Syncfusion Essential Studio for .NET MAUI 2023 Volume 2

Adds new Accordion, Chips, Expander, Image Editor and Numeric Entry components.

Features

• Common
  • Production-ready controls:
    • Masked Entry.
    • Popup.
    • Shimmer.
  • ToolBox - All the Syncfusion .NET MAUI controls now come with ToolBox support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. This new feature allows users to effortlessly drag and drop controls from the ToolBox directly into the XAML files, simplifying the process of adding and configuring controls in the .NET MAUI applications.
• Accordion (New)
  • The Accordion offers a vertically collapsible panel with stacked headers, allowing the expansion or collapse of one or multiple items simultaneously. Key features:
    • Data binding - Utilizes the .NET MAUI BindableLayout to bind data collections and populate the Accordion.
    • Expand modes - Supports various expansion modes, allowing the expansion of single or multiple items.
    • Animation - Allows the expansion and collapse of Accordion items to be animated. Offers customization options, including adjusting the duration of the animations and modifying the easing style.
• Chips (New)
  • The .NET MAUI Chips control is a versatile and feature-rich component that presents information in an interactive and customizable layout. Arrange multiple chips in a layout and group them, making selection and interaction seamless. Key features:
    • Choose from various layout options such as stack, flex, and more to arrange the chips according to the requirement.
    • Convert text into compact chips, providing a concise way to display information.
    • Customize the appearance of the chips by adding a background image.
    • Easily modify the text color, background color, border color, border thickness, and selection color of the .NET MAUI Chips, ensuring a cohesive and visually appealing design.
• Expander (New)
  • The Expander is a layout control capable of loading any UI view in both header and content sections. By simply tapping the header, users can effortlessly expand or collapse the control. Key features:
    • Expand and collapse - Easily expand the content to reveal more information or collapse it to conserve space within the user interface.
    • Header and content customization - Customize the header and content views by adding icons, images, or any other UI element to provide a rich and dynamic user experience.
    • Animation - Use animations and effects to enhance the visual appeal and interactivity of the expand and collapse functionality.
• Image Editor (New)
  • The image editor is used to crop, flip, rotate, and annotate an image with freehand drawing and built-in shapes. Key features:
    • Image cropping - Crop portions of an image as per the requirement.
    • Effects - Apply various visual effects to an image, such as brightness, blur, contrast, exposure, saturation, sharpen, hue, and opacity.
    • Zooming - Support to zoom and pan images.
    • Transformation - Performs image transformations such as rotation and flip.
    • Annotation - Add text, built-in shapes, and freehand drawing to the images.
    • Toolbar - Toolbars are used to interact and edit images with customization.
    • Undo and redo - Allows users to undo or redo changes made to the image.
    • Save - Allows users to save the edited image in the desired location.
• Numeric Entry (New)
  • The Numeric Entry control in .NET MAUI is designed to provide a user-friendly and advanced input experience for numeric values. It supports a wide range of numeric formats, including currency, percentage, and decimals, among others. With its key features, it enables enhanced user experience and facilitates input validation. Key features:
    • Input validation triggered when focus is lost or the enter key is pressed.
    • Convenient value increment and decrement using the up-down button.
    • Flexible display of values in various custom formats.
    • Adapts to different cultural and regional settings for value presentation.
    • Placeholder text displayed when the Numeric Entry control contains an empty or null value.
• Calendar
  • Calendar identifier - The .NET MAUI Calendar now supports a calendar identifier to display different types of calendars based on various cultures and regions. The supported identifiers are Gregorian, Hijri, Korean, Persian, Taiwan, Thai Buddhist, and Umm al-Qura.
• Cartesian Charts
  • Added new chart types:
    • Step line chart - Step line charts are commonly used to visualize data that changes over time.
    • Step area chart - A step area chart is an area chart in which points are connected by horizontal and vertical line segments, giving it the appearance of a staircase.
    • 100% stacked column - A 100% stacked column chart is used to display multiple categories or groups of data as vertical columns stacked on top of each other. It shows the relative percentage of multiple data series in stacked columns, where the cumulative percentage of stacked columns always equals 100.
    • Range area chart - In a range area chart, each data point is represented by a range that spans from the minimum value to the maximum value.
    • Candle chart - A candle chart is a financial chart that typically shows price movements of currency, securities, and derivatives.
    • OHLC chart - An OHLC chart is similar to a candle chart that is used in technical analysis to display the price movement of financial assets over a specific time period. It provides information about the opening price, highest price, lowest price, and closing price of an asset within each time interval.
• Circular Charts
  • Added Explode-all support - In a circular chart such as a pie chart or a doughnut chart, the ExplodeAll property separates all segments from the center, creating a equal gaps between them.
  • Added GroupTo feature support - The segments in pie and doughnut charts can now be grouped into an Others category using the GroupTo and GroupMode properties. The GroupMode property is used to specify the grouping type based on slice angle, actual data point value, or percentage. The GroupTo property is used to set the limit to group data points into a single slice. The grouped segment is labeled as Others in the chart legend.
• ComboBox
  • Custom Filtering - The ComboBox control in .NET MAUI adds support for custom filtering, allowing you to apply your own filter logic to suggest items based on specific filter criteria. This functionality can be achieved by utilizing the FilterBehavior property.
• DataForm
  • DataForm numeric editor - Supports a built-in numeric editor, allowing users to enter and edit numeric values.
  • DataForm masked text editor - Supports a built-in masked text editor which provides a powerful way to enforce specific input patterns and formats for text values.
• DataGrid
  • Editing - This feature allows you to effortlessly edit cell values within your tabular data. An intelligent editor control is dynamically loaded based on the column type.
  • Grouping - This feature supports grouping rows of data based on the values in one or more columns programmatically. Users can expand and collapse the group.
  • Caption summary - Displays a row at the top of a group with summary data for the columns.
  • Group summary - Displays a row at the bottom of a group with summary data for the columns.
  • Export to Microsoft Excel - This feature exports the DataGrid to an Excel file.
  • Export to PDF - This feature exports the DataGrid to a PDF file.
• Microsoft Excel Library
  • Excel-to-Image conversion enhancement - The Excel-to-image converter now supports the gradient fill style for cells and charts. With the help of this feature, the gradient fill applied in the Excel document will be preserved in the resultant image.
• ListView
  • Drag and drop support - Added support for reordering items by dragging them with a long press or from the drag indicator view.
• PDF Library
  • Find and extract RTL text.
  • Digital signature enhancements:
    • You can now pass a wide range of signature standards with an improved standard of LTV-enabled signature.
    • You can now use a new API to specify the revocation type while signing the PDF document with LTV.
    • Added the ability to retrieve the revocation details from a PDF document.
    • You can now use a new API to get revisions of digital signatures from PDF documents.
• PDF Viewer (Preview)
  • Select and copy text - This feature allows users to select and copy text from PDF files to the clipboard. They can then paste it where needed.
• Microsoft PowerPoint Library
  • Find using regex - Users can find a pattern of text in all PowerPoint slides or a specific slide and replace or highlight it.
  • PowerPoint-to-PDF conversion enhancements - The Syncfusion PowerPoint Library has been enhanced to improve the rendering of colors from theme overrides in an input PowerPoint presentation.
• Pyramid Chart
  • Drawing mode - In the Pyramid Chart, you can now render a series in linear or surface mode by using the Mode property. In linear mode, the height of the pyramid segment is based on the y-value. In surface mode, the area of the pyramid segment is based on the y-value. By default, the Mode property is set to linear.
• Scheduler
  • Appointment drag and drop - The .NET MAUI Scheduler now allows users to easily drag and drop appointments within the Scheduler to change their date, time, or duration in all Scheduler views.
• Text Input Layout
  • Added Picker, Time Picker, and Date Picker support - This enhancement allows users to leverage the capabilities of Text Input Layout control, such as floating labels, icons, and assistive labels, with these input controls.
• Microsoft Visual Studio Extension
  • Microsoft .NET MAUI Toolbox - Syncfusion now provides toolbox support for .NET MAUI applications with multiple controller types. It enables easy drag-and-drop of component code samples onto the XAML designer, streamlining integration and enhancing the functionality and visual appeal of the application.
  • Notifications:
    • Latest NuGet package notification - To keep Syncfusion NuGet packages up to date in the .NET MAUI application, users will be notified when a new version of the package is available. This message will alert users of the latest enhancements, bug fixes, and optimizations offered. Upgrading to the latest version ensures seamless integration and improved performance in .NET MAUI projects.
    • Latest Essential Studio build notification - If an older version of the Syncfusion assemblies is referred to in the .NET MAUI application, users will receive a notification when a new version of the Essential Studio build is available. Updating to the new build will provide access to the most recent features, enhancements, and important updates, maximizing the capabilities of .NET MAUI development projects.
• Microsoft Word Library
  • Word-to-PDF conversion enhancements:
    • Improved rendering of rotated shapes with horizontal and vertical alignment in an input Word document.
    • Improved justification algorithm to align the last line of paragraphs in PDFs.