The world is always curious about new things! In this new year, Syncfusion is excited to provide new controls and features for the WPF and Windows Forms platforms.
This article will provide an overview of these new controls and features, which will be available with the 2020 Volume 1 beta release, expected to be available in the third week of March.
The WPF Theme Studio has been improved with support for Material light and Material dark themes. These will allow users to change the visual presentation of controls within a few minutes, without requiring any change in the code or the designer. Both Syncfusion WPF controls and frameworks will be categorized in tabs and showcased within the Theme Studio application.
On any change in visual presentation, users can view the entire outcome under one roof. Users will be able to export the themes for .NET Core projects, too.
This feature will allow users to add a tail to the needle pointer and customize it.
This feature will allow users to customize the range pointer’s start and end points with rounded corners.
This feature will allow users to add annotation text or views with customization options.
This feature will allow users to adjust the position of the rim, ranges, pointers, ticks, labels, and annotations based on the offset value and arrange them in relative positions.
Customize the label text in a label-created event.
The following new features will be available for the AutoComplete (SfTextBoxExt) control.
Display selected items from the suggestions as tokens. The customizable token representation will allow users to remove an item with a close button. Also, automatically increment the height of the control to display the selected items as tokens.
Display a custom message to end-users when no search results are found.
This feature will allow users to provide a path for the image to be displayed in the token.
Show a drop-down button in the AutoComplete control. The user can click and review items to select from, similar to a combo box.
Add a custom view in the Image Editor and use different customization options such as rotate and resize.
Save an edited image with a specified name.
Command support will be provided for toolbar items in the Image Editor. These commands can be used for creating a customized toolbar.
Browse images in a local folder and load them in the Image Editor.
This feature will enable PropertyGrid to show and edit an attached property of any object.
This feature will allow users to update the edited values of a selected object in property change and lost focus modes.
Complete keyboard navigation and editing support will be available for the DatePicker and TimePicker controls.
Set the initial zoom level of a map automatically based on map geo-bounds (northeast, southwest) or distance (KM/miles) from the geo-point center value.
This feature will allow users to show tooltips with information on shapes, markers, and bubbles when the cursor interacts with them.
With this feature, you will be able to calculate summary rows for the selected records.
Display the title summary and column summary at the same time.
One of the most requested features for the DataGrid was to show check boxes in a column to select or deselect rows. Now, you can also easily select all the rows in a column using an intuitive check box in the header. This feature will be available with this release.
You will be able to set a gradient background for cells.
Support for LINEST formula will be provided in the calc engine. The same support will be added in the WPF and WinForms Spreadsheet controls, also.
This is not the end of the feature list for the 2020 Volume 1 beta release. Check the list of all the features and improvements made after the rollout of the release.
Stay tuned to our official Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn pages for the announcement about the release.