Roadmap

We plan to deliver improvements in the Gantt component popup edit form, by adding tabs feature and exposing additional task properties that can be configured in it.

In 2023 we plan to expand the existing chart UI components for ASP.NET MVC and add a Trendline chart. You will be able to easily illustrate trends in data series and provide charting predictions capabilities to your ASP.NET MVC applications.

Based on your requests in the product feedback portal we plan to ship the following new features and improvements in the UI for ASP.NET MVC Chart components:

• Drill-down option for data series
• Improved animations
• Control of chart legend display
• and more!

The already robust ASP.NET MVC DataGrid component will be further enhanced with the following features:

• Row resizing by end users
• Row spanning (the ability for cells to span multiple cells across rows)
• Column spanning

With the new Scheduler feature, you can highlight events that are currently happening and help users easily spot them. When the configuration option is enabled, any event that falls on the current time will automatically have a highlight style to it.

We aim to provide complete feature parity between the previously existing and the newer PivotGrid components and enable you with resources to facilitate easy migration to the latest version.

To facilitate advanced styling and customization of the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC components beyond color settings, we will introduce support for the library within the ThemeBuilder Pro tool. You will be able to propagate styles with ease, define custom SASS variables, perform atomic customizations, collaborate with other members of the team and more!

Pursuing the goal to be CSP compatible and ultimately ensure strict CSP compliance for Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC, we are planning to implement the following incremental changes in 2023:

• With R2 2023, we plan to replace all font icons internally used with SVG icons in order to address the font-src directive;
• Further in 2023, we plan to detach font-related CSS from Kendo themes in order to remove the need for the font-src directive.

As announced earlier in January 2022, with R1 2023 we will stop support for LESS themes in Telerik and Kendo UI products. Any customer using the LESS themes is advised to migrate to an equivalent SASS-based theme instead. To learn more why this change is happening and how it might affect you please review the “Future Plans for the Telerik and Kendo UI LESS Themes” blog post.

In our upcoming 2023 releases, we will continue with our efforts to improve the overall accessibility of Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC components, ensuring the highest level of compliance with WAI-ARIA, Section 508, and the new WCAG 2.2 standards.

We are undertaking the effort to make improvements to the product’s API in the next several releases throughout 2023. The goal is to address feedback we received regarding the level of details, descriptions, and examples included in the UI for ASP.NET MVC API.

In 2023 we plan to improve the UX related to DateInput and Date & Time picker components for ASP.NET MVC. The areas we plan to focus on are navigation, editing, and validation.

The new Compact Data Grid feature, also called a High Density Grid, focuses on displaying as much information as possible in a single Grid component by reducing the padding and margins used by elements within the ASP.NET MVC Grid. The new compact grid feature will be offered through configuration options and can be used in combination with any of the built-in Default, Bootstrap, Material and Fluent themes.

The TextBox and TextArea will soon have the configuration option to turn on or off the Character Counter feature next to the respective element. This ensures better user experience and gives clarity on the Character count as the user is typing in their content.