In 2025 Volume 2, WPF developers can enjoy simplified theme customization, embeddable font subsets to reduce PDF/A file sizes, and editable regions in protected Word documents.
What’s New
What's New in Essential Studio® for WPF
Our controls are now compatible with .NET 10.
With this release, support has been added for applying themes based on default styles, removing the previous requirement for resource merging into App.xaml. This fundamental change delivers several key advantages:
Enhanced runtime flexibility: This includes a more straightforward and out-of-the-box experience for switching themes at runtime.
Effortless custom styling: Users can now apply their custom styles directly to the control themes, without using BasedOn.
Cleaner application structure: This update helps reduce the need for merging theme files into theme Window or app resources.
This feature allows users to customize the response toolbar in chat. By default, the toolbar contains built-in options such as copy, regenerate, like, and dislike. Users can also add custom items, as needed.
The Syncfusion Excel Library supports Auto Fill and Fill Series features, allowing users to programmatically fill a range of cells based on patterns, sequences, or trends, eliminating manual data entry.
The PDF library supports embedding fonts as subsets during PDF to PDF/A conversion, ensuring only necessary characters are included. This helps significantly reduce the final file size while maintaining conformance with PDF/A standards, making it ideal for archiving and efficient storage without compromising document integrity.
With the AES GCM encryption, users can encrypt or decrypt PDF documents using a secure and modern cryptographic standard. This enhances data protection by offering both confidentiality and integrity in professional workflows.
Form fields in a PDF can be grouped for improved organization and easier data handling. With this support, related fields can be treated as a unit, allowing batch processing, styling, or validation, simplifying complex form development and enhancing user interaction.
Redaction annotations are more customizable with support for separate fill colors for the mark and the redacted content area. In addition, users can add comments and maintain a review history directly within annotations, promoting better collaboration and providing clear traceability throughout the review and redaction process.
When converting a PowerPoint with charts to PDF or images, the following features help ensure accurate chart content rendering:
Font substitution: Users can configure alternative fonts to use when the original fonts inside charts are unavailable on the system, ensuring consistent text appearance.
Fallback fonts for Unicode text: These fonts are used automatically when the rendering engine encounters Unicode characters missing in the specified fonts, preserving multilingual chart text.
This feature allows users to set editable regions in protected documents, enabling specific parts to remain editable while the rest stay locked. This is useful for templates or forms like contracts, where users can update only designated parts of the Word document without altering the rest.
Create different list number formats such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and Thai. Ensures numbering styles remain accurate in multilingual documents like global reports, contracts, and educational materials.
Shape formats: Supports gradient, transparent, and pattern fills in Word documents. Ensures visually rich content like infographics and styled reports retains its design when converted to PDFs or images.
Recolor pictures: Preserves recolor effects such as grayscale, sepia, and color tone adjustments during Word-to-PDF or image conversion. It is ideal for maintaining brand consistency in marketing materials and visual reports.
Preserves the drawing canvas and its contents during Word-to-PDF and image conversions. Useful for maintaining the layout in grouped shapes, flowcharts, or diagrams used in reports, manuals, and presentations.
When converting a Word document with charts to PDF or images, the following features help ensure accurate chart content rendering:
Font substitution: Users can configure alternative fonts to use when the original fonts inside charts are unavailable on the system, ensuring consistent text appearance.
Fallback fonts for Unicode text: These fonts are used automatically when the rendering engine encounters Unicode characters missing in the specified fonts, preserving multilingual chart text.
