.NET 8 Blazor News

Enhance Data Comprehension with Sparklines

May 13, 2024
Smart HTML Elements v19 adds sparkline support to help users quickly understand patterns in their data without the need for separate charts.

Smart HTML Elements is an enterprise-grade UI library offering pre-built web components for developers in Angular, React, Vue, Blazor, and JavaScript. It boasts over 60 ready-to-use components like grids, charts, schedulers, and editors, all featuring two-way data binding, responsiveness, accessibility, and theming capabilities. This library helps developers rapidly build dynamic and modern web applications with consistent look-and-feel and rich functionalities, accelerating development time and ensuring professional quality.

The Smart HTML Elements v19.0.0 release adds support for Grid Sparklines. These are small, data-intense, design simple charts that fit into a single cell of a grid and provide a visual representation of data trends. They are typically used to show trends in a series of values, such as seasonal increases or decreases, economic cycles, or to highlight maximum and minimum values. Grid Sparklines help users to quickly understand patterns and trends in their data without having to create separate charts or graphs.

To see a full list of what's new in v19.0.0, see our release notes.

Smart HTML Elements is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. It includes distribution to Unlimited Web applications, SaaS projects, Intranets and Websites. See our Smart HTML Elements licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Smart HTML Elements product page.

Improve Document Loading Speeds with Long Polling

May 13, 2024
TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET 32.0 SP3 implements real-time server push for newly generated pages, accelerating client-side loading.

TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET is a server-side component that equips your web applications with a powerful, MS Word-compatible document editor. This allows you to develop applications that generate and edit various document formats (RTF, DOCX, PDF, etc.) on the fly, using data from databases or files. It also boasts features like PDF generation and a browser-based editor with a familiar MS Word-inspired interface, ultimately enhancing the document processing capabilities of your ASP.NET web applications.

TX Text Control .NET Server's Document Viewer now utilizes long polling for asynchronous document loading. Instead of waiting for the entire document to be processed, the server starts sending generated pages as a stream. Using JavaScript, the client continuously consumes this stream, displaying each page as it arrives. Long polling eliminates the wait time typically associated with loading large documents, enhancing overall user satisfaction.

To see a full list of what's new in TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET 32.0 SP3, see our release notes.

TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. Run time licenses are required for the deployment to production servers. See our TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our TX Text Control .NET Server for ASP.NET product page.

Streamline Data Entry and User Workflows

May 3, 2024
Checked listboxes improve user experience for tasks such as filtering, assigning permissions, or choosing multiple items from lists.

A checked listbox is a graphical user interface element that combines a listbox with checkboxes. It presents a list of options, similar to a standard listbox, but allows users to select multiple items by clicking on an adjacent checkbox for each option. This is useful for scenarios where users need to choose from various choices, but not be limited to a single selection.

Several Blazor data editor collections offer checked listboxes including:

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

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Simplify the Selection Process for Users

May 1, 2024
Radio groups can elevate your Blazor app's UI by offering a clear way for users to choose a predefined option from a set of valid answers.

A radio group control is a user interface element that presents a collection of mutually exclusive possibilities within a data field. This control typically appears as a group of circular buttons, each representing a distinct option. Selecting one option automatically deselects any previously selected option within the same group. The primary benefit of a radio group is its ability to simplify the user interface by clearly displaying all available choices without ambiguity, which enhances user experience by making the selection processes straightforward and error-free. This is especially useful in forms or settings where a clear, singular choice must be made from a predefined set of options, ensuring that the user's input is constrained to valid selections and thereby reducing the likelihood of errors and simplifying data validation on the backend.

Several .NET 8 Blazor components offer radio group data editors, including:

  • Syncfusion Essential Studio for Blazor Data Editors (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) allows Blazor developers to add radio group functionality to their applications for an enhanced UI with clear and concise single option selection.
  • Infragistics Ultimate UI for Blazor Data Editors (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) offers developers the ability to implement user input via radio groups in their .NET 8 Blazor apps, ensuring user-friendly and error-free choices in complex data interfaces.
  • Smart HTML Elements Blazor Data Editors (part of Smart HTML Elements) can also furnish .NET 8 user interfaces with the radio group data editor, ensuring accurate data entry through mutually exclusive choices.
  • Blazorise Data Editors (part of Blazorise) supports .NET 8 and seamlessly integrates radio group controls into Blazor applications, optimizing user input accuracy and improving overall form interaction.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of .NET 8 Blazor data editors.

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Effectively Visualize Proportional Data in Blazor

April 18, 2024
Pie charts allow users to see the relative sizes of different categories in a data set, offering a clear view of the whole set and its constituent parts.

Pie charts are a useful and easily understood tool for visualizing data breakdowns at a glance, particularly when representing percentages of a whole. Their strength lies in highlighting the relative proportions between a small number of categories within a dataset. While less effective for complex comparisons or trends over time, pie charts can be an effective choice to communicate compositions and dominance within a dataset.

Several Blazor Chart controls offer Pie charts including:

  • DevExpress Blazor Chart (Part of DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor) empowers you to create informative pie charts with customization options for clarity.
  • ComponentOne Charts for Blazor (part of ComponentOne Studio Blazor Edition by MESCIUS) offers visually striking pie charts to effectively communicate data proportions.
  • Telerik Blazor Chart (part of Telerik UI for Blazor) facilitates clear and interactive pie charts, enabling viewers to grasp data relationships.
  • Syncfusion Blazor Chart (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) allows you to design compelling pie charts that effectively showcase data breakdowns.
  • Infragistics Blazor Charts (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) empowers you to create user-friendly pie charts, making complex data easily digestible.

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

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