Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core

What's New R2 2018

More OData v4 Updates

With this release we added additional support for the v4 edition of the OData protocol. With R2 2018 we officially support hierarchical data through OData.

Conversational UI Control for ASP.NET Core

With the R2 2018 we have taken steps to enable ASP.NET Core developers to add cognitive features to their applications by adding a brand new component: the Conversational UI control (aka RadChat). This new control is intended to be used with various chat bot services. Highlights of the features include:

Built-in hero cards
Built-in suggested actions
Built-in simple message and typing indicator
Custom card/attachment templates
Easy connectivity to chat bot services (Azure/Microsoft Bot Framework, Wit.ai, Amazon Lex)

DropDownTree Component for ASP.NET Core

With the R2 2018 release we have delivered the top-most voted feedback item to our list of UI components: the DropDownTree.

This provides the best of the TreeView component (e.g. the hierarchical data representation) with the compactness of a DropDown for ASP.NET Core.

Updated SignalR Support

SignalR is a library that we've had support for close since its inception. Recently SignalR was updated to add support for ASP.NET Core applications with the upcoming 2.1 release. While we're currently supporting 2.1.0-preview2-final with this release we updated our support for SignalR to ensure that we are ready to provide all ASP.NET apps to work with this library along with our UI components.

Tag Helpers for all Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core Components

Tag Helpers were a big part of our last release of Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core, especially the Tag Helper for the Grid component. To continue with that trend, the R2 2018 release ships with support for Tag Helpers for all of our UI components.

Cloud Services for ASP.NET Core

As a part of our commitment to help developers take advantage of cloud services along with Kendo UI and Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core, we created several demos and updated our documentation to include guidance for the integration with: