What's New R2 2023

Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Welcomes ArcGauge to its UI Family

With R2 2023, The Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX library is enriched with an ArcGauge control. Along with the Linear and Radial Gauge components already present in the library, you can leverage the ArcGauge component to represent value ranges across a sleek looking arc.

Check out the Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX ArcGauge demo

Introducing Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX CircularGauge Control

The RadGauges family of Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX welcomes one more UI member - the Circular Gauge. It allows you to visualize numeric values on a radial scale and provides multiple customization options to ensure natural fit in any web application.

See the Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX CircularGauge demo

New Appearance Options in Telerik UI for AJAX Linear and Radial Gauges

With R2 2023 you have more control over the appearance of the Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Linear and Radial Gauges. Customize the Border and Margin settings of the Gauge Area for both and control the lenght of the Pointer for Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Radial Gauge.

See Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Linear Gauge demo

See Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Radial Gauge demo

New SingleLineEntries Property in ASP.NET AJAX AutoCompleteBox

Up until now, the Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX AutoCompleteBox control only supported vertical expansion of the entries. To accommodate all entries in a single, scrollable line, the AutoCompleBox now exposes a brand-new SingleLineEntries property.

See the Telerik UI for AJAX AutoCompleteBox demo

Place Handwritten Signatures in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Editor

The Signature Dialog demo in the Editor component shows how to effortlessly place a handwritten signature in the WYSIWYG editor, leveraging the AJAX Signature component. The dialog exposes a signature pad that enables users to draw a signature and then click the "Store on Server as PNG and Insert" button to store the signature as a PNG file and insert the image into the editor.

See the Telerik UI for AJAX Signature Dialog demo within the Editor

Multiple Document Processing Libraries (DPL) Enhancements

Fixes and Quality Improvements: In the R2 2023 release, the Document Processing team prioritized an extensive range of bug fixes, aiming to deliver a higher level of quality for the library and enhance overall performance. There were 20+ bug fixes in the PDF Processing library alone.

New PDFProcessing Improvements: The PdfProcessing library now provides an image compression setting that allows you to set the desired compression for the images when exporting. The available options are Default, None and FlateDecode. Additionally, there is a new default implementation for the ImageUtils` JpegImageConverter and ImagePropertiesResolver based on the SkiaSharp library.

New SpreadStreamProcessing Improvements: With R2 2023 Release, the SpreadStreamProcessing library allows importing rich text and reading it as plain text without the formatting.