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Road Map for Essential Studio for ASP.NET MVC

Road Map for Essential Studio® for ASP.NET MVC

Common

Production-ready control

The Chat UI control is production-ready for ASP.NET MVC.

New control

Audio input

The ASP.NET MVC audio input component allows users to record audio, convert speech to text, and playback audio, all within a streamlined interface. It integrates with speech recognition and synthesis APIs, providing a flexible and accessible solution for voice interactions in web applications.

Block editor

The ASP.NET MVC block editor component offers a user-friendly interface for creating and editing content using modular blocks. It supports rich text formatting and customizable layouts, providing an easy solution for dynamic content creation in web applications.

Document Editor

Group shape

This feature supports rendering grouped shapes, allowing users to view them exactly as they appear in a Word document when opening or saving it.

Hidden text

This feature retains hidden text in a Word document, ensuring it remains intact when opened or saved.

Ribbon interface

This feature introduces a ribbon interface as an alternative to the traditional toolbar. It organizes commands into intuitive tabs and groups to help users efficiently locate and access the tools they need.

Maps

Rendering Google static maps

Google static maps can be rendered with customizable add-ons, allowing the addition of markers, sublayers, legends, and more. These features allow users to tailor the map’s content to specific needs, such as displaying custom data, locations, or visual cues to enhance user experience.

Excel Library

Excel-to-PDF and image conversion enhancement

The Syncfusion Excel (XlsIO) library will include an API for adding a custom font collection, which will automatically be used for Excel-to-PDF and image conversion. This ensures that documents maintain their specified typography even if the required fonts are not available in the environment.

Diagram

Avoid overlapping connectors

This feature automatically adjusts connector paths to prevent connectors from overlapping on the diagram page.

Word Library

Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

SmartArt in Word-to-PDF and image conversion

With this feature, the .NET Word library ensures that SmartArt diagrams are accurately converted to PDF or image formats. This guarantees clear information communication during presentations or report sharing.

Custom font support

The .NET Word library will include an API for adding custom fonts. These fonts will be automatically used during Word-to-PDF and image conversions, ensuring that documents maintain their specified typography even if they are not available in the environment.

Advanced shape formatting

The .NET Word library will support advanced shape formatting options, including gradient fill, transparency in fill, pattern fill, and picture fill. This enhancement ensures that visually rich Word documents are accurately rendered in PDFs and images.

Dashed line styles for shapes

With this feature, the .NET Word library will provide comprehensive support for various dashed line styles, such as solid, round dot, square dot, dash, dash-dot, and more. These enhancements ensure precise styling of line shapes during Word-to-PDF and image conversions, maintaining the visual consistency of your documents.

PowerPoint Library

PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancement

Custom font support

The .NET PowerPoint library will include an API for adding custom fonts. These fonts will be automatically used during PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions, ensuring that documents maintain their specified typography even if they are not available in the environment.

PDF Library

Subsetting embedded fonts in PDF to PDF/A conversion

This feature enables users to subset the embedded fonts when converting PDF to PDF/A. Subsetting the fonts will help reduce the final size of the document.

PDF/UA-2 document creation

This feature allows users to create PDF documents that comply with the PDF/UA-2 accessibility standard, ensuring that the documents are universally accessible and meet the highest accessibility requirements.

AES GSM encryption support in PDF

This feature provides advanced security by enabling AES GSM encryption for PDF documents, ensuring that sensitive information is protected with robust encryption mechanisms.

ZUGFeRD 2.3.2

This feature will support the ZUGFeRD 2.3.2 standard, which facilitates the creation and handling of invoices that combine human-readable and machine-readable data in a single PDF.

Restrict HTTP requests when converting HTML to PDF

This feature allows users to restrict HTTP requests during the conversion of HTML to PDF, ensuring enhanced security and control over external resource access during the conversion process.

File Manager

OneDrive file service provider

This feature facilitates the synchronization of OneDrive content with the File Manager, enhancing the user experience in managing cloud-based files and folders.

Scheduler

Prevent overlapping

This feature prevents appointments from overlapping, ensuring a smooth and efficient scheduling experience.

Pivot Table

Classic layout for server-side engine

This feature renders the pivot table using the server-side engine for relational data. It offers a detailed and traditional tabular data presentation with each row label visible at different levels (columns).

Classic layout for OLAP

Render the pivot table using an SSAS OLAP cube, which provides a detailed and traditional tabular presentation of data, with each row label visible at different levels (columns).

Classic layout exporting

This feature allows users to export pivot tables in a classic (tabular) layout to widely used file formats such as Excel, CSV, and PDF.

Input Controls

Adornments

This feature supports custom prefix and suffix adornments to enhance UI interactivity. Prefix adornments are placed before the input field, like currency symbols. Suffix adornments, positioned after the input field, offer functionality such as formatting tools or input-clearing buttons, making input fields more intuitive and user-friendly.

Calendars

Multiple date formats

This feature improves the functionality of the DatePicker/DateTimePicker/TimePicker controls by allowing them to accept date values in various formats. Currently, these controls only accept one date format, which can restrict users with different preferences.

Input Mask

Dynamic mask

This feature enables seamless handling of variable-length inputs with adaptable formatting. It allows masks to dynamically adjust based on user input or predefined conditions, making it ideal for scenarios such as phone numbers with varying country codes, credit card formats based on card type, or custom data entry forms.

DataGrid

DataGrid with chart integration

This feature enables users to generate and view charts dynamically based on the selected data within the grid.

Column chooser with template

Users can modify the column chooser’s appearance by rendering a custom view instead of the default appearance.

Virtualization for details template and hierarchy grid

This feature enhances virtualization by adding the details template and hierarchy grid functionalities.

DataManager

In and not in operators

This feature allows users to filter data using the “in” and not-in” operators.

Charts

Tooltip based on closest point

This feature allows users to display a tooltip for the data point closest to the cursor.

Gradient support

This feature allows users to apply gradient fills to chart data, providing customization options for colors, directions, and opacity levels.

Total stacked values

This feature displays the cumulative total for stacked chart data directly through data labels, improving the clarity and readability of stacked charts.

Corner radius

This feature allows the customization of the corner radius for individual column points.

Vertical axis label wrap

This feature enables users to easily wrap vertical axis labels in a chart for better readability.

Scrollbar position

Position support will be added for horizontal and vertical scrollbars, allowing users to move them to the chart’s top, bottom, left, or right side.

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