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Use Sticky Notes for Easier PDF Collaboration

October 3, 2025
Sticky notes let users add contextual feedback without altering content, with a central comments pane for managing all discussions.

A sticky note in a PDF Viewer is a digital annotation tool that lets users attach comments directly to specific areas of a document. It offers a simple way to share feedback, suggestions, or reminders without changing the original content. Sticky notes are especially useful for reviews and collaboration, helping teams exchange feedback and track revisions efficiently. With a centralized Comments pane, all sticky notes and replies are displayed in one place, making it easy to view, manage, and organize discussions across the document.

Several .NET WPF PDF components offer sticky note annotations including:

  • DevExpress WPF PDF Viewer (part of DevExpress WPF) lets you add sticky notes for precise, contextual feedback, enabling collaborative document review.
  • Telerik UI PDF for WPF (part of Telerik UI for WPF) allows you to place sticky notes anywhere, capturing insights and comments directly within interactive PDF documents.
  • ImageGear for .NET facilitates detailed annotations using sticky notes, helping teams highlight key sections, suggest edits, and manage document revisions effectively.
  • Syncfusion WPF PDF (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) enables users to insert sticky notes with ease, improving collaboration and feedback tracking.

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

Easily Generate PDFs with Clickable Hyperlinks

September 30, 2025
Include hyperlinks when generating PDFs to ensure exported documents support direct navigation to web content or internal sections.

Hyperlink navigation in a PDF component refers to the ability to detect and interact with links embedded within a PDF document, allowing users to jump to external URLs, internal pages, or named destinations directly from the viewer. This functionality enhances the user experience by supporting transitions within or outside the document without manual scrolling or searching. For developers, it enables the creation of interactive documents and applications where navigation is intuitive, efficient, and consistent with modern document consumption expectations.

Several WinForms PDF components support hyperlink navigation, including:

  • Telerik UI PDF for WinForms lets you generate PDFs with active hyperlinks, preserving navigation to internal sections or external web addresses in exported documents.
  • XFINIUM.PDF CROSS PLATFORM EDITION allows you to process PDF hyperlinks, enabling precise navigation to destinations and external resources in your applications.
  • Syncfusion Windows Forms PDF (part of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise) includes hyperlink handling in PDFs, enabling users to follow links to other pages within the viewer.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of PDF components for WinForms.

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Simplify User Selection with Listboxes

September 30, 2025
Improve data accuracy and UI consistency by presenting users with a predefined set of selectable options.

A listbox is a user interface component that displays a collection of items from which a user can select one or more options. It is commonly used in forms, settings panels, or data entry screens to present predefined values in a scrollable format. For developers, a listbox offers a simple way to enforce valid input by limiting user choices, reduces the need for manual data entry, and improves UI consistency across applications. It also supports keyboard and mouse interaction, which helps enhance accessibility and usability without requiring complex custom controls.

Several .NET WPF data editor collections provide listbox controls including:

  • Telerik UI for WPF Data Editors (part of Telerik UI for WPF) lets you embed a listbox that supports data binding, multiple selection and drag‑and‑drop reordering.
  • DevExpress WPF Data Editors (part of DevExpress WPF) allows you to use a listbox bound to a data source, enabling single or multi-selection with customizable display.
  • Actipro Editors for WPF provides a listbox control that supports virtualization, hierarchical item adapters, and custom rendering for high‑volume datasets.
  • NOV UI for .NET Data Editors (part of NOV UI for .NET Data Editors) allows you to incorporate a cross‑platform listbox with data binding and selectable items.

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

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