.NET 7 WPF News

Generate Barcodes Effortlessly in Your WPF Apps

February 26, 2024
UI suites with built-in barcode features streamline barcode integration, eliminating the need for complex, low-level coding.

Barcode components in UI Suites offer software developers a pre-built solution for integrating barcode generation into applications. These components typically handle the encoding of various barcode formats, streamlining development time and effort. By leveraging barcode components, developers can quickly implement features like product lookups, inventory management, and asset tracking, without needing to delve into the complexities of low-level barcode processing. This not only saves development resources but also ensures consistent and reliable barcode handling within the application.

Several WPF UI Suites feature a barcode component including:

  • DevExpress WPF empowers your applications to generate various barcode symbologies with extensive customization capabilities.
  • Telerik UI for WPF incorporates barcode generation into your WPF projects with diverse barcode types, data binding, and styling options.
  • ComponentOne Studio WPF by MESCIUS lets you design professional barcode labels leveraging a wide range of symbologies and properties.
  • Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise seamlessly integrates barcode generation and recognition functionalities into your WPF applications.
  • Infragistics Ultimate UI for WPF offers a robust barcode framework that handles diverse symbologies and supports visual customization.

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

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Annotate Charts to Enhance Visual Insights

February 21, 2024
Leverage annotations for precision and clarity, transforming your .NET WPF charts into powerful data storytelling tools.

Annotations in a chart refer to additional textual or graphical elements overlaid onto the visual representation of data. They serve to provide context, explanations, or highlights within the chart, making it easier to understand. Software developers can utilize annotations to label specific data points, mark significant events, or add explanatory notes, thereby improving the clarity and insightfulness of the chart for end-users. By incorporating annotations, developers can effectively convey complex information, facilitate better data comprehension, and enable more informed decision-making processes within their applications.

Several WPF chart controls support annotations including:

  • Nevron Chart for WPF empowers data visualization with versatile annotations, enabling dynamic and interactive charting experiences in your WPF applications.
  • LightningChart .NET offers extensive customization for adding and managing annotations seamlessly within your .NET applications.
  • ProEssentials integrates robust annotation features into its WPF charts, allowing users to annotate data points with ease and enhance data interpretation effortlessly.

Many WPF suites contain chart controls with annotation support including:

  • DevExpress WPF Chart (part of DevExpress WPF) delivers sophisticated annotation capabilities, empowering users to annotate charts with rich content and customize annotations for comprehensive data representation.
  • ComponentOne Charts for WPF (part of ComponentOne Studio WPF) provides advanced annotation tools, facilitating the integration of descriptive elements into charts for clearer and more insightful data visualization.
  • Telerik WPF Chart (part of Telerik UI for WPF) offers intuitive annotation features, enabling users to add context and insights to data visualizations effortlessly, creating a compelling and informative display.

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

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Optimize Chart Text Rendering at High DPI

February 19, 2024
LightningChart .NET v11.0.1.1 delivers sharp text across all screen resolutions, ensuring your charts look stunning on any display.

LightningChart .NET is a 2D and 3D data visualization SDK empowering developers with high-performance and flexibility. Boasting over 100 chart types, advanced technical indicators, and real-time rendering capabilities, it handles demanding scientific, financial, and engineering challenges, while its rich API and comprehensive support equip developers to craft informative and interactive dashboards.

The LightningChart .NET v11.0.1.1 release enhances text rendering fidelity in WinForms applications, ensuring exceptional clarity and readability across diverse screen resolutions and DPI configurations. This update guarantees a visually consistent and crisp user experience, independent of the user's device display characteristics. Additionally, it optimizes per-monitor DPI awareness for text rendering in both WinForms and WPF applications, particularly within the .NET 6 build environment. This refinement assures well-rendered and accurately scaled text across multiple monitors with varying DPI settings.

To see a full list of what's new in v11.0.1.1, see our release notes.

LightningChart .NET is available per developer in packages for either WPF, WinForms, UWP or all 3. Each package comes as a subscription license (with 1 or 2 years of limited support), or a perpetual license (with 1 or 2 years of Standard or Premium support). Floating licenses and site licenses are available upon request. See our LightningChart .NET licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our LightningChart .NET product page.

Add a .NET Spreadsheet Ribbon Bar using C#

February 19, 2024
Boost user productivity and enhance your .NET app's UI with an Excel-like ribbon that offers contextual behaviors, command execution, and more.

Spread.NET helps you create spreadsheets, grids, dashboards, and forms. It includes a powerful calculation engine with 450+ functions and the ability to import and export Excel spreadsheets. Leverage the extensive .NET spreadsheet API and powerful calculation engine to create analysis, budgeting, dashboard, data collection and management, scientific, and financial applications. You can develop in Visual Studio using VB or C# for WinForms, ASP.NET, and WPF. Spread.NET ensures maximum performance for your enterprise apps and its modular architecture lets you add only the features you need, reducing unnecessary bloat.

In this blog post, MESCIUS Product Marketing Specialist Mackenzie Albitz shows you how to add a spreadsheet ribbon bar control to a .NET 8 WinForms app using C#. Steps include:

  • Creating a WinForms .NET 8 app
  • Adding a .NET Spreadsheet Component to the Form
  • Attaching a Ribbon Bar Control to the .NET Spreadsheet Instance
  • Programmatically Customizing the .NET Spreadsheet Ribbon Bar Control

Read the complete blog and unlock the powerful capabilities of the Spread.NET component.

Spread.NET is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. We can supply any Spread.NET license including new licenses, maintenance renewals, and upgrade licenses. See our Spread.NET licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Spread.NET product page.

Add Date Range Selection to Your WPF Apps

February 14, 2024
Telerik UI for WPF 2024 Q1 adds a new DateRangePicker control, providing an efficient way for users to select a range of dates.

Telerik UI for WPF is an extensive UI library specifically designed for building modern and feature-rich business applications using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) framework. It offers many customizable controls, ranging from data-driven grids and charts to specialized navigation and input components. The suite emphasizes performance and user experience, providing data virtualization for handling large datasets efficiently and ensuring visually appealing interactions.

The Telerik UI for WPF 2024 Q1 update streamlines date selection in your WPF applications with a new DateRangePicker control. This intuitive scheduling component empowers users to effortlessly choose date intervals through interactive calendar popups. It supports pre-defined ranges like "Last Week" or "This Month", as well as custom selections. Developers gain further control with unselectable "blackout date" functionality and extensive customization options, simplifying user interaction and data filtering within their WPF applications.

To see a full list of what's new in 2024 Q1, see our release notes.

Telerik UI for WPF is licensed per developer and is available as a perpetual license with a one year support subscription, which is available in three tiers: Lite, Priority or Ultimate. See our Telerik UI for WPF licensing page for full details.

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