.NET 8 Blazor News

Natively Generate Barcodes in your Blazor Apps

September 25, 2025
Support barcode creation and display directly in your UI, reducing reliance on external libraries and speeding up development.

Barcode support in a Blazor UI suite refers to built-in components or controls that enable developers to generate and display barcodes directly within applications. This functionality simplifies the integration of barcode-based processes in retail, logistics, healthcare, and inventory management systems by allowing data encoding and visualization without relying on third-party tools. For software developers, the key benefit is faster implementation of barcode features with consistent styling and customization options, helping maintain application cohesion while supporting machine-readable data formats.

Several Blazor UI suites provide barcode functionality, including:

  • Telerik UI for Blazor lets you render industry‑standard 1D/2D barcodes using SVG or Canvas, with customizable encoding types, size, color and text.
  • Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise generates both 1D and 2D barcode types, including QR, Data Matrix and Code 128, with custom dimensions, colors and display options.
  • Blazorise enables QR code generation through a dedicated component, offering customization of size, color, error correction and icon.

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

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Deliver Unified Dark UI with Fluent Theme

September 17, 2025
Blazorise 1.8.2 adds a Fluent UI Dark Theme with consistent styling, comfortable contrast, and light/dark mode support.

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 1.8.2 update introduces a Fluent UI Dark Theme that enables developers to deliver a consistent and accessible dark mode experience across their applications. It provides a complete set of tuned color tokens covering surfaces, typography, and accents, ensuring all Fluent UI components such as DataGrid, Modal, Sidebar, Dropdown, Button, and Tabs maintain visual coherence without additional customization. The theme also integrates with existing light and dark mode toggling, automatically adapting to the application’s current color scheme.

To see a full list of what’s new in version 1.8.2, 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.

Transform Applications with Ready-Made Themes

September 16, 2025
DevExpress DXperience offers customizable themes to create modern, consistent, and visually engaging interfaces with ease.

DevExpress DXperience is a comprehensive development suite that enables developers to build high-performance applications for Windows, Web, mobile, and tablet platforms using a unified set of controls and tools. It includes hundreds of desktop UI controls for WinForms, WPF, and reporting, as well as web UI controls for Blazor, ASP.NET, MVC, Core, Bootstrap Web Forms, JavaScript, Angular, React, Vue, and web reporting, plus productivity tools like XPO ORM and CodeRush for Visual Studio. With its extensive component library, DXperience accelerates development, ensures visually consistent and responsive interfaces, and is ideal for creating enterprise applications, data-driven web apps, dashboards, and reporting solutions.

DevExpress DXperience enhances application development with new app-wide themes and skins, allowing developers to apply a consistent, modern visual style across entire projects with minimal configuration. By providing professionally designed themes that align with Microsoft Office and Windows 11 aesthetics, along with built-in tools for customizing these designs, it improves the UI design process and reduces the need for manual styling. This enables developers to focus on functionality while delivering polished, cohesive user interfaces that improve usability and maintain a professional appearance across all application modules.

DevExpress DXperience is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. See our DevExpress DXperience licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our DevExpress DXperience product page.

Explore Report Details with Interactive Drill Downs

September 9, 2025
Let users explore layered report data by clicking through from summaries to detailed views, enhancing insight without changing context.

Drill down support in reporting components enables developers to design interactive reports that progressively reveal more detailed data as users click on summary items. This feature allows users to explore underlying datasets directly within the report interface, eliminating the need to switch between views or load separate reports. By structuring data hierarchically, developers can provide a more intuitive and efficient navigation experience for end-users. It is especially valuable in dashboards or business intelligence tools where data granularity is critical for analysis and decision-making.

Several .NET Blazor Reporting controls support drill down features including:

  • ActiveReports.NET by MESCIUS lets developers add drill‑through or drill‑down interactions to smoothly explore sub‑reports.
  • Telerik Reporting enables users to toggle visibility using actions, allowing reports to initially display summaries and expand into detailed groups on demand.
  • DevExpress Reports (Multi-Platform) (part of DevExpress Reporting) allows interactive drill‑down so users can click to reveal hidden, deeper report details.
  • Stimulsoft Reports.WEB offers interactive drill‑down where users click grouped blocks to expand or collapse details and open detailed pages or external reports.

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

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Extract Chart Data Directly to Excel

September 5, 2025
Exporting to XLS/XLSX lets users access the raw data behind charts, making it easier to analyze, audit, or share insights in spreadsheet-friendly formats.

Exporting charts to XLS or XLSX formats enables developers to extract the structured underlying data from visualizations and make it available for deeper analysis or downstream processing. Rather than being confined to image or PDF exports, this approach allows for easy integration of chart data with spreadsheet tools and data workflows. By converting charts into Excel files, users gain the ability to manipulate, filter, or augment data, ideal for reporting, auditing, or business intelligence scenarios where numerical insights must be both visual and actionable.

Several Blazor charting controls offer the ability to export charts to XLS/XLSX including:

  • FusionCharts Blazor Suite XT (part of FusionCharts Suite XT) offers chart-data export to XLSX (Excel) format via its export menu or API, supported in both client-side and server-side export modes when exportEnabled is set, providing flexible, one-click access to underlying chart data.
  • TeeChart .NET for Blazor by Steema Software enables chart exports not only as images and PDFs, but also as structured data to Microsoft Excel formats (XLS/XLSX), along with exports to XML, HTML, CSV, and native chart formats, supporting a full range of sharing and reuse scenarios.
  • Syncfusion Blazor Chart (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) provides a unified ExportAsync method enabling direct export of chart content, including underlying data, to XLSX or CSV files. This improves distribution of chart data alongside visual exports, especially in analytics and reporting contexts.

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

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