.NET 8 Blazor News

Customize Reports Faster with Style Editor

May 21, 2025
FastReport Online Designer 2025.2 adds a centralized styling tool to reduce repetition and maintain consistent formatting across report elements.

FastReport Online Designer is a cross platform visual report designer for FastReport .NET that enables users to create, edit and view reports on any device running Android, iOS or Windows through a modern web browser on computers, tablets, smartphones, game consoles or TV sets. Common use cases include remote collaboration on operational dashboards, embedding interactive reporting in web applications and empowering business users to customize and share up to date analyses without installing additional software.

FastReport Online Designer 2025.2 introduces a new Style Editor that enables users to define and manage report styles in one place. By allowing customization of fill colors, fonts, borders, and more, the feature removes the need for repetitive manual formatting. Users can now create a single style and apply it across multiple components, ensuring visual consistency and reducing formatting time.

To see a full list of what's new in v2025.2, see our release notes.

FastReport Online Designer is available as a license option in the FastReport .NET Components Packages. It is included in FastReport Ultimate .NET and FastReport Web .NET. See our FastReport Online Designer licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our FastReport Online Designer product page.

Accelerate Web Development with Blazor UI Controls

May 19, 2025
Blazor UI suites offer high-performance components, such as grids or charts, for building scalable, consistent, and maintainable applications.

UI controls designed for use with Microsoft's Blazor framework, support full-stack development in C# and .NET, simplifying the creation of modern web applications. These controls are typically bundled into UI suites, providing developers with pre-built, customizable elements that improve the creation of rich, interactive web interfaces without needing JavaScript. By leveraging WebAssembly or server-side rendering, Blazor UI suites allow for an easy developer experience, consistent performance, and strong integration with existing .NET libraries and tooling.

Common controls include:

  • Barcode components allow users to generate and display various barcode formats for product labeling and scanning workflows.
  • Calendar components provide interactive date selection and scheduling capabilities, often with multi-view and appointment features.
  • Chart controls enable dynamic data visualization, supporting a wide range of chart types such as line, bar, pie, and financial indicators.
  • Data Editors offer form inputs like text boxes, checkboxes, and dropdowns with built-in validation and styling options.
  • Data Grid components deliver powerful tabular data representation, featuring sorting, filtering, grouping, and virtual scrolling for handling large datasets efficiently.
  • Gantt controls support project management scenarios with timeline views, task dependencies, and resource tracking.
  • Map components integrate geographic data display, often layered with markers, routes, and region highlights.
  • Menus facilitate intuitive navigation structures, including horizontal, vertical, and context-sensitive options.
  • Toolbars provide accessible command sets, commonly used for actions like formatting, exporting, or interacting with other UI components.

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

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Compare Trends with Multi-Series Spline Charts

May 8, 2025
Visualize evolving relationships between multiple datasets and effectively identify correlations over time with multi-series spline charts.

Spline charts are a type of line graph that displays continuous data points connected by smooth, curved lines, offering a visually fluid representation of trends and changes over time. This smoothing effect helps to highlight the overall trajectory of the data and can provide estimations of values between plotted points. Multi-Series Spline Charts extend this functionality by plotting multiple related datasets on the same graph, enabling direct visual comparison of their trends and the identification of correlations or divergences.

Several .NET Blazor chart controls offer spline charts including:

  • TeeChart Blazor renders interactive spline charts, enabling clear trend visualization and data comparison through smooth, customizable curves.
  • FusionCharts Blazor Suite XT empowers Blazor developers with versatile spline charts to illustrate continuous data and highlight comparative trends across multiple series.
  • Infragistics Blazor Charts (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) provides feature-rich spline chart components, facilitating insightful trend analysis and smooth data representation.
  • Syncfusion Blazor Chart (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) offers comprehensive spline chart functionality, allowing dynamic data visualization.

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

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Celebrating 5 Year Partnership with FusionCharts

May 7, 2025
ComponentSource and FusionCharts have worked together since 2020 bringing powerful data visualization tools to developers worldwide.

ComponentSource's expertise and global reach have significantly expanded the worldwide accessibility of FusionCharts' data visualization solutions. By leveraging ComponentSource's established distribution network and multilingual support, FusionCharts has connected with a broader international audience of developers and organizations across diverse industries and geographical locations, enabling them to enhance their applications with compelling data insights.

This 5 year partnership between ComponentSource and FusionCharts reflects a shared dedication to empowering developers with best-in-class tools, acknowledging the role of effective data visualization in modern applications. Through this partnership, ComponentSource has played a key role in making FusionCharts flagship product FusionCharts Suite XT more accessible to a global audience.

Now marking 5 years of working together, ComponentSource and FusionCharts are continuing to build on their collaboration. As demand grows for tools that help developers deliver more data-driven and visually rich applications, the partnership remains focused on improving access and simplifying procurement for teams everywhere.

As we celebrate this milestone, we look forward to strengthening our partnership and continuing to provide developers with the tools they need to succeed.

For more information, visit our FusionCharts brand page.

Add Rich Reporting to Blazor Apps with Ease

May 6, 2025
Embed interactive, data-rich reports directly in your Blazor UI with a flexible and responsive viewer component.

A report viewer is a UI element that renders and displays pre-built reports within a Blazor web application, allowing users to interact with them through features like pagination, parameter input, search, and export. It serves as the front-end interface for consuming reports generated by a reporting engine, often backed by data from databases or APIs. For developers, it enables seamless integration of reporting capabilities into Blazor applications without requiring page reloads or external viewers, supports responsive design for various devices, and maintains a consistent user experience through Blazor's component-based architecture.

Several Blazor Reporting Controls offer support for a report viewer including:

  • DevExpress Reports (Multi-Platform) (part of DevExpress Reporting) allows you to embed a native Blazor report viewer, with preview and export functionality.
  • ActiveReports.NET by MESCIUS lets you integrate a Blazor report viewer with customizable UI, supporting client-side export to multiple formats.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.Web facilitates embedding a Blazor viewer that supports interactive reports, multiple display modes, and various export options.

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

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