Shiny Controls 1.3 — Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Your App. Free.

Document editing components for .NET come with per-seat royalties, WebView rendering, or Windows-only support. Allan Ritchie’s Shiny Controls 1.3 puts Word, Excel, PowerPoint and a notebook — editors and viewers — in the box for nothing, natively drawn with SkiaSharp and shared verbatim between MAUI and Blazor.

What you’ll learn

• Four Office surfaces, not viewers — DocumentEditorView, SlideEditorView, SpreadsheetView, and a new free-form NotebookEditor, each with a read-only sibling, from one shared painter and layout engine
• A notebook where the page has no edges — infinite-canvas design, ink as a model (pressure 0..1, highlighter under text, point-eraser splitting strokes, path-based hit testing) and .shinynote files
• Ribbons everywhere — titled, tabbed groups with fixed undo/redo, Ribbon.SimplifyBelowWidth for phones, and a MAUI namespace move (Shiny.Maui.Controls.Ribbons)
• Find and presenting — Ctrl+F across Word/PowerPoint/Excel over one IFindController, and full-screen deck presenting with speaker notes on both hosts
• IMediaService — a camera you call, not a screen you build: TakePhotoAsync, plus barcode/credit-card/passport/business-card scanners with duplicate filtering
• TimelineView and 111 motion icons — a progress rail and authored (not preset) icon motion, including mirrored RTL directional sets

Press the live Blazor gallery first, then read the full post for the design decisions behind each control.