.NET 8 Blazor News

Refine Report Design with Updated Ribbon Controls

October 17, 2025
FastReport .NET Ultimate 2026.1 brings a modern, intuitive Ribbon UI to your reports for faster design and a more polished user experience.

FastReport .NET Ultimate is a comprehensive reporting solution for developers working within the Microsoft .NET ecosystem. It supports the creation, design, and delivery of rich, interactive reports across Windows Forms, ASP.NET, MVC, and .NET Core applications. The Ultimate edition includes server deployment capabilities and extensive export options, such as PDF, Excel, Word, and HTML. It connects to various data sources, including SQL databases and business objects, providing flexibility for enterprise-level reporting. With the integrated FastReport Online Designer, users can edit reports directly in their browsers, enabling efficient collaboration and modern, full-featured report design across both desktop and web platforms.

The FastReport .NET Ultimate 2026.1 update introduces an improved Ribbon interface and a new 'RibbonDesignerControl', giving developers a more intuitive and efficient report design experience. The redesigned Ribbon UI offers a cleaner, more structured layout that simplifies access to tools and settings, improving usability and reducing development time. This addition allows developers to integrate the same modern Ribbon interface directly into their own applications, providing a consistent and familiar design environment for end users. This enhancement supports smoother workflows, greater customization, and a more professional user experience across both desktop and web reporting solutions.

To see a full list of what's new in version 2026.1, see our release notes.

FastReport .NET Ultimate is licensed per named user and is available as a perpetual license with a one-year subscription for updates and support. See our FastReport .NET Ultimate licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our FastReport .NET Ultimate product page.

Build Rich Navigation with Blazor Menus

October 10, 2025
Blazor UI libraries deliver flexible menu components with nested items, visual customization, and integration into modern web layouts.

Menu controls in a Blazor UI suite are user interface components that provide structured navigation through an application by organizing links or actions into hierarchical menus. These controls are particularly useful in web applications that require intuitive, accessible, and dynamic navigation elements. In Blazor, menu controls can be rendered either through server-side or WebAssembly-based components, allowing developers to build interactive menus using Razor syntax and C#. They support features like multi-level nesting, icons, templates, and binding to data sources, making them adaptable to a wide range of layouts and user experiences. Menu controls integrate smoothly with routing and layout systems, enabling developers to maintain a consistent navigation experience across the application.

Several Blazor UI suites provide Menu controls, including:

  • DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor lets you build hierarchical menus with templates, icons, and orientation support, including a responsive layout with collapsing behavior.
  • Telerik UI for Blazor allows you to create multi-level menus with item templates, icons, and URL-based navigation that integrates with Blazor routing.
  • Nevron Open Vision for .NET provides context and ribbon menu controls for Blazor WebAssembly, with theme support, icons, checkable items, and multi-click interaction.
  • Blazorise offers a responsive Bar component that supports horizontal and vertical modes, with nested dropdowns and layout-friendly navigation options.
  • Smart UI (Smart HTML Elements) provides a dedicated Blazor Menu control with nested items, multiple display modes, rich styling, and context menu support.

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

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Adapt Grid Layouts to Real-World Needs

October 3, 2025
With runtime column reordering, developers can deliver flexible, user-friendly grids that adjust to different roles, tasks, or personal preferences.

Reordering columns in grid components enables end users to customize the layout of data by dragging column headers into new positions at runtime. This feature improves usability and flexibility, users can adapt the interface to their workflow, prioritize visible information, and reorganize data presentation without developer intervention. A robust implementation also supports programmatic reordering (for restoring user preferences or responding to logic), individual column reordering permissions, and integration with features like column persistence and layout saving.

Several Blazor grid controls offer support for column reordering including:

  • DevExpress Blazor Grid (part of DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor) lets you rearrange columns by dragging headers, offering flexibility in layout customization.
  • Telerik UI for Blazor Grid (part of Telerik UI for Blazor) allows users to move columns interactively, making it easy to personalize data presentation.
  • FlexGrid for Blazor (part of ComponentOne Studio Blazor Edition by MESCIUS) facilitates dynamic column reordering, enabling users to adjust grid layouts visually.
  • Infragistics Blazor Data Grid (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) supports column repositioning through header dragging, helping users tailor data displays.

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

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Display Rich Interactive Reports in Blazor Apps

October 2, 2025
Blazor report controls with report viewers deliver paginated, export-ready reports featuring drill-down and input-based filtering.

A report viewer in a Blazor report control allows developers to display interactive, paginated, and print-ready reports directly within Blazor applications. This component bridges the gap between server-side reporting capabilities and client-side UI responsiveness, offering a way to render complex reports in-browser without relying on external viewers or plugins. It supports common report features such as drill-down, export to various formats, and parameterized filtering, making it highly useful for enterprise dashboards and data-driven web applications. By integrating directly into the Blazor ecosystem, it ensures a cohesive development experience with consistent styling, fast rendering, and reduced client-server communication overhead.

Several Blazor reporting controls offer a report viewer including:

  • Telerik Reporting enables report viewing in web and desktop apps with responsive viewers, parameter support, and built-in export functionality.
  • ActiveReports.NET by MESCIUS allows you to embed customizable, high-performance report viewers into .NET applications, supporting drill-down, and export.
  • DevExpress Reports lets you deliver consistent, interactive report viewing experiences across web, desktop, and mobile platforms with responsive design.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.WEB facilitates flexible report viewing in browser-based applications, offering touch support, report navigation, and export options across modern platforms.

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

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Build Smarter Blazor Forms with Less Effort

October 1, 2025
Syncfusion Essential Studio adds new Blazor components designed to automate formatting and assist with content entry.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise provides a comprehensive collection of UI components and frameworks for building modern cross-platform applications. It offers over 1,800 components compatible with .NET WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET Core & MVC, WinUI, MAUI, JavaScript, Blazor, and more, enabling seamless application development across diverse devices and operating systems.

The Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise 2025 Volume 3 (31.1.17) release adds new Blazor Smart Paste Button and Smart TextArea components, embedding AI‑assisted intelligence directly in data entry workflows. The Smart Paste Button component analyzes clipboard content, such as structured forms, text snippets, or multi-field data, and pastes it intelligently into relevant form fields with proper formatting and mapping. Meanwhile, the Smart TextArea offers context-aware sentence‑level autocompletion, suggesting text continuations as users type to reduce keystrokes and improve writing consistency. Together, these components reduce user friction, speed up form filling, minimize input errors, and help developers deliver more polished, intelligent interfaces with less custom logic.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025 Volume 3 (31.1.17), see our release notes.

Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise is licensed per developer and is available as a 12 Month Timed Subscription License which includes support and maintenance. See our Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise product page.