.NET 7 Blazor News

Simplify UI Design with Themed Data Editors

November 7, 2025
Effortlessly personalize an application’s appearance with flexible themes, applying color schemes and fonts for a consistent, professional look.

Themes in data editors provide a simple and efficient way to customize the visual appearance of data editing controls, including elements such as color schemes, fonts, and overall styling. By applying themes, developers and designers can create a consistent and professional look across multiple components, ensuring that applications align with brand guidelines and deliver a polished user experience. This flexibility enhances readability and usability while improving the design process, allowing visual updates to be made globally without modifying individual controls. For example, a dark theme can improve focus in data-intensive dashboards, while a light and minimalist theme can enhance clarity in business forms or reporting tools. Overall, themed data editors help maintain design consistency, reduce development time, and elevate the overall aesthetic of modern applications.

Several .NET Blazor data editor collections offer support for themes including:

  • Telerik UI for Blazor Data Editors (part of Telerik UI for Blazor) lets you easily apply cohesive themes, adjusting colors and fonts for a consistent, professional interface.
  • jQWidgets Blazor Data Editors (part of jQWidgets) allows you to style controls effortlessly with customizable themes that enhance visual consistency and application branding.
  • Blazorise Data Editors (part of Blazorise) facilitates theme customization, enabling adjustments to color schemes and typography for polished, user-friendly data input forms.
  • IntegralUI for Blazor Data Editors (part of IntegralUI for Blazor by Lidor Systems) provides flexible theming options to unify control styling amd maintaining visual harmony.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET Blazor data editor controls comparison.

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Refine Report Design with Updated Ribbon Controls

October 17, 2025
FastReport .NET Ultimate 2026.1 brings a modern, intuitive Ribbon UI to your reports for faster design and a more polished user experience.

FastReport .NET Ultimate is a comprehensive reporting solution for developers working within the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. It supports the creation, design, and delivery of rich, interactive reports across Windows Forms, ASP.NET, MVC, and .NET Core applications. The Ultimate edition includes server deployment capabilities and extensive export options, such as PDF, Excel, Word, and HTML. It connects to various data sources, including SQL databases and business objects, providing flexibility for enterprise-level reporting. With the integrated FastReport Online Designer, users can edit reports directly in their browsers, enabling efficient collaboration and modern, full-featured report design across both desktop and web platforms.

The FastReport .NET Ultimate 2026.1 update introduces an improved Ribbon interface and a new 'RibbonDesignerControl', giving developers a more intuitive and efficient report design experience. The redesigned Ribbon UI offers a cleaner, more structured layout that simplifies access to tools and settings, improving usability and reducing development time. This addition allows developers to integrate the same modern Ribbon interface directly into their own applications, providing a consistent and familiar design environment for end users. This enhancement supports smoother workflows, greater customization, and a more professional user experience across both desktop and web reporting solutions.

To see a full list of what's new in version 2026.1, see our release notes.

FastReport .NET Ultimate is licensed per named user and is available as a perpetual license with a one-year subscription for updates and support. See our FastReport .NET Ultimate licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our FastReport .NET Ultimate product page.

Build Rich Navigation with Blazor Menus

October 10, 2025
Blazor UI libraries deliver flexible menu components with nested items, visual customization, and integration into modern web layouts.

Menu controls in a Blazor UI suite are user interface components that provide structured navigation through an application by organizing links or actions into hierarchical menus. These controls are particularly useful in web applications that require intuitive, accessible, and dynamic navigation elements. In Blazor, menu controls can be rendered either through server-side or WebAssembly-based components, allowing developers to build interactive menus using Razor syntax and C#. They support features like multi-level nesting, icons, templates, and binding to data sources, making them adaptable to a wide range of layouts and user experiences. Menu controls integrate smoothly with routing and layout systems, enabling developers to maintain a consistent navigation experience across the application.

Several Blazor UI suites provide Menu controls, including:

  • DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor lets you build hierarchical menus with templates, icons, and orientation support, including a responsive layout with collapsing behavior.
  • Telerik UI for Blazor allows you to create multi-level menus with item templates, icons, and URL-based navigation that integrates with Blazor routing.
  • Nevron Open Vision for .NET provides context and ribbon menu controls for Blazor WebAssembly, with theme support, icons, checkable items, and multi-click interaction.
  • Blazorise offers a responsive Bar component that supports horizontal and vertical modes, with nested dropdowns and layout-friendly navigation options.
  • Smart UI (Smart HTML Elements) provides a dedicated Blazor Menu control with nested items, multiple display modes, rich styling, and context menu support.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Blazor UI Suites.

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Adapt Grid Layouts to Real-World Needs

October 3, 2025
With runtime column reordering, developers can deliver flexible, user-friendly grids that adjust to different roles, tasks, or personal preferences.

Reordering columns in grid components enables end users to customize the layout of data by dragging column headers into new positions at runtime. This feature improves usability and flexibility, users can adapt the interface to their workflow, prioritize visible information, and reorganize data presentation without developer intervention. A robust implementation also supports programmatic reordering (for restoring user preferences or responding to logic), individual column reordering permissions, and integration with features like column persistence and layout saving.

Several Blazor grid controls offer support for column reordering including:

  • DevExpress Blazor Grid (part of DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor) lets you rearrange columns by dragging headers, offering flexibility in layout customization.
  • Telerik UI for Blazor Grid (part of Telerik UI for Blazor) allows users to move columns interactively, making it easy to personalize data presentation.
  • FlexGrid for Blazor (part of ComponentOne Studio Blazor Edition by MESCIUS) facilitates dynamic column reordering, enabling users to adjust grid layouts visually.
  • Infragistics Blazor Data Grid (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) supports column repositioning through header dragging, helping users tailor data displays.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our Blazor grid controls comparison.

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Display Rich Interactive Reports in Blazor Apps

October 2, 2025
Blazor report controls with report viewers deliver paginated, export-ready reports featuring drill-down and input-based filtering.

A report viewer in a Blazor report control allows developers to display interactive, paginated, and print-ready reports directly within Blazor applications. This component bridges the gap between server-side reporting capabilities and client-side UI responsiveness, offering a way to render complex reports in-browser without relying on external viewers or plugins. It supports common report features such as drill-down, export to various formats, and parameterized filtering, making it highly useful for enterprise dashboards and data-driven web applications. By integrating directly into the Blazor ecosystem, it ensures a cohesive development experience with consistent styling, fast rendering, and reduced client-server communication overhead.

Several Blazor reporting controls offer a report viewer including:

  • Telerik Reporting enables report viewing in web and desktop apps with responsive viewers, parameter support, and built-in export functionality.
  • ActiveReports.NET by MESCIUS allows you to embed customizable, high-performance report viewers into .NET applications, supporting drill-down, and export.
  • DevExpress Reports lets you deliver consistent, interactive report viewing experiences across web, desktop, and mobile platforms with responsive design.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.WEB facilitates flexible report viewing in browser-based applications, offering touch support, report navigation, and export options across modern platforms.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Blazor reporting controls.

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