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What's New in ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2018 v3

We're pleased to announce GrapeCity's final major release of 2018. Not only will you find great new chart and grid enhancements, but we've expanded our onboarding and customer experience.

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But first, the top news!

New Control in WPF: Simplified Ribbon

Improve the look and navigation of your WPF apps with the modern, minimalistic simplified ribbon! This new control occupies the middle ground between a ribbon a toolbar, providing a single-line collapsed state, or a three-line ribbon-like appearance, and its design is influenced by Microsoft's ever-evolving Office 365 ribbon.

WPF simplified ribbon

You can customize the style of the ribbon, as well as the buttons you'd like to include.

Introducing the WPF Simplified Ribbon Control - Tutorial

Read the blog about WPF Simplified Ribbon

New Control Designer for ASP.NET MVC

With our newly-enhanced scaffolders, you can use the control wizard to configure controls when you're not using Entity Framework and generate code for a C1 MVC control!

ASP.NET MVC Control Designer

In addition to inserting a new control, this now supports updating an existing control definition using the wizard.

For example, if FlexGrid is declared in Razor view (as shown in the image), by placing the cursor within the definition and selecting “Update C1 Control” from context menu, you can set properties for that control and generate the required code. This feature is supported in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core MVC. This wizard can be invoked through the context menu or through Quick Actions in Razor view.

Learn more about the Control Wizard for ASP.NET MVC


WinForms Updates

New Material Theme Designer

In addition to adding Material, Material Dark, and Office 2016 Excel Green themes, WinForms now features a Material Theme Designer sample that allows you to set the primary and accent colours of Material theme and save\load them in C1themes format.

WinForms Material Theme Designer

Learn more about the WinForms Material Theme Designer

New DataFilter control (beta)

A powerful UI addition, the DataFilter provides an easy, ecommerce-like filter to accompany any data-aware control. You can create filters from datasources, autogenerated, or create them manually. The accordion-based filtering UI can be attached to any control sharing a datasource or plugged into an info screen. The DataFilter is in beta mode and will be launched in 2019 v1.

WinForms DataFilter control

Learn more about the DataFilter

New Sparkline control and FlexGrid integration

This lightweight sparkline chart control represents the general shape of data variation in a condensed visual. It's often embedded in grids, and as such, FlexGrid can now display sparklines in columns, and it's now easier to plot trends inside FlexGrid cells. The sparkline property of the FlexGrid column supports plotting line, column, and WinLoss sparklines.

You can further customize these sparklines by setting the Axis, markers, and series colours among others.

WinForms Sparkline

Learn more about sparkline | Learn more about FlexGrid sparkline integration

Additional enhancements

FlexGrid now supports SortDefinition and GroupDefinition, so grouping and sorting column information can now be saved and loaded.

Scheduler's table and agenda views are now launched and out of beta.

FlexChart now supports animation when loading, updating, and adding new data.


XAML Updates: WPF and UWP

In addition to the new WPF simplified ribbon control, WPF and UWP have several new features.

FlexGrid101 Samples

We’ve added a new C1Icon that enable a new level of customization for the sort, filter, and grouping glyphs, as well as FlexGrid101 samples to make it even easier to get started with our most popular control. The samples found in FlexGrid101 are meant to be the best place for developers to get started using out most popular control. They demonstrate features like selection, cell customization, conditional formatting, filtering, the RowDetails feature, cell merging, and many other points of interest.

WinForms Sparkline

C1Icon

C1Icon is a new object that we’re using within the FlexGrid to make it much easier to customize the many icons used throughout for sorting, filter, etc. C1Icon allows you to specify your own image, font character, or use a built-in template to change the appearance of the icons found in the data grid. Here's a look a the UWP C1Icon in action:

XAML C1Icon

Read the blog about C1Icon

Scheduler

The new TableView Scheduler sample displays appointments in a table view that can be grouped, sorting, or filtered as specified by the developer or end user. It's similar to the Outlook 2016 List and Active views:

XAML Scheduler TableView

AgendaView displays appointments grouped by date in a table view where a single table row represents a single appointment. Users can edit appointments by double-clicking on an appointment and opening the EditAppointment dialog. This view is always sorted by dates in ascending order, and doesn’t have row or column headers.

We’ve also added a new “Working Elsewhere” appointment availability status:

XAML Scheduler AgendaView

FlexChart

We’ve added animations, performance improvements, legend scrolling, and many other enhancements to FlexChart in this release.

Animations

FlexChart now has animations for loading, updating, and changes to the chart axes. You can also create your own custom animations using the AnimationTransform event.

XAML Chart Animations

Financial Chart also includes these animations: WinForms | WPF | UWP

Ranged drawing mode

Ranged drawing mode allows support for built-in floating bar and Gantt charts. Ranged drawing mode is available for Bar, Column, and Area Charts.

XAML Ranged Drawing

New overlays in FinancialChart

FinancialChart includes two new overlays!

Alligator overlay

The Alligator overlay combines moving averages with fractal geometry and nonlinear dynamics. The jaw (red line), teeth (green line), and lips (blue line) of the Alligator show the interaction of different time periods. As clear trends can be seen only 15 to 30 per cent of the time, it is essential to follow them and refrain from working on markets that fluctuate only within certain price periods.

XAML Alligator overlays

Learn more: WPF | UWP

ZigZag overlay

Zig zag lines only appear when there is a price movement between a swing high and a swing low that is greater than a specified percentage (usually 5%).

XAML ZigZag overlays

Learn more: WPF | UWP

Other Enhancements

UWP controls are now available through NuGet.


ASP.NET MVC Updates

In addition to the wizard (at top), we've added new enhancements to controls and a new demo.

New Flight Statistics Sample

This dashboard-style sample displays flight performance data over time. Controls include FlexGrid with sparkline columns for delay trend and KPI columns. A treemap, bar chart, and line symbol chart are used in to display region-wide statistics, and users can drill down to a specific region and city by selecting the data points.

On clicking a region in the Total Flights TreeMap, the FlexGrid displays the details of that region.

ASP.NET MVC Flight Statistics

Try the Flight Statistics Demo

Group items in ComboBox

From the user request folder! With CollectionView already supporting grouping, ComboBox grouping could be implemented with some custom code, but we added this as a simple property in the control itself:

ASP.NET MVC ComboBox grouping

Learn more about ComboBox grouping

ActiveReports added to FlexViewer

In addition to FlexViewer's support for ActiveReports, a new Item Template allows you to quickly configure the viewer in your ASP.NET MVC app.

ASP.NET MVC ComboBox grouping

Learn more about FlexViewer

DashboardDemo updated with Material Design

Our popular DashboardDemo has been updated to include Material Design principles and color schemes. In addition, the DashboardLayout control has been added to the dashboard and analysis tabs.

ASP.NET MVC Dashboard Demo

Try the Dashboard Demo

FlexGrid Enhancements

Use ColumnGroupProvider to create multi-level merged-cell column headers for groups of related columns. This feature is available as a sample:

ASP.NET MVC grid column grouping

Use the AccessibilityExtender to easily extend accessibility support in one of two ways. This sample demonstrates how to extend accessibility in two ways:

  • Resize columns using the keyboard (alt+left/right keys).
  • Provide an "alert" method that changes the content of an invisible element with the role "alert." This allows assistive tools to announce grid actions like sorting and filtering.

See the full change log

Jody Handley

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