Syncfusion Essential Studio for .NET MAUI 2022 Volume 4

Adds new PDF Viewer, Calendar, Data Form, Funnel Chart, Pyramid Chart, Rating and Backdrop Page components.
January 3, 2023
New Version

Features

  • Production-ready controls
    • The following controls are now marked as production-ready:
      • Avatar View.
      • Badge View.
      • Busy Indicator.
      • Cartesian Chart.
      • Circular Chart.
      • Circular ProgressBar.
      • DataGrid.
      • DateTime Range Selector.
      • DateTime Range Slider.
      • DateTime Slider.
      • Effects View.
      • Linear ProgressBar.
      • ListView.
      • Range Slider.
      • Range Selector.
      • Scheduler.
      • Signature Pad.
      • Slider.
      • Tab View.
  • Backdrop Page (Preview)
    • The .NET MAUI Backdrop Page is composed of two surfaces, a back layer and a front layer. The back layer holds actionable content (like navigation or filtration), which is relevant to the front layer. Key features:
      • Allows users to add a navigation page for seamless navigation and supports toolbar customizations.
      • Adjusts the height of the back layer automatically based on its content and provides an option to expand the content to fit the screen.
      • Supports curved and flat-edged shapes for the front layer with corner radius customization options.
      • Provides smooth animations for revealing and concealing the back layer content.
      • Allows users to customize the icons of the navigation header for both their revealed and closed states.
  • Calendar (New)
    • The .NET MAUI Calendar (SfCalendar) allows you to select a single, multiple, or a range of dates with month, year, decade, and century view navigation. Key features:
      • Display multiple calendar views (month, year, decade, and century) that allow users to navigate among them.
      • Use different selection modes (single, multiple, and range of dates). Or use programmatic selection.
      • Restrict navigation among different calendar views.
      • Restrict selection and navigation to a specific date range by setting minimum and maximum dates.
      • Customize the first day of week of the calendar month view.
      • Restrict the selection of any date by disabling it.
      • Show or hide the previous and next month’s dates to enhance the appearance of the Calendar.
  • DataForm (New)
    • The .NET MAUI DataForm (SfDataForm) control allows you to create and edit forms easily for any kind of data, such as login, reservation, contact, and employee forms. Key features:
      • Use built-in editors based on property type: text, password, multi-line, combo box, autocomplete, date, time, checkbox, switch, and radio group editors.
      • Add custom editors.
      • Use linear, grid, and grouping layouts.
      • Utilize support for data handling and validation.
      • Customize appearance of labels, editors, groups, and headers.
  • Funnel Chart (New)
    • Funnel charts are often used to represent stages in a process, such as the amount of potential revenue for each stage in sales. Key features:
      • Provides a user-friendly funnel chart component with impressive visualization.
      • Enhances the end-user experience greatly by including user interaction features such as selection, and tooltips in the chart.
      • Displays legends to show additional information about the chart series. The legends can be scrolled if an item exceeds the available space.
      • Provides various options for customizing and visualizing chart features like the title, data labels, legends, gap ratio, and more.
  • PDF Viewer (New)
    • The PDF Viewer control lets you view PDF documents seamlessly and efficiently. It has highly interactive and customizable features such as magnification and page navigation. Key features:
      • Virtual scrolling: Easily scroll through the pages in a document with a fluent experience. The pages are rendered only when required to increase the loading and scrolling performance.
      • Magnification: The content of a PDF document can be efficiently zoomed in and out of by pinching on touch devices or changing the zoom factor programmatically.
      • Page navigation: Navigate to a desired page instantly using the page navigation programmatically or by dragging the scroll head in the UI.
  • Pyramid Chart (New)
    • Pyramid charts represent hierarchies visually in a pyramid-like structure that shows proportions of a total. The item width indicates levels in the hierarchy, and each item height corresponds to its value. Key features:
      • Plot pyramid series for user-friendly data representation and smooth visualization.
      • Includes user interaction features such as tooltip and selection for enhancing the end-user experience.
      • Add a legend to provide more information about the chart segments. The legend can be scrolled if an item exceeds the available space.
      • Provides various options for customizing and visualizing chart features like title, data labels, legends, gap ratio, and more.
  • Rating (New)
    • The .NET MAUI Rating control is used to provide or view ratings on a numeric scale. This control can be used in various scenarios like movie ratings or rating an application. Key features:
      • Precision: Set an accuracy level for ratings.
      • Customization: Customize the rating items’ style, size, and more.
      • Shapes: Add rating items such as stars, hearts, circles, diamonds, and custom paths.
      • Read-only: Limit user selection and allow only the viewing of the rating value.
  • Text Input Layout (New)
    • The Text Input Layout control adds decorative elements like floating labels, icons, and assistive labels on top of input views such as the Entry, Editor, Autocomplete, ComboBox controls. Key features:
      • Display floating label when the input view is focused on.
      • Display error labels.
      • Use filled and outlined container types.
      • Display leading and trailing icons.
      • Display help labels.
      • Toggle password visibility.
  • Autocomplete (Preview)
    • Custom Filter - Users can now apply their own filter logic to display custom filtered items.
  • Cartesian Chart
    • Trackball - Added a trackball which allows you to track a data point close to the cursor position. The x-values are determined by the position of the vertical line in the axis and the y-values are determined by the points touching the vertical line in the series.
    • Data markers - Data markers can now be used to provide information about the data points to the user. You can add a shape and label to adorn each data point in area, line, and spline charts.
    • Legend template - .NET MAUI Cartesian Chart now allows you to customize each legend item by using the ItemTemplate property in ChartLegend.
  • Circular Chart
    • Legend template - .NET MAUI Circular Chart now allows you to customize each legend item by using the ItemTemplate property in ChartLegend.
  • DataGrid
    • Keyboard navigation support - Users can now navigate between cells or rows using an external keyboard connected to Android and Apple iOS devices or built-in keyboard in Apple macOS.
  • DateTime Range Selector
    • Deferred update - Added an option to defer a selection allowing you to control when the dependent components are updated while thumbs are being dragged continuously.
    • Auto interval - Added support for auto interval when the Interval, IntervalType, or DateFormat properties are not set.
  • DateTime Range Slider
    • Deferred updates - You can now defer a selection to control when dependent components are updated while thumbs are being dragged continuously.
    • Auto interval - Added support for auto intervals when the Interval, IntervalType, or DateFormat properties are not set.
  • DateTime Slider
    • Deferred updates - You can now defer a selection to control when dependent components are updated while thumbs are being dragged continuously.
    • Auto interval - Added support for auto intervals when the Interval, IntervalType, or DateFormat properties are not set.
  • ListView
    • Empty view - Now allows users to display text or a view in the ListView when there is no data to display.
    • Keyboard navigation - Users can now navigate among items using an external keyboard connected to an iOS device or a built-in keyboard in macOS.
  • Maps (Preview)
    • Tile layer - Added an interactive tile layer which allows you to load map tiles from web map tile services such as Bing Maps, OpenStreetMaps, or Google Maps. Use markers to denote a specific latitude and longitude in the tile layer as required.
    • Zooming and panning - You can now zoom in the tile or shape layer for a closer look at a specific region by pinching the map, scrolling the mouse wheel, or using the trackpad. Pan the map to navigate across regions. You can also customize the zoom level and the center point (only for the tile layer) of the map rendered.
    • Sublayer support for tile layer - With sublayer support, you can now add another map area (shape layer) and vector shapes such as lines, polylines, arcs, circles, and polygons over the tile layer to show routes or rivers and highlight specific regions on maps.
  • PDF Library
    • Image redaction - Redaction is the process of permanently removing sensitive or confidential data from a PDF document. The Syncfusion PDF Library now supports image redaction.
    • Lock digital signature in PDF - A digital signature is used to ensure the integrity and authenticity of a PDF document. The Syncfusion PDF Library now includes a feature to lock individual signatures in a PDF document. If the signature is locked, users cannot copy, edit, or extract from the PDF document.
    • Animation support in 3D annotations - 3D annotations are used to embed 3D objects in a PDF document. These annotations can be interactively viewed with PDF viewers such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, Foxit, and others. The Syncfusion PDF Library now supports adding animation to 3D annotations. This animation can be played by the PDF viewer application.
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Library
    • Find and replace - The Syncfusion PowerPoint Library now supports the find functionality in PowerPoint presentations. Users can perform the following actions using this feature:
      • Find and replace text in all PowerPoint slides or a specific slide.
      • Replace text by matching case, whole words only, all occurrences, or first occurrence alone.
    • Find and highlight - Using the find functionality in the PowerPoint Library, users can now find and highlight text in all presentation slides or a specific slide.
  • Range Selector
    • Deferred updates - You can now defer a selection to control when dependent components are updated while thumbs are being dragged continuously.
    • Auto interval - Added support for auto intervals when the Interval, IntervalType, or DateFormat properties are not set.
  • Range Slider
    • Deferred updates - You can now defer a selection to control when dependent components are updated while thumbs are being dragged continuously.
    • Auto interval - Added support for auto intervals when the Interval, IntervalType, or DateFormat properties are not set.
  • Slider
    • Deferred updates - You can now defer a selection to control when dependent components are updated while thumbs are being dragged continuously.
    • Auto interval - Added support for auto intervals when the Interval, IntervalType, or DateFormat properties are not set.
  • Microsoft Word Library
    • Word-to-Markdown conversion - The Syncfusion Word Library now supports converting an existing Word document or a new document created from scratch using the Word Library to a Markdown file. Users can also customize the image data while converting a Word document to Markdown.
    • Save chart as image - Added support for converting charts in Word documents to images.
Syncfusion Essential Studio for .NET MAUI 2022 Volume 4
PDF Viewer and Funnel Chart components

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