What's New 2024 Q1

Adding a ToggleButton to the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Library

Choose between multiple options to display various buttons depending on the use case you’d like to cover. The new Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC ToggleButton component enables you to effortlessly group related options. It offers a simple and efficient way for users to control features, settings, and options, thus enhancing the overall user experience. Being compact by design, the Toggle Button fits into small spaces, making it ideal for applications with limited screen real estate.

Among the new component's highlights are the ability to customize its appearance using a variety of sizing, outline, and theme color options and to boost its text content with icons or badges.

See the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC ToggleButton demo

Meet the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Trendline Chart

The new member of the UI for ASP.NET MVC charts – the Trendline Chart is used to visualize data points in a time series or sequential order. It’s often leveraged to represent and analyze trends, patterns and relationships in the data over time.

Trendline charts are commonly used in fields like finance, economics, statistics and data analysis to identify and understand trends and facilitate the process of making informed decisions.

See Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Trendline Chart demo

Multiple Improvements in Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Grid

With 2024 Q1 release, the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Grid got improved, covering even more app requirements and use cases. Read on to find out what was included:

• Row and Column Spanning: Enables you to span a cell between multiple rows, as well as span multiple columns.
• Selection Aggregates: Select a single or multiple cells or rows within the grid and calculate different metrics based on the selected data, allowing you to get a quick snapshot of key aggregates.  
• Paste from Excel: Use the built-in paste functionality to copy and paste cells from Microsoft Excel or another Grid control.
• Toolbar Columns Menu: Render a column menu in the column headers for an easy access to functions like sorting, grouping, filtering, and more.
• Column Menu Tabbed Interface: Leverage a more compact view without sacrificing the available space, the tabbed interface provides a neat way to organize items into related groups.

See the updated Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Grid demo

Link Annotations in Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC PDF Viewer

With 2024 Q1, the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC PDFViewer provides support for link annotations. Upon opening a PDF file that includes hyperlinks, you can now click on them and get navigated to the respective address in a new window. In addition, if there are links pointing to bookmarks in the same document, the view port will be scrolled to the destination specified in the link.

Deprecating Older .NET and .NET Framework Versions

Providing cutting-edge solutions that meet the highest security and performance standards has been at the core of Progress Telerik business. To continue leading the market with a modern, secure, and compliant developers’ toolset, our .NET products will no longer support older .NET and .NET Framework versions.

Starting with our upcoming releases, our .NET-based products will exclusively support .NET framework versions 4.6.2 and above and .NET versions 6.0 and above. Q1 2024 was the last release supporting older framework versions and we committed to provide you with one full year of outstanding support service for this release.

For more insights into this change, take a look at the dedicated blog post.

Enhanced Design System Documentation

One of the key milestones in 2023 was the launch of a dedicated Design System documentation site, which offers a wide range of resources, design assets and front-end documentation specifically tailored for the Telerik and Kendo UI libraries. 

With 2024 Q1, we have expanded the Design System Support by having more components like PDFViewer, FileManager, Rating, Chat (Conversational UI), Wizard, Splitter, Stepper, Tooltip, Slider, Timeline, Card, etc. covered in the Design System documentation. 

Our ongoing dedication is to enrich this site further, aiming to provide you with all the necessary tools to craft seamless and visually appealing digital experiences and design systems utilizing the power of Telerik and Kendo UI component libraries. 

Multiple Document Processing Libraries (DPL) Improvements

PDF Processing: Embedding File Streams: With the 2024 Q1 the PDF Processing allows embedding file streams into documents. Therefore, the content of the referenced files is embedded directly within the body of the PDF file. See the PDF Processing documentation: Embedded File Streams.

PDF Processing: Support for Embedding ZUGFeRD Invoices: Another PDF Processing enhancement is the support for adding embedded ZUGFeRD invoices into documents. This invoice consists of two formats – PDF and XML and it is a hybrid file, which has a visual component with the PDF and a data-based offshoot for further, automated processing with the XML. See the Document Processing PDF Processing docs: EmbeddedFilesCollection.

Zip Library: Strong AES Encryption Algorithm: We’ve introduced a new encryption algorithm in the Zip Library – AES encryption. It is best suited to secure sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, passwords, and personal data. You can read and extract AES-protected archives with ease. See the Document Processing Zip Library docs: Protected Zip Archive.