.NET 8 Blazor News

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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Build Cross-Platform UIs with .NET 9 Support

June 5, 2025
Nevron Open Vision for .NET 2025.1 adds support for .NET 9, providing enhanced performance, security, and cross-platform consistency.

Nevron Open Vision for .NET is a comprehensive cross-platform framework that enables developers to build rich presentation layers from a single codebase supporting Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It offers an extensive collection of widgets and components including data grids, charting and diagramming so development teams can create modern interfaces without HTML constraints. With built-in virtualization and integration into existing .NET projects, NOV improves development and deployment through single-file executables and reduced boilerplate, making it suitable for enterprise desktop applications, mobile apps and embedded solutions requiring premium-quality UI components.

The Nevron Open Vision for .NET 2025.1 update brings native .NET 9.0 support, enabling developers to leverage the latest runtime improvements for faster startup, reduced memory usage and more efficient garbage collection. By targeting .NET 9.0, NOV components can directly use updated language APIs and benefit from JIT/AOT optimizations without relying on compatibility layers, while still remaining functional on .NET 8.0 and .NET Framework 4.7.2+. This ensures seamless integration with modern tooling in Visual Studio and the .NET CLI, delivers up-to-date security and ultimately allows teams to build and deploy cross-platform applications with greater performance and reliability.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025.1, see our release notes.

Nevron Open Vision for .NET is licensed per developer on a perpetual basis with an optional 12-month subscription for updates and maintenance, and is royalty-free at runtime. See our Nevron Open Vision for .NET licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our Nevron Open Vision for .NET product page.

Find Content Instantly in Any PDF Document

June 4, 2025
.NET Blazor PDF Viewers with text searching help users quickly locate specific words or phrases and navigate documents more efficiently.

Text Searching in a PDF Viewer .NET Blazor component enables users to locate specific words, terms or phrases within a PDF document. This capability enhances document navigation and accessibility by enabling users to quickly identify and move to relevant content without manually scanning each page. Typically supporting case-sensitive and whole-word matching options, the search can be triggered through UI controls and backend logic, making it a flexible feature for applications that handle large or complex PDF files. This is particularly beneficial for developers building document-heavy applications, as it improves user efficiency and ensures precise content discovery.

Several Blazor PDF Viewers allow users to search for text, including:

  • ComponentOne Studio FlexViewer (part of ComponentOne Studio Blazor Edition by MESCIUS) lets you search PDF content, highlighting results to help users locate key terms.
  • Telerik UI PDF Viewer for Blazor (part of Telerik UI for Blazor) enables accurate keyword searching, enhancing user interaction and speeding up content retrieval in PDF files.
  • Syncfusion Blazor PDF (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) facilitates fast, intuitive text searching within PDF documents.

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

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Visualize Massive Datasets with Zero Lag

June 3, 2025
NOV Chart for .NET 2025.1 adds GPU-accelerated Fast Bar, Fast Line and Fast Point series to render millions of data points in real time.

NOV Chart for .NET by Nevron is a comprehensive .NET charting component suite designed for cross-platform application development. It offers an array of 2D and 3D chart types, along with smart data labeling, an advanced chart axes model, numerous interactivity features and GPU-accelerated real-time rendering based on OpenGL. This library allows developers to seamlessly integrate rich, dynamic and interactive business, scientific, financial and presentation data visualizations into their .NET applications for more effective communication.

The NOV Chart for .NET 2025.1 update introduces Fast Bar, Fast Line, and Fast Point series that leverage GPU acceleration to deliver real-time visualization of extremely large datasets, enabling developers to render millions of data points with minimal latency in both 2D and 3D contexts and apply per-point color information for detailed analysis. By offloading heavy rendering tasks to the GPU, these new series reduce CPU overhead and free resources for other application logic, making them particularly valuable in scientific, engineering, and medical scenarios where high-throughput data streams must be displayed without delay.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025.1, see our release notes.

NOV Chart for .NET is licensed per developer and is available as a perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. See our NOV Chart for .NET licensing page for full details.

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Generate and Refine Content with AI Assistance

June 3, 2025
Telerik DevCraft 2025 Q2 adds a built-in AI prompt to the editor control, providing artificial intelligence to assist users in text editing and creation.

DevCraft by Telerik is a comprehensive suite of more than 1,250 UI components and development tools designed for building modern web, desktop, and mobile applications using .NET and JavaScript frameworks. It includes reporting and report management solutions, automated testing and mocking tools, and document processing libraries, as well as a wide range of professionally designed user interface controls from the Telerik and Kendo UI suites. DevCraft enables developers to create feature-rich, high-performance applications with consistent design and user experience, delivering enterprise-level, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.

The Telerik DevCraft 2025 Q2 update adds an AI Prompt helper to the Editor control in Blazor, ASP.NET Core/MVC and jQuery, integrating AI-assisted content editing directly into the user interface. This feature provides both inline and side-panel interactions, allowing users to perform tasks such as grammar correction, tone adjustment, text rewriting, and translation without leaving the editor. By leveraging context-aware AI capabilities, the content creation and editing processes become much simpler, enabling developers to deliver more refined and effective user experiences within their applications.

To see what else is new in 2025 Q2, see our release notes.

Telerik DevCraft is licensed per developer and has two licensing models: an annual Subscription License and a Perpetual License. The Subscription license provides access to the latest product updates, technical support, and exclusive benefits for a flat annual fee, and must be renewed to continue using the software. The Perpetual license is a one-time purchase granting access to the current released version and includes a one-year subscription for product updates and technical support. After this initial period, users can choose to renew the subscription element to continue receiving updates and support; otherwise, they may continue using the installed version available during their active subscription term but will forgo future updates and support. See our Telerik DevCraft Ultimate licensing page for full details.

Telerik DevCraft is available in the following editions: