Telerik 2025 Q2 Release Webinar –
Web, Desktop & Mobile

Progress® Telerik and Kendo UI have taken another step in ensuring that developers deliver the most powerful apps in the shortest time possible. At the core of the 2025 Q2 release is a transformative move towards AI-powered development. Purpose-built AI Code Assistants for Telerik UI for Blazor and KendoReact are designed to output production-quality code minimizing the need for manual fixes to subpar results. Combined with instant theming thanks to the AI theme generation in Progress ThemeBuilder, GenAI-powered Reporting insights, and expanded adaptability across the web frameworks, this release gives developers all they need to build smarter, ship faster and create modern, responsive apps with unprecedented efficiency.

Telerik Web, Desktop and Mobile 2025 Q2 Highlights: 

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  Fast and Smart AI-Assisted App Development:

  • Telerik UI for Blazor Code Assistant: Market-first AI Code Assistant that works with any code generator to enhance the output, so it’s optimized specifically for Telerik UI Blazor. This AI-powered coding assistant is available with Blazor subscription.
  • AI-driven theme generation in Progress ThemeBuilder: Effortlessly create custom themes for Telerik and Kendo UI components by prompting an AI.
  • AI-powered document summary and insights in DPL: The GenAI-enhanced PDF Processing library enables you to extract key insights and summaries from documents, thus streamlining analysis.
  • AI building blocks and page templates: AI App Welcome screen, AI-powered text editor and conversation source are added to the already robust collection of building blocks, while a new AI Usage Monitoring dashboard enriches the page templates collection.  
  • AI Prompt component integration with Microsoft.Extensions.AI preview package: Build AI-powered features in your .NET applications more efficiently with out-of-the box abstractions for integrating popular AI services into your web apps.
  • New AI prompt in .NET Editors: The Editor control is enriched with AI side panel and inline AI helper.
  • Welcoming AI Prompt into Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX: In 2024 we introduced AI Prompt control across most of the Telerik and Kendo UI libraries. Now you can integrate Gen-AI capabilities into your WebForms projects, too.
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  All-Screen-Sizes Ready, Adaptive and Responsive UI: 

  • Adaptive and responsive UI controls: Deliver a flawless user experience with adaptive and responsive UI in Toolbar, ColorPicker, TabStrip, ActionSheet and Form UI components.
  • Adaptive UI features: The release also brings adaptive capabilities to key features like popup editing, column menu, paging, filter menu, and more, ensuring a seamless experience across all screen sizes.  
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  Expanded Design System Tooling:

  • Additional Progress ThemeBuilder enhancements: Along with the AI dynamic theming, ThemeBuilder offers accessibility and performance improvements for a more seamless experience while designing your apps.
  • Updated Material theme: Telerik and Kendo UI Material theme now follows Material 3 guidelines, delivering a more modern, intuitive, and consistent user experience.
  • Support for CSS variables in Charts: Customize Chart styles without modifying the core code. Adjust colors, fonts and sizes across multiple charts with a single variable change.
  • .NET MAUI Platform theme with Light and Dark modes: This new theme seamlessly adapts to the system’s appearance, ensuring a consistent look and feel that matches the native light and dark modes of the device.
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  Beyond Comprehensive UI Libraries:

  • Telerik UI for Blazor Dock Manager and FloatingAction Button: DockManager control for recreating desktop-like experiences and a FloatingAction Button that adds instant and robust interactivity to your Blazor app.
  • New OTP (one-time password) UI control: Build more secure apps with the new OTP component in Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC.
  • New Chart Wizard component: Create a chart using data from a grid, another data-bound component or an external source with the Chart Wizard control, now available in Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core/MVC.
  • New Badge Component in Telerik UI for AJAX: Add visual cues and contextual highlights with the new Badge component.
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  Robust Features and Support for the Latest Technologies:

  • Multiple Grid enhancements across the board: Export to PDF, row spanning, resizable Grid, drag handle and hint customization, built-in Popup editing, multiple range selection, improved virtualization and more are added to the Kendo UI Grids.
  • PDFViewer annotations: Customization in the PDFViewer is even easier with new annotations (text highlighting and free text annotations).
  • Compatibility with .NET 10 previews: Telerik products are now compatible with .NET 10 previews, ensuring you're ready for the future of .NET development.

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.