TL;DR: Explore the new user-friendly features and smart components introduced in the Syncfusion Blazor platform for the 2024 Volume 3 release, complete with vivid, picturesque illustrations.
We are excited to announce that the Syncfusion Essential Studio 2024 Volume 3 release is now available with ground-breaking new controls and features in all supported platforms.
This blog highlights the new user-friendly updates added to the Syncfusion Blazor suite for the 2024 volume 3 release.
In this 2024 volume 3 release, we are pleased to introduce the four new Blazor components in preview mode:
The Blazor Smart Paste Button automatically fills a form with content from the user’s clipboard using text-generative AI functionality. This component enhances the user experience by simplifying data entry and minimizing manual form input.
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Note: For more details, refer to the Blazor Smart Paste Button component demo.
The Blazor Smart TextArea is an advanced component designed to elevate the text input experience by providing intelligent autocomplete suggestions for entire sentences through text-generative AI functionality. This component enhances user productivity by predicting and offering relevant completions based on the context of what is being typed.
Key features
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Note: For more details, refer to the Blazor Smart TextArea component demo.
The Blazor AI AssistView is a versatile, modern UI tool designed to seamlessly integrate AI services into web apps. It enables users to send prompts, execute commands through a feature-rich toolbar, and effortlessly display AI-generated responses in a user-friendly interface.
Key features
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Note: For more details, refer to the Blazor AI AssistView demo.
The Blazor MultiColumn ComboBox is a dropdown component that displays items in a detailed, table-like format with multiple columns. It offers more information than standard dropdown lists and enhances user interaction with various advanced features.
Key features
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Note: For more details, refer to the Blazor MultiColumn ComboBox component demo.
The Blazor OTP Input and TextArea components have been developed to meet industry standards and are now production-ready for Blazor development.
Let’s see the exciting new updates in the existing Blazor components!
The new features added to the Blazor Diagram component are as follows:
Flowcharts visually represent processes, workflows, systems, or algorithms. This feature automatically arranges flowchart elements clearly, logically, and visually appealingly. It leverages an advanced layout algorithm to position nodes and connectors, whether sourced from the NodeCollection, ConnectorCollection or business objects defined in the DataSource.
Use the automatic flowchart layout algorithm to create flowcharts from external data seamlessly.
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Mermaid syntax, a Markdown-inspired language, automatically generates diagrams. This feature allows you to create mind maps and flowcharts directly from Mermaid syntax data, simplifying the visualization of complex ideas and processes without manual drawing. Additionally, you can export your diagrams to Mermaid syntax to easily share and edit across various platforms. AI assistants can also generate Mermaid syntax for your diagrams, which you can directly import into the Diagram control.
Tooltip support has been provided for diagram elements, ensuring that tooltips remain visible while hovering over nodes, connectors, swimlanes, ports, user handles, and fixed user handles. This enhancement allows tooltips to display relevant information consistently.
Perform operations like adding, reading, updating, or deleting data in the DataSource at runtime using the ReadAsync, InsertAsync, UpdateAsync, and DeleteAsync methods of the DataSourceSettings class.
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The new features added to the Blazor Gantt Chart are as follows:
Users can export Gantt Chart data to PDF files, enabling the generation of printable reports or sharing data in a standardized format.
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Users can now easily zoom in and out by pinching directly on the chart pane. This intuitive touch gesture makes navigating through Gantt Charts on touch-enabled devices more convenient, providing a seamless and user-friendly experience.
The Blazor Image Editor is rolled out with the following advanced features:
Redact support allows users to conceal sensitive information by applying blur or pixel effects to specific areas of an image. This feature is particularly valuable for protecting privacy and complying with data protection regulations, making it easier to securely share images without compromising sensitive information.
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The enhanced text-annotation feature in the Blazor Image Editor allows users to customize their annotations with fill color, outline color, and outline width. Ideal for making text stand out and improving readability, this tool ensures that your annotations are clear and visually appealing in any image.
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The enhanced rectangle-annotation feature in the Image Editor now supports adjusting the border-radius. This allows users to create annotations with rounded or sharp corners. This enhancement provides greater flexibility in customizing the look of your annotations, adding a touch of style and refinement.
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The Blazor Rich Text Editor has the following new feature:
Easily export content from the Rich Text Editor to PDF or Word documents and seamlessly import Word document content into the editor.
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The Blazor File Manager delivers the following user-friendly features:
The Blazor File Manager’s pagination feature enhances app performance by initially loading only the necessary files and folders for the visible layout. Additional items are dynamically loaded as you navigate through the pages.
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The File Manager now allows users to select a range of files or folders by dragging the mouse pointer over them, similar to the Windows File Explorer.
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The SharePoint file service has been implemented to connect as a back-end with Blazor File Manager.
The Blazor DateTime Picker now supports restricting time selection to specific daily ranges, such as business hours. Users can only choose times within defined limits, making it ideal for scenarios like appointment scheduling. This feature enhances the user experience by allowing easy configuration of time ranges.
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The Blazor Calendar components DatePicker, DateTime Picker, DateRangePicker, and TimePicker) allow users to input date values in various valid formats. This enhancement aims to improve the user experience by offering flexibility in specifying date formats for parsing. Users can specify the expected format(s) for parsing date values such as “dd/MM/yyyy”, “MM/dd/yyyy”, “yyyy-MM-dd”.
This feature allows you to preserve shapes in Word documents when opening and saving them in the Blazor Word Processor.
List of preserved shapes:
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The Blazor Mention component provides options for individual items to be enabled or disabled for specific scenarios. This ensures the disabled items cannot be selected as values within the component.
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This feature in the Blazor Barcode Generator allows us to embed a logo or image in the center of your QR codes. This will enhance the brand visibility and make your QR codes more visually appealing. You can customize the logo size, which defaults to one-third of the QR code’s dimensions. The size is automatically adjusted to ensure it doesn’t exceed 30% of the code’s width or height, maintaining scan efficiency. The logo can be sourced from a local image path, Base64-encoded image, online image URL, or icon.
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Thanks for reading this blog! We’ve explored the new components and features added to the Syncfusion Blazor suite for the 2024 Volume 3 release. To discover more about the features available in this release, please visit our Release Notes and What’s New pages. Try them out and leave your feedback in the comments section below!
Existing Syncfusion users can access the most recent version of Essential Studio on the License and Downloads page. If you’re new to Syncfusion, we offer a 30-day free trial to test these exciting new features.
You can also reach us through our support forum, support portal, or feedback portal. We are always happy to assist you!