What’s New in the Syncfusion^® Essential Studio^® 2025 Volume 2 Release [Webinar Show Notes]

This webinar took attendees through the exciting updates in the Essential Studio^® 2025 Volume 2 release! This release includes enhancements for web, mobile, and desktop platforms, with new components, improved performance, and features that empower developers to build fast and flexible applications. Syncfusion^® developer Shriram explained the highlights of the release and how they help developers.

If you missed the webinar or would like to watch it again, the recording is posted on our YouTube channel and embedded below.

Highlights

• Essential^® JS 2: Introduction of the Block Editor component, enhancements to AI AssistView, better chart labels, Chat UI status indicators, chart visualizations in DataGrid, and Diagram UML support.
• Blazor: New Spreadsheet component (preview), border radius for accumulation charts, stacked labels, accent-insensitive search, port support in diagrams, and Rich Text Editor improvements.
• .NET MAUI: New Color Picker and Dock Layout controls; clipboard operations and serialization in DataGrid; multi-category Kanban workflows; and PDF Viewer stamp customization.
• Desktop (WinForms, WPF, WinUI): Performance optimizations in the calculation engine, simplified theme customization, .NET 10 compatibility, and AI AssistView toolbar flexibility.
• File format Libraries: PDF font embedding and encryption, editable regions and multilingual lists in Word, autofill and trend support in Excel.

Time Stamps

[00:00] Introduction and webinar overview

[01:24] What’s new in Essential^® JS 2

[05:30] Enhancements in AI AssistView, Charts, Chat UI, and more

[11:28] Image Editor updates

[12:55] Rich Text Editor improvements

[15:08] TreeGrid enhancements

[16:01] Word Processor updates

[17:01] What’s new in Blazor components

[26:41] Document processing libraries

[28:00] Mobile updates (.NET MAUI)

[33:49] Desktop updates (WinForms, WPF, WinUI)

[35:34] Closing notes

Q&A

Q1: Does the Spreadsheet support editing Excel files?

A: Yes, you can open existing Excel files for analysis and modification, as well as save updates or new files to the system in compatible formats.

Q2: Spreadsheet is only for Blazor. Is it available for React, too?

A: Yes, the Spreadsheet component is available for React, as well. In fact, it has been part of our React suite for the past 4 years. We recently introduced the Spreadsheet component in Blazor.

Q3: This question is related to the Blazor tools: I have an existing application in which I want to display a Syncfusion/Blazor app within an iframe. Can you tell me how to set the appropriate settings in the solution to allow it to be embedded in an iframe?

A: To embed a Blazor application within an iframe, you need to configure the Blazor app and its hosting environment to allow embedding, primarily through security headers like X-Frame-Options and Content-Security-Policy (CSP). Consider following these steps:

1. Disable or configure the X-Frame-Options header.
2. Configure the Content-Security-Policy (CSP).
3. Handle CORS (if cross-origin embedding).
4. Embed the iframe in the parent application.

Q4: Does the Blazor Spreadsheet component support .xlsx editing?

A: Yes, it does.

Q5: Is there a Blazor map component that can display a map based on longitude/latitude coordinates? If so, does it allow for a user to draw a rectangle on the map that would make the coordinates available to the code event handler?

A: Blazor Maps can display a map based on the latitude and longitude coordinates, which must be in GeoJSON format. We cannot draw a rectangle in the UI of the map. So, there is no support to return the coordinates in the event handler. 

Related links

• What’s New Page
• Release blog
• Blazor and JS 2 2025 Volume 2 Updates