Roadmap

We plan to introduce a DropDownTree component for Telerik UI for Blazor, combining the familiarity of a dropdown with the flexibility of a tree view. It is ideal for scenarios where users need to select items from complex, nested structures such as categories, organizational units, or file-like hierarchies.

Planned capabilities include:

• Single and multiple selection modes with checkboxes or standard item selection

• Search and filtering within the tree to quickly locate items in large datasets

• Customizable item templates to display icons, badges, or additional metadata

• Data binding to your existing models for consistent integration with backend data

The goal is to provide a compact, user-friendly way to select hierarchical data while staying fully aligned with the rest of the Blazor dropdown and tree components in the suite.

We plan to introduce an Image Editor component for Telerik UI for Blazor that enables end users to make quick visual adjustments without leaving your application.

Planned capabilities include:

• Essential editing tools: crop, resize, rotate, flip, and zoom

• Visual adjustments: brightness, contrast, saturation, and other basic filters

• Annotations: drawing tools, shapes, text overlays, and highlights

• Configurable toolbar and dialogs so you can expose only the tools your scenario requires

• Integration with existing components, such as Upload and FileManager, for a smooth end-to-end flow

The goal is to provide a lightweight yet powerful image editing experience that can be safely embedded in business applications.

We plan to introduce a Segmented Control for Telerik UI for Blazor to make it easier for users to choose between a small set of related options in a compact, modern UI.

Planned capabilities include:

• Single- and multi-select modes for toggling between one or several options

• Content templates to display text, icons, or both in each segment

• Responsive layouts that adapt gracefully on desktop and mobile

• Built-in theming and customization to align with your brand and design system

• Easy data binding and form integration so it works seamlessly with existing Blazor forms and validation

The goal is to offer a lightweight, intuitive alternative to radio buttons and button groups for common selection scenarios.

We plan to introduce a Task Board (Kanban) component for Telerik UI for Blazor that helps you visualize and manage work in a simple, card-based flow. It will be designed for scenarios like task tracking, ticketing systems, and project management dashboards.

Planned capabilities include:

• Columns and swimlanes for modeling different stages, teams, or owners

• Drag-and-drop cards to move work between columns and update status

• Customizable card templates to display key fields such as title, assignee, priority, and tags

• WIP limits and indicators to help teams avoid overloading stages

• Data binding to your existing models so the Kanban stays in sync with your backend

The goal is to provide a flexible, high-performance Kanban experience that fits naturally alongside Grid, Scheduler, and the rest of the Telerik UI for Blazor suite.

We’re introducing PromptBox, a new component designed specifically for prompting and chat interactions in AI-powered applications. It supports both simple and advanced prompt patterns, offering structured input areas, inline guidance, reusable prompt templates, and seamless integration with your AI backend of choice.

Whether you’re building an AI assistant, semantic search experience, or automated workflow, PromptBox helps developers create consistent, high-quality prompts with minimal effort. This component is an important step in our vision to make Telerik UI for Blazor fully AI-ready and to accelerate the development of intelligent applications.

Keyboard navigation is essential for power users, accessibility, and high-throughput workflows. In 2026, we plan to introduce configurable keyboard shortcuts for the most used Telerik UI for Blazor components, starting with the Grid.

You will be able to:

• Customize default shortcuts for common actions (for example, navigation, selection, editing, opening menus)

• Define component-specific shortcut schemes that match your users’ expectations

• Centralize shortcut configuration, so it is easier to document and maintain across large applications

This work builds on our existing keyboard support, focusing on giving you control rather than a fixed, one-size-fits-all setup.

An AI-powered enhancement that streamlines data entry by transforming unstructured pasted content into structured form inputs. Users can copy text from emails, documents, or messages and paste it once, with the component intelligently mapping each piece to the correct fields based on context. This reduces manual typing, improves accuracy, and boosts efficiency. Smart Paste can be added to any form or other component with minimal setup and supports integration with any AI provider for content analysis. It offers a fast, context-aware paste experience that dramatically improves productivity. 

We are redesigning the SmartGrid user experience to make AI-assisted data exploration feel natural, predictable, and easy to adopt in production applications. The updated SmartGrid will:

• Offer an improved prompt-controlled workflow for sorting, filtering, grouping, and highlighting data

• Provide a clearer separation between the classic Grid UX and the new AI-driven mode, so you can adopt it gradually

• Introduce a more refined layout, command surface, and error handling that works well for both mouse and keyboard users

Our goal is to keep the power of the current Grid while making AI interaction feel like a first-class, reliable part of everyday work, not just a demo feature.

We’re making Telerik UI for Blazor even more engaging and visually appealing. Upcoming updates include improved chart animations for smoother transitions, category highlighting for better data focus and readability, and theme-driven animation tokens to ensure consistent motion design across all themes. These enhancements will help you create charts that not only convey data clearly but also deliver a polished, modern user experience aligned with your application’s design. 

The Chat component continues to evolve as our go-to interface for both human-to-human and human-to-AI communication. Following major updates in 2025, we’re further enhancing its UI/UX and expanding its feature set to deliver a smoother, more reliable messaging experience.

Upcoming improvements include quality-of-life additions such as a scroll-to-bottom button, failed-message states, and many other usability features. These enhancements ensure the Chat component remains intuitive, modern, and ready for advanced conversational scenarios across your applications. 

Alongside new features, 2026 will include a dedicated track of work focused on non-functional aspects of Telerik UI for Blazor:

• Performance improvements for data-intensive components such as the Grid and TreeList in real-world scenarios

• Accessibility refinements to better align with modern standards and assistive technology expectations

• Hardening work around reliability, memory usage, and long-running sessions for mission-critical apps

These investments are driven by feedback from enterprise customers who rely on Telerik UI for Blazor in large, complex applications.

We are extending the TabStrip component with more advanced layout and personalization capabilities so it can better support complex multi-tab experiences:

• Smarter handling of limited screen width with improved overflow behavior

• Enhanced support for pinned, disabled, and closed tabs with a clearer visual hierarchy

• Runtime personalization features that allow users to reorder or reset tabs to their original configuration

These enhancements aim to make TabStrip a better fit for “workspace” scenarios such as dashboards, admin panels, and multi-document interfaces.

Telerik UI for Blazor will fully support the official .NET 11 release. Our team is committed to ensuring seamless compatibility from day one, delivering a smooth upgrade path for developers, and taking full advantage of all performance, tooling, and framework improvements introduced in .NET 11.

Key enhancements coming to Document Processing Libraries:

• AI-assisted Word & Excel APIs integration via MCP Server ( PDF support already released)
• GenAI-powered insights for Excel documents ( PDF & Word support already released)
• PDF/UA-compliant accessible document generation ( released)
• PDF Document signing improvements
• Optimized Excel formulas recalculation
• Cross-platform text measurer with SkiaSharp & HarfBuzzSharp ( released)

Learn more in the full DPL roadmap update.