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Allow Users to Tailor Their Software Environment

April 9, 2025
Enable personalized and adaptable workspaces with layouts that maximize productivity and improve visibility for enhanced efficiency.

Layout components empower users to customize their software interface by arranging panels and tools to match their specific needs. This personalization boosts productivity by optimizing workflows and information visibility, adapting to various tasks and screen sizes. For instance, analysts can prioritize key data on dashboards, developers can tailor IDEs for coding efficiency, and support agents can organize communication panels for streamlined case handling. In essence, UI Suite Layouts provide a tailored and efficient software experience.

Several .NET Blazor UI suites offer layout components including:

  • DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor provide grid and layout controls, enabling developers to build responsive, data-intensive web applications with extensive customization options.  
  • Infragistics Ignite UI offers high-performance grids and flexible layout components, empowering developers to create interactive data experiences across platforms.  
  • Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise includes versatile data grids and layout managers, facilitating the creation of enterprise applications with data manipulation capabilities.  
  • Blazorise allows you to construct responsive web UIs with its modular grid system and layout components, integrating seamlessly with CSS frameworks for consistent styling.

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

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Use .NET 9 to Build Feature Rich WPF Applications

April 7, 2025
Xceed Toolkit Plus for WPF 4.7 ensures seamless access to .NET 9's performance improvements for robust application development.

Xceed Toolkit Plus is a comprehensive suite of user interface controls and components designed for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) development, providing developers with advanced data visualization, editing, and layout capabilities beyond the standard WPF framework. It offers a wide range of pre-built, customizable controls that simplify complex UI implementations, enhance application functionality, and accelerate development cycles by reducing the need for custom control creation, ultimately enabling developers to build more robust and feature-rich WPF applications.

The Xceed Toolkit Plus for WPF 4.7 release adds support for .NET 9. This ensures developers can leverage the latest performance enhancements and security features offered by the .NET framework, while simultaneously benefiting from Xceed's extensive suite of advanced UI controls. This compatibility update makes the development process more efficient, with fewer integration issues and easier adoption of modern technologies for building high-performance WPF applications

To see a full list of what's new in version 4.7, see our release notes.

Xceed Toolkit Plus for WPF is licensed per developer and is available as a perpetual license with 1 year of updates and support. See our Xceed Toolkit Plus for WPF licensing page for full details.

Xceed Toolkit Plus for WPF is available individually or as part of Xceed Ultimate Suite.

Organize Multiple Panes Within a Single Container

April 1, 2025
Telerik UI for Blazor 2025 Q1 adds a DockManager UI component, enabling desktop-like experiences in web apps with flexible pane management.

Telerik UI for Blazor is a comprehensive UI library that provides over 110 native and customizable Blazor components for building modern and feature-rich web applications. This professional-grade solution offers a complete set of components to satisfy all user interface requirements, saving time and effort in UI design.

The Telerik UI for Blazor 2025 Q1 update introduces the DockManager UI component, enabling developers to create desktop-like experiences within web applications. This new component allows users to efficiently manage multiple panes within a single container by supporting docking, undocking, resizing, and repositioning. It provides a flexible and customizable layout system, optimizing workspace organization for complex applications designed for larger screens.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025 Q1 (v8.0.0), see our release notes.

Telerik UI for Blazor is licensed per developer and has two licensing models: an annual Subscription License and a Perpetual License. The Subscription license provides access to the latest product updates, technical support, and exclusive benefits for a flat annual fee, and must be renewed to continue using the software. The Perpetual license is a one-time purchase granting access to the current released version and includes a one-year subscription for product updates and technical support. After this initial period, users can choose to renew the subscription element to continue receiving updates and support; otherwise, they may continue using the installed version available during their active subscription term but will forgo future updates and support. See our Telerik UI for Blazor licensing page for full details.

Telerik UI for Blazor is available individually or as part of the following products:

Simplify Data Collection with a JSON Form Builder

March 21, 2025
SurveyJS Survey Creator allows you to build dynamic forms directly in your JavaScript application and maintain full control over user data.

SurveyJS is a family of extensible JavaScript libraries designed to help developers build robust form management systems fully integrated into their web applications. These libraries work seamlessly with any backend system and are fully compatible with modern JavaScript frameworks, including React, Angular, and Vue 3.

SurveyJS Survey Creator is a powerful form-building UI component featuring an intuitive drag-and-drop interface that makes form creation accessible to all users. Its UI is fully customizable - from appearance and functionality to the UI language - allowing it to seamlessly blend into your application. Behind the scenes, SurveyJS leverages a JSON-based schema to define forms and surveys, making it easy to store, share, and dynamically render form structures across different environments.

Users can enjoy an intuitive survey-building experience with extensive UI customization options, available through a dedicated UI settings panel. Introduced in version 2.0 the settings panel includes three new predefined UI themes - Light, Dark, and Contrast (with WCAG 2.2-compliant colors). These themes can be used as-is or further customized with options for UI and font scale size, accent colors, and background colors. Along with other enhancements these UI options create a more flexible environment where each user can personalize the form builder UI to align perfectly with their personal preferences.

SurveyJS Survey Creator is licensed per developer with a one-time payment for indefinite use. Access to updates and technical support is available through a subscription. See our SurveyJS Survey Creator licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our SurveyJS Survey Creator product page.

Zoom In and Out While Designing Survey Forms

March 17, 2025
SurveyJS Survey Creator 2.0.0 allows users to adjust the survey view on the design surface, making it easier to work on large or complex forms.

SurveyJS Survey Creator is a JavaScript library that enables developers to embed a drag-and-drop survey and form builder directly within their web applications. It provides a comprehensive UI for designing surveys with various question types, logic branching, and layout customization, generating JSON schemas that can be used by the SurveyJS Survey Library to render and process the surveys. This allows for the creation of dynamic and user-configurable data collection tools without requiring extensive custom development, streamlining the process of integrating survey functionality into applications.

The SurveyJS Survey Creator 2.0.0 release adds support for scaling, enabling users to dynamically adjust the zoom level of the survey design surface. This functionality provides control over the visual representation of forms, allowing users to zoom in for detailed editing of intricate elements or zoom out for a comprehensive overview of complex, multi-page surveys. A dedicated "Zoom to 100%" button ensures a quick and effortless return to the default view.

To see a full list of what's new in version 2.0.0, see our release notes.

SurveyJS Survey Creator is licensed per developer with a one-time payment for indefinite use. Access to updates and technical support is available through a subscription. See our SurveyJS Survey Creator licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our SurveyJS Survey Creator product page.