Released: Jun 11, 2024

Mises à jour de 2024 Volume 2 (26.1.35)

Fonctionnalités

• Common
  • Microsoft .NET 9 preview compatibility - Syncfusion Blazor components offer full compatibility with the newest .NET 9 previews.
  • Fluent 2 Theme support - All of the Syncfusion Blazor components now support Fluent 2 design. This lets you create UIs with a complete set of customization options readily available through the Syncfusion Blazor Theme Studio.
• Preview to production-ready component
  • The Blazor Timeline component has been developed to meet industry standards. It is now marked as a production-ready component for Blazor.
• 3D Chart (preview)
  • Introduced the Blazor 3D Chart component. It visualizes data in three dimensions, showcasing relationships and trends among variables. Unlike traditional 2D charts, 3D charts add depth to the visualization, supporting better comprehension of data patterns. Key features include:
    • Series: The 3D Chart can plot six chart types: column, bar, stacked column, stacked bar, 100% stacked column, and 100% stacked bar.
    • Data binding: Bind the 3D Chart component with an array of JSON objects or a data manager. In addition to chart series, data labels and tooltips can also be bound to the data.
    • Data labels: Annotate points with labels to improve the readability of the chart.
    • Axis types: Plot different data types, such as numeric, date-time, logarithmic, and string.
    • Legends: Provide additional information about series in a customizable legend.
    • User interaction: Add interactive features such as tooltips and data point selection.
    • Export: Print a 3D chart directly from the browser and export the chart in JPEG and PNG formats.
    • RTL: The right-to-left mode renders axes, tooltips, legends, and data in the 3D Chart component from right to left.
• OTP Input (preview)
  • Introduced the Blazor OTP Input, a form component used to input one-time passwords (OTP) during multi-factor authentication processes. It provides extensive customization options, allowing users to change input types, placeholders, separators, and more. Key features include:
    • Input types: Specify the input type as text, number, or password for the OTP input.
    • Styling modes: Use built-in styles such as underline, outline, or fill.
    • Placeholders: Set hint characters for each input field, indicating the expected value.
    • Separators: Specify a character to be placed between input fields.
    • Customization: Customize the default appearance, including input field styling, input length, and more.
• TextArea (preview)
  • Introduced the Blazor TextArea, a fundamental input element in web development. It allows users to input multiple lines of text within a designated area, such as comments, messages, or other lengthy content. This control is an extended version of the HTML text area element and features a floating label, various sizing options, validation states, clear icon, and more.
• DataGrid
  • ODataV4 routing convention - Enhanced the DataManager ODataV4 Adaptor to support users' custom action methods alongside the default GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods. This feature facilitates performing CRUD operations by invoking custom action methods when binding the ODataV4 service to the Grid.
  • Show add new row - The grid content now always presents an empty "Add New Row" edit form during initialization, simplifying the process of adding a new record. Additionally, users can display the "Add New Row" at the top or bottom of the grid. After completing the form, press enter to add the record, facilitating a seamless process to add successive records.
• Diagram
  • Ruler - This feature provides horizontal and vertical guides for measuring in the Diagram control. The ruler helps ensure precision and accuracy when placing, sizing, and aligning shapes and objects within a diagram.
  • Search symbols in the symbol palette - Users can now search for symbols in the symbol palette by entering a symbol's ID or search keywords into a text box and clicking Search. The search results are retrieved by matching the ID or SearchTags property with the string entered in the Search text box. The ShowSearchTextBox property of the symbol palette is used to show or hide the search text box in the symbol palette.
• Dropdown Components
  • Disable individual items - Individual items can now be disabled or enabled based on specific scenarios. Users cannot interact with the disabled items or select them as values within the dropdown components (such as Dropdown list, ComboBox, AutoComplete, and Multiselect).
• Microsoft Excel Library
  • Chart to image enhancement - When converting to PDF or images, error bars are now preserved exactly as they appear in the input Excel file, as well as when converting charts to images.
  • Pivot table enhancement - The show values row option is now provided in pivot table creation and Excel to PDF conversion. This feature allows users to add "Values" row to the pivot table when two or more data fields exist.
  • Gradient fill - Added support for gradient fill style in conditional formatting in Excel document creation and Excel to PDF conversion. This feature improves the appearance of the conditional formatting and easily highlights the data in the reports containing large data.
• Gantt Chart
  • Hover effect on rows - You can now use a hover effect on Gantt rows to enhance the visual experience and make it easier to identify the row currently under the cursor.
  • Improvements in error handling - The OnActionFailure event notifies developers when the Gantt configurations are handled incorrectly on the application end. This event has been enhanced to cover more cases, providing developers with better feedback and diagnostics when issues occur. This improvement will help ensure that any configuration errors are quickly identified and resolved.
• Image Editor
  • Annotation enhancement - The latest update to the Image Editor significantly improves the annotation feature. Users can now draw multiple annotations simultaneously, enhancing creative flexibility. Furthermore, every action, including customizations, will be tracked in the undo/redo collection, ensuring a seamless user experience and making it easier experiment with different designs.
  • Z-order support - This feature allows users to adjust the positioning of annotations. It is particularly useful for designing personalized templates like greeting cards or posters, where managing the layering of multiple annotations is crucial for a polished final product. Types of z-order adjustments:
    • Send Backward: Switch the selected annotation with the annotation one layer behind.
    • Send to Back: Move the selected annotation to behind all other annotations.
    • Bring to Front: Move the selected annotation to ahead of all other annotations.
    • Bring Forward: Switch the selected annotation with the annotation one layer ahead.
  • Save support enhancement - Users can now save an image with a specified file name, file type, and image quality. This enhancement provides more control over the output, ensuring that users can save their work exactly as they need it.
• PDF Library
  • Merge PDFs without compromising accessibility - This functionality allows users to merge PDF documents without compromising their accessibility. Accessibility is crucial for users relying on screen readers and other assistive technologies.
  • Pop-up icon appearance - This feature enables users to add various pop-up icons to a PDF document, including custom icons with unique appearances, by using appearance streams. The appearance stream ensures that each pop-up icon is displayed uniformly when the PDF document is viewed in any standard PDF viewers.
  • Duplicate page support - Added the ability for users to duplicate pages within the same PDF document, facilitating easier content replication and organization. This support is useful for quickly creating templates, maintaining consistency across multiple sections, and streamlining document editing processes.
• PDF Viewer
  • Improved PDF Viewer performance - The PDF Viewer now loads large-sized documents quickly, significantly boosting the loading speed and efficiency of large PDF files. Experience faster document viewing with the optimized PDF Viewer, designed to handle large files with ease.
  • Enhanced custom stamps - PDF Viewer now supports adding PNG images as custom stamps. It also displays any graphical object that is used as a custom stamp in an existing PDF document. You can rotate custom stamps to better fit your documents.
  • Customizable date and time format - You can now customize the date and time format in the comment panel. You can tailor the display to suit your preferred style and regional settings.
  • Multiline comments - Multiline comments can now be added to the annotations. This allows better organization and clarity in the PDF documents.
• Pivot Table
  • Value sorting (OLAP) - Enabled users to sort individual measures and their aggregated values in the OLAP cube linked pivot table in ascending and descending order. It can be performed throughcode-behind or UI action by directly clicking the value header present on the pivot table's row or column axis.
• Microsoft PowerPoint Library
  • End paragraph mark - The .NET PowerPoint Library now includes an API to access the font properties of the end paragraph in PowerPoint Presentations.
  • PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements - The Syncfusion PowerPoint Library includes the following enhancements when converting any PowerPoint Presentation to a PDF file or image:
    • Note rendering: Use a notes-publishing option to improve the rendering of slides with notes that exceed a page when converting to PDF.
    • Highlight preservation: Highlights within the original presentation will be maintained with their exact colors during the conversion process, ensuring a precise representation in the resulting PDF or image file.
    • Chart error bars: Error bars are preserved exactly as they appear in the input presentation when converted to PDF or images, as well as when converting charts to images.
• Query Builder
  • Drag-and-drop support - The Query Builder component now includes a drag-and-drop feature, allowing users to reposition rules or groups effortlessly within the Query Builder. This enhancement provides a more intuitive and flexible way to construct and modify queries.
  • Separate connector support - The separate connector feature in the Query Builder component enables users to integrate standalone connectors between rules or groups within the same group. This allows for greater flexibility, as users can connect rules or groups using different connectors, enhancing the complexity and precision of query construction.
• Rich Text Editor
  • Quick format toolbar - The Rich Text Editor now features a quick toolbar that appears upon text selection, offering convenient access to text formatting options. This floating toolbar allows users to easily apply bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and more formats directly from the quick toolbar near the selected text.
• TreeGrid
  • Performance enhancements in single root node data - Significantly improved performance for TreeGrids with single root node data configurations. This enhancement is specifically targeted at scenarios where there is only one root parent row with thousands of child rows.
  • Improvements in error handling - The OnActionFailure event notifies developers when the TreeGrid configurations are handled incorrectly on the application end. This event has been enhanced to cover more cases, providing developers with better feedback and diagnostics when issues occur. This improvement will help ensure that any configuration errors are quickly identified and resolved.
• TreeView
  • UI virtualization - Optimized performance when dealing with large data sets. Nodes are rendered based on TreeView height and swapped when users scroll, avoiding rendering off-screen items.
• Microsoft Word Library
  • Mathematical equation to LaTeX - The .NET Word Library (DocIO) now includes an API to extract LaTeX code from mathematical equation in Word documents. Additionally, users can modify existing equations using the LaTeX code. With this feature, users can convert mathematical equations from Word documents to LaTeX, and integrate them into LaTeX-based equation editors.
  • Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements - The Syncfusion Word Library includes the following enhancements when converting any Word document to a PDF file:
    • Right-to-left text: Enhanced rendering of columns and table of contents to preserve the right-to-left direction as the original Word document.
    • Mathematical equations: Improved preservation of mathematical equations and their alignments during PDF and image conversion.
    • Chart error bars: Error bars are preserved exactly as they appear in the input Word document when converted to PDF or images, and when converting charts to images.