What is the role of Essential Studio® in Visual Studio?

28 Jan 20251 minute to read

Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is not a Visual Studio plug-in or an IDE like Visual Studio. Syncfusion® Essential Studio® is a .NET based product that includes 800+ controls and frameworks that can be used in Visual Studio to create visually appealing applications. The Essential Studio® includes demos for all of the controls, giving you an idea of how Syncfusion® controls look and work. The following products are included with Syncfusion® Essential Studio®.

Syncfusion® Essential Studio® offers Syncfusion® Control Panel from which both the online and offline demos can be viewed for all the controls. Documentation, Read Me and Release Notes can also be viewed from the Syncfusion® Control Panel itself which reduces the burden of searching over the web.

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In addition to the Windows installer, Syncfusion® provides the Mac installer for the following Essential Studio® products.

  • ASP.NET Core
  • Blazor
  • Flutter
  • JavaScript
  • HTML Converter
  • Xamarin

Download and install the most recent Essential Studio® version from here.

Refer this link for the step by step installation of Syncfusion® Essential Studio®.

After installing the Essential Studio®, refer this link for using the Syncfusion® controls in Visual Studio for various platforms.