Road Map for Essential Studio^® for Blazor

Common

Production-ready component

The Block Editor component will be developed to production-ready standards.

New component

Inline AI Assist

The Blazor Inline AI Assist provides a versatile pop-up interface that allows users to craft prompts and interact seamlessly with AI-generated content. It can be flexibly positioned relative to any element in the application, enabling contextual AI assistance directly within the workflow to enhance efficiency.

Block Editor

Collaborative editing

This feature allows multiple users to edit at the same time with live cursors, conflict resolution, version histories, and audit logs.

Inline date content block

This feature gives users a dedicated date block for inserting and formatting dates inline, supporting pickers and dynamic display options to improve scheduling and event-related content.

Built-in inline AI Assist toolbar

This feature allows users to integrate AI-powered assistance directly into the editor toolbar with context-aware content generation, intelligent editing suggestions, and smart formatting recommendations. It enables seamless access to AI capabilities without workflow interruption, accelerates content creation cycles, and provides real-time writing intelligence at the point of need.

Context menu options support

This feature gives users right-click context menus for block-specific operations including link insertion, table management, image manipulation, and extensible custom block type support. It supports power-user workflows through keyboard-accessible shortcuts and semantic block handling.

Table row and column drag and drop

This feature allows users to drag-and-drop table rows and columns within the editor canvas with real-time visual feedback and accessible keyboard alternatives. It enables rapid table restructuring and maintains cell content integrity while providing immediate DOM updates with ARIA announcements.

AI AssistView

View processing steps

This feature enables transparent AI reasoning by exposing the model’s processing steps within chat responses, displaying intermediate logic steps and problem-solving approaches. This explanation fosters user trust, supports learning by example, and allows verification of AI reasoning quality before final answers.

Tooltip integration for the toolbars

This feature allows users to add contextual tooltips to all header, prompt, and response toolbar items with keyboard accessibility support. It provides immediate guidance for toolbar actions for both light and dark themes.

Response regeneration

This feature allows users to request alternative AI responses without retyping prompts through a dedicated regenerate button in each response. It enables the iterative refinement of AI answers and streamlines the workflow for finding optimal responses.

Built-in speech-to-text

This feature allows users to integrate the native browser Speech Recognition API for hands-free voice input with automatic transcription and fallback to manual entry. It creates a more natural, accessibility-friendly chat experience while supporting real-time transcription feedback and noise detection.

Built-in text-to-speech

This feature allows users to enable the audio playback of AI responses using the browser Speech Synthesis API with adjustable rate and pitch controls and pause and resume functionality. It enhances accessibility for people with visual impairments, supports multitasking consumption, and creates multi-sensory interaction patterns.

Scheduler

Summary row

This feature allows users to render a custom row to show a summary or event details at the bottom of the Scheduler.

Time-based appointment rendering

This feature allows users to render appointments based on their provided start and end time values. This enables clearer visualization of partial‑day and overlapping appointments while preserving existing all-day event behavior.

File Manager

Column chooser

This feature enables users to show or hide columns in the details view dynamically.

OneDrive integration

This feature allows users to manage their OneDrive files and folders directly within the File Manager component, ensuring secure and efficient file operations.

Charts

Sunburst chart

This chart type visualizes hierarchical data using concentric rings, with the center as the top of the hierarchy and the outer rings representing lower levels. It clearly partitions categories and subcategories, supports theme-aware rendering for readability, provides export-ready output, and supports accessibility features for structured navigation of hierarchical information.

Serialization and deserialization

This feature enables chart configuration and data to be converted into a portable format, such as JSON, and restored later. This facilitates state persistence, data transfer between applications, session restoration, and saving and loading layouts.

Series labels

This feature supports displaying series names directly on the chart surface, positioned near the end of the series path or the last visible data point. This provides immediate context to users and reduces reliance on legends, matching the behavior and usability provided in the JavaScript Charts component.

Step chart series without risers

This feature allows developers to render step charts without vertical riser lines between data points, displaying only the horizontal transitions. This visualization highlights overall trends and changes over time while reducing visual clutter, providing feature parity with the JavaScript step charts.

Diagram

UML class diagram

This feature adds UML class diagram support to visually model object-oriented system structures, including classes, attributes, methods, and relationships.

Annotation interaction

This feature adds interaction capabilities for diagram annotations, allowing users to select, move, rotate, and resize annotations on nodes and connectors.

Gantt Chart

Task constraints support

This feature allows users to apply scheduling constraints to individual tasks, enabling more precise project planning by restricting task movement based on defined conditions.

Rich Text Editor

Find and replace

This feature enables users to find and replace text quickly within the editor, with support for case-sensitive searches, whole-word matching, and easy navigation through results using a dedicated dialog or keyboard shortcut.

Collaborative editing

This feature allows multiple users to edit at the same time with live cursors, conflict resolution, version histories, and audit logs.

Table cell properties

This feature enables users to customize table cell borders, adjust cell widths, and apply background colors to selected cells, providing better layout control and professional document formatting.

Images with text-wrapping

The image wrap feature enhances image alignment capabilities in the editor by allowing images to be wrapped with surrounding text using left or right alignment options. This creates more natural and visually appealing content layouts, where text flows seamlessly around the image.

Full table, row, and column selection

This feature enables users to select entire tables, specific rows, or columns with Microsoft Word-like interaction, making table editing faster and more intuitive.

Pivot Table

Server-side engine support for classic layout

This feature extends server-side data processing capabilities to the classic Pivot Table layout. This provides scalable performance, consistency, and reliability when handling large volumes of data in traditional tabular layouts.

CRUD operations with configurable controller endpoints

This feature provides native create, read, update, and delete operations within the Pivot Table through configurable server-side controller endpoints. It simplifies data management, enables seamless server integration, and reduces the need for custom CRUD implementations.

Top and bottom value filtering

This feature allows users to filter by Top N and Bottom N values through both code-behind APIs and runtime UI options. It enhances analytical capabilities by allowing users to focus on the most significant or least significant data points.

Add current selection to filter

This feature allows users to add the current selection to existing filters for Excel-like multi-append member filtering. It improves usability in incremental filtering scenarios without resetting previously applied filters.

Repeat item labels in classic layout

This feature allows users to repeat row and column item labels in the classic layout and includes support in exported outputs. This improves readability, report clarity, and consistency in printed and exported Pivot Table reports.

DataGrid

Event-driven data binding

This feature introduces an event-based data loading model where the grid requests data through life-cycle events. This gives developers full control over server-side paging, sorting, filtering, and grouping while reducing dependency on the data manager and custom adapters.

Enhanced filter bar with operator dropdowns

This feature enhances the existing filter bar by introducing a richer, more expressive filtering UI within the column headers instead of a simple text box. This allows users to apply precise filters through operator dropdowns, clear filter actions, and type-specific inputs for text, numeric, date, and Boolean columns, all without opening the full filter dialog.

Enhanced keyboard event customization

This feature provides a framework to override and customize default keyboard interactions within the DataGrid, allowing application-specific keyboard behavior, improved accessibility, and advanced data-entry and navigation workflows.

Multi-cell pasting

This feature allows users to copy a value from a single cell and paste it into multiple selected cells at once. This improves productivity and data entry efficiency by providing familiar Excel-like pasting behavior.

Tree Grid

Enhanced show checkbox feature

This feature improves the checkbox functionality within Tree Grid structures by enabling hierarchical row selection through a dedicated checkbox column. This allows users to manage parent-child relationships more effectively during selection. It ensures consistent and intuitive selection behavior across all hierarchy levels, including accurate parent, child, and ancestor state updates.