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Define Dashboard Watermarks with Text Expressions

January 15, 2025
Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS 2025.1.1 enhances flexibility with watermark expressions, enabling more customizable, data-driven dashboards.

Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS is a JavaScript-based tool for creating interactive dashboards within web applications. Designed for developers and businesses, it provides customizable charts, graphs, and tables to visualize complex data from various sources. It supports popular JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue.js, and Node.js, enabling seamless integration into modern web projects. With an intuitive interface and responsive design, it suits use cases like business intelligence, performance monitoring, and data-driven decision-making. Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS enhances user engagement and simplifies data analysis for industries such as finance, marketing, and logistics.

The Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS 2025.1.1 update introduces the ability to use expressions in dashboard watermarks, providing developers with enhanced flexibility to create dynamic and context-aware visual elements. This feature allows watermarks to adapt based on data or user-defined expressions, enabling the seamless integration of real-time information, branding, or contextual details directly into dashboards. By supporting Text, Image, Weave, and combined elements, the update streamlines customization and ensures that watermarks can align with specific design or functional requirements, helping developers deliver more polished and responsive dashboards.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025.1.1, see our release notes.

Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. See our Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS licensing page for full details.

Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS is available individually or as part of Stimulsoft Ultimate.

Optimize Document Viewing with Customization

January 10, 2025
GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET 24.12 enhances performance, expands format support, and offers advanced customization for a streamlined experience.

GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET gives developers the ability to create or enhance .NET applications for web and desktop with the ability to view and render documents to PDF, HTML or images, without installing any external software. This document viewer API supports detailed HTML output customization, rendering of complex documents and programming code, conversion to PDF, and secure viewing of password-protected documents with an adjustable caching system. Working across multiple operating systems, platforms, frameworks, and development environments, it facilitates the rendering of such formats as PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, OpenDocument, Visio, and HTML within document viewing apps.

The GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET 24.12 update introduces a New Angular UI designed to deliver enhanced performance, greater customization flexibility, and compatibility with modern development practices. By modernizing dependencies and optimizing document viewing capabilities, this update streamlines integration into applications and ensures a smoother user experience. Developers can leverage the expanded UI customization options to tailor the viewer to specific project requirements, enabling more precise control over functionality and design. This update provides a robust and efficient solution for building modern, adaptable document viewing applications.

To see a full list of what's new in V24.12, see our release notes.

GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET is offered as Developer Small Business, Developer OEM, Site Small Business, and Site OEM licenses catering to a range of business needs. Licenses are perpetual, and include 1 year of support and maintenance. Subscription renewals are also available. See our GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET licensing page for full details.

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Compare Metrics with Multiple Line Representations

January 7, 2025
Line charts allow the visualization and comparison of multiple data sets, highlighting relationships, trends, and contrasts to reveal correlations.

Line charts are a fundamental data visualization tool used to represent quantitative values over a continuous interval, such as time, by connecting data points with straight lines. They are particularly effective for analyzing trends, comparing multiple data sets, and identifying relationships or patterns within large or complex datasets. For software developers, line charts provide a clear and efficient way to present dynamic data, support interactive features for deeper analysis, and enhance decision-making by making critical insights easily accessible through a customizable and intuitive format.

Several Angular chart controls offer line charts including:

  • DevExtreme Chart (part of DevExtreme Complete by DevExpress) lets you build interactive line charts with responsive design, high performance, and seamless integration.
  • Kendo UI for Angular Chart (part of Kendo UI by Telerik) allows you to create customizable, feature-rich line charts optimized for Angular applications with excellent performance.
  • Ignite UI for Angular Chart (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) facilitates the creation of advanced line charts, supporting real-time data visualization with rich interactivity.
  • FusionCharts Suite XT provides versatile line charting capabilities, delivering visually engaging, cross-platform charts for complex data representation.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Angular Charts.

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Enhance Grid Styling with New FlexGrid API

January 3, 2025
Wijmo build 5.20242.30 lets you dynamically style cells based on data or state, enabling tailored, visually engaging, and responsive applications.

Wijmo by MESCIUS is a comprehensive suite of JavaScript UI components designed for building high-performance, enterprise-grade applications. With its lightweight, modular architecture, Wijmo provides developers with a rich set of tools, including data grids, charts, input controls, and advanced features such as PivotGrid and FinancialChart. Optimized for modern frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue, Wijmo offers seamless integration, flexibility, and extensive customization options.

The Wijmo 2024 v2 Build 5.20242.30 update introduces a new API for cell styling in FlexGrid, providing developers with greater control and precision in customizing grid appearance. This enhancement allows developers to dynamically apply styles at the cell level based on data or state, ensuring a tailored and context-aware presentation of grid content. The API streamlines the process of defining and managing styles, reducing complexity and enabling cleaner, more maintainable code. By leveraging this capability, developers can create visually engaging and functionally responsive grids that align with specific application requirements, enhancing both user experience and application performance.

To see a full list of what's new in 2024 v2 Build 5.20242.30, see our release notes.

Wijmo is licensed per developer. Developer licenses are perpetual and include 1 year subscription which provides upgrades, including bug fixes and new features. See our Wijmo licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Wijmo product page.

Customize Your Grid with a New Theming System

January 3, 2025
Handsontable 15.0.0 empowers you to effortlessly tailor every visual detail, ensuring your grids perfectly align with your unique design vision.

Handsontable is a JavaScript library designed to help developers build interactive data grids into their web applications. Offering a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, it allows users to edit, sort, and filter data with ease. Highly customizable and compatible with popular frameworks like React and Angular, Handsontable empowers developers to build robust data manipulation features into their web applications.

The 15.0.0 release introduces a significant enhancement in terms of styling flexibility. The underlying CSS framework has been entirely overhauled, granting developers unprecedented control over the visual presentation of their grids. This update boasts a comprehensive library of over 180 CSS variables, allowing for meticulous customization of every visual aspect. From subtle adjustments to font sizes and colors to more radical transformations of borders, cell padding, and overall layout, users can seamlessly align the table's appearance with their specific design preferences and branding guidelines. This level of granular control empowers designers and developers to create truly unique and visually compelling data tables that seamlessly integrate with their existing user interfaces.

To see a full list of what's new in version 15.0.0, see our release notes.

Handsontable is licensed per developer and is available as an Annual or Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. See our Handsontable licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Handsontable product page.