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2024 Volume 3 boosts our Blazor collection with four new components; diagram import and export abilities with Mermaid syntax; and dynamic file loading with paging in the File Manager.
What’s New
What’s New in Syncfusion Blazor Components
The following components have been added to the Syncfusion Blazor suite:
AI Assist ViewSmart Paste ButtonSmart TextAreaMultiColumn ComboBoxThe following components have been enhanced to meet industry standards and are production-ready for Blazor development:
OTP InputTextAreaAll Syncfusion Blazor components support the Fluent 2 high contrast design, improving accessibility and user experience for visually impaired users.
All Syncfusion Blazor components support the Bootstrap 5.3 design, offering enhanced styling and features for modern web development.
The Blazor Smart Paste Button automatically fills a form with content from the user’s clipboard by utilizing text-generative AI functionality. This component enhances the user experience by simplifying data entry and minimizing manual input for forms.
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.
The MultiColumn ComboBox is a dropdown component that displays items in a detailed, table-like format with multiple columns, offering more information than standard dropdown lists. It enhances user interaction with features such as data binding from various sources, item grouping, and advanced filtering for quick searches. Additionally, it supports sorting, virtualization for large datasets, and customizable templates for headers, footers, and list items.
The Blazor 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.
The Blazor DatePicker, DateTime Picker, TimePicker, and DateRangePicker components allow users to enter dates in multiple formats, such as MM/DD/YYYY, DD-MM-YYYY, and others. Supporting multiple date formats improves the user experience in global applications.
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 Blazor Diagram component.
This feature allows you to perform operations like adding, reading, updating, and deleting data in the DataSource at runtime by using the ReadDataAsync, InsertDataAsync, UpdateDataAsync, and DeleteDataAsync methods of the SfDiagramComponent class in the Blazor Diagram component.
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:
The Syncfusion Excel Library (XlsIO) includes the following enhancements for converting Excel files to PDF and image formats.
The Syncfusion Excel Library performance is 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 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 pagination feature in the File Manager component enhances application 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. You can explore a demo of this feature here.
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 export Gantt Chart data to PDF files to generate printable reports or share data in a standardized format.
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.
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 component 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 component.
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 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.
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:
