Released: Sep 18, 2024

Updates in 2024 Volume 3 (27.1.48)

Features

• Production-Ready Controls
  • The .NET MAUI Digital Gauge control has been developed to meet industry standards and is now marked as production-ready in this release.
• AI AssistView (New)
  • The .NET MAUI AI AssistView control enhances interaction between users and AI services. It provides a customizable, user-friendly interface for creating intelligent and responsive applications with AI services. Key features include:
    • Content types: Supports text, images, hyperlinks, and cards.
    • Control template: Offers a customizable control template to display any view or control.
    • Suggestions: Provides selectable response suggestions to expedite the conversation flow.
    • Styling: Allows the appearance of request and response items to be customized.
• Kanban (New)
  • A Kanban board is a visual management tool that helps teams track and manage work in progress. It provides a organized view of tasks as each one moves through different stages, making it simpler to track progress. Key features include:
    • The work-in-progress (WIP) limit feature shows error bars when the number of tasks exceeds or falls below the set limit.
    • The workflow configuration feature defines the flow of card transitions from one state to another, ensuring efficient management of task progression through various stages.
  • Interactive features
    • Drag-and-drop support provides an interactive way to move tasks between stages, making it easy to update and manage projects.
    • Expand or collapse columns to focus on specific tasks and organize the board better.
• Badge View
  • Badge visibility - This feature allows users to control the visibility of the badges in the .NET MAUI BadgeView.
  • Font autoscaling enabled - Allows users to automatically scale the control's font size based on the operating system's text size.
• Busy Indicator
  • Globe animation - A new type of animation, globe, has been added to the Busy Indicator.
  • Font auto scaling enabled - This feature enables users to automatically scale the control's font size based on the operating system's text size.
• Button
  • Text transform - Users can now customize the Button's text using the text transform feature. They can easily switch between uppercase, lowercase, none, or default styles to achieve the desired appearance.
• Calendar
  • Template for headers - This feature allows users to customize the appearance and functionality of the headers in the .NET MAUI Calendar.
  • Adjacent month navigation - Added the ability for users to navigate to the previous or next month by tapping the leading or trailing month date in the .NET MAUI Calendar.
  • Strike through - Improved the blackout dates UI in the .NET MAUI Calendar by implementing the strikethrough effect.
• Cartesian Charts
  • New series types - The following three new series are now available in the Cartesian Charts control for enhanced data visualization:
    • Stacked line series: Displays multiple line series stacked on top of each other to represent cumulative data trends, offering a clear comparison of multiple datasets over time.
    • 100% stacked line series: Similar to the stacked line, but displays data as contributions to a whole, with each category's value represented as a fraction of the total value.
    • Spline range area series: Provides a smooth, curved area chart that represents the range between values across a series, enhancing clarity in data trends.
  • Legend label style - You can now customize how legend labels look for each series. You can adjust the text color, font size, background color, and font family of legend items to match your preferences.
• Check Box
  • Enable animation - Users can now enable or disable the hovering and pressing animations for the .NET MAUI Check Box.
  • Font auto scaling enabled - Users can now automatically scale the control's font size based on the operating system's text size.
• Circular Charts
  • Legend toggle - The legend toggle feature now allows users to show or hide corresponding data points by interacting with the legend items.
• ComboBox
  • Dropdown button height and width customization - Users can adjust the width and height of the ComboBox's dropdown button to match their design needs.
• DataGrid
  • Row drag and drop - This feature allows users to reorder rows directly within the UI.
• Excel Library
  • Enhanced conversion of Excel to PDF and image formats - The Syncfusion Excel Library (XlsIO) includes the following enhancements for converting Excel files to PDF and image formats:
    • Tagged PDFs: Converting Excel documents to PDF files with PDF/UA standard compliance is now supported. This ensures that users who rely on accessibility tools can read the content of these PDF documents.
    • Metafile image preservation: The EMF images in Excel documents are now preserved in conversion.
  • Performance improvement - The Syncfusion Excel Library's performance has been improved by 30% for reading cell values from Excel documents. The time taken to read cell values for an Excel document containing data for 100,000 rows and 200 columns has been reduced from 22 seconds to 16 seconds.
  • Import XML maps - The Syncfusion Excel Library now supports adding XML maps to Excel documents. This feature allows users to select and map the fields to the worksheet range.
• Numeric Entry
  • Percentage display mode - This feature allows users to present the value in the Numeric Entry in the following percentage formats:
    • Value: Displays the actual value with the percent sign.
    • Compute: Displays the computed value with the percent sign.
  • Set maximum decimal digits - This feature lets users specify the number of decimal places in the Numeric Entry control, ensuring precision where it matters.
• PDF Library
  • Enhancements in Arabic script rendering - This feature enables users to render Arabic text with extended characters support for specific blocks, ensuring precise representation and improved readability of Arabic script in PDF documents.
    • Extended - A.
    • Extended - B.
    • Extended - C.
    • Presentation Forms - A.
    • Presentation Forms - B.
  • Circular annotations with cloud border style - Users can now apply a cloud border style to circular annotations in PDF documents, making it easier to emphasize key information, highlight important sections, and make annotations visually distinctive. It's beneficial in educational materials, technical documentation, design reviews, and collaborative business documents where clear communication is essential.
• PowerPoint Library
  • PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements
    • Color transformation for images: Recolored images are now accurately preserved in PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions, maintaining the visual appearance of custom-colored graphics and logos for clear branding.
    • Metafile image preservation: The EMF images in the PowerPoint presentations are now properly preserved during PDF or image conversion.
• Radio Button
  • Enable animation - Users can now enable or disable hovering over and pressing animations for the .NET MAUI Radio Button.
  • Selected value support for a radio group - Added the ability for users to retrieve the selected item value from a group of radio buttons within a radio group.
  • Font auto scaling enabled - Users can now automatically scale the control's font size based on the operating system's text size.
• Scheduler
  • Date navigation using built-in calendar - Users can now navigate dates using a calendar date picker in the Scheduler header.
  • Suspend appointment updates - Added the ability for users to suspend and resume appointment UI updates while performing collection changes such as add, remove, and reset.
  • Today button - Added support for users to display or hide a Today button in the Scheduler.
  • Command support - This feature allows users to make method calls directly to a ViewModel, which supports tapped, double-tapped, long-press, and visible-date-changed actions.
  • Week number tap events - Users can now get the details of the tapped week number in the view.
• Tab View
  • Enable swiping - Users can now navigate to the next tab by swiping.
  • Header display mode - Added the ability for users to customize the display header of each tab item. It provides the following customization options:
    • Image: Displays only the image on each tab item.
    • Text: Displays only the text on each tab item.
    • Default: Displays both the text and image on each tab item.
  • Indicator corner radius - This feature allows users to customize the corner radius of the selection indicator in the .NET MAUI Tab View.
  • Header text alignment - Added support for users to customize the horizontal text alignment of the tab header using the following options:
    • Start: Aligns the tab header to the beginning of the available space.
    • Center: Aligns the tab header to the center of the available space.
    • End: Aligns the tab header to the end of the available space.
  • Content transition duration - Users can now modify the duration of the content transition in the Tab View control.
  • Font auto scaling enabled - Users can automatically scale the control's font size based on the operating system's text size.
• Time Picker
  • Minimum and maximum time - This feature allows users to restrict selection between specific time ranges in SfTimePicker. Users cannot select beyond minimum and maximum time ranges.
• TreeMap
  • Drill-down support - Added the ability for users to explore hierarchical data interactively by navigating through its levels.
  • RTL support - Added support for users to change the control's flow direction to right-to-left.
  • Legend layout - This feature allows users to customize the arrangement and position of each legend item.
  • Legend template - Users can now customize legends with templates.
• Visual Studio Code Extension
  • Selection of Component Features - A new feature has been introduced, 'Selection of Component Features', in Visual Studio Code's .NET MAUI Template Studio. This enhancement allows users to customize the functionalities of their chosen components with precision. The updated tool includes an intuitive project wizard that simplifies the creation process, making it accessible for users of different skill levels and experiences. Users can build high-quality applications featuring advanced Syncfusion components. Explore this feature and streamline your application development.
• Word Library
  • WordArt in DOCX - The .NET Word Library now preserves WordArt effects like shadows, reflections, glows, bevels, 3D rotations, and transformations in DOCX files, ensuring that decorative text retains its appearance.
  • HTML conversion enhancements
    • HTML-to-Word conversion - The .NET Word Library now supports HTML files that do not follow XML standards, offering greater flexibility in HTML-to-Word conversions. Users can now more effectively handle HTML files with non-standard tags or structures.
    • RTL text preservation - RTL (right-to-left) text is accurately preserved during HTML-to-Word and Word-to-HTML conversions. Users can now convert HTML files containing the RTL text, and the text direction formatting remains consistent.
  • Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements - The Syncfusion Word Library includes the following enhancements when converting Word documents to PDF files or images:
    • Performance: Conversion of large Word documents (above 1,000 pages) with tables and hyperlinks to PDFs or images is now up to 25x faster, reducing processing time from hours to minutes.
    • RTL text preservation: RTL (right-to-left) text within track changes balloons is now accurately preserved during Word-to-PDF conversions.
    • Table rendering: Rendering of tables with "keep with next" settings on multi-column pages during Word-to-PDF and image conversions, preserves the layout as it is in the input file.
    • Metafile image preservation: The EMF images in the Word documents are now properly preserved during PDF or image conversion.