Telerik UI for .NET MAUI: Support for .NET 9

To continue providing industry-leading support for Microsoft’s newest frameworks and following the evolution of .NET, Telerik UI for .NET MAUI now features compatibility with .NET 9. 

Level Up with a Powerful Theming Support (Preview)

You can now effortlessly create consistent experiences with advanced customization options and multiple color choices. Choose a light or dark mode and tailor diverse visual aspects to fit your needs - Telerik UI for .NET MAUI theming support gives you the flexibility to design with ease. Now you can build high-performance, rich UIs faster and more efficiently, while delivering a seamless and scalable experience across all platforms.  

Easily Organize and Browse Through Data with the New Telerik UI for .NET MAUI DataPager

The Telerik UI for .NET MAUI DataPager provides users with a navigation interface for paging through any data collection. It supplies a paged data source to data-bound controls making it easier to organize and is particularly useful when working with large datasets. 

The enhancements that come with the DataPager allow easy customizations:

• Data binding — You can bind the DataPager to any collection that implements the IEnumerable interface, making it suitable for paging any collection. 
• Display modes — You can use different modes to define which of the visual elements in the DataPager will be visible, for example, the first/last/next page buttons and more. 
• Ellipsis modes — You can specify where the three dots appear in the DataPager. 
• Page size — You can use different properties to configure the page, like setting the page size, current page index and more. 
• Define the number of the page buttons — You can specify the minimum and maximum number of the numeric (page number) buttons in the DataPager control. 
• Item spacing — You can specify the space between the items in the DataPager. 
• Localization — Translate the phrases used across the DataPager control to other languages so that you can adapt your app to different regions. 
• Commands — The Telerik UI for .NET MAUI DataPager exposes a number of commands that will be executed when users click the navigation buttons. 
• Flexible styling API — Thanks to the control's flexible API, you can directly configure how various elements of the Telerik UI for .NET MAUI DataPager are displayed in your application, change the look of the buttons, navigation area and more. 

Easily Resize Grid Columns or Rows with the New Telerik UI for .NET MAUI GridSplitter

The new Telerik UI for .NET MAUI GridSplitter allows you to redistribute spaces between columns or rows in a Grid and adjust different sections in the layout. 

You will be able to:

• Resize behavior — The GridSplitter allows you to control which columns or rows are resized relative to the position of the splitter. 
• Resize direction — You can control whether the GridSplitter control resizes rows or columns. 
• Visual states — You can use visual states to change the appearance of the control based on its state — for example, when it's disabled or hovered. 
• Styling API – The GridSplitter exposes a set of styling properties for customizing its visual appearance and enables you to set its background, border and gripper color. 

DatePicker Enhancement: DateOnly Feature

If your application needs to store or manipulate only the dates without the times, you can take advantage of the DateOnly struct when working with the DatePicker control and allow more flexibility for users.

TimePicker Enhancement: TimeOnly Feature

If your application needs to store or manipulate only the time without the date portion, you can take advantage of the TimeOnly struct when working with the TimePicker control.

ComboBox Enhancement: Filtering Support

Now you can offer an even better user experience when creating interfaces for selecting multiple options from a dropdown list. The newly added filtering support in Telerik UI for .NET MAUI ComboBox improves usability by enabling a fast and intuitive search and selection of options from a large set of data. You can toggle matching options highlighting on and off and customizе the default filtering behavior.

See the .NET MAUI ComboBox documentation: Filtering

CollectionView Enhancements: Multiple New Features

With the 2024 Q3 release, we’re shipping the Telerik UI for .NET MAUI CollectionView with a ton of new features to handle all essential usage scenarios. Newly added functionality includes:

• Header and footer templates to position content above and below the list of items
• Drag and drop functionality that can be used for item reordering
• Manual and automatic load-on-demand functionality used for loading large data sets
• Grid Layout: An option to visualize items into rows or columns
• Item swipe functionality that provides the ability to perform specific actions on the item

The component is now almost at parity with the Telerik UI for .NET MAUI ListView and we recommend that you start using the CollectionView in future projects and consider migrating the .NET MAUI ListView to CollectionView.

See the .NET MAUI CollectionView documentation

Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Scaffoldings

Boost your productivity with the newly launched Telerik UI for .NET MAUI Scaffolding screens and pages. Find them in the Telerik UI for .NET MAUI extensions for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Use the scaffoldings to quickly add predefined pages and screens to your .NET MAUI application and further configure the pages by using the exposed settings.

The Telerik UI for .NET MAUI extensions are available in the Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code Marketplace.

See the .NET MAUI Visual Studio Scaffoldings documentation

See the .NET MAUI Visual Studio Code Scaffoldings documentation

More Features and Enhancements

• .NET MAUI DataGrid Improvement: Column Reordering and Resizing Events
• .NET MAUI Buttons Improvement: Ripple Effect
• .NET MAUI Pickers Improvement: isOpen property added
• Document Processing Libraries (DPL) Enhancements:
  • PdfProcessing: With 2024 Q3, the PdfProcessing now support annotations of type StrikeOut, Stamp, Popup, Text and Highlight along with capability to handle documents with mismatched font Subtype and FontFile type.
  • SpreadProcessing: Support for SVG images is introduced with 2024 Q3 release as well as ability to handle importing and reading of cached formula value when the formula contains external references.
  • WordsProcessing: Support for SVG images is introduced with 2024 Q3 release as well as support for exporting text with a strikethrough to PDF.

For the full list of new features and bug fixes across Telerik UI for .NET MAUI controls, check out the release notes.