.NET 7 Blazor News

Add Dynamic Grouping to Your Reports

June 27, 2025
ActiveReports v19.1 adds powerful grouping capabilities, enabling report authors to build customizable, interactive layouts with zero code changes.

ActiveReports.NET from MESCIUS, is a comprehensive reporting solution for developers building applications in .NET. It empowers you to design and deliver visually appealing reports through user-friendly designers and a wide range of controls. ActiveReports simplifies report creation and distribution with a versatile API, rich data source connectivity, and support for multiple export formats. This translates to increased developer productivity and improved end-user experience with powerful reporting functionalities within your .NET applications.

The ActiveReports v19.1 update introduces enhanced grouping control that allows developers to enable or hide groups in Tables, BandedLists, and Tablix controls based on expressions or parameters. This capability makes it easier to design reports that adapt at runtime to different data scenarios or user inputs, without requiring code changes. By configuring the new "Enabled" and "Hidden" properties directly within the report definition, developers can deliver more flexible and maintainable reporting solutions that respond dynamically to business logic.

To see a full list of what's new in v19.1, see our release notes.

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.

Design and Build Intuitive Layouts With Ease

June 11, 2025
Efficiently organize your UI controls within sophisticated layouts ensuring both visual clarity and functional consistency across your application.

In a UI suite, layout refers to the arrangement and alignment of interface elements, such as widgets, charts, controls, and navigation bars, into a coherent structure that prioritizes usability and visual hierarchy. Effective layouts ensure that users can intuitively find and interact with content, while developers benefit from built-in support for responsive grids, flexible spacing, and adaptive positioning that simplifies the creation of consistent interfaces across devices.

Several .NET Blazor UI suites offer layout components including:

  • Blazorise allows you to implement flexible grid-based container layouts with responsive breakpoints, spacing utilities, and adaptive components for web applications.
  • Infragistics Ignite UI lets you create advanced dashboard-style layouts using responsive grid stacks, docking panels, and resizing for data-rich displays.
  • Telerik UI for Blazor facilitates composable layouts with grids, splitters, and adaptive stacking, ensuring responsive interfaces without extra markup.
  • DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor allow developers to assemble layouts with splitters, docks, and fluid panels, delivering responsive, customizable user interfaces.

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

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Allow Users To Select Items From a Predefined List

June 10, 2025
Listboxes offer built-in filtering and customizable templates for visually rich data selection and management within a compact interface.

Listboxes are interactive controls that present users with a scrollable list of predefined options, allowing single or multiple selections without manual entry. By constraining inputs to valid choices and offering keyboard navigation, real-time filtering, and drag-and-drop reordering, they reduce errors and help maintain data integrity. Additionally, customizable templates let developers incorporate icons, colors, or detailed item descriptions, making complex data sets easier to scan. Overall, listboxes offer a compact, intuitive interface that balances flexibility with consistency, boosting productivity wherever structured data selection is needed.

Several .NET Blazor data editor collections can provide you with a listbox including:

  • IntegralUI for Blazor Data Editors (part of IntegralUI for Blazor by Lidor Systems) lets you integrate listboxes with filtering, keyboard navigation, and customizable templates.
  • jQWidgets Blazor Data Editors (part of jQWidgets)allows you to implement listboxes featuring virtual scrolling and responsive data binding.
  • ComponentOne Studio Blazor Edition (part of ComponentOne Studio Blazor Edition by MESCIUS) facilitates building listboxes with filtering, selection events and theming.
  • DevExpress Blazor Data Editors (part of DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor) lets you incorporate listboxes with search filtering and selection checkboxes.

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

Compare .NET Blazor Data Editors

Retrieve and Present Data from Various Sources

June 9, 2025
Built-in support for varied data sources, such as MongoDB, XML, JSON or Excel, makes it easy to bind and visualize live information in your reports.

Data connectivity is a foundational aspect of modern reporting components, enabling applications to retrieve and present data from a wide variety of sources. Whether integrating with relational databases, cloud services, or flat files, effective data connectivity ensures that reports reflect current, accurate information. Reporting components are designed to abstract the complexity of accessing these data sources, providing developers with flexible APIs and tools to bind data into visualizations and formatted reports.

Common features include:

  • Entity Framework ORM integration simplifies data access by enabling reporting on strongly-typed entities directly from the application's data model.
  • Excel / CSV support is essential for importing user-generated data or integrating with business workflows where spreadsheets are common.
  • IEnumerable provides broader compatibility with LINQ and deferred execution, enabling more dynamic and efficient data querying.
  • IList support allows reporting tools to bind directly to .NET collections, making it easy to create reports from in-memory objects.
  • JSON data binding supports modern web APIs and microservices, allowing developers to build reports from real-time or external data feeds formatted in a lightweight, widely-used structure.
  • MongoDB integration enables reporting over NoSQL data structures, particularly useful for applications relying on flexible, document-oriented databases.
  • OLEDB connectivity facilitates access to legacy systems and a wide range of data providers through a standardized interface.
  • XML data sources are often used for structured data interchange and provide a versatile method for both hierarchical and flat data binding.

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

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Visualize Trends Over Time with Line Charts

June 6, 2025
Line charts deliver a view of metric progression, allowing multi-series comparisons, identification of shifts, and strategic forecasting.

Line charts connect data points with lines to show how values change over a continuous scale, usually time. They make it easy to reveal long-term trends, seasonal patterns and sudden shifts while comparing multiple series on the same axes. Common applications include tracking stock prices, monitoring website traffic, analyzing climate data and comparing regional sales to guide business strategy. By highlighting progression and anomalies without clutter, line charts help turn raw numbers into clear, actionable insights.

Several .NET Blazor Chart Controls offer support for line charts including:

  • Blazorise Chart lets you create customizable line charts with smooth animations, tooltips, zooming, and responsive layouts for high-performance real-time apps.
  • TeeChart Blazor by Steema Software allows you to render high-performance line charts with multiple series, styling, interactive panning and zoom controls, export functionality.
  • Infragistics Blazor Charts (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) facilitates responsive line chart creation with styling, axis customization, real-time updates, data markers and tooltips.
  • DevExpress Blazor Chart (part of DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor) enables developers to build interactive line charts featuring zooming and customizable legends.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of .NET Blazor Chart Controls.

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