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Essential Studio 2008 Volume 4 WPF Edition
Schedule
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October 7, 2008
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| Final Release
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October 14, 2008
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Feature Details
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New drop down cell support
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Dropdown cell architecture will be added to Essential Grid.
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Cell specific customization
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GridStyleInfo properties for cell specific properties like Font and TextColor will be exposed.
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Excel-like formulas
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Support for Excel-like, multisheeted formulas with more than 160 built-in functions will be added.
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Items source binding
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Sample application code for binding to a WPF ItemsSource will be provided.
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New Magnifier control
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Magnifier control is a new control that will allow for magnifying objects. This control provides a view port, which displays the zoomed image of the area around the mouse pointer.
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New Skin manager
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New WPF Skin Manager will be implemented for Syncfusion WPF Controls and Microsoft WPF controls which allows the user to change the application's look and feel easily.
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Vector images
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Attractive icons and images to use inside your applications will be provided as vector images.
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Designer support
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Designer support for the Ribbon Instance will be implemented in both Visual Studio 2008 and in Expression Blend.
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Vista Window Enhancements
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VistaWindow will be improved to support a set of predefined window skins such as MacOS, Media Player 11 and also other attractive custom skins.
This extended window will have the ability to act as a chromeless window, to allow for creating custom appearances by changing the template.
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3D support
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3D chart types support will be extended to Pie chart and its related chart types.
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Data template support
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Essential Chart will have full fledged Data Template support for Chart segments. This feature will allow for complete customization of the look and feel of the chart segments.
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Drill down
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Integrated drill down support will be added.
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Annnotations
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Annotations will be supported. This will allow for information to be displayed at any point in the chart area.
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Custom shapes
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Custom drawing will be implemented allowing for custom shapes to be drawn inside the chart area.
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Silverlight
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Support for embedding chart in Silverlight applications. This will allow for applying animations to chart elements.
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Grouping labels
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Axis labels will support grouping with built in visual support for collapsing and expanding axis label groups.
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Visualize OLAP data
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Chart will support visualizing data from OLAP cubes and Microsoft Analysis Services using ADOMD.NET.
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New features supported
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The following features will be supported in the first release of Essential Diagram:
Complete XAML and DataBinding support.
Load, create and manipulate predefined and custom nodes to create custom diagrams.
Automatic layout algorithms.
XML serialization.
Printing.
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New features supported
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The following features will be supported in the first release of Essential Edit:
Text editing with basic keyboard and mouse events.
Properties to customize the look and feel.
Syntax highlighting support for common programming languages and user defined languages.
File operations.
Line numbers.
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New features supported
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The following features will be supported in the first release of Essential Gauge:
Complete XAML and DataBinding support.
Circular, Linear and Digital gauge controls
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