Progress Telerik 2024 Q2 Release Webinar—Web, Desktop, Mobile & Cross-Platform Products 

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:

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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.   
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  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. 
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  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.  
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    Embracing Next-Gen Frameworks and Integrations:

    • Support for .NET 9 Preview: Telerik UI for Blazor, UI for ASP.NET Core, UI for .NET MAUI, UI for WPF and UI for WinForms are compatible with the latest Microsoft .NET 9 preview.  
      

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.