Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC UI Controls (Essential JS 2) - Release Notes

Common

• Starting with version 16.4 (2018 Vol 4), Syncfusion has removed the fewer NuGet packages from the Essential Studio. You can find the older NuGet packages and their equivalent new NuGet package details from the KB article.

• Data Manager Builder support added for Tag helper and Razor in ASP.NET MVC.
• Provided the data annotation support for input controls in Razor syntax.
• Enhance user experience by including Visual Studio Scaffolding templates for Grid, Chart, and Schedule.
• Added !default flag to the component style (SCSS) variables for customization.

Accumulation chart

• The center option has been provided to the accumulation chart.
• Support has been provided for different radius in pie slice.

Chart

• Support for grid line animation has been provided.
• Support has been provided to load data on-demand.

CircularGauge

• Support has been added to set gap between the ranges.
• Support has been added to calculate the radius of the gauge based on the start and end angles.

Dialog

• Provided option to specify the type of the dialog’s buttons such as submit, reset.
• Provided resizable support to the dialog for both modal dialog and modeless dialog (non-modal).

Document Editor

• Added support for Right-to-left flow direction in control.
• Added support for table auto fit layout.
• Added Document Editor Container component for toolbar and properties pane.

Grid

• Initial multi-sorting icon is added incorrectly fixed.
• Validation for complex property is not added properly resolved.

• Dialog edit template support added.
• Reactive aggregate update support added.
• Date time type column filter support added.
• Windows explorer like check-box selection added.
• Expand and collapse enabled in excel exported document for grouped grid.
• Support to prevent the overriding of autofit columns by Resizing added.
• Show All option added for page size drop-down.

HeatMap

• Support for toggling the cell visibility with legend selection has been added for fixed type legend in heat map. This support helps to view the data points with values which matches the legend selection.
• Multi-level axis label grouping feature has been added to heat map.
• Cell selection feature has been added to heat map, this feature helps to select single or multiple heat map cells at run-time.
• Support for binding date object to axis labels for cell JSON data has been provided.
• Support for auto generating axis labels for cell JSON data has been provided.
• Provided support for formatting legend label in heat map.
• Provided support for customizing the cell tool tip UI.
• Provided support for customizing the data labels.

InPlaceEditor

Maps

• Support has been added for desaturation color mapping.
• Support has been added to hide specific legend items and bind legend text from data source.
• Support has been added for highlighting or selecting the legend items along with shapes.
• Support has been added to specify multiple fields in the data source for shapePropertyPath.
• Events has been added for zoom-in and zoom-out.

PDF Viewer

The PDF Viewer component enables you to view and print the PDF files.

• Both normal and PDF files protected with AES and RC4 encryption can be opened and displayed.
• Core interactions are included: scrolling, zooming, panning, and page navigation.
• Built-in toolbar.
• Text can be selected and copied from PDF files.
• Text can be easily searched for across the PDF document.
• Easy navigation with the help of bookmarks, thumbnails, hyperlinks, and a table of contents.
• Two view modes are included: fit-to-page and fit-to-width.
• An entire document or a specific page can be printed directly from the browser.

Pivot Grid

• 219623 - Text in the field list tab gets completely displayed in mobile layout.

• 219625 - Scrolling works properly in touch mode when virtual scroll option is enabled.

• 219625 - In mobile device, virtual scrolling sample is loaded properly from the sample browser.

• 219625 - In mobile device, last column cells are displayed properly.

• Raw items in the control can be edited and updated at runtime.
• Provided support to list the raw items for a particular value cell.
• In the filter pop-up, provided support to set the limit the display field values and search option for refining the values from large data.
• Provided hyperlink support to perform any custom operation programmatically.
• Defer update option has been provided to refresh the control on-demand and not during every UI interaction for better performance.
• Provided support to show or hide subtotals and grand totals for rows and columns.
• More aggregation types like – Distinct Count, Product, Running Totals, Percentage of Column Total, Percentage of Parent Column Total, Population Var are added.

ProgressButton

The progress button visualizes the progression of an operation to indicates the user that a process is happening in the background. The progress can be shown with graphics accompanied by a textual representation.

• Types, Sizes, and Styles - Provided with different types, sizes and predefined styles of progress button.
• Icons and Spinner - Supports icon, spinner and its positioning.
• Animation - Provided with predefined animation and progress indicator.
• Events - Supports event triggering at specified interval.
• Accessibility - Provided with built-in accessibility support that helps to access all the ProgressButton component features through the keyboard, screen readers, or other assistive technology devices.

QueryBuilder

The Query Builder component is a graphical user interface that allows users to create and edit filters. It outputs a structured JSON of filters that can be easily parsed to create SQL. It is integrated with Data Manager to communicate with data sources and returns the desired result based on the provided filter. It supports data binding, templates, validation, and horizontal and vertical orientation.

• Data binding: It auto populates the data source and maps the data to the appropriate fields.
• Template: Supports templates and it is applicable for all input components.
• Queries: Queries supports JSON/SQL rules.

Schedule

• The class name ScheduleResourcesModel to access the resource options has been changed to ScheduleResource now as per the standard.
• The class name ScheduleViewsModel to access the view options has been changed to ScheduleView now as per the standard.

• Timeline view - Displays the day, week, work week and month view layouts in timeline mode by illustrating both the date and time intervals in horizontal orientation. Also, it organizes the resource display in a hierarchical tree structure based on the grouping levels.
• Header rows - Provided support to add custom header rows on timeline views, to depict an additional row for displaying the corresponding year, month, week number and dates.
• Drag and Drop - Appointments can be easily rescheduled to some other time, by dragging and dropping it onto the required time slots.
• Resize - Appointment’s time can be easily extended either by resizing its start or end handlers.
• Week Number - Support added to display the week number of the current date, beside the date header section.
• Provided template support for customizing quick popup, that opens while clicking on the cells or appointments.
• The data type of the appointment ID field is made compatible to accept both string and number type values.

Stock Chart

Stock Chart component is used to track and visualize stock price of any company over a specific period using charting and range tools. All stock elements are rendered by using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

• Data Binding - Binds the data with local and remote data source.
• Chart - To represent the selected data and its supports candle, hilo, OHLC, line, spline and area type series.
• Range Selector - To select the smaller range from a larger collection.
• Data Types - Supports three different types of data, namely Numerical, Datetime, and Logarithmic.
• Animation - Chart series and slider will be animated when rendering and changing the selected data.
• Period Selector - Supports period selector to select data based on predefined periods.
• Tooltip - Supports tooltip for the selected data.
• Export - Supports to print the chart directly from the browser and exports in both JPEG and PNG format.

TextBox

• Included TextBox component as separate component with floating functionality.

TreeMap

• Support has been added for desaturation color mapping.
• Support has been added to hide specific legend items and bind legend text from data source.
• Support has been added for highlighting or selecting the legend items along with shapes.
• Support has been added to bind colors for the items from the data source.

TreeView

• In TreeView, “scrolling is not working smoothly for iPad device” issue has been resolved.

• Provided an option to disable child nodes when load-on-demand support is enabled.
• Provided an option to disable the load-on-demand support in TreeView control.

Uploader

• Enabled sequential upload support to file upload component that upload the selected files one after the other to the server.
• New event provided “chunkUploading” which trigger on every chunk to be upload in file upload.
• Provided the option to get additional data back from a server to client on file upload.