TL;DR : Curious about what’s new in .NET MAUI? Syncfusion’s Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 3 introduces powerful new controls like Rich Text Editor and Markdown Viewer, along with major enhancements to DataGrid, Kanban, Scheduler, and Sunburst Chart, designed to elevate cross-platform app development.
We’re thrilled to give you an exclusive look at Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 3, packed with exciting updates for .NET MAUI developers. This release continues our mission to make cross-platform app development smoother, faster, and more intuitive.
Developers asked. We delivered
This release introduces two highly anticipated controls:
- RichTextEditor : A flexible, feature-rich tool for creating and formatting rich text content, perfect for note-taking, content management, and collaborative writing apps.
- MarkdownViewer : A lightweight control for rendering markdown content with clarity, ideal for documentation and developer-focused applications.
But that’s not all, Volume 3 also brings performance enhancements, bug fixes, and UI refinements across the board, ensuring your apps run better and look sharper than ever.
Stay tuned as we explore how these new controls can elevate your next .NET MAUI project!
Introducing the much-awaited Rich Text Editor
The Syncfusion® .NET MAUI Rich Text Editor is a robust UI control designed to help users create, edit, and format richly styled text content across mobile and desktop platforms. It supports a wide range of formatting options, making it ideal for building feature-rich text editing experiences. Developers can easily integrate it into applications for seamless content creation.
This control shines in use cases like email composition, note-taking, messaging, and document editing, where rich formatting is essential. With intuitive editing tools and responsive design, it enhances user productivity and delivers a polished, professional experience across devices.
Key features
- WYSIWYG editing: Offers a user-friendly, “what you see is what you get” editing experience for formatted text.
- Comprehensive formatting tools: Supports bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, font family, font size, text color, background highlighting, lists, indentation, alignment, and more.
- Hyperlink support: Allows insertion and editing of hyperlinks within the editor.
- Insert images and tables: Enables seamless embedding of images and tables within the editor.
- Customizable toolbar: Includes a rich, configurable toolbar for quick access to formatting actions. Developers can show, hide, or customize toolbar items.
- Copy, paste, and cut: Features built-in clipboard operations for user convenience.
- Undo and redo: Provides robust undo and redo history for user-friendly editing.
- Clear formatting: Includes an option to reset formatting and styles for selected text.
Introducing the new Markdown Viewer control
Want to render markdown effortlessly in your .NET MAUI app? The new Markdown Viewer from Syncfusion® makes it easy. It is a lightweight and efficient UI control in .NET MAUI that allows developers to display content written in markdown format with clarity and precision. It supports rendering of headings, lists, links, code blocks, and other markdown elements, making it ideal for structured content presentation.
This control is especially useful for showing documentation, notes, or any formatted text authored in markdown. With its clean rendering and responsive design, it enhances readability and provides a seamless viewing experience across devices.
Key features
- Markdown rendering : Converts markdown syntax such as headings, lists, links and code blocks into styled, readable content.
- Hyperlink navigation : Supports clickable links that can open external URLs or navigate within the app.
- Custom styling : Developers can apply custom styles to match the app’s theme or branding.
Enhanced DataGrid features
The .NET MAUI DataGrid control gets smarter and more interactive in this release, making data entry and navigation smoother than ever. It will deliver the following new user-friendly features:
Add new row : Allows users to insert new rows interactively at the top or bottom of the DataGrid. It supports default values, enhancing the user input experience and data entry.
Tooltip : This feature provides contextual hints when users hover or long-press on cells.
Kanban
The .NET MAUI Kanban will allow users to:
- Custom data mapping lets you bind your own data models to Kanban fields, making it easy to generate cards based on your app’s structure.
- Kanban column customization allows you to style columns with custom backgrounds, placeholders, and templates, including for empty columns.
Scheduler
Managing appointments and resources is now more intuitive with the new horizontal resource view in .NET MAUI Scheduler, perfect for team-based scheduling.
Horizontal resource view
The scheduler’s day, week, and work week views support a horizontal resource view that groups appointments by resource and date, enabling clear visualization and efficient management of resource-specific schedules.
Sunburst Chart
Visualizing hierarchical data becomes more interactive with new selection and drill-down capabilities.
- Selection : The segment selection functionality allows users to interactively highlight individual segments with customizable brushes, opacity, and stroke settings.
- Drill down : Enables users to navigate through hierarchical data levels. By double-tapping on segments, users can explore different layers of the dataset, making it easier to understand complex data structures.
Toolbar
The Toolbar selection modes feature in .NET MAUI allows users to interact with toolbar items using flexible selection behaviors. You can enable single selection to allow only one item to be active at a time, or single deselection to let users clear the current selection. For more advanced scenarios, multiple selection lets users choose several items simultaneously, enhancing control and customization.
Conclusion
Thanks for reading! The Essential Studio® 2025 Volume 3 release is gearing up to be a big deal. Alongside exciting new features, we’re also squashing those pesky bugs to make your Syncfusion® .NET MAUI controls experience even better.
For timely updates on the release, we invite you to stay connected through our official YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn channels. You can also share your insights or suggestions in the comments section below.
You can also reach out to us through our support forum, support portal, or feedback portal. We are always happy to assist you!
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- Sneak Peek at .NET MAUI: 2025 Volume 1
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This article was originally published at Syncfusion.com.
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