What's New R1 2021

The newly added Breadcrumb for ASP.NET AJAX is an intuitive component that displays the current location within your application. The control provides a trail for your users to navigate backwards and helps them interact with any complex app or website structure. You can enjoy features like editing, navigation, built-in skins and RTL support and accessibility.

New Grid Export Feature: Auto-Fit Column Width

In R1 2021, we’ve added the Auto-fit column width feature to the Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Grid Export, allowing you to automatically adjust multiple columns’ width when exporting to Excel, based on their content length. A real time-saver, the Auto-fit feature will also make your Excel formatting look professional and easy to read.

Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Grid - Auto-Fit column width

New Grid Export Feature: Worksheet Name Property

With the Worksheet name property, you can now configure the name of any active worksheet when exporting it to Excel, instead of having it named after the GridExport property.

Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Grid Create WorkSheetName

New Grid Export Feature: Enhanced Custom Styling

Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Grid Export to Excel now offers enriched styling and customization. In addition to the predefined built-in styles, you can easily customize your own to match any design. This Excel Export feature provides full access to the workbook, allowing the highest level of customization of all elements—from the sheets to the cell styles.

New Grid Export Improvements

This release also brings a number of exciting improvements, all of which will enhance the stability of the Grid Export to Excel:

You can now to hide the Status Bar in the Grid while exporting a document when OnCommand client event is handled.
We’ve further improved the Export to Excel and it no longer throws an error when a ColumnGroup is not assigned to a Grid column or when there are hidden columns at the end of the columns’ collection.

Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Grid Improvements

New Download Demo Code Option

You now have the option to easily download any Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX component demo. The function allows you to get a hands-on experience and play around with the code on your own.