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Road Map for Essential Studio for ASP.NET MVC

Road Map for Essential Studio® for ASP.NET MVC

Common

New Markdown Library

The new Markdown library allows users to open, edit, and save Markdown documents. This improves reusability, simplifies maintenance, and supports lightweight integration for markdown-specific needs.

Production-ready components

The following component is to be developed to production-ready standards for ASP.NET MVC: - Chat UI

Charts

Axis label template

This feature enables the use of custom HTML elements within axis labels, allowing for more flexible and visually rich label customization.

No-data template

This feature allows users to show custom HTML content when no data is available, such as in empty chart states.

Exporting charts with grids

This feature allows users to export both a chart and a grid together in a single PDF file.

Stock Chart

No-data template

This feature allows users to show custom HTML content when no data is available, such as in empty chart states.

Diagram

Visio (.vsdx) import and export

This feature lets users open Visio (.vsdx) files in the Diagram component, and also save their diagrams as .vsdx files. It helps users work easily with Syncfusion and Microsoft Visio without losing any shapes or connections.

Word Processor

Asynchronous document loading

This feature allows documents to load in the background without blocking the user interface, enabling users to interact with other parts of the webpage while loading continues.

WordML mapping

WordML mapping for rich text content control enables binding formatted XML data to specific placeholders in Word documents. This is useful for auto-filling complex, styled sections (like legal clauses) in Word templates from external XML sources while retaining formatting.

Page backgrounds

This feature allows users to add fill colors, watermarks, or images to page backgrounds to enhance the document appearance or convey branding. It can be used to apply a company logo as a background image, confidentiality watermarks, or a colored background for marketing materials.

Rotation for shapes and images

The rotation applied to shapes and images is preserved, ensuring both appear at their intended angles when the document is opened.

Scheduler

Summary row

This feature allows users to render a custom row to show a summary or event details at the bottom of the Scheduler.

File Manager

Template for large icons view

This feature allows users to customize the large icons view to preview the files as a miniature.

Rich Text Editor

AI assistant

The AI Assistant enhances content creation with real-time suggestions, grammar corrections, tone adjustments, and formatting recommendations through a toolbar. It also supports custom prompts for tailored content generation.

Markdown with auto formatting

This feature lets users get and set Markdown content in the HTML editor for seamless format conversion. It introduces auto-formatting of Markdown syntax in the editor, instantly rendering elements like headings (#), bold (*), and italics () as formatted HTML.

Checklist

This feature allows users to create checklists (to-do lists) directly within the Rich Text Editor. Users can easily add interactive checkbox items to their content, enabling task tracking and action item management within documents.

Enhance content copy

The feature streamlines content management by stripping unwanted styles when copying HTML, ensuring clean output while preserving text formatting like font styles, colors, and alignments for seamless copying within the editor or externally.

Enhance import/export security for Word and PDF

This feature enables passing authorization tokens during Word document imports and while exporting to PDF or Word formats. It ensures secure document access by validating user permissions during both import and export operations.

Quick insert for table rows and columns

This feature allows users to insert rows and columns into a table quickly. When hovering the mouse near the table edges, a “+” icon appears, enabling users to add rows or columns with a single click.

Enhance table properties

This feature allows users to customize the table border width and color within the Rich Text Editor. Users can easily adjust the thickness and appearance of table borders to match their document styling needs.

Enhances source code view

This feature introduces improved alignment and formatting in the source code view of the Rich Text Editor. It enhances the readability of underlying HTML content by applying consistent indentation and structure, making it easier for users to review and edit code directly within the editor.

Kanban Board

Rearrange columns

This feature provides drag-and-drop functionality for Kanban columns, allowing users to easily rearrange columns within the board. By enabling column reordering, this enhancement improves board customization and workflow flexibility.

PDF Viewer

Enhanced redaction annotation

This feature allows users to mark content for redaction, preview the changes, and permanently remove text, images, or specific areas from a document before sharing. Redacted data is completely removed to ensure privacy and compliance in the loaded documents.

Ink annotation eraser

This feature allows users to erase specific parts of ink annotations on a page for precise editing. Instead of removing the entire annotation, users can make targeted adjustments to refine their notes or drawings more easily.

Spreadsheet

Collaborative editing

This feature allows real-time editing with multiple users working on the same spreadsheet simultaneously, improving team productivity and ensuring seamless collaboration with live updates and conflict handling.

Text overflow management

Users will be able to control how text behaves when it exceeds cell boundaries, whether overflowing into empty cells, clipping with tooltips, or wrapping with auto-adjusted row height.

Discontinuous data range for charts

This feature allows non-contiguous cell ranges, enabling users to select specific data columns or rows for more flexible and customized visualizations.

Export of custom formulas

This feature preserves custom formulas with evaluated results during export.

Word Library

CSS selectors and attributes in HTML to Word conversion

Enhance HTML to Word conversion by supporting the CSS style hierarchy, including element, class, descendant, group selectors, and inline style attributes. This improvement ensures that complex HTML structures retain their original formatting and styling in Word documents, minimizing visual discrepancies and preserving design fidelity.

Enhance Word comparison accuracy

Enhance the accuracy of the Word Library’s document comparison by integrating the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) algorithm. Currently, the comparison logic does not utilize LCS, resulting in differences from Microsoft Word’s comparison output. By adopting the LCS algorithm, the comparison results will closely align with those of MS Word, ensuring more accurate and reliable document diffing.

Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

Multilingual text and symbol preservation

Enhanced support for multilingual text and symbol rendering, addressing previous issues with Vietnamese, French, Spanish, Italian, Malayalam, Kannada, and Tamil. This ensures that characters and symbols are accurately preserved during conversion, significantly improving the readability and integrity of documents containing diverse scripts.

Vertical text direction

This feature allows vertical text flow in text boxes, shapes, and tables, enabling accurate layout reproduction for East Asian scripts and specialized formatting. This enhancement is particularly valuable for documents that rely on vertical orientation for cultural, academic, or design-specific reasons.

Line borders

This feature allows text borders and line border styles across tables, paragraphs, and pages. This ensures that documents with custom or styled borders retain their intended structure and visual emphasis, enhancing the overall fidelity of the converted output.

Picture formatting

This feature allows transparency and irregular cropping using predefined shapes, for more accurate rendering of image-rich documents and preserving the visual design and layout as intended in the original Word files.

Page number styles

This feature allows advanced page number formatting in PDF and image conversions, including formats and separators like hyphens or colons. This is especially useful for technical manuals or academic documents that follow structured pagination for easy navigation and referencing.

Localized date and time fields

This feature allows date and time fields to be rendered in the appropriate regional format during PDF and image conversions based on the language specified for each field in the Word document. This ensures culturally appropriate formatting for multilingual audiences.

PDF Library

Linearized PDF creation

This feature lets users create linearized PDF documents optimized for fast web viewing.

Redaction annotation enhancement: Quad point

This enhancement introduces quad point support in PDF redaction annotations, enabling precise and flexible redaction that is especially useful for multi-line text selections and complex document layouts.

DataGrid

Auto-merge using rowspan and colspan

The feature automatically merges consecutive rows with identical data using rowspan and consolidates consecutive columns with matching data using colspan, enhancing visual representation and readability.

ForeignKey adaptor for server-side data operations

This feature efficiently handles server-side data operations, enabling seamless relational data management with improved performance.

TreeGrid

Empty record template

This feature allows users to change the default ‘No Records’ message to custom text.

Column chooser template

This feature allows full customization of the column chooser’s header, content, and footer, and also manages column visibility.

Gantt Chart

Enhanced baseline duration mapping

Displays planned and actual durations to highlight schedule gaps, enabling better tracking and quicker decisions.

Custom data binding and task operations

This feature allows flexible field mapping with filtering and sorting, and CRUD operations for seamless data integration.

Infinite scrolling

Loads data dynamically while scrolling, reducing memory use and ensuring smooth performance for large project datasets.

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