u/mladenmacanovic

Hello everyone,

Blazorise 2.3 is out.

For those who don't know it, Blazorise is a UI component library for Blazor that works with Bootstrap, Tailwind, Fluent UI, Material, and other CSS frameworks.

Initially, this release was supposed to be fairly small. If anyone remembers, in one of my previous posts I asked whether it makes more sense to have smaller releases with faster cycles, or bigger releases with slower cycles.

I wanted the faster release cycle.

Yeah... didn't quite go as planned.

I wanted to build a Reporting component. But once I started working on the report designer, I found that we were missing several things in the framework.

Instead of building them only for Reporting, we made them standalone components. That's how we ended up with DockLayout, ContextMenu, PropertyGrid, and a new PDF generation extension.

We also added CodeEditor and Resizer, Gantt milestones and weekly timelines, Scheduler improvements, and completely rebuilt DatePicker and TimePicker with Blazor and C#, removing the Flatpickr dependency.

So yeah, it turned into a much bigger release than originally planned.

Release notes: https://blazorise.com/news/release-notes/230

If you use Blazor, I'd be interested to hear what you think, especially about Reporting and CodeEditor.

PS. The default Reddit post editor is really bad. I hate it. PPS. Post edited with Grammarly because reasons.

Hello everyone.

Last week, I shared the preview of the Blazorise SVG Charts component, and as I mentioned previously, the release will be done soon. So here it is.

For those of you unfamiliar, Blazorise is one of the oldest Blazor UI component libraries, with the ability to work with CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material 3, Tailwind, etc.

The biggest additions in this release are SVG Charts, a fully integrated On-Screen Keyboard, and PivotGrid. The PivotGrid, in particular, took much longer than expected to finish. Especially since I wanted to keep fully C# based and as little JS as possible. That was a success. With SvgChart, I had the same goal but not as successfully. The only thing I had to use JS for was the animation part. That was impossible with only C#. I can live with it, hopefully...

Other components also had a longer than planned development. For example, the new Gestures component led to swipe support in Carousel, which led to limitations in the Animate component, and that eventually resulted in a much better animation system than originally planned.

Anyone who is familiar with our work will notice an updated blazorise.com web and docs. The blog and news sections are now merged into the blog only. The docs sidebar is now fully Bootstrap5 native and looks much cleaner than before. The sidebar is also restructured to make larger components easier to navigate.

There are also plenty of smaller features like the Barcode component, TreeView drag-and-drop support, form validation warnings, and some more.

For a full release notes, it is best to read it at https://blazorise.com/news/release-notes/220

TLDR: New SvgChart, PivotGrid, OnScreenKeyboard, Barcode, update website and docs.

First things first. This is a shameless promotion post.

In a few more days, specifically on Thursday of next week, we are planning to release Blazorise 2.2 with all the newest features, but before then, I wanted to share our latest work that I belive will be of interest to general public. Our latest SvgChart component(s). Anyone familiar with Blazorise is probably aware that we had Charts for some time, but they were based on the chart.js library. It was done years ago when Blazor was still lacking in SVG support, so we didn't have anything better to do. So we did a Blazor wrapper around chart.js. Not ideal but it works.

The new SVG charts are almost 100% C# code, with a small part of JS needed for animations to work. Oh well. We already support all the same chart types as before(bar, line, radar, etc.), including live streaming, annotations, data labels, etc.

One thing I find nice is the plugin-based system. It can be used to create custom chart types and modify the rendering of existing charts. It will be interesting to see how our users will use it in the future.

Anyhow, the charts can be seen on our preview website at: https://preview.blazorise.com/docs/extensions/svg-chart

Hope you like.

Hope I don't get banned.