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.
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.
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.
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.
Interactive features
This feature allows users to control the visibility of the badges in the .NET MAUI BadgeView.
Allows users to automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.
A new type of animation, globe, has been added to the Busy Indicator.
This feature enables users to automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.
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.
This feature allows users to customize the appearance and functionality of the headers in the .NET MAUI Calendar.
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.
Improved the blackout dates UI in the .NET MAUI Calendar by implementing the strikethrough effect.
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.
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.
Spline range area series: Provides a smooth, curved area chart that represents the range between values across a series, enhancing clarity in data trends.
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.
This feature allows users to enable or disable the hovering and pressing animations for the .NET MAUI Check Box.
This feature allows users to automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.
The legend toggle feature allows users to show or hide corresponding data points by interacting with the legend items.
Users can adjust the width and height of the ComboBox’s dropdown button to match their design needs.
This feature allows users to reorder rows directly within the UI.
The Syncfusion Excel Library (XlsIO) includes the following enhancements for converting Excel files to PDF and image formats:
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.
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.
This feature allows users to present the value in the Numeric Entry in the following percentage formats:
This feature lets users specify the number of decimal places in the Numeric Entry control, ensuring precision where it matters.
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.
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.
This feature allows users to enable or disable hovering over and pressing animations for the .NET MAUI Radio Button.
This feature allows users to retrieve the selected item value from a group of radio buttons within a radio group.
Users can automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.
This feature allows users to navigate dates using a calendar date picker in the Scheduler header.
This feature allows users to suspend and resume appointment UI updates while performing collection changes such as add, remove, and reset.
This feature allows users to display or hide a Today button in the Scheduler.
This feature allows users to make method calls directly to a ViewModel, which supports tapped, double-tapped, long-press, and visible-date-changed actions.
This feature allows users to get the details of the tapped week number in the view.
This feature allows users to navigate to the next tab by swiping.
This feature allows users to customize the display header of each tab item. It provides the following customization options:
This feature allows users to customize the corner radius of the selection indicator in the .NET MAUI Tab View.
This feature enables users to customize the horizontal text alignment of the tab header using the following options:
This feature allows users to modify the duration of the content transition in the Tab View control.
Users can automatically scale the control’s font size based on the operating system’s text size.
This feature allows users to restrict selection between specific time ranges in SfTimePicker. Users cannot select beyond minimum and maximum time ranges.
This feature allows users to explore hierarchical data interactively by navigating through its levels.
This feature allows users to change the control’s flow direction to right-to-left.
This feature allows users to customize the arrangement and position of each legend item.
This feature allows users to customize legends with templates.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Syncfusion Word Library includes the following enhancements when converting Word documents to PDF files or images: