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What's New in Syncfusion .NET MAUI Controls

ESSENTIAL STUDIO® 2025 VOLUME 1

What's New in Syncfusion® .NET MAUI Controls

Jump-start your .NET MAUI project with the new Toolbar control, production-ready Kanban and AI AssistView controls, and master-details view in DataGrid that rolled out in the 2025 Volume 1 release.

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Toolbar (New)

Overview

The Toolbar control provides a flexible and customizable toolbar for seamless user interaction. It allows users to add toolbar items that perform specific actions, enhancing application usability.

Key features

  • Toolbar items: Add icons, labels, a combination of both, or custom views for quick access to essential actions.
  • Interaction: Support for touch gestures, item tapping, and command execution.
  • Orientation: Arrange toolbar items in horizontal or vertical layouts.
  • Overflow support: Includes scrollable options, navigation buttons, and a menu for managing excess items efficiently.
  • Overlay toolbar: Provides a floating toolbar experience for enhanced usability.
  • Appearance customization: Adjust icons and labels’ colors to match light or dark themes.

.NET MAUI Toolbar

Production-Ready Controls

The .NET MAUI Kanban control and AI AssistView control have been developed to meet industry standards and are now marked as production-ready in the 2025 Volume 1 release.

Busy Indicator

Horizontal pulsing box animation

The .NET MAUI Busy Indicator control now includes a new animation called HorizontalPulsingBoxAnimation. This animation provides a visually appealing effect where a series of boxes pulse horizontally, indicating ongoing activity.

.NET MAUI Busy Indicator

DataGrid

Master-detail view

This feature allows users to view detailed information for a selected record in the DataGrid.

.NET MAUI DataGrid master-detail view

Searching

This feature enables users to search and filter data within the DataGrid efficiently.

.NET MAUI DataGrid searching

Date Time Picker

Blackout dates and times

This feature allows users to restrict the selection of specific dates and times. This applies to all pickers, such as Date Picker, Time Picker, and DateTime Picker.

.NET MAUI DateTimePicker BlackoutDateTimes

Excel Library

Excel-to-PDF and image conversion enhancement

The Excel-to-PDF and image conversion processes now accurately preserve EMF+ and EMF Dual images, ensuring high-quality output. These vector-based images are retained with clarity, making them ideal for use in manuals, reports, and other professional documentation.

Excel to PDF and image enhancements

Performance improvements

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)

  • Text: 60% faster
  • DateTime: 50% faster
  • Number: 60% faster
  • Boolean: 43% faster
  • Formula: 90% faster

PDF Library

PDF/UA-2 accessibility standard

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.

PDF/UA-2 accessibility standard

Well-tagged PDF for improved accessibility

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.

Well-Tagged PDF

Support for ZUGFeRD 2.3.2

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.

ZUGFeRD 2.3.2

Custom role mapping for accessibility

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.

Custom role-map support in PDF accessibility

Hatch brush support in PDF graphics

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.

Hatch brush support in PDF

PDF Viewer

Form filling enhancements

These enhancements allow users to customize the appearance of form fields and toggle their visibility within a PDF document. Customization options include changing colors, borders, and background styles for each field type programmatically.

.NET MAUI PDF Viewer form filling customization.

Picker

Relative view

This feature allows users to customize the positioning of the picker dialog relative to a specific view or element within the application. This applies to all pickers, such as Picker, Date Picker, Time Picker, and DateTime Picker.

.NET MAUI Picker RelativeView

PowerPoint Library

PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

Preserve shapes as PDF form fields

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.

PowerPoint to PDF

EMF+ and EMF+ Dual preservation 

EMF+ and EMF+ Dual images are now accurately preserved during PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversions. Presentation files with these vector-based images can be converted to PDFs while maintaining clarity, ensuring accurate representation in manuals and reports. 

Radial Menu

Selection color

The SelectionColor property in the .NET MAUI Radial Menu control allows users to customize the selection color of items, enhancing the visual appearance.

.NET MAUI Radial Menu

Word Library

Create, modify, and remove SmartArt graphics

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.

  • Create – Programmatically insert 134 types of SmartArt, including hierarchical diagrams, process flows, cycle diagrams, and more, to visually represent information effectively.
  • Edit – Modify SmartArt by updating text, adding nodes, and applying formatting for better customization.
  • Remove – Remove specific nodes or entire SmartArt without affecting other document content, ensuring flexibility in automation.

SmartArt in Word document

Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements

SmartArt in Word-to-PDF and image conversion

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.

SmartArt in Word to PDF

EMF+ and EMF+ Dual preservation 

The EMF+ and EMF+ Dual images are accurately preserved during Word-to-PDF and image conversions. Word documents with vector-based diagrams can be converted to PDFs while maintaining clarity, ensuring accurate representation in manuals and reports. 

Improved TXT to Word conversion

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.

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