.NET 8 Blazor News

Plan Projects Easily with Built-in Gantt Tools

March 25, 2026

Blazorise 2.0.3 adds a Gantt component enabling interactive project timelines with editing hierarchy support and scheduling capabilities

Blazorise is a versatile component library that empowers developers to build modern and feature-rich web applications using Blazor, a client-side web development framework from Microsoft. It offers a comprehensive collection of user interface components, including buttons, forms, charts, and navigation elements, all built with accessibility and responsiveness in mind.

The Blazorise 2.0.3 update introduces a Gantt component that enables developers to implement advanced project planning and timeline visualization directly within their applications, reducing the need for custom development or third party tools while supporting complex scheduling scenarios through features such as task editing, hierarchical data structures, dependency management, filtering, and drag and drop interactions, all within a consistent and theme aligned UI framework.

To see a full list of what’s new in version 2.0.3, see our release notes.

Blazorise is licensed per developer and includes a 1 year subscription for updates and support. Professional, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus editions are available, each offering tailored levels of support and service to meet varying business needs. See our Blazorise licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Blazorise product page.

Enforce Structured Input with Masked Editors

March 18, 2026

Masked input text box editors for .NET Blazor guide users to enter values in predefined formats, helping to capture consistent, validated data.

Masked Input Text Box editors are input components that enforce a predefined format while users type, ensuring that entered values follow a specific structure such as phone numbers, dates, postal codes, or identification numbers. By applying an input mask, the editor guides users to enter characters only in valid positions and formats, reducing the likelihood of invalid or incomplete data being submitted. This approach improves data consistency across applications, simplifies validation logic on both the client and server side, and reduces the need for additional parsing or correction of user input. For developers building data-driven Blazor applications, masked input editors help maintain reliable data entry while providing a clear and structured input experience directly within forms and data editing interfaces.

Many .NET Blazor data editor collections contain masked input text box editors including:

Telerik UI Blazor Data Editors (part of Telerik UI for Blazor) lets you enforce formatted user input with masked text boxes, ensuring consistent data entry for structured values.
ComponentOne Blazor Data Editors (part of ComponentOne Studio Blazor Edition by MESCIUS) allows you to apply input masks that guide users, improving validation accuracy.
Smart UI by Smart HTML Elements, facilitates structured data entry with masked input editors that restrict characters and enforce predefined formats during typing.
Infragistics Ignite UI for Blazor Data Editors (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) lets you implement masked input fields that ensure users enter values following required patterns.

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

Compare .NET Blazor Data Editors

Explore Data with Multi-Level Drill Down Charts

March 12, 2026

FusionCharts Suite XT enables interactive drill down charts with clickable data points that reveal deeper insights and simplify complex datasets.

FusionCharts Suite XT is a collection of charting and mapping tools that helps developers create interactive and data-driven dashboards for their web and mobile applications. It provides a wide range of features, including over 100 chart types, data-driven maps, and a variety of customization options. FusionCharts Suite XT helps you visualize and present data in a clear and engaging way.

FusionCharts Suite XT allows developers to implement drill down charts that let users click individual data points to view related charts with more detailed information. This functionality helps developers present large or complex datasets in a structured way, allowing applications to display high level summaries while providing access to deeper data when required. By supporting multiple levels of drill down across most chart types, it supports scalable and interactive data exploration without overloading the initial visualization.

FusionCharts Suite XT is licensed through tiered plans, including Basic, Pro, Enterprise, and Enterprise+, available as annual or perpetual licenses for different developer and deployment needs. See our FusionCharts Suite XT licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our FusionCharts Suite product page.

Apply Consistent Report Styling Faster

March 12, 2026

Stimulsoft Ultimate improves report design with reusable styles that ensure consistent formatting and enable faster creation of reports.

Stimulsoft Ultimate is a reporting and dashboard solution that provides a set of tools for building interactive reports and data visualizations across platforms, including WinForms, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Blazor, JavaScript, WPF, PHP, Java, and Avalonia. It enables developers and organizations to design, generate, and deploy professional reports and dashboards using visual designers, flexible styling options, rich charting and data visualization components, and extensive data connectivity. With support for multiple development environments and technologies, Stimulsoft Ultimate helps teams improve report creation, maintain consistent designs, and deliver clear, data-driven insights for business intelligence, analytics, operational reporting, and enterprise applications.

Stimulsoft Ultimate enables developers to apply centralized report styling that ensures consistent formatting across report elements while reducing the time required to design and maintain reports. By using reusable styles for fonts, colors, borders, and other visual properties, developers can standardize report layouts, quickly apply formatting to multiple components, and implement global design changes without editing each element individually. This approach improves development efficiency, simplifies maintenance, and helps teams deliver professional, visually consistent reports across applications and platforms.

Stimulsoft Ultimate is licensed per developer with Single, Team, Enterprise, and WorldWide options that support one to unlimited developers within an organization. Licenses include a 12 month subscription with updates, priority technical support, a royalty free runtime report designer and viewer, and a build server license for Team and higher tiers. See our Stimulsoft Ultimate licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Stimulsoft Ultimate product page.

Present Data Clearly with Standard Charts

March 10, 2026

Use familiar chart types to display trends, proportions, relationships, and process stages across application data.

Standard chart types form the foundation of most charting components, providing widely recognized visual formats for representing numerical and categorical data. These charts help developers present trends, comparisons, distributions, and relationships in ways that are immediately understandable to end users. Because these visualizations are familiar across industries, they are commonly included as built-in options in charting libraries and dashboards, allowing applications to communicate insights clearly while supporting interactive features such as tooltips, legends, and dynamic data updates.

Common chart types include:

Area charts display quantitative trends over time while emphasizing cumulative values through filled regions beneath a line.
Column & Bar charts compare values across categories using vertical or horizontal bars, making them suitable for ranking and side-by-side comparisons.
Funnel charts represent sequential stages in a process, typically used to visualize conversion rates or drop-off between steps.
Line charts illustrate continuous data trends across time or ordered categories using connected data points.
Pie charts show proportional relationships within a whole by dividing a circle into segments representing percentage contributions.
Radar & Polar charts plot multiple variables on circular axes, enabling comparison of multivariate data across several dimensions.
Scatter & Bubble charts visualize relationships between variables by plotting points across two axes, with bubble variations adding a third value through marker size.