Happy New Year and Happy New Release of Telerik UI for WPF and Telerik UI for Silverlight. The first release for 2018 is packed with new stuff – beautiful Fluent Theme, many new features for File Dialogs, Pivot Grid editing functionality and more.
Last year at Build, Microsoft announced the Fluent Design System with a promise to bring the user interaction to another level by focusing on light, motion, material and scale elements. Today I’m happy to announce we are releasing our Fluent Inspired Theme for WPF, which will help you deliver a truly modern look to your desktop application and fit in the contemporary appearance of the Windows operating system! We prepared predefined Dark and Light color variations to satisfy every taste. And if this is not enough, you can easily customize all the colors to achieve the desired appearance. See the theme in action in our WPF ColorThemeGenerator app, and don’t forget to play with the current palette colors 🎨.
You can enjoy the beauty of the new theme on the following gif animations:
We are currently working on a blog post revealing all the features of the theme, so stay tuned. 😉 UPDATE: It's right here!
Our latest addition, the FileDialogs, are getting better and better. Since our previous release when we introduced the initial version of the dialogs, we have received a lot feedback through the forums and the support system. I want to say “THANK YOU” to everybody who shared their thoughts and feedback, we highly appreciate all of your input and for this release we considered as much as possible of it. I hope you will love the result. Of course, if there is some other functionality you would like see, please let us know. Here is list of the major features are releasing:
I am happy to announce that with this release we will be introducing two new components in the suite - PDF Viewer Toolbar and Spreadsheet Ribbon. These are ready to use, accompanying components for the PDF Viewer and Spreadsheet controls, allowing your end users to work with these controls.
You no longer have to build these on your own, and best of all, every new feature that we add going forward will be brought to you with the new versions of these components. All you have to do is to upgrade your controls version.
We even took a step further by presenting you with convenient dialogs when you drag PDF Viewer or Spreadsheet to the design surface, so you get to pick which accompanying controls (toolbar/ribbon, status bar, formula bat, etc) you want to add with just a few clicks. The experience for PDF Viewer and Spreadsheet is wrapped up in these two gifs:
Make sure to try the latest version of both WPF and Silverlight and explore all the new features and themes:
We would love to hear what you think, so please drop a comment below sharing your thoughts about Telerik UI for WPF. You could also visit our Feedback portals about UI for WPF/Silverlight and Document Processing Libraries and let us know if you have any suggestions or if you need any particular features/controls.
For an in-depth review of all the new stuff coming with the release across desktop, web and mobile, watch the full recording of the Telerik R1 2018 Release Webinar.