This Roadmap was updated on April 11, 2022.
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.
The information contained within this Roadmap details our current/projected development plans. Please note that this information is being shared for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY and does not represent a binding commitment on the part of Developer Express Inc. This roadmap and the features/products listed within it are subject to change. You should not rely or use this information to help make a purchase decision about Developer Express Inc products.
New Components
Accordion (v22.1)
In Development
Our Blazor Accordion component will allow you to display collapsible panels and help visualize information within a limited amount of page space. You will be able to use the DevExpress Accordion component for navigation purposes and to organize items into groups. Its built-in search engine will allow end-users to locate required items among all elements.
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)
Available in v21.2.6
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)
Available in v21.2.4
Our Blazor Grid’s API will allow you to change the appearance of rows and cells.
Column Resizing
(v21.2)
Available in v21.2.6
We will ship two resize modes and allow your end-users to resize Blazor Grid columns.
Column Chooser
(v21.2)
Available in v21.2.6
Our Blazor Column Chooser UI will allow users to manage column position and visibility at runtime.
Automatic Data Refresh
(v21.2)
Available in v21.2.6
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)
Available in v21.2.6
We will ship an updated engine to manage column visibility in code.
Inline Row Editing
(v22.1)
In Development
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)
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:
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DateTimeOffset
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TimeSpan
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DateOnly
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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)
In Development
We will extend the Chart API to allow you to format series label text at runtime.
Export (v22.1)
In Development
You will be able to call a new Export method to export a chart to the following formats:
Data Binding for Multi-Value Series (v22.1)
In Development
For series with multiple values, we will add the new API to define data fields for individual values:
- Financial Series - new
OpenValueField, HighValueField, LowValueField, CloseValueField properties - Range Series - new
Value1Field and Value2Field properties
Selection (v22.2)
In Development
We plan to extend our Blazor Chart's selection capabilities with the following functionality:
- Selection for separate points and entire series
- Single and Multiple selection modes
- Programmatic access to selected series and points
Palette Customization (v22.2)
Not Yet Started
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
Blazor Server
In Development
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)
In Development
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)
In Development
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)
In Development
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)
Blazor WebAssembly (ASP.NET Core Hosted)
Not Yet Started
We'll introduce a set of components for Blazor WebAssembly and ASP.NET Core backend. We expect to use our JavaScript-based Blazor Server Reporting Components as a base and offer a wrapper compatible with this technology. Our next step is to offer similar capabilities for our Blazor Native Report Viewer.
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)
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Collapsible groups will allow you to expand and collapse Form Layout
groups using UI elements and in code.
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New group header icon API will allow you to easily add custom icons to a form layout group header.
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.
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