What's New in 2021 Volume 2

This topic presents the new features for the Ignite UI™ 2021 Volume 2 release.

Ignite UI for Asp.Net Core

Infragistics Ignite UI for Asp.Net Core now supports ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 projects. For more information see the Using Ignite UI for Asp.Net Core topic.

Ignite UI for Asp.Net Core Tag Helpers

Ignite UI for Asp.Net Core Tag Helpers now support ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 projects. For more information see the Using Ignite UI for Asp.Net Core Tag Helpers topic.

Infragistics Documents

Infragistics Documents assemblies are now available for ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 projects.

Ignite UI for jQuery

Ignite UI for jQuery now supports the recently released jQuery UI 1.13.0 .

Chart Features

This release introduces several new and improved visual design and configuration options for all of the chart components. e.g. Data Chart, Category Chart, and Financial Chart.

This release introduces a few improvements and simplifications to visual design and configuration options for the geographic map and all chart components.

• Added crosshair lines by default in FinancialChart and CategoryChart
• Added crosshair annotations by default in FinancialChart and CategoryChart
• Added final value annotation by default in FinancialChart
• Added new properties in Category Chart and Financial Chart:
  • CrosshairsLineThickness and other properties for customizing crosshairs lines
  • CrosshairsAnnotationXAxisBackground and other properties for customizing crosshairs annotations
  • FinalValueAnnotationsBackground and other properties for customizing final value annotations
  • AreaFillOpacity that allow changing opacity of series fill (e.g. Area chart)
  • MarkerThickness that allows changing thickness of markers
• Added new properties in Category Chart, Financial Chart, Data Chart, and Geographic Map:
  • MarkerAutomaticBehavior that allows which marker type is assigned to multiple series in the same chart
  • LegendItemBadgeShape for setting badge shape of all series represented in a legend
  • LegendItemBadgeMode for setting badge complexity on all series in a legend
• Added new properties in Series in Data Chart and Geographic Map:
  • LegendItemBadgeShape for setting badge shape on specific series represented in a legend
  • LegendItemBadgeMode for setting badge complexity on specific series in a legend
• Simplified shapes of series in chart's legend to display only circle, line, or square. This can be reverted by setting chart's LegendItemBadgeMode property to MatchSeries enum value