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Road Map for Essential Studio for .NET MAUI

Road Map for Essential Studio® for .NET MAUI

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.

New Controls

The following new controls will be implemented with all their required functionalities:

  • Markdown Viewer
  • Media Element
  • Rich Text Editor
  • Smart Text Area
  • Speech to Text

Tab View

Header content

This feature allows users to add custom views, such as images and labels, to the headers in tabs when the built-in view is no longer required.

Kanban Board

Custom model mapping

This feature lets users bind unique data structures to the Kanban Board control when default mappings are not enough.

Card item sorting

This feature lets users sort cards within columns to organize tasks.

KeepCard support

This feature lets users maintain kanban card positions during data updates to preserve user context.

Image Editor

JPG image saving

This feature lets users save images in .JPG format for broader compatibility.

ListView

Item drag and drop

This feature allows users to reorder the items in Grid layout by dragging and dropping them.

Calendar

Auto-adjust month view height

Automatically adjusts the month view height to fit available space when leading and trailing dates are hidden.

Toolbar

Multi-row toolbar

This feature allows users to organize toolbar items into multiple rows, making it easier to manage and access tools in applications with a larger number of toolbar items.

Extended row toolbar

Allows toolbars to extend beyond the standard row width, accommodating more items without wrapping to a new row.

Scheduler

Horizontal resource view

The horizontal resource view support in the scheduler’s day, week, and work week views groups appointments based on resources.

Built-in appointment editor

This feature enables users to edit appointments using the built-in appointment editor.

Visible resource count

This feature allows users to set the number of resources visible in the scheduler.

Hide non-working days

This feature allows users to hide non-working days in the timeline month view.

Sunburst Chart

Selection

This feature allows users to select or highlight the segment by interacting with it.

Drill Down

This feature allows users to virtualize large datasets into minimal views for efficient data exploration.

PDF Viewer

Annotation list with comments

This feature displays a comprehensive list of all annotations present in the PDF document. The list includes the comments added to the annotations and allows quick navigation to specific ones.

Redaction

This feature allows users to remove sensitive or confidential content from PDF documents permanently. Users can select text or areas to redact, preview the redaction before applying it, and ensure that the removed content cannot be recovered. This helps maintain privacy and compliance with data protection standards.

DataGrid

Data validation

This feature validates user inputs against predefined criteria before any changes are committed.

Add new row

This feature enables users to add new rows directly within the DataGrid through an editable UI, such as an inline row integrated into the DataGrid interface.

Filter row

The feature allows users to filter data by column values, with customizable filter operations and visibility settings using another row integrated into the UI.

Context menu

This feature provides right-click context menus for interacting with cells.

Column chooser

This feature allows users to show or hide columns as needed dynamically.

Extended selection

This feature enables users to select multiple rows or cells by key modifiers and dragging.

Picker column

This feature allows users to select the predefined values using a pop-up within each cell.

TreeView

Filter nodes

This feature allows users to filter nodes based on defined criteria.

Sort nodes

This feature allows users to change the sequence of the nodes through sorting.

Empty view

This feature allows users to display a customizable message or view when no nodes exist.

Excel Library

Chart to image conversion

The following chart types are to be supported in chart to image conversion. This enhancement will ensure these chart types are accurately represented in the resulting images, providing higher fidelity to the original Excel charts.

  • Stacked line
  • Stacked line with markers
  • Waterfall
  • Treemap
  • Box and whisker
  • Volume-high-low-close
  • Volume-open-high-low-close

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.

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