rich Border Styles

Enhance the appearance of charts using the rich border styles built into the chart. 13 different border styles are included to choose from. The colors and size of the borders can also be customized.

Enhanced Scale Break Feature

The Scale Break feature has been improved to reflect real world situations. The appearance can also be customized using different line types, line spacing, and colors.

 

Clustered 3D View

Visualize 3D data clearly with the new clustered rendering mode. Series of data will be clearly spaced along the Z axis to improve clarity.

 

Horizontal Error Bars

Error bars are used to show variations of the points plotted in a chart. Support for horizontal errors bars has been added.

Samples Enhancement

Most of the samples have been revamped to give a consistent look and feel in order to show all the features.

Essential Grid

Pass Through Grouping

Grouping/Sorting/Paging operations in Grid control have been greatly optimized by allowing for Pass Through Grouping. This approach removes the additional overhead of grouping data in the middle layer and improves performance by just querying and retrieving data from the database as needed.

Client Side Improvements

Enhanced client side functionalities enable rich user interaction with the Grid. Mouse movements over rows can be responded to and columns can be hidden and shown on the client side itself.

LINQ support

Essential Grid now supports Language Integrated Queries (LINQ) in its database operations. It is not only used to query a database but also used with text files, XML files, and other data sources using identical syntax.

Grouping, Filtering, Caching session data, Paging and Record Search are the areas where LINQ comes into play. Large datasets are handled easily by the Grid using LINQ.

DataPager Support

Essential Grid now supports the DataPager control available in .NET 3.5. Easily display large amounts of data and enable flexible paging using the DataPager.

New GridPager Control

A GridPager control is included with Essential Grid to enable on demand paging. The GridPager also supports skin based customization.

Built in Filter Bar Cells

The new FilterBarTextCell allows filtering of the records based on input values. Events are raised to allow for behavior customization.

Drag Drop Rows

Easily Drag and Drop grid rows between grids. Server side and Client side events are implemented to allow for customization.

RTL support

Work with any Unicode-supported language using GridGroupingControl.

FF 3.0 support

Now work seamlessly with Firefox 3.0 and all other Gecko browsers.

New designer Editor Form

New samples

Completely renovated samples show the casing-in-depth feature listing for GridGroupingControl.

Updated documentation

There is updated documentation with in-depth details on using GridGroupingControl with its new features.

Essential Diagram

Client Side Node Resizing

Essential Diagram now supports resizing of nodes on the client side.

Node Context Menu

Enhance user interactivity by associating context menus with diagram nodes.

In-place Text Node Editing

Essential Diagram now supports in-place editing of text in a node.

Resize Connectors With End Points

Essential Diagram now supports resizing connectors by dragging the end points. User can also resize the connectors by dragging the vertex.

Essential Tools

CAPTCHA Control

A new CAPTCHA control has been added. This control is commonly used on websites to prevent automated submission of forms by scripts and robots.

XHTML Compliance

Most control in Essential Tools are now XHTML 1.0 compliant including the Menu, Toolbar, TreeView, GenericDropDown, Window and RichTextEditor controls.

Extensive Client Side Features

The client side interactivity of the Toolbar, Menu, TreeView and TabStrip controls have been enhanced.

RichTextEditor - CSS Sprite Optimization

Loading of images has been greatly optimized using a CSS Sprite implementation.

Improved Script Management

The SFScriptManager allows for registering scripts and loading them separately. Compression of Javascript is also supported.

Static Menus

Multi-level static menus are supported to combine menus with the appearance of a Tabstrip control.

Enhanced Upload Control

The Uploadbox control supports saving files in streams without saving to disk. Collision detection and management is also built into the control when files with same names are uploaded.

FireFox 3 support

Our Tools Web controls now support the FireFox 3 browser.

New skins for Tools.Web controls

Office2007 Blue, Black, Silver, and Vista format styles have been added to all our Tools Web controls that support skins.

New samples

With this refresh, we have added new samples to our Tools Web collection that show all the client- and server-side properties; events for Treeview, RichTextEditor, Tabstrip, Menu, and GroupBar controls are also demonstrated.

Documentation

Our product documentation is updated with a new User Guide for MultiSelectionDropdown control that instructs the end user on how to get started with that control. It details the control’s usage with its client- and server-side properties and events.

Essential Schedule

Appointment Blocks

Appointment blocks are now supported interactively and through code. The blocked segment appearance can be customized. Appointment collision detection and management is also built into the control.

Localization Support

The Essential Schedule is now fully localizable to any Culture.