Syncfusion Essential Studio Blazor 2023 Volume 3

Adds infinite scrolling and a GraphQL adapter for DataGrid.
September 15, 2023
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Features

  • Common
    • Preview to a production-ready component - The PDF Viewer (Next-Gen) component has been developed to meet industry standards. It is now marked as production-ready.
  • Date and Time Pickers
    • Full-screen view support for mobile devices - Users can now view and select dates and times from a full-screen interface on mobile devices in the date picker, time picker, date-time picker, and date range picker editors.
  • Word Processor
    • Table title and description - Users now have the ability to add or modify the title and description of a table in a Microsoft Word document using the Syncfusion Word Processor.
  • Microsoft Excel Library
    • What-If Analysis with Scenario Manager - The Excel (XlsIO) library now supports the scenario manager in what-if analysis. This allows you to create scenarios with different sets of values for specific cells in the worksheet, and then apply those scenarios to see how the results change. Users can do the following using the scenario manager:
      • Create scenarios with different sets of values and apply them to view the forecast results.
      • Protect or hide the scenarios to prevent users from changing them.
    • Threaded comments - The Excel (XlsIO) library now supports threaded comments, allowing multiple users to add comments or reply to the existing comments in an Excel document.
    • Excel to PDF enhancements - The following enhancements have been made in the Excel to PDF conversion.
      • Gradient fill support in the data bar type conditional formatting.
      • Support for converting threaded comments.
    • Excel to image enhancement - The Excel (XlsIO) library now supports auto shapes during the Excel to image conversion. All the supported shapes in XlsIO will be preserved in the converted image.
  • Gantt Chart
    • Multi-taskbars in resource view - Visualize multiple tasks assigned to each resource in a row, even when the records are in a collapsed state. With the display of multiple taskbars, users can quickly identify and analyze resource workloads and task assignments.
    • Clone elements for taskbar editing - Enhanced user interface of taskbar editing by displaying a clone element when moving or resizing the taskbar.
  • DataGrid
    • GraphQL adaptor - Users can now easily fetch data and perform a variety of actions such as CRUD operations, filtering, searching, aggregates, grouping, paging, and sorting in Blazor Data Grid.
    • Infinite scrolling - Users can now efficiently load and display large amounts of data in a lazy loading concept i.e., the buffering data is loaded only when the scrollbar reaches the end of the scroller.
    • Virtual scrolling with overscan count - Added the ability to pre-render extra rows before and after the viewport of the grid. It helps reduce the frequency of data fetch requests while scrolling vertically.
  • HeatMap Chart
    • Label template - To add more information to HeatMap cells, users can now add custom elements like text, tables, images, and so on.
  • Image Editor
    • Image annotation - Added the ability for users to insert and display multiple images in addition to the main image they are editing. These image annotations can be used for various purposes, such as adding logos, watermarks, or decorative elements to the image.
    • Resize - Users can now adjust the size and dimensions of an image to suit their needs, such as printing, web display, or other purposes.
    • Frame - Users can now add decorative borders or frames around images. Frames can enhance the visual appeal of an image.
  • Maps
    • Polygon shape rendering - Users can now draw and display the appropriate polygon shapes over the main layer of the Maps component using their data sources.
    • Data label animation - An animated transition will now occur on the initial rendering of data labels and not during any dynamic updates.
  • PDF Library
    • Digital signature enhancement - The following enhancements have been made to the digital signature functionality of the PDF Library:
      • An API to get the OCSP/CRL details from the embedded timestamp.
      • Extract images from the digital signature in the PDF document.
    • Text-only redaction - Users can now selectively redact text within a PDF document. This means that graphics or images beneath the text will remain unaffected by redaction.
    • Remove document information - Users now have the option to effortlessly eliminate document details like title, author, subject, keywords, and other metadata information.
    • Retrieve image rotation information from a PDF document using the OCR processor - Users can now obtain image rotation angles from the OCR processor after performing OCR on a PDF document. With this functionality, users can easily identify rotated images within the PDF and make necessary adjustments to straighten them.
    • HTML-to-PDF conversion enhancements - The following enhancements have been made to the HTML-to-PDF converter:
      • Users can now add HTML content as a header and footer within the converter.
      • Users can now include their own custom CSS and JS while converting HTML to PDF.
      • BlinkBinaries has been updated to the latest version [114.0.5735.199] for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Mac.
      • Users can now recycle the browser process between conversions to improve performance during HTML-to-PDF conversions.
  • Pivot Table
    • Data label template in Pivot Chart - With the addition of template support, users can now display pivot charts with customized data label content for each data point.
    • Radius support for pie chart series - Users can now render each series of the pie chart with a different radius.
    • Improved UI actions' performance - Users can now experience UI actions in the Pivot Table two times faster than the earlier versions, including drilling up/down, sorting, filtering, and more. It also improves the component's initial rendering when binding large amounts of data.
  • Microsoft PowerPoint Library
    • Convert PowerPoint animations to images - The .NET PowerPoint library now allows you to convert PowerPoint slides into images based on the sequence of entrance animations applied to each element in the slide. With this, you can showcase the converted images as a slideshow in your custom PowerPoint Viewer.
  • Scheduler
    • On-demand data loading or lazy loading - Added the ability for users to retrieve events from remote services for the current view port alone and retrieve the remaining data on demand when scrolling, improving the performance and usability of the Scheduler component.
    • Editor window customization - Users can now customize the header and footer of the built-in editor window.
  • PDF Viewer (Next-Gen)
    • Improved performance - The PDF Viewer (Next-Gen) component's performance has been significantly improved. The initial loading performance has been boosted by 65% for large-size documents in Blazor Server apps, and by 35% in Blazor WASM apps. The comment panel rendering and interaction performance have also been improved, especially in the WebAssembly environment.
  • Stock Charts
    • Tooltip position - Added support for enabling tooltips to move along with the mouse.
  • Word Library
    • Compare Word documents - The Syncfusion .NET Word Library now allows you to compare two DOCX-format documents and highlight the changes, such as insertions, deletions, and formatting, as tracked changes. With this feature, you can easily identify the changes between two versions of a document.
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