“We continue to drive innovation in the .NET space, building on our almost 20 years of experience in creating the technologies that developers need,” said Loren Jarrett, GM, Developer Tools, Progress. “In R2 2021, developers will find the ultimate set of tools to create user-friendly and highly interactive .NET apps for any audience. We are committed to continually offering .NET developers the leading UI components for Microsoft’s newest frameworks, such as Blazor and WinUI, to enable them to deliver more than expected.”

Progress Telerik UI for Blazor

Progress® Telerik® UI for Blazor developer tool features a set of new components, including PanelBar, Form, Card, Color Palette, Arc Gauge, Linear Gauge, Circular Gauge, Radial Gauge, Validation Summary, Validation Tooltip, Validation Message and MediaQuery, to help developers build apps with Blazor much faster. New Grid features such as multi-column headers, rows drag and drop and Excel-like editing help developers easily visualize data and customize their apps. 

Progress Telerik UI for WinUI

Progress® Telerik® UI for WinUI, the fastest-growing, production-ready WinUI component library, enables developers to build modern, high-performing and feature-rich Windows desktop apps. This release brings to market some of the most popular controls from the Telerik portfolio such as Scheduler, ListView with support for extended selection, Shadow, HubTile, NumericBox and SideDrawer. The suite also ships PdfProcessing, WordsProcessing, SpreadProcessing, SpreadStreamProcessing and Zip Library document processing libraries for creation and editing of various document formats.

Telerik Reporting

Telerik® Reporting delivers a new Blazor Report Designer, enabling easy embedding of report designing capabilities into Blazor applications and ensuring a unified and sleek user experience. The Reporting Web Designer has been improved to include drag-and-drop functionality for data fields in the Explorer tab to easily generate text boxes and updates. A new Swiss barcode is introduced to the Barcode component to support Switzerland’s latest QR Bill regulations.

Today’s R2 release includes support for the latest preview of .NET 6 in Telerik® UI for ASP.NET Core, Telerik® UI for WPF, Telerik® UI for WinForms and Telerik® Reporting. Microsoft plans to release .NET 6 in November 2021. In addition, Progress also released enhancements and new components for .NET web, mobile and desktop development across its UI libraries and testing tools, including: Telerik® UI for ASP.NET MVC, Telerik® UI for ASP.NET Core, Telerik® UI for ASP.NET AJAX, Telerik® UI for Xamarin, Telerik® UI for WPF, Telerik® UI for WinForms, Telerik® JustMock and Telerik® Test Studio® Dev Edition. 

The R2 2021 release is available today. To learn more about the new capabilities and features, go to https://www.telerik.com/support/whats-new, register for the live R2 2021 release webinar series, or tune in to Twitch to see them in action.