The third Telerik and Kendo UI release of the year has just arrived! Catch up on everything that’s new – there’s a lot!
With the Telerik and Kendo UI controls and tools, our mission is to make the life of software developers easier, so they can build and deliver their web, mobile and desktop applications faster, feature rich and with lovely UI and UX that is pleasing to the end users of the applications. In this journey, we are staying ahead of the curve and evaluating new technologies all the time, before they become widely adopted, so we can have the right tools for .NET developers to build apps, even before they need them.
With the Telerik R3 2019 release, you will be better equipped to continue doing just that – we are so proud to release the all-new Telerik UI for Blazor packed with more than 25 brand-new native components!
In addition, we are happy to announce that our component .NET toolsets are fully compliant with the upcoming .NET Core 3.0 (RC) and are coming with tons of new controls and improvements.
Read on for more details, and for those of you who just want to get the bits right away, you can get them here.
First on the Market with Telerik UI for Blazor with over 25 Components and the Exclusive Support of Microsoft
We are very proud for being one of the first teams to throw our support behind this new Microsoft framework. Now, after several releases, lots of feedback from Blazor fans, and huge steps for the Blazor framework itself, we are happy to announce that Telerik UI for Blazor 1.6.0 is here!
With this new version our offering is expanding and now we offer 25+ native components for building web applications with Blazor – Grid, Charts, DropDownList, Inputs, Data Inputs, Layout, TreeView, Styling and more.
Only 4 months ago with the initial release of Telerik UI for Blazor we had the following UI components ready for you right out of the box:
· Button
· Calendar
· Charts – Area, Column, Bar, Line, Pie, Donut
· Date Input
· Date Picker
· DropDownList
· Grid
· Numeric Textbox
· TabStrip
· TextBox
· Window
· Animation Container
With the new release we are introducing a slew of new components:
· TreeView
· Menu
· DateTimePicker
· TimePicker
· Grouping
· FilterMenu
· Hierarchical Grid
· Selection (single/multimple)
· API Reference
With this solid list you can easily start developing pretty advanced applications using Telerik UI for Blazor.
There’s just so much to showcase in the new Telerik UI for Blazor, so if you want to deep dive into it you can easily do it now. If you’ve already been using Telerik UI for Blazor in its earlier iterations you can go over to our What’s New in Telerik UI for Blazor page.
What’s New in the Telerik Line of Products
The R3 2019 release formalizes our support for .NET Core 3.0 (Release candidate) in all our installers and brings a bunch of new controls for your web, mobile and desktop applications. Below are our Telerik release highlights. Make sure you check out the release notes for each product to learn about everything that is included.
Web – Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core, MVC and Ajax
· Official support for .NET Core 3.0 (RC)
· New components and accessibility improvements in ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET MVC - TimeLine, Filter andRating controls, more features to the recently introduced PdfViewer control and a slew of Document Processing Libraries for creation of Word, Pdf and Spreadsheet documents – WordsProcessing, PdfProcessing and SpreadStreamProcessing
· New Drawer component, Spreadsheet enhancements and Accessibility improvements in ASP.NET AJAX
Mobile — Telerik UI for Xamarin
· New .NET Standard WordsProcessing library – generate and modify docx, rtf, html or pdf documents right in your app or on the server
· Calendar enhanced scheduling capabilities - restricted and special slots support, enhanced scroll into view APIs and appointment customization capabilities
· ImageEditor improvements – new cropping and sizing options land in the newest Xamarin component
· PdfViewer gets selection and link annotation support
Desktop — Telerik UI for WPF and WinForms
· Official support for .NET Core 3.0 (RC) and design time support for WPF
· Visual Studio 2019 theme, New Syntax Editor control, FilePathPicker control and SwitchButton control for WPF
· New WebCam control and Sparkline control for WinForms
Reporting, Testing & Productivity Tools
· Optimized performance of data source component to maximize the use of data by caching and re-usage of all shared data sources in the report for Reporting and Report Server
· Flexible parameters and document map areas positioningfor the Web-based report viewer controls to ensure the best UX to end users for Reporting
· Web-based report designer that will enable basic reports editing without leaving the Report Server web app
· Mock generics with NonPublic API and future mocking of NonPublic classes for JustMock
· Visual Studio 2019 support for Telerik Test Studio Dev Edition
What’s New in the Kendo UI Line of Products
The R3 2019 release is adding support for Angular 8 and many new Kendo UI controls and numerous grid improvements, rounding out Kendo UI’s native support for three of the most popular JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular and Vue).
KendoReact
· New Component: TreeList
· New Component: Scheduler
· New Component: ColorPicker
· New Component: ColorGradient
· New Component: ColorPalette
· New Component: Pager
· Roadmap for KendoReact
Kendo UI for Angular
· Support for Angular 8 – first official release
· New Component: ProgressBar
· New Component: Drawer component
· New Component: DateTimePicker
· Scheduler RTM (update from previous beta release)
· Grid enhancements: column virtualization and new group header options
· Component Improvement: Responsive Toolbar
· Continued Improvements to the Editor
· Roadmap for Angular
Kendo UI for jQuery
· New Component: Filter Widget
· New Component: Timeline Widget
· New Component: Rating Widget
· PDF Viewer Updates
· DataSource Updates
· Roadmap for jQuery
You can find more on this at the Kendo UI Release blogpost.
R3 2019 Release Blog Posts
While this blog post provides a high-level overview, you will want to check out these in-depth blog posts which cover all new features in detail.
Sign Up for the Release Webinars
Seeing is believing, so register to see all the new features – WEBINARS ARE COMING UP FAST! It will help you to follow along easily if you download the latest release here.
Web—Telerik UI for Blazor, ASP.NET Core, MVC and AJAX
October 2, 2019 @11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. ET
October 2, 2019 @11:45 a.m. ET – 12:30 p.m. ET
October 8, 2019 @11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. ET
October 8, 2019 @11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET
October 8, 2019 @12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET