What is New in 2016 Vol 2

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New Grid Controls

NOV Grid for .NET represents a powerful framework for displaying and editing tabular data in versatile ways. Currently NOV Grid for .NET includes two grid widgets - NTableGridView and NTreeGridView that are built over the same grid core.

New API for working with relational data. Includes implementation of different types of data tables and serves as foundation for data binding. Also adds support for working with relational databases such as SQL Server, OleDb, Oracle etc. See Data Overview for more information.

Project Templates - lets you quickly create a new NOV application either for a specific platform or a portable one, which targets multiple platforms from a single code base.
Toolbox Integration - most of the NOV widgets are registered as controls in the Visual Studio toolbox, so you can use it to drag and drop controls to your forms/windows.
Extensive Design-Time Support - lets you drag and drop controls from the toolbox and visually position, resize and layout them. Smart tags support is provided to let you quickly change the content and the most commonly used properties of NOV controls.

Mac OS X El Capitan theme - a new UI theme that mimics the Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan look and feel.
Dark theme - a new UI theme that uses dark colors.
Core Touch - added is core touch support that allows you to track multi-touch events in NOV UI.

New Shape Factories - Arrows, Floor Plan, Flowcharting, Food, Network, Symbols, Traffic Signs, Weather.
Export to SVG - drawings can now be exported to SVG.

Table of Contents - lets you easily create and update a table of contents based on the document content.
Electronic Publications - makes it possible to open and save documents as electronic publications, a.k.a. e-books in the EPUB format.
Image Interactivity - lets you move and resize images by dragging them or their handles with the mouse.
Floating Tables - support for floating tables in the DOCX importer and exporter.
RTF Styles - importing and exporting styles from and to RTF documents.