Syncfusion Essential Studio for Blazor 2020 Volume 3

Common

• There is now Microsoft .NET 5.0 Release Candidate (RC1) compatibility support for Syncfusion’s Blazor components.
• The following components have been developed to meet industrial standards. They are now marked as production-ready components for Blazor:
  • Kanban.
  • Spinner.
  • Menu Bar.
  • Context Menu.
  • Progress Button.
  • Query Builder.
  • DateTime Picker.

Diagram

• Fixed user handle - This feature allows users to add fixed user handles to nodes and connectors.
• Microsoft Word Library
• Paper source settings - Access and modify the paper source settings in a Word document with the FirstPageTray and OtherPagesTray APIs.
• Shapes in RTF format - Preserve shapes in RTF-to-DOCX conversion and vice versa.
• Word-to-PDF enhancements
  • Justify the text in a paragraph, like in Microsoft Word 2013.
  • Automatically detect font names from themes for East Asian text.
  • Draw double strikethrough and underline styles, like in Microsoft Word.

Word Processor

• Content control preservation - Preserve the content control in a document opened and exported by the Word Processor.

Data Grid

• WebAssembly Performance improvements
  • Selection.
  • Column Resizing.
  • Filtering.
  • Editing.
  • Row drag and drop.
  • Column Chooser.
  • Column Menu.
  • Toolbar.
  • Column Menu–SubMenu filter.

MultiSelect

• Material Filled MultiSelect - This feature renders the MultiSelect component in filled style, which is the latest material design.

PDF Library

• PDF417Barcode - Render PDF417Barcode in PDF pages and images.
• Sign PDF documents externally using hash - Sign PDF documents externally using PDF document hash.
• Detect blank PDF page - Find empty PDF pages in existing PDF documents.
• Detect PDF conformance - Detect the PDF conformance of existing PDF documents.
• Annotation import and export - Import and export annotations in JSON format.

Microsoft PowerPoint Library

• PPTX-to-PDF enhancements
  • Automatically detect font names from themes for complex script and East Asian text.
  • Use an API to define a fallback font for any Unicode character range. This fallback font is used to render characters that do not have glyphs in the original font.

Tree Grid

• WebAssembly Performance improvements
  • Selection.un.
  • Column Resited staizing.
  • Filtering.
  • Editing.
  • Row drag and drop.
  • Column Chooser.
  • Column Menu.
  • Toolbar.
  • Column Menu–SubMenu filter.
• Row drag and drop - Support to drag and drop tree grid rows within the Tree Grid control, another Tree Grid control, or any custom component to change row positions dynamically in the UI.
• Virtual scrolling - This feature allows the user to load large amounts of data without performance degradation. It is an alternate way of paging in which the data will load while scrolling vertically.
• Support for ExpandoObject type data - Provides support to bind ExpandoObject type data to Tree Grid, which is helpful when the model type of the data is unknown during compile time.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code Extensions

• Project Template - The Syncfusion Blazor project template provides an easy-to-use project wizard that helps create Blazor apps using Syncfusion Blazor components.

Microsoft Excel Library

• Excel to PDF enhancements
  • Convert Excel charts with images and shapes to a PDF or image.
  • Convert data bars and color scales of conditional formats to PDF.
  • Convert Excel form controls to PDF AcroForm fields or flattened images.