2025 Volume 1 boosts our Windows Forms suite with an improved designer for .NET 8 and up, SmartArt functionality in Word Library, and conversion of PowerPoint shapes to PDF form fields.
What’s New
What's New in Essential Studio® for WinForms
In this release, the WinForms designer has been improved for .NET 8 and .NET 9, making it easier to design and configure controls. This update resolves design-time issues from earlier .NET versions using the new out-of-process designer model, ensuring a smoother experience similar to the .NET Framework.
The Syncfusion® Excel Library is now significantly faster when creating, reading, and saving Excel workbooks. The latest optimizations have improved processing speed across various data types, making operations on large datasets more efficient.
Performance gains (150 rows × 10,000 columns)
PDF documents can now be created in compliance with the PDF/UA-2 accessibility standard, ensuring they meet the latest accessibility requirements. This enhancement improves usability for assistive technologies, making PDFs more accessible to all users.
Generated PDFs now feature well-structured and properly tagged content, enhancing accessibility and compliance with industry standards. This improves navigation and content interpretation for users relying on assistive technologies.
The PDF Library now supports the ZUGFeRD 2.3.2 standard, enabling seamless creation and processing of electronic invoices. This feature integrates both human-readable and machine-readable data, ensuring compatibility with e-invoicing systems and regulatory compliance.
Users can now define custom role mappings for tagged elements in PDFs, offering greater flexibility in document accessibility. This allows tag roles to be customized to better align with specific accessibility requirements and document structures.
This functionality introduces hatch brush patterns in PDF graphics, allowing users to fill shapes, text, and other graphical elements with customizable hatch patterns. It enhances the visual presentation of PDF content and provides design flexibility.
This security enhancement allows users to restrict HTTP requests during the HTML-to-PDF conversion process. By blocking external resource access, it ensures greater control over data security, preventing1 unauthorized content retrieval and enhancing privacy.
The PowerPoint Library now includes a setting to convert shapes into editable PDF text form fields during PowerPoint-to-PDF conversion. This allows users to generate interactive PDFs for surveys, applications, and feedback forms, enabling digital form-filling.
The .NET Word Library now allows you to programmatically create, edit, and remove SmartArt graphics in Word documents, making it easy to generate process flows and structured documents.
With this feature, SmartArt graphics in Word documents are accurately converted to PDF or image formats while preserving their structure and appearance. This ensures clear communication in presentations and reports sharing across different devices.
Improved the performance of converting large TXT files to Word documents, achieving 10x faster conversion for files with 100,000+ lines, enabling seamless processing of extensive text content.
