### Windows Forms

Essential Grid

1. We reworked the design-time experience for the cell-oriented grid. A popup form lets you edit cell-contents outside the VS IDE.
2. The grid now has support for serialization to XML and you read back the grid from XML with all its properties, options, cell contents and base styles.
3. At design-time you can now specify whether you want to save cell-contents into code or if you want to write them into a Resx file.
4. Support for Microsoft Excel Export

Essential Tools

1. Elaborate support for visual themes across all compatible controls.
2. Visual Studio 2005-style docking and other docking enhancements.

Essential Chart

1. Support for hosting of Windows Forms controls: hosted controls can be docked inside Essential Chart and are included when printing or exporting.
2. Support for Box Plot chart type.
3. Support for exporting to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Essential Diagram

1. Support for Line Routing and Line Bridging.
2. New import and export formats, Visio Stencil Import, Metafile, and SVG Export

Essential Edit

1. User Margin and Wordwrap features enhanced to support custom text and background, including gradient colors.
2. Text Encoding feature added to support serializing the Edit Control’s contents in ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-7, Unicode, and Big Endian Unicode encoding formats.
3. Support for XP-themed styles for the scrollbars, splitters, intellisense popups, control border, and outlining tooltip.
4. Predefined configuration settings added for syntax highlighting Java and embedded VBScript in HTML.
5. Built-in status bar support added to display information regarding the state of the application like caret position, insert key status, currently open file name and so on.
6. Lexical Macros feature added to support specifying regolar expressions for configuration settings using user friendly macros.
7. Updated samples and documentation

Essential XlsIO

1. Major performance enhancements.
2. Updated chart support.
3. Support for Grouping/Ungrouping worksheets.
4. Support for setting defaolt row and column styles.
5. Support for setting worksheet tab color.
6. Support for setting worksheet background image.

Essential Grouping

1. Performance enhancements.
2. Updated samples and documentation.
3. Support for Excel Export.

Essential HTMLUI

1. Optimized loading and rendering of tables.
2. Label-like interface: usage made easier.