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A AI AssistView control, a redact shape for the Image Editor control, and new export and import functionality for the Rich Text Editor are included in the 2024 Volume 3 release to level up your ASP.NET MVC projects.
What’s New
What’s New in Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC UI Controls
The AI Assist View control has been added to the Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC suite.
The OTP Input control has been developed to meet industry standards. It is now marked as a production-ready control for ASP.NET MVC.
All Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls support the Fluent 2 high contrast design, improving accessibility and user experience for visually impaired users.
All Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls support the Bootstrap 5.3 design, offering enhanced styling and features for modern web development.
The ASP.NET MVC AI AssistView is a versatile and modern UI tool designed to seamlessly integrate AI services into your web applications. It enables users to send prompts, execute commands through a feature-rich toolbar, and effortlessly display AI-generated responses in a user-friendly interface.
This feature allows you to embed a logo or image in the center of your QR codes, enhancing brand visibility and making your QR codes more visually appealing. You can customize the logo size, which defaults to one-third of the QR code’s dimensions and 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.
When sorting data in the chart, the data transitions smoothly with an animation effect.
This feature supports smooth animation transitions when zooming and panning the chart.
This feature allows users to disable the risers in the stepline series.
This feature allows users to add, remove, or update data with smooth animation transitions for series, data labels, and legends.
This feature allows users to apply rounded corners to pie, donut, pyramid, and funnel charts.
In addition to the fill option, users can now apply different patterns to accumulation chart types.
The DateTime Picker now supports restricting time selection to specific daily ranges, such as business hours. Users can only choose times within defined limits, like for appointment scheduling. The feature improves the user experience by allowing easy configuration of time.
A flowchart visually represents a process, workflow, system, or algorithm. This feature automatically creates flowcharts by arranging diagram elements clearly, logically, and visually appealingly. This feature leverages an advanced layout algorithm that automatically positions nodes and connectors, whether sourced from the NodeCollection and ConnectorCollection or business objects defined in the DataSource.
Mermaid syntax is a Markdown-inspired syntax that automatically generates diagrams. This feature enables you to generate mind map and flowchart diagrams directly from Mermaid syntax data, making it easier to visualize complex ideas and processes without manual drawing. Additionally, you can export your mind map and flowchart diagrams to Mermaid syntax, enabling easy sharing and editing, and use it across various platforms. You can also leverage AI assistants to generate Mermaid syntax for mind map and flowchart diagrams and directly import the generated code into the ASP.NET MVC Diagram component.
This feature allows you to insert content controls in your document that are linked to custom XML data.
By mapping specific parts of your document to XML data, you can ensure that the content within these controls is automatically updated whenever the underlying XML data changes, making it ideal for dynamic documents. Please refer to the documentation for more details.
This feature allows you to preserve shapes in Word documents when opening and saving them in the Word Processor. Please refer to the documentation and demo for more details.
List of shapes preserved:
This feature lets you customize the display of selected values in the Dropdown Tree component. Format and present the selected items in a way that aligns with your application’s specific needs. You can explore a demo of this feature here.
The Syncfusion Excel Library (XlsIO) includes the following enhancement for converting Excel files to PDF.
The Syncfusion Excel Library’s performance is improved by 30% for reading cell values from the Excel documents. The time taken to read cell values for an Excel document containing data for 100,000 rows and 200 columns is reduced from 22 seconds to 16 seconds.
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.
The File Manager now allows users to select a range of files or folders by dragging the mouse pointer over them, just like in the Windows File Explorer. You can explore a demo of this feature here.
Users can now easily zoom in and zoom out by pinching directly on the chart pane. This intuitive touch gesture makes it more convenient to navigate through Gantt Charts on touch-enabled devices, providing a seamless and user-friendly experience.
When the adaptive layout feature is enabled, the same layout is rendered on both mobile devices and desktops, by default. Now, Grid provides an option that allows rendering an adaptive layout exclusively for mobile screen sizes.
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.
The enhanced text-annotation feature in the 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 both clear and visually appealing in any image.
The enhanced rectangle-annotation feature in the Image Editor now supports adjusting the border radius, allowing 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.
The Mention control provides options for individual items to be put in an enabled or disabled state for specific scenarios. This ensures that disabled items cannot be selected as values within the control.
The standalone PDF Viewer now loads large documents more quickly. This enhancement is achieved by loading Base64 strings directly into a byte array, boosting the loading performance and efficiency by up to 45% on large PDF files.
The ASP.NET MVC PDF Viewer includes the following enhancements in the text search functionality:
External PDF documents can be imported anywhere within an existing PDF document in the PDF Viewer.
Signature and initials fields allow the use of custom fonts for e-signing.
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.
This feature allows users to 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.
This feature enables users to crop specific regions of a converted image during the HTML-to-image conversion process, allowing for precise extraction of relevant content, such as isolating key visuals or focusing on particular webpage sections for reports or presentations.
The slash menu allows users to seamlessly apply formatting options like headings, lists, and quotes, as well as open insert dialogs and execute custom commands all within the editor. This dynamic menu is easily triggered by typing the “/” character, providing a quick way to access the editing features.
This feature enables users to easily export content from the Rich Text Editor to PDF or Word documents, as well as import Word document content into the editor. This intuitive feature enhances document management, providing a smooth and user-friendly experience.
Users can now easily highlight small code snippets, commands, or keywords directly within the Rich Text Editor. This feature enhances readability and ensures that important text elements stand out, providing a seamless and user-friendly experience.
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.
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 (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.
The Syncfusion Word Library includes the following enhancements when converting Word documents to PDF files or images:
