Adds new PDF Viewer and Image Editor components.
Features
- Common
- Material 3 theme - Material 3 theme has been added with light and dark variants to all Syncfusion Blazor UI components.
- Preview to production-ready components:
- Media Query.
- Skeleton.
- Blazor playground app - Added the Syncfusion Blazor Playground: an online code editor that enables real-time writing, editing, compiling, and sharing of Blazor code. Explore the full capabilities of Syncfusion Blazor components directly in your browser without the need for complex setups or installations.
- Blazor standalone WebAssembly sample browser.
- Image Editor (Preview)
- Selection - Select a region with a square or circle selector, use various aspect ratios, and drag and resize the selection.
- Crop - The image can be cropped based on the selection.
- Rotate - The image can be rotated both clockwise and counterclockwise by 90-degrees increments.
- Flip - The image can be flipped both horizontally and vertically.
- Zoom - The image can be zoomed in and out.
- Pan - The entire image can be viewed by using the pan option in the toolbar.
- Freehand drawing - Perform freehand drawing on the image and adjust the stroke width and color.
- Annotations - Use text, rectangles, ellipses, and line shapes as annotations.
- Save - Save the edited image in JPEG, PNG, and SVG formats.
- Reset - Revert all the edited states and load the original image.
- PDF Viewer
- The new Blazor PDF Viewer component allows users to view, edit, print, and download PDF files without the web service dependency in Blazor applications. It is designed to be fast and responsive, and comes with the same feature set as the previous PDF Viewer. It is easy to use and can be integrated into both Blazor Server and WASM applications with minimal effort.
- AutoComplete
- Virtual scrolling keyboard support - This feature allows users to navigate through the list using their keyboard, making it faster and more efficient to find and select items.
- Carousel
- Swipe and drag slides - This feature allows users to change slides in the Carousel using swipe or drag gestures, improving the usability and accessibility of the component on phones and tablets.
- Indicator customization - This feature provides indicator customization options, such as dynamic, progress, and fraction.
- Charts
- Range step area - Added support for a new chart type called range step area that displays the difference between minimum and maximum values over a certain time period.
- Zoom toolbar - Added support to display a zoom toolbar for the chart on initial load, which allows users to zoom in on the chart.
- Cross marker - Added support for a cross-shaped marker to the data points in the chart.
- Legend paging icon customization - It is now possible to customize the arrow and text style of the legend pagination icon.
- Zooming and panning performance improvement - Improved the chart zooming and panning performance for larger amounts of data and when live updates are enabled in both server and WASM applications.
- ComboBox
- Virtual scrolling keyboard support - This feature enables users to navigate through the list using their keyboard, making it faster and more efficient to find and select items.
- DataGrid
- Row drag and drop with detail template - Users can now easily rearrange rows along with the detail template row by using the drag and drop functionality in Blazor DataGrid.
- Performance improvement - The Blazor DataGrid component, significant improvements have made in component interaction for both server and WebAssembly (Wasm) environments. Specifically, enhancements have been made in features related to paging, filtering, sorting, and grouping.
- Diagram
- Freehand drawing - This feature allows users to draw freeform curves (splines) on the diagram page.
- Additional auto scroll support - This feature automatically scrolls the diagram whenever a connector or its end points are dragged beyond the boundary. This helps users create large-dimensional drawings.
- Word Processor
- Character spacing and scaling - You can increase the character spacing between the letters of a word to make it stand out. You can scale your text up to make it easier to read, or scale it down to save space.
- Link to previous header/footer - This feature allows users to link or unlink the header and footer of the previous section to the current section in a Microsoft Word document.
- Alternate text for image - This feature allows users to add alternative text (alt text) for images in Word documents.
- Dropdown List
- Virtual scrolling keyboard support - This feature enables users to navigate through the list using their keyboard, making it faster and more efficient to find and select items.
- Microsoft Excel Library
- Excel-to-Image conversion enhancement - With the help of this feature, the gradient fill applied in the Excel document will be preserved in the resultant image.
- File Manager
- Virtual scrolling - This feature improves performance on initial load of files and folders in the view port. The remaining files and folders will be loaded dynamically when the user scrolls.
- Toolbar customization - The File Manager now allows direct customization of the toolbar items with an icon, text, and tooltip.
- Gantt Chart
- Resource view - The resource view in a Blazor Gantt Chart visualizes the tasks assigned to each resource in a hierarchical manner. Resources are displayed as parents and all the tasks assigned to each resource as its child records.
- Added new independent APIs for row and timeline virtualization.
- Added support for DateOnly and TimeOnly - These features allow users to easily bind and manage date and time only values. Users can perform all sorts of data operations such as sorting, filtering, searching, and CRUD (create, read, update, delete). To make things even easier, built-in DatePicker and TimePicker editor components are rendered for editing and filtering purposes.
- HeatMap Chart
- Cell selection - The HeatMap control now allows selection of one or more cells at a time. Cells can be selected using a keyboard, mouse, or touch interface.
- Maps
- Drag and drop support for markers - Markers on Maps can now be dragged and dropped at the desired location based on the requirement. Events are fired when the drag starts and ends.
- PDF Library
- Find and extract RTL text - This feature allows you to find and extract RTL text from PDF document programmatically.
- Digital signature enhancement:
- 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.
- Compress PDF documents - This is especially useful for archiving, long-term preservation, emailing and using PDF documents in web-based applications. PDF compression can be achieved using a variety of techniques, including:
- Compressing images.
- Optimizing fonts.
- Optimizing page content.
- Removing form fields and annotations.
- Removing metadata information.
- Removing attachments.
- Redaction - This feature allows you to permanently remove confidential and sensitive information from PDF documents.
- TIFF-to-PDF conversion - This is useful for scenarios such as creating PDF documents from scanned documents and embedding TIFF images in PDF documents.
- Remove images from PDF documents - This is especially useful for reducing file size and protecting sensitive information.
- Extract images - You can reuse the images in other applications, such as presentations, websites and social media posts.
- Pivot Table
- Field search - Allows users to search for a specific field in the field list UI and add or remove fields from the current report.
- Role option in OLAP cube - The pivot table can now be bound to a SSAS OLAP cube, giving end-users access to restricted cube information such as measures, dimensions, hierarchy, and more based on their assigned role.
- Server-side Microsoft Excel export - In addition to server-side engine support, the Pivot Table now supports server-side export, allowing users to easily export pivot table data to Excel or CSV files.
- Microsoft PowerPoint Library
- Find using regex - The Syncfusion PowerPoint Library now supports find functionality using regular expressions (regex) in PowerPoint presentations.
- 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.
- Scheduler
- Recurrence editor customization - Allows users to personalize the recurrence editor according to their specific requirements and preferences.
- Spanned events in timeline year view - Added the ability to render spanned events as a single event instead of separate events in the timeline year view of the Scheduler component.
- Stock Chart
- Date-time category axis - Added support for a new date-time category axis which is used to display only business days.
- Tree Grid
- Added support for DateOnly and TimeOnly - These features allow users to easily bind and manage date and time only values. Users can perform all sorts of data operations such as sorting, filtering, searching, and CRUD (create, read, update, delete). To make things even easier, built-in DatePicker and TimePicker editor components are rendered for editing and filtering purposes.
- Row drag and drop with detail template - Allows users to rearrange rows along with the detail template row by using the drag and drop functionality.
- Microsoft Visual Studio Extension
- Latest NuGet package notification - To keep Syncfusion NuGet packages up to date in the Blazor 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 Blazor projects.
- Latest Essential Studio build notification - If an older version of the Syncfusion assemblies is referred to in the Blazor 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 Blazor development projects.
- Microsoft Word Library
- Word-to-PDF conversion enhancements - The Syncfusion Word Library has been enhanced to improve the efficiency of converting Word documents to PDF files. These enhancements include:
- 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.
- Word-to-PDF conversion enhancements - The Syncfusion Word Library has been enhanced to improve the efficiency of converting Word documents to PDF files. These enhancements include: