What's New 2024 Q2

New Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC PropertyGrid for Desktop-Like Experiences in Web

Alongside the recently released DockManager, the new Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC PropertyGrid control helps you recreate experiences your desktop users expect. It provides a structured way to view and modify the properties and attributes of objects.

Typical use cases for a PropertyGrid control include a software development or design environment for organizing and dynamically modifying properties of different components. Among the most exciting features of the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC PropertyGrid are the built-in sorting, grouping, searching and exporting functionalities as well as templates for effortless customization of each item.

Check out the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC PropertyGrid demo

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

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

The Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC AI Prompt is focused on providing users with a modern interface to interact with AI services, while enhancing usability for developers by offering smooth customization. It enables three predefined views to interact with: Prompt, Output and Command, each featuring specific functionality.

Check out the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC AI Prompt demo

Create and Visualize Flows Between Data with the New ASP.NET MVC Sankey Diagram

The brand-new Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Sankey Chart, a.k.a. a flow diagram, enables you to easily create diagrams that visualize changing flows and their distribution between domains. The Sankey diagrams are ideal for a variety of use cases, including website traffic, budget breakdowns, energy flow, managing order priority flows in retail, and more.

See Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Sankey Chart demo

Multiple Enhancements in Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Calendar and MultiViewCalendar

The already robust Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Calendar and MultiViewCalendar components got even more powerful with three new features:

• Century Cell Formats: With this update you can now specify the formatting behavior of the century cells in the century view with two supported formats – long and short. 
• Show Other Month Days: This feature enables you to explicitly render days from the previous and next months in the current Calendar or MultiViewCalendar view.
• Reverse Selection: This enhancement empowers users to select an end date that is before the selected start date.

See the updated Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC Calendar demo and the updated MultiViewCalendar demo. 
 

Customizing the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC TreeList with a New Toolbar Template

Further customization of the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC TreeList is available through the newly added Toolbar template. It gives you full control over the toolbar appearance, enabling you to specify your own layout with ease.

See Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC TreeList toolbar template demo

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

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.

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

Full-Blown Design System Capabilities

Ready-to-use design system allows development teams to replicate designs to achieve consistency and exceed user expectation with modern looking apps.

Check out the dedicated Design System documentation site

Elevated Consistency with Unified Rendering Across .NET Web and JavaScript

Fostering consistency across different JavaScript and .NET web frameworks even further, the 2024 Q2 release features unified rendering to meet app standardization requirements.

Deprecating Older .NET and .NET Framework Versions

Providing cutting-edge solutions that help meet security and performance standards has been at the core of the Progress Telerik business. To maintain and expand our footprint via 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, as well as .NET versions 6.0 and above.

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

Multiple Document Processing Libraries (DPL) Improvements

• Font subset embedding in PDF for .NET 6+ : The PDF library now supports controlling if the whole TrueType font or only a subset of the used characters gets embedded in the resulting document. This makes the document portable and at the same time with optimal file size. 
• OTF font file format support: Our PDF library now supports OpenType font format (OTF) which is widely used and combines the features of PostScript and TrueType font formats. 
• New online demo application: This dedicated DPL asset exposes many common scenarios where the libraries can help along with full code snippets. 
• All document processing libraries now only support .NET Framework 4.6.2 and above, and .NET 6 and above.