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What's New in Syncfusion .NET MAUI Controls

ESSENTIAL STUDIO 2024 VOLUME 3

What's New in Syncfusion .NET MAUI Controls

Jump-start your .NET MAUI project with new AI AssistView and Kanban controls, three new chart series and calendar-based date navigation in the Scheduler that rolled out in the 2024 Volume 3 release.

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Production-Ready Controls

The .NET MAUI Digital Gauge control has been developed to meet industry standards and is now marked as production-ready in the 2024 Volume 3 release.

AI AssistView (New)

The .NET MAUI AI AssistView control enhances interaction between users and AI services. It provides a customizable, user-friendly interface for creating intelligent and responsive applications with AI services.

Key features

  • Content types: Supports text, images, hyperlinks, and cards.
  • Control template: Offers a customizable control template to display any view or control.
  • Suggestions: Provides selectable response suggestions to expedite the conversation flow.
  • Styling: Allows the appearance of request and response items to be customized.

.NET MAUI AI AssistView

Kanban (New)

A Kanban board is a visual management tool that helps teams track and manage work in progress. It provides a organized view of tasks as each one moves through different stages, making it simpler to track progress.

Key features

  • The work-in-progress (WIP) limit feature shows error bars when the number of tasks exceeds or falls below the set limit.
  • The workflow configuration feature defines the flow of card transitions from one state to another, ensuring efficient management of task progression through various stages.

Interactive features

  • Drag-and-drop support provides an interactive way to move tasks between stages, making it easy to update and manage projects.
  • Expand or collapse columns to focus on specific tasks and organize the board better.

.NET MAUI Kanban

Badge View

Badge visibility

This feature allows users to control the visibility of the badges in the .NET MAUI BadgeView.

Font autoscaling enabled

Allows users to automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.

Busy Indicator

Globe animation

A new type of animation, globe, has been added to the Busy Indicator.

.NET MAUI Busy Indicator globe animation.

Font auto scaling enabled

This feature enables users to automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.

Button

Text transform

Users can now customize the Button’s text using the text transform feature. They can easily switch between uppercase, lowercase, none, or default styles to achieve the desired appearance.

.NET MAUI Button .Net MAUI Button .Net MAUI Button

Calendar

Template for headers

This feature allows users to customize the appearance and functionality of the headers in the .NET MAUI Calendar.

.NET MAUI Calendar

Adjacent month navigation

This feature allows users to navigate to the previous or next month by tapping the leading or trailing month date in the .NET MAUI Calendar.

.NET MAUI Calendar

Strike through

Improved the blackout dates UI in the .NET MAUI Calendar by implementing the strikethrough effect.

.NET MAUI Calendar

Cartesian Charts

New series types

The following three new series are now available in the Cartesian Charts control for enhanced data visualization:

Stacked line series: Displays multiple line series stacked on top of each other to represent cumulative data trends, offering a clear comparison of multiple datasets over time.

StackedLine Series

100% stacked line series: Similar to the stacked line, but displays data as contributions to a whole, with each category’s value represented as a fraction of the total value.

StackedLine100 Series

Spline range area series: Provides a smooth, curved area chart that represents the range between values across a series, enhancing clarity in data trends.

SplineRangeArea series

Legend label style

This feature allows you to customize how legend labels look for each series. You can adjust the text color, font size, background color, and font family of legend items to match your preferences.

Check Box

Enable animation

This feature allows users to enable or disable the hovering and pressing animations for the .NET MAUI Check Box.

Font auto scaling enabled

This feature allows users to automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.

Circular Charts

Legend toggle

The legend toggle feature allows users to show or hide corresponding data points by interacting with the legend items.

ComboBox

Users can adjust the width and height of the ComboBox’s dropdown button to match their design needs.

.NET MAUI ComboBox

DataGrid

Row drag and drop

This feature allows users to reorder rows directly within the UI.

.NET MAUI DataGrid Row Drag and Drop

Excel Library

Enhanced conversion of Excel to PDF and image formats

The Syncfusion Excel Library (XlsIO) includes the following enhancements for converting Excel files to PDF and image formats:

  • Tagged PDFs: Converting Excel documents to PDF files with PDF/UA standard compliance is now supported. This ensures that users who rely on accessibility tools can read the content of these PDF documents.
  • Metafile image preservation: The EMF images in Excel documents are now preserved in conversion.

Performance improvement

The Syncfusion Excel Library’s performance is improved by 30% for reading cell values from Excel documents. The time taken to read cell values for an Excel document containing data for 100,000 rows and 200 columns is reduced from 22 seconds to 16 seconds.

Import XML maps

The Syncfusion Excel Library now supports adding XML maps to Excel documents. This feature allows users to select and map the fields to the worksheet range.

Import XML maps in .NET MAUI.

Numeric Entry

Percentage display mode

This feature allows users to present the value in the Numeric Entry in the following percentage formats:

  • Value: Displays the actual value with the percent sign.

.NET MAUI NumericEntry

  • Compute: Displays the computed value with the percent sign.

.NET MAUI NumericEntry

Set maximum decimal digits

This feature lets users specify the number of decimal places in the Numeric Entry control, ensuring precision where it matters.

.NET MAUI NumericEntry

PDF Library

Enhancements in Arabic script rendering

This feature enables users to render Arabic text with extended characters support for specific blocks, ensuring precise representation and improved readability of Arabic script in PDF documents.

  • Extended - A
  • Extended - B
  • Extended - C
  • Presentation Forms - A
  • Presentation Forms - B

Arabic script extended block rendering.

Circular annotations with cloud border style

This feature allows users to apply a cloud border style to circular annotations in PDF documents, making it easier to emphasize key information, highlight important sections, and make annotations visually distinctive. It’s beneficial in educational materials, technical documentation, design reviews, and collaborative business documents where clear communication is essential.

Cloud border style in circular annotations.

PowerPoint Library

PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

  • Color transformation for images: Recolored images are now accurately preserved in PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions, maintaining the visual appearance of custom-colored graphics and logos for clear branding.

Recolored images in PPTX to PDF conversion

  • Metafile image preservation: The EMF images in the PowerPoint presentations are now properly preserved during PDF or image conversion.

Radio Button

Enable animation

This feature allows users to enable or disable hovering over and pressing animations for the .NET MAUI Radio Button.

Selected value support for a radio group

This feature allows users to retrieve the selected item value from a group of radio buttons within a radio group.

Font auto scaling enabled

Users can automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.

Scheduler

Date navigation using built-in calendar

This feature allows users to navigate dates using a calendar date picker in the Scheduler header.

Date navigation in scheduler

Suspend appointment updates

This feature allows users to suspend and resume appointment UI updates while performing collection changes such as add, remove, and reset.

Today button

This feature allows users to display or hide a Today button in the Scheduler.

Command support

This feature allows users to make method calls directly to a ViewModel, which supports tapped, double-tapped, long-press, and visible-date-changed actions.

Week number tap events

This feature allows users to get the details of the tapped week number in the view.

Tab View

Enable swiping

This feature allows users to navigate to the next tab by swiping.

Enabled swiping in .NET MAUI Tab View.

Header display mode

This feature allows users to customize the display header of each tab item. It provides the following customization options:

  • Image: Displays only the image on each tab item. Image tab header display mode in .NET MAUI Tab View.
  • Text: Displays only the text on each tab item. Text tab header display mode in .NET MAUI Tab View.
  • Default: Displays both the text and image on each tab item. Default tab header display mode in .NET MAUI Tab View.

Indicator corner radius

This feature allows users to customize the corner radius of the selection indicator in the .NET MAUI Tab View.

Tab header display mode default in .NET MAUI Tab View.

Header text alignment

This feature enables users to customize the horizontal text alignment of the tab header using the following options:

  • Start: Aligns the tab header to the beginning of the available space.
  • Center: Aligns the tab header to the center of the available space.
  • End: Aligns the tab header to the end of the available space.

Content transition duration

This feature allows users to modify the duration of the content transition in the Tab View control.

Font auto scaling enabled

Users can automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.

Time Picker

Minimum and maximum time

This feature allows users to restrict selection between specific time ranges in SfTimePicker. Users cannot select beyond minimum and maximum time ranges.

.NET MAUI TimePicker

TreeMap

Drill-down support

This feature allows users to explore hierarchical data interactively by navigating through its levels.

Drilldown support in TreeMap control

RTL support

This feature allows users to change the control’s flow direction to right-to-left.

Legend layout

This feature allows users to customize the arrangement and position of each legend item.

Legend template

This feature allows users to customize legends with templates.

Legend template support in TreeMap

Visual Studio Code Extension

New feature

Syncfusion has introduced an exciting feature, Selection of Component Features, in Visual Studio Code’s .NET MAUI Template Studio. This enhancement allows users to customize the functionalities of their chosen components with precision. The updated tool includes an intuitive project wizard that simplifies the creation process, making it accessible for users of different skill levels and experiences. Users can build high-quality applications featuring advanced Syncfusion components. Explore this feature and streamline your application development.

.NET MAUI Project Template feature selection

Word Library

WordArt in DOCX

The .NET Word Library now preserves WordArt effects like shadows, reflections, glows, bevels, 3D rotations, and transformations in DOCX files, ensuring that decorative text retains its appearance.

WordArt in Word documents

HTML conversion enhancements

HTML-to-Word conversion

The .NET Word Library now supports HTML files that do not follow XML standards, offering greater flexibility in HTML-to-Word conversions. Users can now more effectively handle HTML files with non-standard tags or structures.

HTML to Word conversion in Word Library

RTL text preservation

RTL (right-to-left) text is accurately preserved during HTML-to-Word and Word-to-HTML conversions. Users can now convert HTML files containing the RTL text, and the text direction formatting remains consistent.

RTL in HTML conversion using Word Library

Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

The Syncfusion Word Library includes the following enhancements when converting Word documents to PDF files or images:

  • Performance: Conversion of large Word documents (above 1,000 pages) with tables and hyperlinks to PDFs or images is now up to 25x faster, reducing processing time from hours to minutes.
  • RTL text preservation: RTL (right-to-left) text within track changes balloons is now accurately preserved during Word-to-PDF conversions.
  • Table rendering: Rendering of tables with “keep with next” settings on multi-column pages during Word-to-PDF and image conversions, preserves the layout as it is in the input file.
  • Metafile image preservation: The EMF images in the Word documents are now properly preserved during PDF or image conversion.
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