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What's New in Essential Studio for WinUI Controls

ESSENTIAL STUDIO® 2025 VOLUME 1

What's New in Essential Studio® for WinUI Controls

With 2025 Volume 1, WinUI receives a logarithmic axis in Cartesian Charts, card transition control in Kanban, and enhanced PDF accessibility and compliance.

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AI AssistView

Stop AI response

This feature enables users to stop the AI’s response generation midway, providing better control during interactions.

Cartesian Charts

Logarithmic axis enhancement

The Syncfusion® WinUI Cartesian Charts control now includes logarithmic axis support, enabling clear visualization of data with large value ranges, ideal for scientific and financial applications.

Cartesian Charts logarithmic axis

Kanban

Workflow support in WinUI Kanban

Users can allow or restrict card transitions from one column to another in Kanban to maintain a controlled workflow process.

Workflow in WinUI Kanban control

Excel Library

Excel-to-PDF and image conversion enhancement

The Excel-to-PDF and image conversion processes now accurately preserve EMF+ and EMF Dual images, ensuring high-quality output. These vector-based images are retained with clarity, making them ideal for use in manuals, reports, and other professional documentation.

Excel to PDF and image enhancements

Performance improvements

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)

  • Text: 60% faster
  • DateTime: 50% faster
  • Number: 60% faster
  • Boolean: 43% faster
  • Formula: 90% faster

PDF Library

PDF/UA-2 accessibility standard

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.

PDF/UA-2 accessibility standard

Well-tagged PDF for improved accessibility

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.

Well-Tagged PDF

Support for ZUGFeRD 2.3.2

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.

ZUGFeRD 2.3.2

Custom role mapping for accessibility

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.

Custom role-map support in PDF accessibility

Hatch brush support in PDF graphics

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.

Hatch brush support in PDF

PowerPoint Library

PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

Preserve shapes as PDF form fields

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.

PowerPoint to PDF

EMF+ and EMF+ Dual preservation 

EMF+ and EMF+ Dual images are now accurately preserved during PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions. Presentation files with these vector-based images can be converted to PDFs while maintaining clarity, ensuring accurate representation in manuals and reports. 

Word Library

Create, modify, and remove SmartArt graphics

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.

  • Create – Programmatically insert 134 types of SmartArt, including hierarchical diagrams, process flows, cycle diagrams, and more, to visually represent information effectively.
  • Edit – Modify SmartArt by updating text, adding nodes, and applying formatting for better customization.
  • Remove – Remove specific nodes or entire SmartArt without affecting other document content, ensuring flexibility in automation.

SmartArt in Word document

Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

SmartArt in Word-to-PDF and image conversion

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.

SmartArt in Word to PDF

EMF+ and EMF+ Dual preservation 

The EMF+ and EMF+ Dual images are accurately preserved during Word-to-PDF and image conversions. Word documents with vector-based diagrams can be converted to PDFs while maintaining clarity, ensuring accurate representation in manuals and reports. 

Improved TXT to Word conversion

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.

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