UI Suites News

Improve Navigation with Tabbed Interfaces

September 9, 2025
Tab components enable Angular developers to structure detailed content in the user interface, providing quick navigation and context retention.

Tabs are a common user interface element that allows users to navigate between multiple sections or views within the same window by clicking on labeled tabs, typically displayed in a row. Each tab presents a different set of information or controls, helping to organize content in a way that reduces clutter and makes it easier to find relevant features without switching between multiple windows or pages. Creating a tabbed UI to switch between sections provides faster access to key areas, and improves usability by maintaining context. This approach is especially useful in applications with layered data or multiple tool sets, where managing space and context is critical.

Several Angular UI suites provide you with tab functionality, including:

  • DevExtreme Complete by DevExpress enables customizable tabbed navigation across forms, data views, and dynamic content areas for managing complex interfaces in Angular.
  • Wijmo by MESCIUS offers a versatile TabPanel component for creating tabbed layouts that organize content efficiently while maintaining performance and consistency.
  • Kendo UI by Telerik delivers a highly customizable TabStrip for Angular applications, enabling the organization and navigation of content via tabs in a single frame.
  • Infragistics Ignite UI provides full-featured tab component for arranging user interface elements logically, helping users switch views without leaving the main context.

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

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Develop Custom Add-ins for Office 2024

September 3, 2025
Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .net 10.3 helps you build and run custom add-ins across the latest Microsoft Office applications.

Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .net is a comprehensive framework designed to simplify the development of custom Office solutions. It provides a unified platform for creating add-ins, smart tags, real-time data servers, and other extensions that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Office applications. By handling much of the underlying complexity of COM (Component Object Model) and Office integration, it allows developers to focus on functionality and user experience rather than low-level infrastructure. The product supports multiple versions of Office and works across several .NET languages, making it a flexible choice for building robust, professional-grade Office tools.

The Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .net 10.3 update now includes full support for Microsoft Office 2024, allowing developers to deliver solutions to the newest generation of Office applications. This update ensures that custom add-ins and other extensions built with the framework work reliably with Office 2024, while continuing to support earlier versions. By maintaining compatibility across releases, the framework helps developers keep their tools current and accessible to users adopting the latest Microsoft Office suite.

To see a full list of what's new in 10.3, see our release notes.

Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .net is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license with a 1 year subscription (minor and major updates and technical support). See our Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .net licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Add-in Express for Microsoft Office and .net product page.

Customize App Themes with Flexible Color Palettes

August 29, 2025
Actipro Avalonia UI Pro v25.2.1 adds color palette customization, enabling color ramp adjustments and full palette tinting for unique applications.

Actipro Avalonia UI Pro is a suite of professionally designed UI controls, themes, and components specifically built for the Avalonia UI framework. It empowers developers to craft beautiful, modern cross-platform applications while leveraging their existing C# and WPF skills. Actipro offers a range of controls from essential navigation and data visualization components to advanced charting and scheduling features, all adhering to its signature high-quality design and seamless integration with Avalonia.

The Avalonia Controls v25.2.1 update adds color palette customization, enabling developers to define and adjust the factory responsible for generating theme color palettes. This enhancement allows precise control over color ramps and the ability to apply consistent tinting across the entire theme, ensuring applications can adopt any required brand or design specification. By simplifying the process of modifying palette colors, the update reduces the effort needed to achieve uniform styling across components and provides flexibility to create distinctive appearances that align with both functional and aesthetic requirements.

To see a full list of what's new in 25.2.1, see our release notes.

Actipro Avalonia UI Pro is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. See our Actipro Avalonia UI Pro licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our Actipro Avalonia UI Pro product page.

Visualize Multivariate Survey Data with Radar Charts

August 13, 2025
SurveyJS Dashboard v2.3.0 adds radar charts for ranking questions, making it easy to compare multiple values at a glance with intuitive visuals.

SurveyJS Dashboard is a JavaScript UI component that visualizes survey responses in real time using interactive charts and tables, helping teams analyze data quickly and efficiently. It integrates with any JavaScript framework, including Angular, React, Vue, and vanilla JS. The dashboard renders data based on JSON schemas created in Survey Creator and filled with responses from the Form Library. Its flexible, backend-independent design allows integration with any custom backend. With a variety of chart types, it supports use cases such as customer feedback, employee surveys, and market research by turning raw data into clear visual insights.

The SurveyJS Dashboard v2.3.0 update introduces support for radar charts, which developers can use to represent rank-based responses more intuitively, helping users gain clearer insights into survey data without additional configuration. This new chart type is automatically available for Ranking questions and can be selected directly from the chart type menu within the Dashboard.

To see a full list of what's new in version 2.3.0, see our release notes.

SurveyJS Dashboard 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 Dashboard licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our SurveyJS Dashboard product page.

Preserve Tree Context in Filtered Views

August 8, 2025
SmartClient 14.1 improves large dataset filtering in JavaScript apps by keeping parent nodes visible, with no server logic or performance hit.

SmartClient is a powerful JavaScript component suite compatible with React, Vue, Angular, and more, designed for building large-scale, high-performance web apps. It offers advanced UI components, dynamic data handling, customizable grids, and responsive design. Ideal for enterprise use cases like financial analytics and real-time reporting, SmartClient supports seamless backend integration and delivers optimized performance and scalability.

SmartClient has enhanced hierarchical data handling with the included KeepParentsOnFilter setting, ensuring that parent nodes remain visible in filtered views, even when data is loaded dynamically. It loads "skeleton branches" via a complex client-driven algorithm, automatically managed by SmartClient, to maintain high performance without preloading the entire tree, meaning it doesn't require server-side programming. This is particularly useful in large datasets with load-on-demand trees, as it allows users to maintain full visibility into the structure of filtered results without losing context. By preserving the hierarchical path to matching records, this feature improves usability and clarity in tree-based components, especially in applications where understanding the parent-child relationship is critical.

SmartClient is licensed per developer and is available as both perpetual and subscription licenses. Product updates and technical support is also available. See our SmartClient licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our SmartClient product page.