What's New in Essential Studio^® for WinUI Controls

Common

• Our controls are now compatible with .NET 9.

Kanban (New)

Overview

The Kanban board is a task scheduling control that provides an efficient interface to track and visualize workflow stages, improving project management.

Key features

• Work-in-progress (WIP) limit: Users can set task limits per stage, preventing overload and improving efficiency.
• Cards: Display tasks, progress, and priority.
• Columns: Organize work into columns for stages like to-do, in-progress, and completed.
• Swim lanes: Organize tasks based on projects, teams, or custom criteria.
• Interaction: Includes card tapping, column expansion/collapse, and drag-and-drop.
• Appearance customization: Customize each element using templates, e.g., column headers, cards, and swim lane headers.
• Localization and RTL: This control easily adapts to any supported language or culture. Render the board right-to-left (RTL) to suit RTL languages.
• Themes: Built-in light and dark themes automatically adjust to system settings.

Scheduler

Number of visible weeks in month view

The WinUI Scheduler now allows users to customize the number of weeks visible in the month view.

Excel Library

Excel-to-PDF and image conversion enhancement

The Syncfusion Excel Library now includes the enhancement to preserve WMF images when converting Excel documents to PDF files or images.

Performance improvement

The Syncfusion Excel (XlsIO) library performs with a significant 80% improvement when global styles are applied to Excel worksheets, processing faster and more efficiently.

Decryption

The Syncfusion Compression library now decrypts zip archives with multiple passwords, allowing each archived item to have a unique password for enhanced flexibility and security.

PDF Library

Add and retrieve document-level JavaScript in a PDF

This functionality enables users to add or embed, retrieve, modify, and remove document-level JavaScript actions within PDF documents. These actions, written in ECMAScript, allow dynamic content and interactivity by executing scripts when the document is opened or in response to user interactions.

Flattening specific types of annotations in a PDF

This feature allows users to flatten specific types of annotations in PDF documents, converting them into static content while leaving others editable. It ensures secure, consistent viewing and is ideal for finalizing documents for sharing or submission.

Add date when signing a PDF document

This functionality allows users to set the date signed when adding signatures to PDF documents. This ensures the integrity and authenticity of the document.

PowerPoint Library

PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancement

The Syncfusion PowerPoint Library includes the enhancement to preserve WMF images when converting PowerPoint presentations to PDF files or images.

Word Library

Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

The Syncfusion Word Library now includes the following enhancements when converting Word documents to PDF files or images:

• WMF image preservation: The WMF images in the Word documents are now preserved during PDF or image conversion.

• Multiple columns: Improved column balancing during Word-to-PDF or image conversions for pages with multicolumn layouts and continuous section breaks.