ASP.NET Core 8 News

Share Feedback Instantly with PDF Sticky Notes

April 2, 2025
PDF sticky note annotations capture insights in PDFs to improve collaboration and simplify document reviews without altering the content.

PDF sticky note annotations allow developers to enable users to attach virtual notes to specific locations within a PDF document. These annotations appear as icons that can be clicked to reveal additional text-based comments or instructions. This feature is particularly useful for collaborative workflows, review processes, and documentation tasks, as it enables users to provide contextual feedback without altering the original content. For developers, it offers a straightforward way to integrate lightweight commenting functionality into document-centric applications, enhancing usability and facilitating more efficient communication among users.

Several ASP.NET Core PDF components offer sticky note annotations including:

  • Document Solutions for PDF by MESCIUS allows you to embed, read, and manipulate sticky notes in PDFs to support efficient review and feedback processes.
  • ImageGear for .NET by Accusoft facilitates adding digital sticky notes in PDF files, enabling precise, non-destructive annotations for technical and business documents.
  • Syncfusion ASP.NET Core PDF lets you programmatically add, manage, and extract digital sticky notes for PDF annotation and collaborative workflows.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our ASP.NET Core PDF components comparison.

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Set Dynamic Bounds in Gauge Ranges

April 1, 2025
Stimulsoft Dashboards.WEB 2025.2.1 adds dynamic expressions in gauge fields for custom range calculations and data-driven visualizations.

Stimulsoft Dashboards.WEB is a versatile suite of tools for crafting interactive data visualizations for web and desktop applications. It empowers developers to embed intuitive dashboards across various platforms, using the platform-specific components or a centralized cloud designer. With rich data analysis elements, extensive customization options, and pre-built templates, Stimulsoft Dashboards helps you transform complex data into clear, actionable insights for any audience.

The Stimulsoft Dashboards.WEB 2025.2.1 update introduces support for expressions in Gauge range fields, enabling developers to calculate minimum and maximum range bounds dynamically based on underlying data. This enhancement allows for greater flexibility in building responsive dashboards, as Gauge elements can now reflect real-time values without requiring manual adjustments. By integrating expressions directly into the range logic, developers can implement more sophisticated data visualizations that adapt to changing inputs and business logic. This feature streamlines development and supports more efficient maintenance of dynamic reporting scenarios.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025.2.1, see our release notes.

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

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

Gain Full Control of Report Agents in One View

March 27, 2025
Telerik Report Server 2025 Q1 adds a powerful Server Agents Manager, providing centralized control, and enhanced scheduling capabilities.

Telerik Report Server is a comprehensive and flexible end-to-end solution for managing reports. Built with the Telerik Reporting library, it is a server-based Windows web application that provides centralized storage, organization, and previewing of reports, along with features for scheduling, delivery, and user management. Report Server can act as a standalone solution or be integrated within an application, allowing developers to create, manage, and distribute reports across multiple platforms including Blazor, Angular and Windows Forms.

The Telerik Report Server 2025 Q1 update introduces the Server Agents Manager, providing software developers with a centralized and intuitive interface for managing Server Agents across multiple machines. This enhancement improves visibility into agent statuses and tasks, allowing for more precise control over scheduled report processing, data caching, and overall workload distribution. Developers can efficiently add, modify, or remove agents, monitor real-time execution, and cancel ongoing tasks as needed to optimize performance and resource utilization. By streamlining agent management and increasing operational transparency, this update ensures a more scalable, efficient, and reliable reporting environment.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025 Q1 (11.0.25.211), see our release notes.

Telerik Report Server is licensed per developer and has two licensing models: an annual Subscription License and a Perpetual License. The Subscription license provides access to the latest product updates, technical support, and exclusive benefits for a flat annual fee, and must be renewed to continue using the software. The Perpetual license is a one-time purchase granting access to the current released version and includes a one-year subscription for product updates and technical support. After this initial period, users can choose to renew the subscription element to continue receiving updates and support; otherwise, they may continue using the installed version available during their active subscription term but will forgo future updates and support. See our Telerik Report Server licensing page for full details.

Telerik Report Server is available individually or as part of Telerik DevCraft Ultimate.

Build Inclusive Forms in ASP.NET Core

March 26, 2025
Use Data Editor controls with RTL support to create accessible, right-to-left input forms that improve usability for multilingual web applications.

Right to Left (RTL) support in ASP.NET Core Data Editor controls ensures that text, layout, and user interface elements are properly aligned for languages that are read from right to left, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. This functionality automatically adjusts text direction, input fields, alignment, and other visual components to provide a seamless user experience for RTL users. By enabling RTL support, developers can create more inclusive web applications that cater to a global audience without requiring extensive customization. This improves usability, enhances accessibility, and ensures compliance with localization requirements for multilingual applications.

Several ASP.NET Core Assembly data editors offer right-to-left (RTL) support including:

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of ASP.NET Core Assembly data editors.

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Create Drill Through Reports in a C# .NET Application

March 25, 2025
Build interactive drill through reports using ActiveReports.NET by passing parameters and setting up navigation actions.

ActiveReports.NET helps you deliver beautiful reports with intuitive Visual Studio integrated report designers and rich controls. It provides code-based cross-platform reporting, easy-to-use designers, and a flexible API, enabling you to design and deliver powerful reports with intuitive, reliable, and user-friendly report designers and controls.

In this blog post, MESCIUS Product Manager Alec Gall shows you how to use ActiveReports to drill through from one report to another in your .NET application. Steps include:

  • Defining Parameters for Drill-Through Reports in ActiveReports
  • Creating Dynamic Report Titles and Data Filtering with Parameters
  • Adding Interactive Drill-Through Actions to Images

Detailed source code is completed and there is even a video that you can watch as you go through the steps.

Read the complete blog and begin providing a seamless way to navigate between related datasets in your .NET applications.

ActiveReports.NET is licensed per developer and is available with or without a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. See our ActiveReports.NET licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our ActiveReports.NET product page.