Essential Studio Reviews

Many updates cause malfunctions in components from previous versions, Syncfusion Essential Studio is no exception, however its technical support is highly committed to continuous product improvement, creating successful customer support experiences. Generating software in Essential Studio manages to improve the processes of any organization, making it easy and intuitive.

The examples in the documentation are not enough. Should include more technical examples of component implementation

Export to excel and pdf from datagrid and datagrid and sorting

Can't think of anything but hoping they will do adding unbound data to datagrid as promised soon and have full functionality to net 8.0 when visual studio for Windows has that in a stable version

Frequent updates and service towards fixing any reported issues

Not much really - it works well. Sometimes there are bugs on a new release - testing could be improved before release of an update

Our project is to build a commercial-grade, security-compliant, serverless mobile app platform using only tools that are budget-friendly for startups. Our tool-chain selection includes AWS services (API Gateway, Cognito, Lambda, DynamoDB, ...), Microsoft .NET Core/Standard, Visual Studio and Xamarin. All these tools are essentially free until your app starts scaling. Syncfusion's community edition was chosen because it provides commercial-grade features and doesn't burden the entrepreneur with out-of-pocket expenses until their app is generating revenue. Finally, our experience with Syncfusion's support has been first rate.

Syncfusion targets many different UI presentation layers. In our case, we use Xamarin Forms which is relatively new for Syncfusion. The controls are generally solid but do require more "code-behind" work than is generally recommended in the Xamarin community. There are shops that totally refuse to allow "any" code-behind and if you are one of those you may have some issues using all of the Syncfusion controls. In our case, the limited code-behind required is not considered a barrier. In addition, the Syncfusion documentation is obviously not written by a native English speaker and as such can be amusing at times and occasionally annoying .

The ease of use of the controls is the biggest pro.

The documentation needs some more corrective work. Some of the content needs to be rewritten to make it more informative to the user. I raised this already with the support team

Very professional, yet accessible, I am impressed on how easy is to contact the company

As all tool sets there are things that you would like to be included too

Rich set of features Most features you require are already available Good help documentation with examples

Support and feature enhancements are slow New platforms like MAUI take a long time to reach the maturity of other controls

it meets my expectations, although it has room for improvement

Some controls are difficult to fully customize to your needs

Support, along with the large number and extensive functionality of the controls

The price of the product. I only need controls for MAUI

I mostly use the WPF UI component. They're easy to use, and customize, especially in appearance.

The current features are good. But not many new features added recently, especially for the main UI WPF component. We sometimes get obstructed by complicated desktop user interface requirements.

Everything is fine, it is a powerful and complete tool

There are no major cons that deserves to be reported. The only thing I personally would like which at the moment is missing is the Spreadsheet control as native Blazor control.

Many components, highly customizable, powerful features.

Documentation seems sparce for a number of use cases. Though I take painstaking effort to clearly lay out my requests to customer support, I often feel they have either not thoroughly read my comments or have not tested and validated that their responses solve the issue, leading to weeks of back-and-forth with customer support.

I like the completeness and in depth features of all the controls that I use, especially the data grid control which I use extensively. The sample application and online documentation is clear and succinct. I find that breaking down the examples by feature is great when compared to other control vendors I have seen, that simply provide a high level example and nothing to demonstrate each feature separately. On the few occasions that I have requested support, I have always received an answer in a timely manner. What makes the WPF suite good value is not just the number of feature rich controls, but the complete package including the documentation help and support that is available.

There are only two minor issues that I have with the suite of tools. 1. I get regular feedback from users that the date picker control is clunky to use. I can echo the feedback. Entering a date does not feel smooth, especially when entering the year. Hard to describe, but feel like it cycles back around to the year zero. 2. I would like it if I could customize the calendar control more. Would be great if I could easily template out the control for each date so I could use it to display what ever info I wanted in each date cell. Maybe there is a way to do this, but either way I have not been successful in being able to template out the calendar control for the requirements at the time.

I believe Syncfusion was the first company to offer a version that could be used until the company made $1 million. Most companies never reached that mark. Syncfusion provides new companies with the same support received by large corporations. Syncfusion has not yet received a dime, and I will happily pay whatever the cost is when the product starts generating income. Also, I have seen third-party...

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I have not experienced any cons. All support expectations were met. Development continues etc.

I got Syncfusion primarily for the scheduler component and having looked at other options, this was the best front end solution I could find for my software. It's not perfect, but it's very good in terms of functionality and user interface. I think my clients will enjoy using this scheduler.

It's a bit awkward to implement and the documentation is very poor. As for the scheduler, it comes with built in popup windows for creating and modifying events, but trying to get their styling to match my own was a nightmare because they did not use the same classes for every window, and not even the same classes for every button. It was surprising how inconsistent they were with their styling and that made it impossible to create consistent spacing and styling to match the rest of my system, so I ended up blocking all the popups and creating my own but this also was not easy or obvious. I had to contact support several times just to figure out how to use my own popups.

We love their data grid with Microsoft Excel-like filters, sorting, etc. Saves me much time writing code. They also have ability to export the grid to Excel for further processing, which my users love. Also use their PDF and Excel file creation software, which is super easy to use from various data sources. The big pro is that when I have experienced issues or had questions and could not find an answer online, their support has been very responsive and helpful, providing samples and troubleshooting issues.

While the PDF file creation is powerful and fully featured, I don't feel it quite has the features needed for quick development. I mostly use it for modifying existing PDFs and use another piece of software for PDF creation.

It's free for small outfits - seriously though, the community edition is really useful for myself who is a small sole trader and allows me to create powerful and capable web sites easily. There is a lot of powerful functionality "out of the box", I especially like the functionality built into the Grid components and dropdown / combo boxes are handled the way I expect them to be with little coding required for normal situations. Their community support is very good, I have used them about 3 or 4 times and each time they have responded within a day or two with both a written solution and normally a working example that I can download and examine

One of the big issues I have is, for me, the lack of clear documentation. This is especially true when you go "off the beaten track" to try something different and it can be a headache to determine the best way to go about achieving the result (e.g. on a grid, what events fire when with what arguments). However, the support people have been good at coming up with solutions when I draw a blank. As the product covers different environments (asp.net core, JS, MVC, Angular etc) and there are different versions (ej1, ej2 etc) it can be a bit difficult navigating through previously answered questions and applying them to my environment (in the main I use asp.net core).

I like having the large number of components in the bundle as it reduces the number of third party components I need to complete my projects. I also like how rapidly SyncFusion rolls out updates to their products and the quality and speed of response of their technical support.

I am not sure if this is SyncFusion Blazor specific or something inherent with Blazor itself, but the lack of Support for GUID in their dropdown list and other things like their event callbacks require that I change my GUIDs to string types in my models and then have to map them back to GUIDs for CRUD to the backend. Also, I really wish they had a good Step / Wizard component. I currently have to use Radzen's Step component for my WIzards and there are often CSS conflicts between Radzen and SyncFusion. If they do not add one, I will most likely have to create my own custom Step (Wizard) component before the project is finished.

The producto is amazing and is very easy to. Integrate in the diferente kind of projects and technologies. I used the tech customer service and they answered all my questions. To finish.. You have a community license and that's wonderful for independent developers like me. I hope to grow my small Business and pay for a great producto that is Worth every dolar invested in it

Nothing to say. The product is amazing and very easy to use and integrate

I very much liked the built in functionality with a majority of the Controls it includes. In areas where functionality was not available, but needed for development, it was easy to incorporate custom functionality into the controls through control events, and via JS if needed.

I feel some additional Demos or documentation is needed for some controls and their functions/features. I found myself in a few spots where I needed to do something, and based on reading the documentation I'm lead to believe it can be done, but no indication as to how. This results me in heading to user submitted questions looking for answers, and those tend to be very relevant to the Users needs. Of course this all isn't helpful with examples, but ultimately it could be called pet peeves as its functionality that not overly important but nice to haves.

We have been using Syncfusion for a long long time (about 8+ years). We were looking for a component suite which had all the necessary parts required for our software. At the time (and this still ultimately holds) Syncfusion were only the only ones to have a web Diagramming component AND all the other components (editable grids, hierarchical grids). An added bonus were the file handling packs (Excel, etc) so we can offer with our solution integration with Excel. We've just recently upgraded the diagramming component to the new JS version and the feedback from our customers has been nothing but positive.

There are a couple of things: - Documentation - The online documentation has bugs in that demos don't load and sample code cannot be seen. - Quality - Sometime the QA of the components could be a bit better.

the uniformity of all libraries, competence and reality relevance of the libraries, code examples and templates....

announcements of new modules (and in 1 or 2 cases taking back of new releases) could be better announced and longer in advance.....

Lots of components availableGood documentation (albeit in some specific cases, lacking important information only available by contacting support)

My main issue is with customer support.They promise updates to queries in 24 hours, but very often they take 2 or even more days without any type of update. Just saying they are lookin into it would be enough, but not update of any type is very annoying.Chat support is almost useless. Almost every time I use it it would have been better to create a ticket from the start, as they seen to only have very basic knowledge on the products.

I like the most Blazor diagram which works very smooth inside browser. But there are many good controls like dialog, excel and PDF creation API. The most important thing is an outstanding support from Syncfusion which exceeds expectations. You can get direct support on chat in few minutes. If you start with specific technology this level of support is a big advantage.

I use Blazor grid with many columns (about 100), which are dynamically created (DynamicDictionary) and rendering such grid is slow. Editing complex controls in this grid is also slow.

The product has a lot of components and a lot of customizations. at first it costs a little to use, but support is excelent. It is the reason why I prefer this product to another. Excel, doc and pdf library are fantastic!

Some components, pdf viewer, file explorer are complicated to use, so I use other components