The last release of the year improves Syncfusion’s Blazor suite with three new components, .NET 7 support, and on-demand loading in the Gantt Chart.
Provided .NET 7 support for All Syncfusion Blazor components.
Syncfusion Blazor components will no longer support .NET 3.1
as it has reached its end of support cycle on 13th December, 2022. We will continue to support .NET 6 and .NET 7. We recommend that you upgrade to .NET 6 to take advantage of the new features and components in the latest release. If you are unable to update to .NET 6, you may continue to use version 20.3 in your .NET 3.1
projects.
The following components have been added to Blazor.
The following components have been developed to meet industry standards and are now marked production-ready:
The @Mention component can be used to display a pop-up suggestion list whenever the designated mention character is entered into a text box, rich text editor, or other editable element.
Key features:
This support enables the Calendar to use the new DateOnly struct.
It is now possible to format data labels in the chart, and it supports all global formats.
Provided support for a new spline range area chart type which is used to display the difference between minimum and maximum values over a certain time period.
Provided support for dashed legends for dashed line series.
This feature helps users to enter valid dates in the right format and eliminates data input mistakes.
This support enables DatePicker to use the new DateOnly struct.
This support enables the DateRangePicker to use the new DateOnly struct.
This feature helps users enter valid dates and times in the right format and eliminates data input mistakes.
This feature allows users to see a preview or an overall view. Users can look at the overall picture of a large diagram and also navigate, pan, or zoom a particular area of the page.
Business process model and notation (BPMN) is a standard way to represent business processes graphically. You can create a BPMN diagram from code or the visual interface with built-in BPMN shapes described by the BPMN 2.0 specification.
This feature allows users to display the text in multiple-column layout in the Word Processor component. Using this feature, users can format documents in multiple columns like a newspaper.
Load data from remote web services as and when needed in the Gantt Chart component. With the virtual scrolling feature, users can retrieve data from remote services for the current viewport alone and the remaining data can be retrieved on demand while scrolling. Find the demo link here.
Improve user experience and accessibility for those who work with RTL languages like Hebrew and Arabic by switching the text direction and layout of the Gantt Chart component from right to left.
For tasks without start and end dates, users can schedule them with a simple drag and drop action into the Gantt Chart’s specific timeline area. Find more details in the documentation here.
Copy selected rows or cells to the clipboard. Copied data can be pasted to external mediums like a Microsoft Excel sheet. Find the demo link here.
Reorder rows by dragging and dropping them, when row and column virtualization features are enabled.
The Blazor Media Query component tracks changes in the browser size and allows you to create a responsive layout easily. It supports predefined breakpoints ( Small
(max-width: 768px), Medium
(min-width: 768px), and Large
(min-width: 1024px)) as well as custom breakpoints.
A digital signature is used to ensure the integrity and authenticity of a PDF document. Now, the Syncfusion PDF Library includes a feature to lock individual signatures in a PDF document. If the signature is locked, users cannot copy, edit, or extract from the PDF document.
3D annotations are used to embed 3D objects in a PDF document. These annotations can be interactively viewed with PDF viewers such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, Foxit, and others. Now, the Syncfusion PDF Library supports adding animation to 3D annotations. This animation can be played by the PDF viewer application.
Now, the PDF Viewer component renders digital signatures in the existing PDF documents in a non-interactive way to avoid data loss while viewing. Its integrity is preserved if no editing operation is performed.
Allows sub-totals to be displayed in the Pivot Table’s row and column axes at the top or bottom position in their group.
The Syncfusion PowerPoint Library now supports the find functionality in PowerPoint presentations. Users can perform the following actions using this feature:
Using the find functionality in the PowerPoint Library, users can find and highlight text in all presentation slides or a specific slide.
Once a filter condition is created for a field, you can prevent creating further conditions in a group or for all groups.
The Blazor Rating component lets a user provide a star rating or view other people’s ratings in a numeric scale for any service or product.
Easily integrate the @mention feature into the Rich Text Editor to display a suggestion list of items that users can select or tag. Once the user types the @ character in the editor, the suggestion list is shown and the user can select or tag a value from it. Find the demo link here.
This feature allows users to customize workdays when the resources are grouped by date. Find the demo link here.
This feature helps users enter valid times in the right format and eliminates data input mistakes.
This support enables the TimePicker to use the new TimeOnly struct.
Improve visualization of loading data in the virtual scrolling feature, by showing a placeholder in each tree grid cell until the scrolling operation is completed. Find the demo link here.
Improved the Syncfusion Blazor Visual Studio Code extensions by providing.NET 7.0 support in the Syncfusion Blazor project template, plus support for conversion, migration, and code snippet tools.
Improved the Syncfusion Blazor Visual Studio 2022 extensions by providing .NET 7.0 support to the Syncfusion Blazor Template Studio for creating Syncfusion Blazor apps. The extensions also support conversion, migration, code generation, and scaffolding.
The Syncfusion Word Library now supports converting an existing Word document or a new document created from scratch using the Word Library to a Markdown file. Users can also customize the image data while converting a Word document to Markdown.
Provided support to convert charts in Word documents to images.