Telerik UI for WPF: Support for .NET 9

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

GridView Enhancement: New Filtering Mode in RadGridView Allowing Complex Expressions

The new Filter Editor, which is one of the filtering modes of RadGridView, now allows you to create complex filter expressions. The visualization of the editor consists of a panel displaying an overview of the filtering criteria and a dialog with an embedded RadDataFilter control that is used to add, remove and modify the filters.

The enhancements include:

• Data Filter View — The panel displaying the applied filters and the related options. 
• Apply Filters CheckBox — A CheckBox that enables/disables the selected filters in the associated RadGridView instances. 
• Toggle Wrapping Button — A toggle button that enables/disables the wrapping of the filtering criteria. 
• Edit Filters Button — A button that opens a dialog that allows editing of the filters using a RadDataFilter control. 
• Close Button — A button that hides the Data Filter View panel. 
• Filter Part — The parts of the field criteria, the associated operators and parenting. 
• RadDataFilter — A data filter editor.

GridView Enhancement: Support for Specifying the Modifier Key Used for Multi-Column Sorting

The GridView now provides support for specifying the modifier key used for multi-column sorting. This enhancement allows you to seamlessly plug any valid keys combination as an action accelerator. 

Disabled Data Filtering is Supported in Telerik UI for WPF DataGrid Search As You Type Behavior

With 2024 Q3 release, the Telerik UI for WPF DataGrid control is enhanced with a new capability allowing you to disable the data filtering upon searching. The IsSearchFilteringEnabled option enables you to control whether the data will be filtered when a search operation is performed. The default value is set to True, which will filter the data. When the data filtering is disabled, search operations will only highlight the cells that match the search criteria.

Check out the Telerik UI for WPF DataGrid search as you type with disabled data filtering documentation.

Grouping DateTime Values in Telerik UI for WPF Data Grid

Up until now the distinct values of type DateTime were shown in a flat list where each record shows the full date-time value. With this release you can effortlessly group the values by date-time component (year, month and day). Simply change the distinct values display mode.

See the Telerik UI for WPF DataGrid grouping date-time values documentation.

Document Processing Libraries (DPL) Enhancements in Q3

• 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.

More Features and Enhancements in Telerik UI for WPF

Along with the Telerik UI for WPF DataGrid improvements, the 2024 Q3 release also introduces a couple of other updates that would make your work with the desktop controls even better:

• Included Telerik.UI.for.Wpf.AllControls.Xaml and Telerik.UI.for.Wpf.AllControls.NoXaml meta NuGet packages that reference the individual NuGet packages for all UI for WPF controls.
• Modernized Visual Studio extensions wizard design.
• CheckedTrackRadius and UnCheckedTrackRadius properties are added to the RadToggleSwitchButton, providing control over the radius of Track rectangle elements.
• Added a MouseOver state to the 'Selected' and 'Today' buttons in the DateRangePicker.
• And more

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