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Compare Trends with Multi-Series Spline Charts

May 8, 2025
Visualize evolving relationships between multiple datasets and effectively identify correlations over time with multi-series spline charts.

Spline charts are a type of line graph that displays continuous data points connected by smooth, curved lines, offering a visually fluid representation of trends and changes over time. This smoothing effect helps to highlight the overall trajectory of the data and can provide estimations of values between plotted points. Multi-Series Spline Charts extend this functionality by plotting multiple related datasets on the same graph, enabling direct visual comparison of their trends and the identification of correlations or divergences.

Several .NET Blazor chart controls offer spline charts including:

  • TeeChart Blazor renders interactive spline charts, enabling clear trend visualization and data comparison through smooth, customizable curves.
  • FusionCharts Blazor Suite XT empowers Blazor developers with versatile spline charts to illustrate continuous data and highlight comparative trends across multiple series.
  • Infragistics Blazor Charts (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) provides feature-rich spline chart components, facilitating insightful trend analysis and smooth data representation.
  • Syncfusion Blazor Chart (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) offers comprehensive spline chart functionality, allowing dynamic data visualization.

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

Compare .NET Blazor Chart Controls

Implement SSO Effortlessly in Your Apps

May 7, 2025
Cloud SSO helps you implement Single Sign-On in minutes using standard protocols like SAML and OpenID Connect.

Cloud SSO, a new product in the The Red Carpet Subscription Vol. 2 2025 update, dramatically simplifies the implementation of Single Sign-On (SSO) in modern applications. By supporting widely adopted standards like SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and OpenID Connect, this toolkit ensures seamless integration with virtually any major identity provider - including Microsoft, Google, Apple, GitHub, GitLab, Okta, and others. Developers can now enable centralized authentication without writing custom code for each provider, making it easier to build secure, scalable, and user-friendly login flows across cloud, mobile, and desktop applications.

To see a full list of what's new in Red Carpet Subscription Vol. 2 2025, see our release notes.

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

For more information, visit our /n software Red Carpet Subscription product page.

Celebrating 5 Year Partnership with FusionCharts

May 7, 2025
ComponentSource and FusionCharts have worked together since 2020 bringing powerful data visualization tools to developers worldwide.

ComponentSource's expertise and global reach have significantly expanded the worldwide accessibility of FusionCharts' data visualization solutions. By leveraging ComponentSource's established distribution network and multilingual support, FusionCharts has connected with a broader international audience of developers and organizations across diverse industries and geographical locations, enabling them to enhance their applications with compelling data insights.

This 5 year partnership between ComponentSource and FusionCharts reflects a shared dedication to empowering developers with best-in-class tools, acknowledging the role of effective data visualization in modern applications. Through this partnership, ComponentSource has played a key role in making FusionCharts flagship product FusionCharts Suite XT more accessible to a global audience.

Now marking 5 years of working together, ComponentSource and FusionCharts are continuing to build on their collaboration. As demand grows for tools that help developers deliver more data-driven and visually rich applications, the partnership remains focused on improving access and simplifying procurement for teams everywhere.

As we celebrate this milestone, we look forward to strengthening our partnership and continuing to provide developers with the tools they need to succeed.

For more information, visit our FusionCharts brand page.

Import Text Files for Faster Data Processing

May 7, 2025
Quickly load plain text (txt) files into spreadsheets in .NET WinForms apps to reduce manual entry, and accelerate data handling and analysis.

Importing TXT files into spreadsheet applications allows developers and users to load in plain text data, typically delimited by characters such as commas or tabs, and transform it into structured, editable tables within a spreadsheet-like environment. This process enables users to work with externally sourced or manually created text data using the familiar tools and features of a spreadsheet, such as sorting, filtering, and formula calculations. Loading a text file into an Excel-like format removes the need for manual data entry and simplifies data processing. Support for TXT file imports makes spreadsheet applications more versatile by improving the integration of external data and helping users process information more efficiently. It reduces the workload associated with data processing and ensures that data is quickly available in a usable format for analysis or reporting.

Several WinForms spreadsheet controls allow you to import files in TXT format:

  • DevExpress WinForms Spreadsheet (part of DevExpress WinForms) provides Excel inspired functionality and supports the import of data from TXT files to populate a spreadsheet.
  • Spread.NET WinForms (part of Spread.NET by MESCIUS) enables spreadsheet apps to open delimited text files, instantly converting text content into interactive spreadsheet cells.
  • Aspose.Cells for .NET is a WinForms-compatible programming API for spreadsheet management and processing that includes support for loading TXT files.
  • Telerik WinForms Spreadsheet (part of Telerik UI for WinForms) enables you to import plain text files with tab separated values (.txt) to transform raw data for easy manipulation.

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

Compare WinForms Spreadsheet Controls

Build, View, and Manage PDFs with Precision

May 6, 2025
Enable effortless creation, editing, and viewing of PDF files in your software with flexible components built for developers.

PDF components provide developers with a set of tools for programmatically handling Portable Document Format (PDF) files within applications. These components enable both the creation and manipulation of PDF documents, supporting a wide range of document workflows across platforms and industries. By integrating such components, developers can build features for generating reports, rendering documents for viewing, or embedding print-ready files in business applications, often without relying on external software or services.

Common features include:

  • Creating PDFs allows developers to generate PDF files dynamically from scratch or from templates, often with full control over layout, fonts, and content.
  • PDF Reader/PDF Viewer functionality enables applications to render and display PDF documents interactively, supporting zoom, navigation, and annotations.
  • Printing/Saving to PDF provides an option to export content or print output directly into a PDF file, preserving formatting and layout.
  • Right to Left (RTL) Support ensures that content in languages such as Arabic and Hebrew is displayed correctly, including text alignment and reading order.
  • Searching Text allows users to locate and highlight specific terms or phrases within a PDF document.
  • Saving a PDF to a Stream enables in-memory saving of PDF documents, which is particularly useful for web services and APIs where disk I/O is limited.
  • Opening Existing PDFs from Stream provides a way to load and manipulate PDF files directly from memory streams, improving performance and enabling secure handling of sensitive documents.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our ASP.NET Core PDF components comparison.

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