Road Map for Essential Studio^® for Blazor

Common

.NET 10 Support

The blazor components are being upgraded to support .NET 10, to improve performance, and for seamless integration.

Production-ready component

The Chat UI component will be developed to production-ready standards.

New component

Chart Wizard

The Chart Wizard allows users to create charts by just selecting the required chart type and configuring a few options. This component simplifies the chart creation process and provides a user-friendly interface.

Smart Editor

The Smart Editor component integrates an AI Assistant to enhance content creation with real-time grammar corrections, tone adjustments, formatting suggestions, and intelligent writing recommendations through a dedicated toolbar. It also supports custom prompts for generating tailored content based on user input.

Charts

Legend template

This feature allows custom HTML elements to be rendered within each legend item, enhancing the visual presentation and interactivity of chart legends.

Nested Pie and Donut

Display hierarchical or grouped data as concentric rings (multi-level pie/donut) with level-specific styling, labels, and optional drill‑down for richer category breakdowns.

Gradient

Support linear and radial gradient fills at series or data‑point level with customizable stops/opacity and theme‑aware presets, compatible with dark mode and export.

Tooltip for striplines

Show accessible, customizable tooltips when hovering or focusing stripline regions on axes, with templating, formatting, and touch/keyboard support.

Block Editor

• Table and media blocks: Easily insert and style responsive tables, audio, and video. Users can drag, edit, and customize media for richer content creation.

• New content types: Add dynamic elements like date pickers, emojis, LaTeX equations, and threaded comments. These enhance interactivity and user engagement.

• Collaborative editing: Support real-time multi-user editing with live cursors, conflict resolution, version history, and audit logs for seamless teamwork.

Chat UI

File attachments

This feature allows users to attach files like documents, PDFs, images, and videos directly to messages, enabling more informative and context-rich conversations.

Scheduler

Custom toolbar

This feature allows users to customize the existing toolbar in the Scheduler. Users can add, remove, or reorder toolbar buttons to create a more personalized scheduling experience.

File Manager

Template for large icons view

This feature allows users to customize the large icons view to preview the files as a miniature.

Tree Grid

Auto-merge using rowspan and colspan

The feature automatically merges consecutive rows with identical data using rowspan and consolidates consecutive columns with matching data using colspan, enhancing visual representation and readability.

Rich Text Editor

Checklist

This feature allows users to create checklists (to-do lists) directly within the Rich Text Editor. Users can easily add interactive checkbox items to their content, enabling task tracking and action item management within documents.

Markdown with auto formatting

This feature lets users get and set Markdown content in the HTML editor for seamless format conversion. It introduces auto-formatting of Markdown syntax in the editor, instantly rendering elements like headings (#), bold (*), and italics () as formatted HTML.

Enhance content copy

The feature streamlines content management by stripping unwanted styles when copying HTML, ensuring clean output while preserving text formatting like font styles, colors, and alignments for seamless copying within the editor or externally.

Enhance table properties

This feature allows users to customize the table border width and color within the Rich Text Editor. Users can easily adjust the thickness and appearance of table borders to match their document styling needs.

Enhance import/export security for Word and PDF

This feature enables passing authorization tokens during Word document imports and while exporting to PDF or Word formats. It ensures secure document access by validating user permissions during both import and export operations.

Images wrapped with text

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

Line height

The line height feature lets users adjust the vertical spacing between lines of text, giving them control over how tightly or loosely the text is packed within paragraphs, which helps improve readability and visual balance in the content layout.

Grid

Row and column spanning

This feature enables grid cells to span across multiple rows or columns, allowing more flexible and customized layouts in data presentation and UI design.

Pivot Table

Classic (tabular) layout support

This feature allows users to view detailed and traditional data presentations with each row label clearly visible at different levels (columns). This improves data visibility and simplifies the dataset’s structural analysis.

Diagram

Collaborative editing

This feature allows multiple users to work on the same diagram in real time. All participants can instantly see each other’s changes, such as moving nodes, editing connectors, or modifying properties, without needing to refresh the page or reload the diagram. The system synchronizes all user interfaces and manages edits, undo/redo, and session state, often with conflict handling and live presence indicators.

Force-directed tree layout

This feature automatically arranges diagram nodes using simulated physical forces, attraction and repulsion, to create clear, readable layouts for hierarchical or network data, making relationships and structure easier to understand.

Gantt Chart

Undo/redo

This feature allows users to enable undo and redo functionalities for actions like CRUD operations, zooming, drag and drop, indenting, filtering, searching, and sorting, enhancing overall usability.

Column validation

Integrate validation for Gantt Chart columns to show error messages within grid cells and dialog inputs using annotation-based rules. Each column will render based on its data type properties, allowing target validation.

Multipage PDF exporting

Improve the Gantt Chart’s PDF export functionality to support multipage exports, efficiently managing content overflow based on page size and layout.

Query Builder

Performance improvements

This feature optimizes rendering and synchronization in the Query Builder component for faster processing of complex rules and larger datasets, reducing UI lag through memory management refinements and DOM virtualization. Benchmarks focus on improved response times for rule chains in both Blazor Server and WebAssembly environments.

Multiselect Dropdown

Performance improvements in WASM and custom value scenarios

This feature enhances Multiselect Dropdown operations under WebAssembly, particularly for custom value filtering and large data binding, by reducing JavaScript interop and adding caching logic. It improves dropdown responsiveness and virtual scrolling without breaking changes to APIs.

Buttons

Server app improvements

This feature re-architects server-side rendering for button components to minimize round trips and memory overhead, improving sync consistency in high-load Blazor Server applications. It decouples state management and uses distributed caching for minimal UI disruption.

Inputs

Server app Improvements

This feature re-architects server-side rendering for input components to minimize round trips and memory overhead, improving sync consistency in high-load Blazor Server applications. It decouples state management and uses distributed caching for minimal UI disruption.

Adornment support

This feature provides visual adornments like icons and labels in input components, allowing customizable UI guidance within container zones. The implementation uses a flexible property framework with optional animations, maintaining full compatibility with existing Blazor projects.