AI Coding Assistants Across All Key Telerik and Kendo UI Libraries: The 2025 Q3 Release Is Here

Specialized AI Coding Assistants are now available for most Telerik and Kendo UI libraries, reporting and styling tools, providing deep context to popular AI-powered IDEs and helping developers automate more and deliver faster. And these are just the cherries on top.

As part of our mission to empower developers with intelligent, productivity-focused tooling, Progress is expanding the reach of Telerik and Kendo UI AI Coding Assistants with the 2025 Q3 release.

Previously available for Telerik UI for Blazor and KendoReact, the AI Coding Assistants are now trained on and available across all major UI libraries, including Kendo UI for Angular, Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core, UI for WPF, UI for WinForms and UI for .NET MAUI, and, for the first time, extended to developer productivity tools like Telerik Reporting and Document Processing.

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Along with the IDE-integrated AI Coding Assistants, Progress is also introducing new AI capabilities in Progress ThemeBuilder, our popular visual styling app, for creating and customizing themes using conversational prompts, saving time otherwise spent manually editing properties and configuring CSS. A series of other AI-powered components and features are also part of this extensive release, along with lots more.

Let’s Dive Into the 2025 Q3 Highlights

Fast and Smart AI-Assisted App Development

• AI Coding Assistants across all key UI libraries: Unlike standalone AI solutions, Telerik and Kendo UI AI Coding Assistants—now available in Kendo UI for Angular, Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core, UI for WPF, UI for WinForms, UI for .NET MAUI, Telerik Reporting and Document Processing—integrate into the tools developers already use. These assistants don’t replace IDEs like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, they enhance them, bringing deep knowledge of Telerik and Kendo UI component libraries and tools directly into the development process. Whether building UI, embedding reports or automating document workflows, the AI Assistants deliver context-aware, specialized code so teams can ship faster and do more.

• Conversational prompts in Progress ThemeBuilder: You can now refine the AI-generated theme through natural, conversational feedback. Adjust colors, spacing, typography and accessibility in plain language—and see instant updates.

• New Inline AI Prompt control: Available in Kendo UI for Angular, UI for jQuery, KendoReact, Telerik UI for Blazor, UI for ASP.NET Core and MVC, the Inline AI Prompt control is ideal for enabling in-context interactions such as rewriting content, fixing errors and generating alternatives.

• AI-enhanced Conversational UI (Chat) across all web UI libraries: The component is now redesigned to enable smarter, more natural interactions through streaming responses, text-to-speech, flexible response formats and built-in token tracking.

• Redesigned AI Prompt: All major web UI libraries now feature an enhanced AI Prompt component that supports a new message template, speech-to-text and streaming buttons, improved accessibility and more.

• AI-powered (smart) Data Grids: The robust Data Grid component across all Kendo UI libraries and Telerik UI for Blazor is now enriched with prompt-based Data Grid actions for sorting, grouping, filtering and row highlighting. In addition, a new AI Assistant column is ready to deliver contextual summaries, explanations and warnings directly from row-level data.

• Enhanced GenAI-powered Reporting insights: Gain smarter, more precise insights with fine-tuned tokenization control in Telerik Reporting, reducing input requirements while delivering higher-quality, actionable report results.

Beyond Comprehensive UI Libraries: More Components in the Spotlight

• Speech-To-Text Button across all major UI libraries: Empower users to convert speech into text with a single click, making it easy to add voice input to forms, search bars, chat interfaces and other interactive scenarios.

• New Diagram in Kendo UI for Angular and Telerik UI for Blazor: Quickly visualize relationships, workflows and structures with built-in layouts, customizable shapes and flexible connections.

• New Conversational UI (Chat) in Telerik UI for Blazor: Bring modern, real-time conversations right into your Blazor apps. Connect users with each other or facilitate interactions with intelligent virtual assistants like AI-driven chatbots.

• Form component now in Kendo UI for Angular: Easily build and organize complex forms with a structured, configurable layout. Group inputs, dropdowns, labels, hints, error messages, and more to deliver clear, consistent and user-friendly forms in your Angular apps.

• New BottomSheet control in Telerik UI for .NET MAUI: Slide up additional content from the bottom of the screen to enhance your app experience. Use it to display complementary information, surface contextual actions or offer secondary navigation options.

• One-Time-Password (OTP) Input control now in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX: Already available in Kendo UI for Angular, UI for jQuery, Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core and MVC, the OTP Input control in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX enhances application security.

Robust Features, Adaptiveness and Support for the Latest Technologies

• Stacked data layout mode in Telerik and Kendo UI Data Grids: Deliver a consistent, user-friendly experience across devices with an adaptive, card-like display optimized for both desktop and mobile.

• Workflow diagram in Kendo UI for jQuery: Specialized shape types allow you to represent algorithms, tasks and events. While these shapes are tailored for workflows, they’re versatile enough for any diagram scenario.

• PDF Viewer enhancements: Text highlight and free text annotations are now supported in Kendo UI for Angular, while form filling is available in Telerik UI for Blazor, allowing users to complete PDF forms directly within your Blazor application.

• Responsive Form layout in Kendo UI for Angular and KendoReact: Build forms that automatically adapt their columns, spacing and field arrangements across breakpoints to deliver a seamless user experience on any screen size.

• Dark Mode in Progress ThemeBuilder: Switch to the new Dark mode for a more comfortable experience in lowlight setups.

• Compatibility with .NET 10 previews: Telerik products are now compatible with .NET 10 Preview 6, so you’re ready for the future of .NET development.

• Multiple Telerik Reporting and Report Server enhancements: Telerik Reporting project templates now use SDK-style notation, while the Standalone Report Designer features improved support for coded reports. A white-labeling feature is added to Telerik Report Server for .NET, enabling full customization.

• Document Processing Libraries (DPL) improvements: The WordsProcessing library now offers AI-powered querying and summarization. Meanwhile, PdfProcessing introduces full accessibility and standards-compliant PDF generation.

• Fiddler Everywhere latest updates: Our robust debugging tool now shows streaming responses in real time in the body inspectors, plus groups multiple error messages into a single notification for better user experience.

What’s New & Release History

To see everything that is new in 2025 Q3, visit the What’s New in Telerik and Kendo UI Products page. For a deeper dive into each product, follow the links below.