A new SpeechToText control, real-time streaming responses in the AI AssistView, and 90% faster text searching in the PDF Viewer are included in the 2025 Volume 1 release to level up your ASP.NET MVC projects.
What’s New
What’s New in Syncfusion® ASP.NET MVC UI Controls
The SpeechToText control has been added to ASP.NET MVC.
The ASP.NET MVC SpeechToText control provides seamless voice-to-text conversion in web applications. It features real-time transcription with interim results, multilingual recognition, customizable buttons and tooltips, and error handling, ensuring intuitive and accessible speech recognition.
The ASP.NET MVC AI AssistView now supports streaming, enabling dynamic updates of the prompt responses as chunks. Users can receive the response once generated, reducing delays.
This feature allows users to display a tooltip that provides information about the data point closest to the cursor.
This feature allows users to display the cumulative total for stacked chart data directly through data labels, improving the clarity and readability of stacked charts.
Users can now place horizontal and vertical scrollbars at the top, bottom, left, or right of the chart.
When the crosshair is displayed, users can highlight the entire range of the corresponding category’s data points for better visibility.
Users can now customize the corner radius of individual data points in a rectangle-shaped series using an event triggered when rendering the points, improving the chart’s appearance.
Users can now wrap the vertical axis label based on the maximum label width for better readability.
Chart now supports the trapezoidal funnel chart, where each stage is represented as a trapezoid instead of a triangle.
Users can now customize the exported Excel document using an event triggered before the chart data is exported to an Excel file.
The ASP.NET MVC Chat UI control now offers improved message navigation and interaction features for a more efficient user experience. Users can quickly locate specific messages using their unique IDs, effortlessly scroll to relevant conversations, and set focus on the dynamic input.
This feature enables easy reordering of chips by dragging and dropping them within the same container or across different containers.
The Syncfusion® ASP.NET MVC DatePicker and DateTime Picker now support multiple input formats, allowing users to enter and process date and time values more efficiently. This enhancement helps prioritize user-defined formats and ensure accurate parsing.
This feature ensures that connectors adjust dynamically to avoid overlapping with neighboring connectors, maintaining a clear and organized diagram. By automatically updating the connector geometry, it eliminates visual clutter and enhances the readability of connection paths, resulting in a more structured and comprehensible diagram.
This feature ensures that hidden text in Word documents is preserved, maintaining its integrity when a document is opened and saved using the Word Processor component.
The Word Processor has new API support for beginning and ending batch editing operations. This enhancement enables editing tasks to be executed programmatically without pagination throughout the batch process. Pagination is only applied once the batch editing is finalized, resulting in improved performance.
The Syncfusion® Excel Library is now significantly faster when creating, reading, and saving Excel workbooks. The latest optimizations have improved processing speed across various data types, making operations on large datasets more efficient.
Performance gains (150 rows × 10,000 columns)
The column chooser now includes template support, allowing users to render customized views in its header, content, and footer. Users can thus design the column chooser’s appearance. Additionally, users can enable or disable the the column chooser’s default search functionality, giving them more control over their filtering experience.
The filtering functionality has been enhanced with support for the in and not in filter operators. These operators allow users to filter records based on multiple matching or non-matching values within the same column, providing more flexibility in data filtering.
In the ASP.NET MVC Mention component, users can now type the mention character continuously without needing a leading space to activate the mention pop-up.
We have enhanced the text search functionality in the PDF Viewer so that it delivers faster and more accurate search results within PDF documents. The search speed is 90% faster for documents of up to 1,000 pages and the upgraded accuracy significantly reduces errors, providing reliable and swift retrieval of critical information.
PDF documents can now be created in compliance with the PDF/UA-2 accessibility standard, ensuring they meet the latest accessibility requirements. This enhancement improves usability for assistive technologies, making PDFs more accessible to all users.
Generated PDFs now feature well-structured and properly tagged content, enhancing accessibility and compliance with industry standards. This improves navigation and content interpretation for users relying on assistive technologies.
The PDF Library now supports the ZUGFeRD 2.3.2 standard, enabling seamless creation and processing of electronic invoices. This feature integrates both human-readable and machine-readable data, ensuring compatibility with e-invoicing systems and regulatory compliance.
Users can now define custom role mappings for tagged elements in PDFs, offering greater flexibility in document accessibility. This allows tag roles to be customized to better align with specific accessibility requirements and document structures.
This functionality introduces hatch brush patterns in PDF graphics, allowing users to fill shapes, text, and other graphical elements with customizable hatch patterns. It enhances the visual presentation of PDF content and provides design flexibility.
This security enhancement allows users to restrict HTTP requests during the HTML-to-PDF conversion process. By blocking external resource access, it ensures greater control over data security, preventing unauthorized content retrieval and enhancing privacy.
The pivot table now supports exporting data in the classic (tabular) layout format to PDF, Excel, and CSV files using the built-in client-side export functionality. This enhancement enables users to generate and export pivot table data in a structured, table-style format, enhancing readability for further analysis and sharing.
The PowerPoint Library now includes a setting to convert shapes into editable PDF text form fields during PowerPoint-to-PDF conversion. This allows users to generate interactive PDFs for surveys, applications, and feedback forms, enabling digital form-filling.
The ASP.NET MVC Scheduler component now includes a feature to prevent overlapping appointments, ensuring a conflict-free and efficient scheduling experience. This enhancement helps maintain a clear and organized calendar view. You can explore a demonstration of this feature here.
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The .NET Word Library now allows you to programmatically create, edit, and remove SmartArt graphics in Word documents, making it easy to generate process flows and structured documents.
With this feature, SmartArt graphics in Word documents are accurately converted to PDF or image formats while preserving their structure and appearance. This ensures clear communication in presentations and reports sharing across different devices.
Improved the performance of converting large TXT files to Word documents, achieving 10x faster conversion for files with 100,000+ lines, enabling seamless processing of extensive text content.
