Syncfusion’s recent Essential Studio® 2022 Volume 3 release was rolled out with many exciting new features and controls. In this blog, let’s see the major updates in the WinUI and WPF platforms.
First, let’s see the new updates in the Syncfusion WinUI platform!
The new WinUI Busy Indicator can display built-in animations while performing certain operations like data loading and navigation, which run in the background of the application, as the end user is waiting for their completion.
The new WinUI Rating control helps us to provide and view ratings for any services provided, such as movies, apps, products.
Previously in the WinUI AutoComplete control, the matched text appeared with its selected text. In addition to this, now it supports auto-appending the matched text with a slightly faded-out color. This is inspired by the Windows 11 app search UI in the OS.
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Similar to the AutoComplete control, the WinUI ComboBox, too, now supports auto-appending the matched text with a slightly faded-out color. This is specifically supported in the ComboBox’s editable mode.
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The WinUI DataGrid control now allows you to filter date values through the filter row. Previously, you could do filtering in the date column like a regular string. Now, you can filter it with the exact date and with many more additional options like greater than, or less than the particular dates.
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The WinUI DataGrid now allows you to export the grid data to Excel files. You have options like choosing the specific columns to be exported, customizing the columns to be exported, and exporting selected rows with customization.
The WinUI PowerPoint Library can now preserve structure tags in converted PDF documents for accessibility (PDF/UA or 508 compliance) support.
The new features rolled out for the WinUI Radial Gauge are as follows:
You can use an overlay effect around the marker pointer while interacting with the mouse.
You can elevate the shape marker pointer to render with a shadow behind it.
The WinUI Ribbon control gains these new features in this 2022 Volume 3 release.
The new Ribbon combo box provides flexibility to adapt to different layouts like normal, simplified, and overflow layouts. While resizing, the items in the combo box can be moved to the overflow menu, as shown in the following image (refer to the layout changes in the font size combo box).
The WinUI Ribbon control will load with animation effects in the following cases:
The WinUI Word Library now supports rendering wavy, wavy heavy, wavy double and double underline styles as they appear in the input Word document.
The new updates in the WinUI PDF Library are as follows.
Long-term validation (LTV) means that all the information that needs to be verified in the digital signature will be embedded within the PDF file.
Now, the Syncfusion WinUI PDF Library digitally signs a PDF document with LTV using just a time-stamp URL. We can download all the necessary details, such as certificate chain, OCSP (Online Certificate Protocol), and CRL (Certificate Revocation List) from the given URL and embed them into the PDF document.
Redaction is the process of permanently removing sensitive or confidential data from a PDF document. Now, the Syncfusion WinUI PDF Library supports true PDF redaction. It can redact text, annotations, and form fields from a PDF document.
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The Syncfusion OCR processor library uses the Tesseract OCR engine by default to extract text from scanned PDFs and images.
Now, users can change the default OCR engine to external OCR services from Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google, and more.
The new updates for the Syncfusion WPF platform are as follows.
The WPF Diagram control now allows you to add a dedicated header block to the container. Though it was previously possible at the app level, it resulted in the overlapping of the elements in certain cases. With this new support, this issue will not occur since the container smartly resizes itself considering the header block.
The WPF PDF Viewer gains the following new, user-friendly features in this 2022 Volume 3 release.
Render digital signatures in the PDF Viewer, even though the user cannot interact with them.
Users can focus on and navigate to the form fields in PDF documents with a specific tab order index. This supports effortless navigation and editing of the form fields in a PDF.
This feature allows users to add, remove, or modify annotations programmatically. Previously, it was possible through UI interaction alone.
The WPF PowerPoint Library can now preserve structure tags in converted PDF documents for accessibility (PDF/UA or 508 compliance) support.
The WPF Word Library can now render wavy, wavy heavy, wavy double and double underline styles as they appear in the input Word document.
Thanks for reading! We have seen exciting new updates in the Syncfusion WinUI and WPF platforms for the 2022 Volume 3 release. These updates are also available on our Release Notes and What’s New pages. Try them out and leave your feedback in the comments section below!
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