Essential Studio Reviews

Pros

The Syncfusion Grid component is as good or better than any other on the market. It has every feature you could want: paging, sorting, filtering, sizing and reordering columns, exporting to PDF, CSV, or Excel. And they have just about every other rich web component you think of: Calendar, sortable list, embedded rich text/HTML editor, charts, maps, you name it. And best of all, their free community license includes ASP.Net MVC so you can develop rich MVC web UI applications. And also includes Xam

Cons

Although they have extensive documentation, they so many components that do so many things, that not every feature has specific programming examples, so you sometimes have to figure things out through trail and error. And although the MVC components all have tons of methods and parameters you sometimes have to write JavaScript to make it work the way you want. So you need to be a strong programmer.

Pros

They provide a lot of demo and they have a great support.

Cons

Sometime some feature are taking long before being deploy with there version.

Pros

Easy to use, community license, great technical support.

Cons

There is no such thing as "like least".

Pros

The good documentation, many samples, easy to apply on our software, but most of all the outstanding support from the company that supplies a sample to solve a problem or any How To question. Is very attentive when a possible bug is pointed out and if it is a bug a fix is provided in a scheduled time.

Cons

the only thing I don't like much is that upgrading the desktop projects when I upgrade the libraries is a time consuming task. But I don't think there is a way to avoid this.

Pros

We use 10+ different Syncfusion controls from Essential Studio for Xamarin and they quite literally have become an Essential part of our mobile product. They allow us to provide a UI with much greater polish and depth of functionality than the stock Xamarin Forms components while maintaining all of the cross-platform benefits between iOS and Android. And the Syncfusion support has been stellar. They have gone above and beyond on multiple occasions to help us track down obscure issues, some of which ended-up being our fault. Very highly recommended!

Cons

Event handling in some of the components can be challenging to work with, and some of the components have some annoying quirks, but these are minor quibbles overall. The written documentation can be difficult to read in places, but at least they do have extensive documentation.

Pros

I have been using Telerik's controls for almost 10 years now before being introduced to SyncFusion.

I would have to say that the Community License is the greatest reason for me to switch from Telerik.

Currently I am working on Angular projects and I have only used SyncFusion's Angular controls but I have found that the controls are equal to or greater in quality to the Telerik controls.

The grid in particular is much easier to use and develop with; it has been a challenging learning curve to transition from the Telerik grid control only because I have had to map actions and events from one to the other.

I think if I did not have such a long history with the Telerik controls, I wouldn't have any issues in learning to use the SyncFusion controls. I found this to be true when working with controls I had not used before .

Cons

Other than issues transitioning code from Telerik to Syncfusion, I haven't found any cons for using SyncFusion.

Pros

This software is feature rich and can be easily incorporated into most software solutions for a rich user experience. This software is also of a high standard and works well.

Cons

I do find that whilst using the Vue.JS implementation of this product that the Vue implementation is not very 'Vue like' so to say. Unless you use the product exactly as it is designed ie for instance hooking the grid say to a backend service as it expects it can be a bit 'hacky' to get it going as you need it. In my case I had a very specific service that expects a JWT token and specific parameters so I found it easier to call that myself separately using Vuex (which if you hook the grid directly to the service itself, it does not interact with at all - hence why it is not so 'Vue like'). Anyway I got it working with specific methods and functions of the products API but I did not find it so easy at first to know how to do this as the documentation is all geared around using the products in the way they want you to use them.

Pros

Syncfusion is really easy to use, It was integrated in existenting code and I will use for new projects. I like it because I' m going to use React js

Cons

difficult question, really I like it so much. I just would like to integrate with GraphQL easier.

Pros

It has an entry point for any licence requirement
A broad of components in many different technologies
Awesome support: Forum + Direct Issues + issue tracking
Constantly updating the product and documentation with improvements and fixes.
Any support response usually gets a demo working code to demonstrate the workaround, fix or whatever you asked

Cons

Due the huge technologies and components sometimes documentation and demos can get out to date.
Fortunately they have an incredible support team that answer your question very quick

Pros

It would be the various components that could be used in a component.

Cons

The loading time could be improved. And I'm not sure whether it is possible but it would be much better if the visual tree for the WPF component could be shallower thus easier to do automated UI related tests.

Pros

Comprehensive component library. Great starter tool. Responsive technical support.

Cons

No obvious deficiencies. Update pace is very aggressive.

Pros

- controls for almost everything
- very high quality components
- easy to use
- well documented
- amazing support team

Cons

- Xamarin controls need to be more stable. However, any issue reported was handled quick and fixed.

Pros

I've used both the Xamarin Forms and ASP.NET Core variants of Essential Studio. In both cases, I found the software to be solid, with a really nice feature set, and in general easy to implement. I think the best part of Syncfusion, though, is their incredible technical support, which in my experience is unmatched in the component industry in terms of their helpfulness, responsiveness, and speed.

Cons

I find the documentation lacking in terms of its completeness, and also the dearth of meaningful sample programs.

Pros

the extent of the controls available the ease to incorporate them in our development environment

Cons

the functionalities of the controls aresometimes limited.the behaviour is sometimes unpredictable

Pros

A wide variety of controls, well documented and supported. Excellent code samples and support is quick to respond to custom features and sample code.

Cons

We had few issues with feature parity from migrating from Angular JS to Angular but the team is quick to give alternative ideas with sample code.

Pros

The supporting documentation is easy to follow and assisted with every requirement that we had for our product.

Cons

We have yet to experience any cons with using this product.

Pros

Very nice help, documentation and suport. Controls fit a lot practical scenarios.

Cons

When problems or limitations arise, in most cases I can found alternative or well written documentation.

Pros

- Many tools (program controls, excel, pdf...)
- Easy to use whith a lot of examples and forums
- Good and fast customer service.
- Good updates

Cons

I have nothing bad to say about the program

Pros

Your Blazor tools are the most full-featured, complete product available

Cons

Things are changing so fast that a lot of your documentation hasn't kept current with the latest changes, which sometimes makes it hard to implement some of the newest features. It also makes it difficult because if we find a thread on the community forum, often its outdated because the product itself has changed recently.

Pros

we use theese library for word document generation and it works very well

Cons

little example code, sometime is difficult understand the correct way to use it

Pros

Comprehensive selection of Components across many different platforms
Comprehensive Collection of documentation and tutorials
Easy to setup
Really great support

Cons

When it comes to some advanced charts, I found it difficult to get the look and feel I wanted even though I was sure it was possible with the Syncfusion Circular Gauge Component for Ionic (bright side I got it done with help from Syncfusion Support)

Pros

How quickly support for Blazor, Xamarin Forms and Angular and the depth of the support for these platforms.

Cons

Can't think of anything. The suite is very easy to use and full featured.

Pros

Features and functionality, vast variety of charts and UI components

Cons

1. Multiple time feedback link and email.
2. Support and documentation. I mean almost every document is more or less missing some of the code/documentation/module/component

Pros

We are mainly using document editor from syncfusion. It's an excellent product. It's better than many other product in market in terms of accuracy document editor maintain the formatting of work document perfectly. It's almost identical to MS WORD. It's also very easy to integrate in our existing product. Also support staff is excellent they responded to my queries correctly and accuratly.

Cons

Though document editor identical to MS Word it do not provide support of all MS word features. Also syncfusion do not have support for AngularJS (version 1.*). Our product is on angularjs version 1.7 so we have to use their javascript library. Having angularjs library would have been better feet for us.

Pros

It has most of the features that are needed in web Grid but I really like their support.

Cons

Blazor gird is not matured yet with the Expando data source (Dynamics )