What's New 2025 Q2

What's New 2025 Q2

Brand-New Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Badge Control

The new Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Badge is designed to visually highlight information such as statuses, notifications, or counters. The WebForms Badge is fully customizable, allowing you to configure its color, shape, position, and alignment. Whether you're marking unread messages, indicating status, or displaying numeric indicators, this new component provides a simple and effective way to enhance visual communication in your UI.

See the Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Badge demo

No Data Template Support in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Charts

The Telerik UI for ASP.NET WebForms Chart now supports a No Data template, allowing you to display custom content when no series are defined or all series are empty. This feature is enabled via the NoDataTemplate property, giving you a flexible way to inform users when there’s no data to visualize.

See the Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Charts no data template demo

More Updates and Enhancements in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX 2025 Q2

• AI Prompt: Added Visual Studio Designer for the AIPrompt component
• Spell: Added mixed capitalization check to RadSpell with new WordIgnoreOptions.MixedCapitalization setting

Check out the Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX 2025 Q2 release notes

Document Processing Libraries (DPL) Enhancements in 2025 Q2

The Telerik Document Processing Libraries have been enhanced with powerful new capabilities for working with PDF files:

• AI-Powered PDF Summarization and Querying: You can now leverage built-in AI support to interact with and extract insights from PDF content. This enables intelligent querying and content summarization, making it easier to process large or complex documents.
• Multiple Digital Signatures Support: The PDF processing library now allows the addition of multiple digital signatures to a single document, improving support for workflows that require validation from multiple parties.

Check out the Telerik Document Processing Libraries (DPL) 2025 Q2 release notes

What's New 2025 Q1

Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX AI Prompt: Blending AI with UI

The AI Prompt UI control allows you to align digital experiences with natural human behavior. Designed to streamline the integration of your favorite GenAI services into your Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX applications, this new component sends prompts and then maps the response.

The Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX AI Prompt empowers users with a sleek, modern interface for seamless AI interactions while giving developers effortless customization. It enables three predefined views to interact with: Prompt, Output, and Commands, along with a Custom view that allows you to configure and show additional content based on your project's requirements.

Effortless customization is also available. From configuring the prompt suggestion items in the prompt view to playing with the view and footer template, you can adjust any AI Prompt feature to suit your needs.

See the Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX AI Prompt demo

More Updates and Enhancements in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX 2025 Q1

• Support for Magic Keyboard on touch devices is added to Telerik UI for AJAX DropDownList and TreeView components.
• Introduced configurable SecurityHelper.DplFormatProviderTimeout setting.

Document Processing Libraries (DPL) Enhancements in 2025 Q1

With 2025 Q1 release, we’ve introduced a major enhancement to the PdfProcessing library by adding support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It enables conversion of images of typed, handwritten, or printed text into machine-encoded text from a scanned document.  

Several other improvements in the PdfProcessing library accompany the OCR update. These include support for adding barcodes to a PDF document, option for setting height to table rows, API that allows optimization and reduction of the size of existing PDF files and so much more.  

Check out the Document Processing Libraries (DPL) 2025 Q1 release notes.