Progress® 2024 Q4 release continues to lead the market with the most comprehensive toolset for modern-looking user experiences—from professionally designed building blocks and customization tools to rich components’ functionality with support for the newest .NET and JavaScript frameworks. Design and development teams will find the solutions to emerging problems like the design to code handoff with 70+ Page Templates and Building Blocks, ThemeBuilder app that can now be used to style more than just Telerik and Kendo UI components, support for Dart enabling faster leverage of new Sass features, unstyled option for KendoReact themes for more flexible styling, plus additional theming and size improvements. All these while ensuring smooth data-driven experiences with enhancements like patterns support in Chart rendering and accelerated modern UI development with support for .NET 9, Angular 19, KendoReact integration with Astro, and more.
Telerik 2024 Q4 Highlights:
Faster, Smoother and More Efficient Design-to-Code Process:
- New Page Templates and Building Blocks for even more productivity and reusability: Building a layout from scratch can take a lot of time and effort. With the brand-new Page Templates and Building Blocks available for Kendo UI for Angular, KendoReact, Telerik UI for Blazor and Telerik DevCraft, teams can build beautiful apps even faster.
- Page Templates: 10 professionally designed, highly customizable and accessible page templates.
- Building Blocks: 60+ ready to copy-paste, fully responsive and customizable building blocks.
- Use ThemeBuilder to style more than just Telerik and Kendo UI components: Powerful features are added to the ThemeBuilder app including Building Blocks support, support for custom HTML elements, ability to convert Figma components to HTML, alongside functionality for importing external CSS and version control for saving multiple versions of the same project.
- Enriched design system documentation for more component coverage: DockManager, Property Grid, Menu, ContextMenu, StackLayout and GridLayout complete the large collection of UI components detailed in the Design System documentation.
- Support for Dart enabling faster leverage of new Sass features: The four professionally designed themes across Telerik and Kendo UI are enhanced with an ability to adjust the module system to work with Dart Sass. Since Dart is the primary Sass implementation, it gets new features first.
- Elevated consistency: Fostering consistency across different JavaScript and .NET web frameworks, this release features unified rendering for the remaining Menu, ContextMenu and TabStrip components, reaching full components’ coverage.
Embracing Next-Gen Frameworks and Integrations:
- Day-zero support for .NET 9: Continuing the industry-leading support for Microsoft’s newest frameworks, all Telerik products now feature day-zero compatibility with .NET 9.
Embedded Data-Driven Experiences with Advanced Data Visualizations:
- Multiple Chart improvements across Telerik and Kendo UI: Patterns support in chart rendering, ability to use CSS variables in Color system and a “No Data" label allow developers to design and build stunning web visualizations even faster.
- New Pyramid and Sankey Chart in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX: These new chart types enable developers to display data within a pyramidal structure or visualize changing flows and their distribution between domains.
UI Components and Features for Enterprise Development Teams:
- Multiple Grid enhancements across Telerik and Kendo UI: Improvements like sticky columns alongside column virtualization, built-in print option, support for responsive columns, toggle edit mode and more provide developers with a high-performant, full-featured Grid to cover any data-heavy app requirement.
- New DatePager and GridSplitter controls in Telerik UI for .NET MAUI: The DatePager component enables users to navigate through paginated data efficiently, while the GridSplitter control helps them resize rows and columns within a Grid Panel.
- Telerik UI for Blazor Rich Text Editor exposes ProseMirror: The Telerik UI for Blazor Rich Text Editor component has exposed ProseMirror library, significantly enhancing its text editing and customization capabilities.
- Full feature parity between PivotGrid and PivtoGrid v2: The modern looking PivotGrid v2 in Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core and MVC now offers the same set of features and functionalities as the PivotGrid.
- CSP compliant Spreadsheet control: The Spreadsheet component across Telerik and Kendo UI libraries adheres to strict security standards, preventing the execution of unauthorized scripts and protecting user data more effectively.
Productivity Boost with Robust Features:
- PDF Viewer annotations and form filling: Boost user interactions and flexibility with Telerik UI for Blazor PDFViewer annotations for collaborating, reviewing, and providing feedback on documents, and form filling for completing forms and applications.
- Blazor Scheduler improvements: Toolbar template, Resource Header template, and Agenda view for enhanced customization, improved resource display and more efficient schedule management.
- Multiple CollectionView enhancements in Telerik UI for .NET MAUI: Header and Footer templates, drag and drop, manual and automatic load on demand and item swipe functionalities are just some of the improvements in the recently released CollectionView control.
- Declarative initialization in Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core: Multiple Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core components now support declarative initialization—a feature that serializes the component declaration as an MVVM declarative configuration instead of an inline initialization script.
Join Telerik 2024 Q4 release webinar on December 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
- New: 70+ Page Templates and Building Blocks
- Multiple Grid improvements: Multiple cell selection, performance optimizations
- Scheduler Improvements: New agenda view, Toolbar template, Resource Grouping header template, hide “All day” option, etc.
- PDF Viewer annotations: Text highlighting and Free text annotations
- Rich Text Editor: ProseMirror exposing
- Spreadsheet: CSP compliance
- Build-in boundary detection in AutoComplete, ComboBox, DropDownList and MultiSelect
- .NET 9 day-zero support
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET MVC
- PivotGrid to PivotGrid v2: Full-feature parity
- UX improvements: Menu and TabStrip
- Spreadsheet: CSP compliance
- Multiple Grid enhancements: Toggle edit mode, remote validation, scrollto option
- Form: Disabled autocorrection
- TextBox: Clear button functionality
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for ASP.NET Core Specific Items:
- .NET 9 day-zero support
- Declarative initialization in multiple components
Progress® Telerik® UI for ASP.NET AJAX
Progress® ThemeBuilder™
- Custom HTML styling
- Support for the Building Blocks inside ThemeBuilder
- Design to Code v. 1.0: Enables the conversion of Figma components to HTML
- Import existing CSS files
- Ability to save multiple versions of the same project and reload them dynamically
- Support for previous Kendo UI Theme versions
- Updated “Create new project” screen
- Expanded Advanced Edit templates
- Update of the Figma plugin to improve usability
- Security improvements
Progress® Telerik® for .NET MAUI
- New components: DataPager and GridSplitter
- New sample app: Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Advanced theming mechanism with light / dark mode
- Multiple CollectionView enhancements: Header and footer templates, drag and drop functionality, manual and automatic load-on-demand functionality, Grid layout, etc.
- Date and Time Picker improvements: Support for DateOnly and TimeOnly
- ComboBox enhancement: Filtering support
- New scaffolding screens and pages
- Column reordering and resizing events in DataGrid
- Ripple effect in Buttons
- .NET 9 day-zero support
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for WinForms
- New controls: DateOnlyPicker and TimeOnlyPicker
- New Windows 11 high contrast theme
- Multiple GridView improvements: Load-On-Demand support for self-reference hierarchy, merged cells support, selecting or deselecting rows with a checkbox
- New json tagger in the RadSyntaxEditor
- UI automation support in RadDropDownList and NavigationView
- Modernized windows installer (MSI) design
- .NET 9 day-zero support
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® UI for WPF
- Multiple GridView improvements: Support for multiple filters in the FilteringControl and support for modifier key usage
- Disabled data filtering in DataGrid search-as-you-type behavior
- DataGrid supports grouping of DateTime values
- Modernized Visual Studio extensions wizard design
- .NET 9 day-zero support
- New Document Processing Libraries (DPL) features
Progress® Telerik® Document Processing Libraries (DPL)
- .NET 9 day-zero support
- Justified text support when converting Word to PDF documents
- JavaScript actions support in PDF documents
- Right-To-Left (RTL) text support in PDF documents
- CMYK color palette support in PDF documents
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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