TL;DR: The Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 2 release delivers significant updates across multiple platforms, including new .NET MAUI controls, Flutter SDK compatibility, a Blazor Spreadsheet component, and substantial performance improvements. These enhancements are designed to streamline your development process, offering powerful developer workflow enhancements for web, desktop, and mobile applications.
We’re excited to announce that the Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 2 release is live! This release brings a wide range of new components, feature enhancements, and performance improvements across multiple platforms. Whether you’re building web, desktop, or mobile applications, there’s something here to elevate your development experience.
Let’s take a closer look at what’s new!
Introducing the new Block Editor component, which helps in creating structured content. It supports:
Introducing the Blazor Spreadsheet, which brings an Excel-like experience to your web apps. It supports formula calculations, file operations, and cell styling, perfect for data-heavy applications.
The Blazor PDF Viewer now includes redaction annotations, allowing users to securely remove sensitive content. You can also customize redaction marks, making this feature essential for privacy and compliance.
Significant performance improvements have been made to dropdown components, especially in initial rendering and virtualization. This results in a smoother and faster user experience.
The Blazor DataGrid delivers the following new user-friendly features:
Features include Format Painter for consistent styling, Code Block insertion with language selection, and a Slash Menu for quick actions. Additional enhancements include bottom toolbar support, a popup toolbar for constrained layouts, and enhanced file upload capabilities with configurable maximum file sizes of up to 30MB.
A new routing algorithm and connector ports have been introduced, improving clarity and connectivity. In some scenarios, performance has improved by up to 99%!
The new Color Picker control is a flexible UI component that allows users to choose colors from a variety of palettes or a color spectrum. This is especially useful in design, drawing, or customization scenarios where precise color selection is essential.
The new Dock Layout is a flexible and powerful layout panel that lets you dock child elements to the top, bottom, left, or right of a container. It automatically arranges elements based on their declaration order, making it easier to build structured and responsive layouts.
The .NET MAUI DataGrid delivers the following new user-friendly features:
The .NET MAUI Kanban control now supports multi-category workflows within columns. This allows cards to transition seamlessly across multiple categories, making it easier to manage complex workflows and task hierarchies.
You can now add views as custom stamps in the .NET MAUI PDF Viewer. This means you can embed UI elements directly into a PDF, which are then converted into images and saved, ideal for adding dynamic annotations or branding.
All WinUI controls are now compatible with Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK 1.7.250513003, ensuring a stable and modern development experience.
Customize the response toolbar in chat with built-in options like copy, regenerate, like, and dislike, or add your custom items.
Enjoy faster and more efficient calculations with significant performance improvements to the Calculation Engine.
Themes can now be applied using default styles, eliminating the need for resource merging in App.xaml.
All Syncfusion Flutter widgets are now compatible with the latest Flutter SDK v3.32. This ensures developers can take full advantage of the latest features, improvements, and stability enhancements offered by the Flutter framework.
Starting with Volume 2, 2025 release, Flutter products will be offered as an add-on to Essential Studio®. This means Flutter is no longer included by default in the main package. However, it is still covered under the Essential Studio® license.
To use Syncfusion® Flutter widgets, developers will still need a community or commercial license; this policy remains unchanged.
The Cartesian Chart widget now supports directional zooming, allowing users to zoom in horizontally, vertically, or both directions simultaneously. This provides greater control and flexibility when analyzing data visualizations.
The PDF Viewer widget has been expanded to support the Linux platform, enabling cross-platform document viewing capabilities for desktop applications.
A new Android-specific PDF Viewer package has been released, significantly improving the loading time for devices running API levels 34 and below. This enhancement ensures a smoother and faster user experience on older Android devices.
The Slider, Range Slider, and Range Selector widgets now support keyboard accessibility. Users can:
This update enhances usability and accessibility, especially for users who rely on keyboard navigation.
That wraps up the highlights for Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 2! We hope these updates help you build even more powerful and efficient applications.
Q1: What are the most significant performance improvements in this release?
The most notable performance enhancements include the 99% improvement in Diagram rendering for large diagrams, faster Excel imports in the Spreadsheet component, and significant calculation engine improvements in WPF applications.
Q2: How do I access the new Flutter components if they’re now an add-on?
Flutter components remain covered under your Essential Studio® license. You can access them through your account dashboard or contact customer support for assistance with the add-on installation.
Q3: Can I upgrade directly from Essential Studio® 2024 to 2025 Volume 2?
Yes, you can upgrade directly from previous versions. The upgrade process preserves your existing configurations while adding the new components and enhancements.
Q4: Which new component offers the best value for enterprise applications?
For enterprise applications, the Blazor Spreadsheet component and the enhanced PDF Viewer with redaction support provide exceptional value, particularly for data-intensive applications requiring document management capabilities.
Q: Are there any breaking changes in this release?
A: The only significant change is the new packaging of Flutter components as an add-on. Functionally, all components maintain backward compatibility with previous versions.
Thanks for reading! The features listed here are just highlights of our Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 2 release. You can check out all the features in our Release Notes and What’s New pages.
Try out these features and share your feedback as comments on this blog. You can also reach us through our support forums, support portal, or feedback portal.