The Blazor UI Roadmap outlined below includes development priorities for 2022. We will revise our plans for the second half of 2022 and include new features based on your feedback once we release v22.1 in May.
New Components
Accordion (v22.1)
Flyout (v22.1)
This Blazor contextual popup UI element can be used to display hints, warnings, or additional information.
Window (v22.1)
This popup non-modal Window for Blazor will allow you to introduce a resizable/draggable popup UI to your Blazor-powered application.
Spreadsheet (v22.2)
In the second half of 2022, we plan to release a Spreadsheet control for Blazor. As you might expect, it will be an Excel-inspired control that will allow you to incorporate spreadsheet functionality into a Blazor Server application. With our Blazor Spreadsheet’s UI and API, you will be able to create, edit and save spreadsheet documents as needs dictate.
Sidebar (v22.2)
With our new Sidebar component, you’ll be able to add a sidebar alongside the primary display region of your app and display relevant information or navigation options for end users.
Splitter (v22.2)
Our Splitter UI for Blazor will allow you to better organize web page layout by dividing it across multiple resizable content panes.
File Manager (v22.2)
We're creating a new Blazor File Manager component to manage a remote file systems using standard file management operations.
Grid
We will officially release our Grid for Blazor in our v21.2.6 release cycle (March 2022). This year, you may expect the following features:
Server Mode Data Binding (v21.2)
Server mode will allow you to execute data operations against millions of records in seconds.
Master/Detail View (v21.2)
Collapsible detail row will allow you to display additional information for parent rows.
Preview Row (v21.2)
Our Blazor Data Grid’s Preview row will allow you to incorporate additional information for quick preview by your end-users.
Row and Cell HTML Decoration (v21.2)
Our Blazor Grid’s API will allow you to change the appearance of rows and cells.
Column Resizing (v21.2)
We will ship two resize modes and allow your end-users to resize Blazor Grid columns.
Column Chooser (v21.2)
Our Blazor Column Chooser UI will allow users to manage column position and visibility at runtime.
Automatic Data Refresh (v21.2)
If a data source implements IBindingList, INotifyCollectionChanged, or
INotifyPropertyChanged interfaces, our Blazor Grid will automatically track data source changes and refresh displayed data when necessary.
Column Visibility API (v21.2)
We will ship an updated engine to manage column visibility in code.
Inline Row Editing (v22.1)
We will add a new edit mode to edit an entire data row simultaneously.
Save and Restore a Layout (v22.1)
With our updated Blazor Grid API, you will be able to save a grid’s layout (e.g., column position, size, visibility, sort order and direction, applied filters, grouped columns, etc).
Summary Item Visibility API (v22.1)
We will implement an API to manage summary item visibility in code.
Data Editors
Common Enhancements (v22.1 & v22.2)
To leverage the capabilities of our next-gen Blazor Data Grid, improve component performance and resolve known issue , we will replace several data editors and upgrade the remainder throughout our v22.1 and v22.2 release cycles.
New Editors (v22.1)
Text Input
A generic text editor for Blazor. Our Text input will allow you to automatically transform end-user input into a typed non-string value.
Toggle Button
Toggle button will allow you to include two-state (pressed/released, on/off) buttons to your Blazor application.
Password Box
This editor will allow your end-users to enter passwords safely.
Drop Down
The drop-down window for this text editor can include any content. The component API will allow you to synchronize drop-down content operations with the text field itself.
Custom Text Editor Buttons (v22.1)
Our Blazor text editors will have built-in action buttons that allow users to open a drop-down menu, increase/decrease/nullify values, and perform other actions.
Masked Input Enhancements (v22.1)
We will extend the capabilities of our Blazor Masked Input component with the following mask types:
DateTimeOffset
TimeSpan
DateOnly
TimeOnly
We will also introduce a new way to generate masks. You will be able to track editor text changes via events, and alter resulting text based on custom logic.
Validation Enhancements (v22.1)
We will add a new validation API to our editors. This API will offer more control over data validation.
Charts
Runtime Series Label Customization (v22.1)
We will extend the Chart API to allow you to format series label text at runtime.
Export (v22.1)
You will be able to call a new Export method to export a chart to the following formats:
- PNG
- JPEG
- GIF
Data Binding for Multi-Value Series (v22.1)
For series with multiple values, we will add the new API to define data fields for individual values:
- Financial Series - new
OpenValueField,HighValueField,LowValueField,CloseValueFieldproperties - Range Series - new
Value1FieldandValue2Fieldproperties
Selection (v22.2)
- Selection for separate points and entire series
- Single and Multiple selection modes
- Programmatic access to selected series and points
Palette Customization (v22.2)
We will add an ability to set a palette for a chart - a set of colors used to paint series in multi-series charts or pie chart sectors. A separate palette will allow you to color charts regardless of the application theme.
Reports
.NET 7 Support for non-Windows Platforms (v22.1 & v22.2)
As you may already know, System.Drawing.Common was deprecated for non-Windows operating systems in .NET 6 and higher. See the help topic from .NET documentation for more information: System.Drawing.Common only supported on Windows. This breaking change affects those using DevExpress Reports on Linux and macOS (we use System.Drawing.Common to measure document text and render graphic objects including shapes, pictures, and charts). To address rendering-related issues on non-Windows operating systems, we will work on our own cross-platform rendering engine based on the SkiaSharp library throughout this year.
In this release cycle (v22.1), we will update our internal API to use our new cross-platform implementation for all System.Drawing classes not supported in .NET 6 and higher (Image, Bitmap, Font, Pen, Brush, etc.).
Once complete, we'll refine our public API and implement its cross-platform counterparts for use on non-Windows platforms. After completion, you will need to replace System.Drawing object calls with custom DevExpress counterparts to maintain continuity for apps that target .NET 7 (if they are deployed to Linux-based servers). This part of our transition will likely finish by year end (v22.2).
Parameters - Server-Side Filtering for Cascading Parameters (v22.1)
We expect to offer a new feature for nested parameters that display dynamic lists of values. If a user changes the value of a parent report parameter, you can run a parametrized SqlDataSource query or invoke a stored procedure to update the list of values for the child report parameter. This functionality will be also available for MongoDbDataSource and EFDataSource.
Cross-Tab Enhancements (v22.1)
We're going to expand the Cross-Tab capabilities for end-users and address the following requests:
- Calculate custom totals and grand totals with expressions
- Calculate distinct count summary
- Conditionally hide rows and colums based on neighbor cell values
- Apply Html-inspired formatting to cross-tab cells
Also, if time permits, we hope to introduce the ability to prevent cells, row/column groups from being split across page breaks (KeepTogether functionality).
Web Report Designer - Federation Data Source (v22.1)
The Web Report Designer Data Source Wizard will include a new option to create combined (federated) queries from different data sources. Your end-users will be able to create all supported query types: joins, unions and transforms.
Blazor WebAssembly (ASP.NET Core Hosted) Reporting Components (v22.1)
Rich Text Editor
Mail Merge (v22.1)
We will introduce mail merge support to our Blazor Rich Text Editor in our v22.1 release cycle. The mail merge implementation will allow you to bind the control to an external data source, preview dynamic content, and execute the final merge operations.
Ribbon Customization (v22.1)
We expect to incorporate Ribbon UI customizations in our v22.1 release cycle. Through customization, you will be able to hide, modify default ribbon items, and add custom items to the Rich Text Editor’s default UI ribbon.
Navigation and Layout
Form Layout Enhancements (v22.1 & v22.2)
Collapsible groups will allow you to expand and collapse Form Layout groups using UI elements and in code.
New group header icon API will allow you to easily add custom icons to a form layout group header.
Compact size mode will reduce margins and paddings (to free up space on a page).
TreeView - Search (v22.1)
We will add a search UI to our TreeView for Blazor. New settings will allow you to customize the control’s UI and search behaviors. Additionally, we will introduce an ability to search and filter nodes in code.