Essential Studio for MAUI Release Notes
SfCartesianChart Preview
The .NET MAUI Charts (SfCartesianChart) provide a perfect way to visualize data with a high level of user interactivity that focuses on development, productivity, and simplicity of use. Its rich feature set includes functionalities like data binding, multiple axes, animations, data labels, tooltip, selection, and zooming.
Key Features
- Chart types - Cartesian charts supports different types of series and each type of chart represents a unique style of representing data with more user friendly and greater UI visualization.
- Interaction - The .NET MAUI Charts are interactive with features such as tooltip, selection, zooming, and panning.
- Data binding - Map data from a specified path by using the data binding concept.
- Multiple series - Render multiple series at the same time with options to compare and visualize two different series simultaneously.
- Customization - User friendly and provides various options to customize chart features like title, axis, legends, and data labels.
Known Framework Issues
- When the edge drawing mode is set to centre, the label on the chart axis will be clipped.
- The series clip will not be dynamically updated.
- Legend provides a limited number of customization options for dynamic updates.
SfCircularChart Preview
The .NET MAUI Charts (SfCircularChart) is used to create the chart with beautiful and enhanced UI visualization of data that are used to display proportions and percentage of different categories.
Key Features
- Chart types - Supports two types of series such as pie and doughnut. Each series presents data in a unique way and it is designed to be more user-friendly.
- Interaction - The circular chart selection, tooltips, and explode user interaction features significantly improves the end-user experience.
- Legends - Display additional information about the data points of chart series, which can be wrapped or scrolled, if an item exceeds the available bounds.
- Customization - User friendly and provides various options to customize chart features like title, legends, and data labels.
Known Framework Issues
- Legend provides a limited number of customization options for dynamic updates.
SfRadialGauge Preview
The .NET MAUI Radial Gauge control is a multi-purpose data visualization control that displays numerical values on a circular scale. It has a rich set of features such as axes, ranges, pointers, and annotations that are fully customizable and extendable.
Key Features
- Axes - The radial gauge axis is a circular arc in which a set of values are displayed along a linear or custom scale based on the design requirements. Axis elements, such as labels, ticks, and axis line, can be easily customized with built-in properties.
- Ranges - Gauge range is a visual element that helps to quickly visualize a value where it falls on the axis.
- Pointers - Pointer is used to indicate values on an axis. Radial gauge has three types of pointers: needle pointer, marker pointer, and range pointer. All the pointers can be customized as needed.
- Pointer animation - Animates the pointer in a visually appealing way when the pointer moves from one value to another.
- Pointer interaction - Radial gauge provides an option to drag a pointer from one value to another. It is used to change the value at run time.
- Annotations - Add multiple controls such as text and image as an annotation to a specific point of interest in a radial gauge.
Known Framework Issues
- The position of the annotation will not be dynamically updated.
SfTabView Preview
The advanced .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) Tab View is a simple and intuitive interface for tab navigation in mobile and desktop applications, where users can explore and switch between different tabs.
Key Features
- Nested tab support with different header placements.
- Fixed and scrollable tab headers.
- Image and text support for headers.
Known Framework Issues
- Alignment issue with header text when a new tab item added at run-time.
- Run-time device orientation change may result in collapsed layout.
- Issue may occur related to width and height of the control and inner elements at run-time.