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Syncfusion® Essential Studio® Reviews & Insights

Score6.1 out of 10

87 Reviews and Ratings

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Pros

Extensive API documentation: Several users have praised the extensive API documentation provided by the framework, which has allowed for easy integration and the ability to add specific functionality as needed.

Responsive controls for web development: Reviewers have consistently mentioned that the controls for web development are responsive out of the box. This has made it easy to create interactive and user-friendly applications.

Wide range of functionality: Many users appreciate that the framework's controls include a lot of functionality, such as presenting database information in logical formats and providing user interactive informational views. This allows for a consistent user experience across pages and applications.

Reviews

31 Reviews

Syncfusion® Essential Studio® has an awesome WPFs pdf viewer and datagrid. Free community license until you make 1M revenue.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Syncfusion® Essential Studio® to build a WPF app. What I really like about Syncfusion® Essential Studio® WPF offering is the PDFViewer with annotation features. The Datagrid and other controls are good too. The PDF and Word creation file format features are good too.

Pros

  • WPF Pdf Viewer with annotation support
  • Document creation (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.)
  • WPF Datagrid
  • Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is a jack-of-all-trade, master of none. You can get better PDF parsing and redaction elsewhere, but it's much much more cost effective, for simple needs.

Cons

  • In my opinion, WPF's spreadsheet isn't good (slow, buggy, etc.)
  • I think WPF's diagram could be better / more graph features

Likelihood to Recommend

The free community licence when you make less than 1M$ revenue.
Vetted Review
Syncfusion® Essential Studio®
1 year of experience

Best Word document editor on market

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition Document Editor to display Word documents to users of our Portal. We are creating bookmarks in Word documents and there are some tasks related to these bookmarks stored in the database. Portal is used for Policy management. Document Editor helps users to review policies and steer workflow.

Pros

  • View a Word document.
  • Preserve styling of Word Document.
  • Editing Word Document.

Cons

  • Improve styling of Word document even more, so its 1 to 1 with MS Word

Likelihood to Recommend

Syncfusion Document Editor is only Word Document Editor on the market which displays Word document almost like in Microsoft Word. It keeps almost all styling.
Vetted Review
Syncfusion® Essential Studio®
1 year of experience

Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Addressed Business Problems:
Cross-platform development,
enhances the user interface and experience of applications, customizable UI components can match the specific branding and usability requirements of the business,
data visualization and reporting tools allow for the creation of interactive charts, graphs and reports,
speeds up the development process.

Scope of Use Case:
Enterprise Applications,
Data Reporting and Analysis Tools,
enhance creativity.

Pros

  • Chat support
  • UI Control Libraries
  • Blazor Components

Cons

  • More advanced and complex features
  • More detailed documentation
  • Expanding the range of examples to cover more scenarios

Likelihood to Recommend

Well-Suited Scenarios :Enterprise Application Development,Cross-Platform Mobile Applications, Data Reporting and Analysis Tools, Document Management Systems.
Less Appropriate Scenarios: Startup Projects with Limited Budgets,Real-time, High-frequency Trading Platforms, Projects with a Heavy Focus on Custom UI Design, Ultra-lightweight Applications.
Vetted Review
Syncfusion® Essential Studio®
1 year of experience

Fantastic UI Components with Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I do not use Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition at work but am using it to develop an application for my wife's business. The purpose of my web based application is to manage and help teams succeed by automating manual processess and having information readily available

Pros

  • Availability of the Communicty Edition
  • Customer Support is great
  • Product availability in different environments and languages

Cons

  • ability to see more detailed code in demo source on portal

Likelihood to Recommend

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is g reat for creating apps with less code and source code samples are vital for success.

Acing School Management with Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As we began our quest to build a top-class school management system, we were always on the lookout for tools to streamline our processes while enhancing user experience. Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition emerged as an ideal partner in our journey toward creating a top-class platform. From the moment we integrated Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition into our development pipeline, the transformation was remarkable. The comprehensive suite of tools provided by Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition empowered our team to craft intuitive interfaces, dynamic data visualizations, and seamless workflows effortlessly. One of the standout features of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition is its ease of use. Even developers with varying levels of expertise found themselves navigating the platform with remarkable ease, thanks to its intuitive design and documentation. This allowed us to accelerate our development cycles without compromising on quality. Moreover, Syncfusion's extensive library of pre-built components proved to be a game-changer for us. Whether we needed interactive charts for analyzing academic performance or responsive grids for managing student records, Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition had us covered. The ability to customize these components to suit our specific requirements further makes our life that much simpler!

Pros

  • Data visualization - loved the choices that are available
  • Particularly liked the timetable module

Cons

  • As far as data visualization goes, the asks never end. I would like to see more options and flexibility around this.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very useful where moderate to complex workflows are involved especially when intended users are of different skill levels. In our case, the application that is being built would be used by people whose tech skills can vary from 0 to 10.

Nice controls to have

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Syncfusion asp.net core controls that help us to build interfaces quickly in razor page applications.

We mainly use the grid, that helps us create "list" pages with filters on columns relatively quickly and easily.

The datetime control and the treeview (even if difficult to master) are also helpful

Pros

  • Grid with filters
  • datetime picker

Cons

  • Documentation for asp.net core controls, for the two way binding
  • Real-life complex examples
  • Radio-button and checkboxes bindings

Likelihood to Recommend

It's appropriate when you need complex controls, don't use it if you just want to build some tables without any filters.

If you just need some radio's and checkboxes it's easier to use simple html with some bootstrap or alike css frameworks for the style

Couldn't have done it without Syncfusion

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The company's main product is an executive information system, essentially a data mart that is populated nightly during an ETL process. Syncfusion was used to create a separate website to maintain the vast amount of metadata used to drive the functionality of the main product. The Syncfusion driven website is comprised of about 80 pages, primarily datagrids only. We use ASP.NET Core. Some pages have master detail grids with a grid on top driving the content of the grid below. Others have subgrids within a grid and can be viewed and maintained by expanding a row in the master grid. We used treeview controls, menus, popup windows, and others. Not an extensive use of all of the controls available, but extensive use of datagrids.

Pros

  • The datagrid's built-in functionality is extremely robust. Sorting, filtering, various columnar controls, moving columns, resizing, etc.
  • The sheer number of controls available is comforting. Although we did not use most of them, it is good to know that they are they if we need them for this and other applications.
  • The support is world class, even for a single developer company like us. I can't say enough good things about the support. They saved my behind more times than I can say. They are knowledgeable and responsive. The Chat feature is very useful.

Cons

  • I'd give the documentation a B+. Most times I can find what I want but sometimes what I'm looking for is buried. Overall very good, but could be a little bit better.

Likelihood to Recommend

The datagrid is probably their most popular control I would think. It is so flexible and configurable. Most of mine are plain views in ASP.NET Core, but I have a whole bunch that are dynamically created at runtime in my controller. That is so powerful.
Vetted Review
Syncfusion® Essential Studio®
3 years of experience

Excellent product for developers

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition in Visual Studio.
It provides components that give extensive features, such as the sfDataGrid.
It is used in our downloadable products as well as customised software solutions for clients.
I have begun to develop with .net MAUI and the Syncfusion components are regularly being added to, making the development process and ultimately the user experience much better .

Pros

  • Data grids
  • Popups
  • Excel integration

Cons

  • Better image processing

Likelihood to Recommend

I would use the components instead of the default VS components when additional functionality or more visually appealing is required.

Infinite benefit for the invested money. Yes, mathematics is inexorable and gives this result.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We develop software solutions and products. We especially deal with the application of artificial intelligence in business programs such as our Metric ERP and the new product Metric Copilot. In order to remain focused on solving essential tasks for our product, we use controls from other specialized companies. Among others, controls created by Syncfusion. Syncfusion controls significantly accelerated the creation of the user interface.

Pros

  • Blazor controls works fine.
  • Blog has good ideas
  • documentation is good
  • examples are useful

Cons

  • blazor toolbar control has some unexpected behavior

Likelihood to Recommend

If we have a situation where we only use Syncfusion controls, usually the development of web applications goes according to the expected plan.
We mostly use controls to create a web user interface. The web user interface depends on css. It seems to me that most unexpected situations occur due to accidental or intentional use of several specialized css in the same project.

Syncfusion stack is amazing and every single developer should give it a try.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I`m a C# and WPF developer. I developed and maintain a small desktop application in which I use many Syncfusion products. The Syncfusion library is really great and fits perfectly with the requirements. Not only they are powerful and light, but they also have a beautiful modern design. In resume, all solutions from Syncfusion for WPF works perfectly for me and I recommend it to everyone

Pros

  • Provides well designed products
  • Is very easy to use
  • Fits nicely in almost any scenario

Cons

  • Improvement in some parts of the documentation
  • Adding some features to some WPF products

Likelihood to Recommend

I really like Syncfusion products and I recommend it to everyone. It fits nicely in the scenario I use it, which is a C# and WPF application. I can`t tell much about other scenarios like Blazor or ASP, but I`m pretty sure it also fits nicely. The free license for developers or small business is so amazing that I can`t even describe, it`s just one of the best actions I`ve seen a company do, it`s just amazing and I just want to say thank you to Syncfusion. I wish other companies did the same.
Vetted Review
Syncfusion® Essential Studio®
2 years of experience