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Road Map for Essential Studio for Blazor

Road Map for Essential Studio® for Blazor

Common

Production-ready components

The following are to be marked as production-ready components for Blazor:

  • Smart Paste Button
  • Smart TextArea
  • Sankey Chart
  • Chat UI

Deprecation of .NET 6 and .NET 7 Support

Support for .NET 6 and .NET 7 target frameworks will be discontinued for the Syncfusion Blazor Library Components. This ensures alignment with the latest framework advancements and focuses on delivering optimized performance and features for supported versions.

New component

Audio Input

The Audio Input component allows users to record audio, convert speech to text, and play back audio, all within a streamlined interface. It integrates with speech recognition and synthesis APIs, providing a flexible and accessible solution for voice interactions in web applications.

Spreadsheet

The Blazor Spreadsheet component is an Excel-like component designed for data visualization, editing, and analysis directly within Blazor applications. The component supports various features for data manipulation, including sorting, filtering, and formula calculations, making it a powerful tool for users to manage and analyze their data effectively.

Document Editor

Group shape

This feature supports rendering grouped shapes, allowing users to view them exactly as they appear in a Word document when opening or saving it.

Hidden text

This feature retains hidden text in a Word document, ensuring it remains intact when opened or saved.

Maps

Rendering Google static maps

Google static maps can be rendered with customizable add-ons, allowing the addition of markers, sublayers, legends, and more. These features allow users to tailor the map’s content to specific needs, such as displaying custom data, locations, or visual cues to enhance user experience.

Excel Library

Excel-to-PDF and image conversion enhancement

The Syncfusion Excel (XlsIO) library will include an API for adding a custom font collection, which will automatically be used for Excel-to-PDF and image conversion. This ensures that documents maintain their specified typography even if the required fonts are not available in the environment.

PDF Viewer

Enhancement – Form designer

This feature allows users to create new form fields in the PDF Viewer, such as text boxes, passwords, checkboxes, radio buttons, list boxes, drop-down menus, signatures, initials, and buttons using the user interface and programmatically. Additionally, users can edit the existing form fields in the loaded documents.

Enhancement – Squiggly annotation

This feature allows users to create new squiggly annotations in the PDF Viewer for the text content using the user interface and programmatically. Additionally, users can edit existing squiggly annotations in the loaded documents.

Diagram

Container support

This feature allows users to group shapes and organize them into a container, logically clustering related items.

Word Library

Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

SmartArt in Word-to-PDF and image conversion

With this feature, the .NET Word library ensures that SmartArt diagrams are accurately converted to PDF or image formats. This guarantees clear information communication during presentations or report sharing.

Custom font support

The .NET Word library will include an API for adding custom fonts. These fonts will be automatically used during Word-to-PDF and image conversions, ensuring that documents maintain their specified typography even if they are not available in the environment.

Advanced shape formatting

The .NET Word library will support advanced shape formatting options, including gradient fill, transparency in fill, pattern fill, and picture fill. This enhancement ensures that visually rich Word documents are accurately rendered in PDFs and images.

Dashed line styles for shapes

With this feature, the .NET Word library will provide comprehensive support for various dashed line styles, such as solid, round dot, square dot, dash, dash-dot, and more. These enhancements ensure precise styling of line shapes during Word-to-PDF and image conversions, maintaining the visual consistency of your documents.

PowerPoint Library

PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancement

Custom font support

The .NET PowerPoint library will include an API for adding custom fonts. These fonts will be automatically used during PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions, ensuring that documents maintain their specified typography even if they are not available in the environment.

PDF Library

Subsetting embedded fonts in PDF to PDF/A conversion

This feature enables users to subset the embedded fonts when converting PDF to PDF/A. Subsetting the fonts will help reduce the final size of the document.

PDF/UA-2 document creation

This feature allows users to create PDF documents that comply with the PDF/UA-2 accessibility standard, ensuring that the documents are universally accessible and meet the highest accessibility requirements.

AES GSM encryption support in PDF

This feature provides advanced security by enabling AES GSM encryption for PDF documents, ensuring that sensitive information is protected with robust encryption mechanisms.

ZUGFeRD 2.3.2

This feature will support the ZUGFeRD 2.3.2 standard, which facilitates the creation and handling of invoices that combine human-readable and machine-readable data in a single PDF.

File Manager

OneDrive file service provider

This feature facilitates the synchronization of OneDrive content with the File Manager, enhancing the user experience in managing cloud-based files and folders.

Scheduler

Hijri calendar

Support for the Hijri calendar will enable users to utilize Islamic calendars seamlessly. This feature will facilitate accurate date management in accordance with the lunar Islamic calendar system, addressing a broader range of cultural and regional needs.

Copy and paste events

This feature allows users to cut, copy, and paste events to other times.

Pivot Table

Event support for server-side engine

This event feature allows users to pass custom handlers from the client-side to the API service for rendering pivot tables with the server-side engine, improving data integrity and responsiveness during user-driven data manipulation.

Input Controls

Adornments

This feature supports custom prefix and suffix adornments to enhance UI interactivity. Prefix adornments are placed before the input field, like currency symbols. Suffix adornments, positioned after the input field, offer functionality such as formatting tools or input-clearing buttons, making input fields more intuitive and user-friendly.

Input Mask

Dynamic mask

This feature enables seamless handling of variable-length inputs with adaptable formatting. It allows masks to dynamically adjust based on user input or predefined conditions, making it ideal for scenarios such as phone numbers with varying country codes, credit card formats based on card type, or custom data entry forms.

Charts

Tooltips with highlighted data points

This feature highlights the relevant data point when hovering over it, making it stand out from other points to make it clearer which point the tooltip is describing.

Total stacked values

This feature displays the cumulative total for stacked chart data directly through data labels, improving the clarity and readability of stacked charts.

Pixel support for column widths

This feature allows users to specify column widths in pixels for column series, offering more precise control over chart presentation.

Tooltip based on closest point

This feature allows users to display tooltips for the closest data point to the cursor.

Zoom toolbar position

This feature allows users to move the zoom toolbar freely around the chart.

Gradient support

This feature allows users to apply gradient fills to chart data, providing customization options for colors, directions, and opacity levels.

Vertical axis label wrap

This feature enables users to easily wrap vertical axis labels in a chart for better readability.

Center label

This feature enables placing a label at the center of a pie or donut chart, improving the chart’s clarity and presentation.

Gantt Chart

Column validation with data annotation

This feature enhances built-in column validation by integrating data annotation attributes directly into the Gantt Chart. Users can define validation rules in the model class, ensuring validation across task fields is consistent with minimal configuration.

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DISCLAIMER: Syncfusion’s products are always changing. Syncfusion makes no representations or warranties of any kind that these features will be in this release or any future release of any Syncfusion product. Features and release builds can change without notice at the sole discretion of Syncfusion. The information provided on this page is only for the purpose of outlining intentions and ideas for future releases. In no way is the roadmap a guarantee, promise, or offer to provide any product or service. Moreover, the material provided is informational in nature and should not be relied on, in any manner, for the purposes of making any business decision.
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