Jump-start your .NET MAUI project with new Color Picker and Dock Layout controls, new features in the DataGrid, and UI views as custom stamps in PDF Viewer, which all rolled out in the 2025 Volume 2 release.
What’s New
What's New in Syncfusion® .NET MAUI Controls
The .NET MAUI Color Picker is a versatile UI component that allows users to select colors from various color palettes or a spectrum. It is particularly useful in design, drawing, or customization scenarios within .NET MAUI applications.
No Color, allowing users to remove any previously selected colors.
The Dock Layout control in .NET MAUI is a flexible and powerful layout panel that arranges its child elements by docking them to the top, left, right, or bottom of the container. Child elements are docked in the order they are declared, and the layout automatically arranges them accordingly. This layout is ideal for creating structured UIs such as toolbars, navigation drawers, headers and footers, side panels, and main content regions.
This feature allows users to display an empty view when no conversation is initiated in the AI AssistView.
This feature allows users to add a generic collection of models without deriving from IAssistItem.
This feature allows users to integrate custom templates with the selection view.
This feature allows users to update the delivery states for messages.
This feature allows users to present detailed content for each row using the TemplateViewDefinition with custom .NET MAUI controls.
Users can perform clipboard operations such as cut, copy, and paste between the DataGrid and external applications like Notepad and Excel.
Serialization and deserialization can be used to save and restore settings using DataContractSerializer.
The Syncfusion Excel Library supports Auto Fill and Fill Series features, allowing users to programmatically fill a range of cells based on patterns, sequences, or trends, eliminating manual data entry.
The following enhancements have been made in the chart-to-image conversion.
Font substitution, allowing users to configure alternative fonts when the original fonts are unavailable on the system during chart-to-image conversion, ensuring consistent rendering of chart content.
Fallback fonts for Unicode text during the chart conversion to images. These fallback fonts come into play when the rendering engine encounters Unicode text that lacks a corresponding glyph in the specified fonts.
Enables seamless card transitions across multiple categories within the same column or between columns, helping organize and manage complex workflows more efficiently.
The PDF library supports embedding fonts as subsets during PDF to PDF/A conversion, ensuring only necessary characters are included. This helps significantly reduce the final file size while maintaining conformance with PDF/A standards, making it ideal for archiving and efficient storage without compromising document integrity.
With the AES GCM encryption, users can encrypt or decrypt PDF documents using a secure and modern cryptographic standard. This enhances data protection by offering both confidentiality and integrity in professional workflows.
Form fields in a PDF can be grouped for improved organization and easier data handling. With this support, related fields can be treated as a unit, allowing batch processing, styling, or validation, simplifying complex form development and enhancing user interaction.
Redaction annotations are more customizable with support for separate fill colors for the mark and the redacted content area. In addition, users can add comments and maintain a review history directly within annotations, promoting better collaboration and providing clear traceability throughout the review and redaction process.
Users can programmatically add views (UI elements) to a PDF document as custom stamps. While saving, the view is converted into an image and embedded into the PDF. This functionality is especially useful in scenarios such as inspection or approval workflows, where dynamic UI elements like approval seals, checklists, QR codes, or summary views need to be visually captured and stamped on specific pages of a PDF report for official documentation.
This feature lets users set the picker to return automatically to the first item once the last item is reached. This feature is available for all pickers, including the Date Picker, Time Picker, and Date Time Picker.
This feature allows developers to apply custom templates to the header, footer, and column header of all picker controls, including the Date Picker, Time Picker, and Date Time Picker.
When converting a PowerPoint with charts to PDF or images, the following features help ensure accurate chart content rendering:
Font substitution: Users can configure alternative fonts to use when the original fonts inside charts are unavailable on the system, ensuring consistent text appearance.
Fallback fonts for Unicode text: These fonts are used automatically when the rendering engine encounters Unicode characters missing in the specified fonts, preserving multilingual chart text.
We improved the preservation of EMF and WMF metafile images as searchable content during PowerPoint-to-PDF conversion. This enhancement ensures better text accessibility in the converted PDFs’ diagrams, charts, and technical illustrations.
This feature allows users to re-order items by dragging and dropping them.
This feature allows users to set editable regions in protected documents, enabling specific parts to remain editable while the rest stay locked. This is useful for templates or forms like contracts, where users can update only designated parts of the Word document without altering the rest.
Create different list number formats such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and Thai. Ensures numbering styles remain accurate in multilingual documents like global reports, contracts, and educational materials.
Shape formats: Supports gradient, transparent, and pattern fills in Word documents. Ensures visually rich content like infographics and styled reports retains its design when converted to PDFs or images.
Recolor pictures: Preserves recolor effects such as grayscale, sepia, and color tone adjustments during Word-to-PDF or image conversion. It is ideal for maintaining brand consistency in marketing materials and visual reports.
Preserves the drawing canvas and its contents during Word-to-PDF and image conversions. Useful for maintaining the layout in grouped shapes, flowcharts, or diagrams used in reports, manuals, and presentations.
When converting a Word document with charts to PDF or images, the following features help ensure accurate chart content rendering:
Font substitution: Users can configure alternative fonts to use when the original fonts inside charts are unavailable on the system, ensuring consistent text appearance.
Fallback fonts for Unicode text: These fonts are used automatically when the rendering engine encounters Unicode characters missing in the specified fonts, preserving multilingual chart text.
Improved the preservation of EMF and WMF metafile images as searchable content during Word-to-PDF conversion. This enhancement ensures better text accessibility in the converted PDFs’ diagrams, charts, and technical illustrations.
