Progress® 2024 Q2 release focuses on enabling design and development teams to rapidly build and design modern, innovative and inclusive digital experiences. Development teams will be empowered to bring AI prompts to application interfaces, while many design system enhancements will help them work with design to deliver highly customized UI. And with accessibility improvements in Charts, data visualization becomes more inclusive. Additionally, teams can satisfy complex requirements with a variety of new UI components such as the market-first Blazor Spreadsheet component, React Server components, integrations with Next.js, plus enhanced query building and embedded-reporting experience.
Telerik 2024 Q2 Highlights:
AI Capabilities to Innovate and Differentiate:
- Blending AI with UI: New AI Prompt control across all Telerik libraries allows you to integrate Gen-AI capabilities into web, mobile and desktop apps. The component enables sending of prompts and then mapping the response.
- AI integration demos: AI integration demos in Telerik Data Grid, Spreadsheet, and Rich TextBox components facilitate developers on how to enable interactions such as autocomplete, vector search, and smart formulas.
Accelerated Design System Capabilities:
- Full-blown design system capabilities: Ready-to-use design system allows development teams to replicate designs to achieve consistency and exceed user expectation with modern looking apps.
- Elevated consistency: Fostering consistency across different JavaScript and .NET web frameworks even further, this release features unified rendering to meet app standardization requirements.
- Progress ThemeBuilder enhancements: Ability to export variables and modes from Figma, smart CSS code editor, and many more will be added to the powerful Progress ThemeBuilder app.
- Improved color system: A new color system for Telerik and Kendo UI themes features unified theme customization and flexible SasS and CSS variable support.
- Updated Figma Kits: All Telerik and Kendo UI Figma Kits are updated to match the current state of component libraries.
Accessibility Updates to Make Data Visualization Available to Everyone:
- Built-in accessibility and keyboard navigation in charts: Empowering development teams to build accessible UI, we’ve added keyboard navigation and shortcuts to Charts in Telerik web components.
Data-Driven Experiences with Powerful Visualizations:
- Pioneering spreadsheet functionality in Blazor: The first on the market UI for Blazor Spreadsheet component empowers your apps with robust Excel-like functionality.
- New data visualization components and improvements: Sankey Diagram, Polynomial, Exponential, Power and Logarithmic Trendline types, legend customization support, etc. help to create tailored and stunning web visualizations.
Enterprise-Ready Components for the Latest Technologies:
- More Telerik UI for Blazor controls: Alongside the Spreadsheet and AI Prompt, Telerik UI for Blazor shines with a new AppBar, Badge, Rating, Popup and Popover components, making it the ultimate library for your Blazor projects.
- New controls for desktop apps: We continue boosting our desktop libraries, adding a highly customizable DateRangePicker in Telerik UI for WPF and supporting Windows 11 Light and Dark compact themes in Telerik UI for WinForms.
- DataGrid improvements across the platform portfolio: Row and column spanning, copy to clipboard, built-in print functionality, etc. ensure developers are equipped with a full-featured Grid for building data-heavy and scalable apps.
Modernization of Legacy Projects with Support for Complex Migration Scenarios:
- Desktop to web migration: New PropertyGrid control is added to Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC libraries. Alongside the recently released DockManager, it helps you recreate desktop experiences in web.
- Xamarin to .NET MAUI switch: With the discontinuation of Microsoft’s support for Xamarin, Telerik UI for .NET MAUI offers the full feature parity developers need, alongside unique components like the new Slider, Templated Button, CollectionView and Toggle Button.
Embracing Next-Gen Frameworks and Integrations:
- Support for .NET 9 Preview: Telerik UI for Blazor, UI for ASP.NET Core, UI for WPF and UI for WinForms are compatible with the latest Microsoft .NET 9 preview.
Join Telerik 2024 Q2 release webinar on June 3 at 11:00 a.m. ET to learn how the latest Progress developer tools release can empower you and your development and design teams to exceed user expectations by creating experiences that capitalize on the latest technology trends. During the webinar, our developer advocates Ed Charbeneau and Sam Basu will present in detail the major updates across the .NET web, desktop, mobile and cross-platform products and demonstrate how to use them to drive digital success.
Highlights We’ll Cover During the Live Webinar:
Progress® Telerik® UI for Blazor
- Pioneering Spreadsheet component
- More UI components: AI Prompt, AppBar, Badge, Rating, Popup and Popover
- New chart series: Sankey Diagram, Polynomial, Exponential, Power and Logarithmic Trendline types
- Multiple chart enhancements: Legend customization support, keyboard navigation
- Column and custom column menus in Telerik UI for Blazor Gantt and TreeList
- Prefix and suffix adornments in multiple UI controls
- Most voted items on the feedback portal: multiple Grid improvements, TreeList Row Virtualization, FilterField Value Template, Map Zoom & Pan events, FileManager Toolbar Customization, PDF Viewer display and print quality, and more
- Compatibility with .NET 9 latest preview
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET MVC
- New components: PropertyGrid, AI Prompt, ToggleButton
- New chart series: Trendline chart, Sankey Diagram
- Powerful grid improvements: Row and column spanning, selection aggregates, paste from Excel, show/hide multiple columns in the grid, progress when exporting to Excel, re-render only specific rows, support for resizable and non-resizable columns, etc.
- Support for link annotations in PDF Viewer
- TreeList ToolBar template
- Modernization shift: Minimal supported .NET 6.0 version
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for ASP.NET Core Specific Items
- Compatibility with .NET 9 latest preview
Progress® Telerik® UI for ASP.NET AJAX
- New components: Chip and ChipList
- DOM event in the click and double click event arguments of AJAX TreeList
- Modernization shift: Minimal supported .NET Framework 4.6.2 version
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
ThemeBuilder
- Export and map Figma variable modes
- Color and size variable modes
- Styling of generic HTML elements
- Support for over 600 component-specific variables
- New and improved color system
- Smart CSS code editor
- Export only selected component styles
- New setting to customize the variables prefix
Progress® Telerik® for .NET MAUI
- New controls: AI Prompt, Slider, Templated Button, CollectionView and Toggle Button
- Search-as-you-type functionality in DataGrid
- PDF Viewer improvements: Selection support with customizable context menu
- Built-in dialogs and custom date formats in .NET MAUI scheduler
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for Xamarin
- DataGrid improvement: Empty Template
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for WinForms
- New AI Prompt control
- New compact themes: Windows 11 Compact and Windows 11 Compact Dark
- GridView enhancements: Show summary rows for collapsed groups, auto-generating columns event and performance improvements
- Compatibility with .NET 9 latest preview
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for WPF
- New controls: AI Prompt, DateRangePicker
- Compatibility with .NET 9 latest preview
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for WinUI
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
The Speakers:
Ed Charbeneau
Principal Developer Advocate, Progress
Ed is a Microsoft MVP and an internationally recognized online influencer, speaker, writer, a Developer Advocate for Progress, and expert on all things web development. Ed enjoys geeking out to cool new tech, brainstorming about future technology and admiring great design.
Sam Basu
Developer Advocate, Progress
Sam Basu is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP, gadget lover and Progress Developer Advocate for Telerik products. With a long developer background, he now spends much of his time advocating modern web/mobile/cloud development platforms on Microsoft/Telerik technology stacks. His spare times call for travel, fast cars, cricket and culinary adventures with the family.
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