Progress Announces Latest Innovations for Telerik Product Line – Native Components for Microsoft Blazor and Day-Zero Support for VS 2019 and .NET Core 3.0

Latest release brings new features, controls and improvements that
enable developers to easily build high-performance web, mobile and
desktop applications

BEDFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and
digital experience technologies, today announced the newest release of
Progress® Telerik® tooling for .NET developers. With this release,
Progress delivers full day-zero support for Visual Studio 2019 and .NET
Core 3.0 across the entire Progress Telerik product line. In addition,
Progress expands its portfolio with a brand-new suite for the Microsoft
Blazor framework—Progress® Telerik® UI for Blazor—offering 17 native UI
components, including Grid, Charts, TextBox, DropDownList and several
SASS-based themes.

“Developers today are under pressure to create applications much faster,
while delivering outstanding user experiences. To build apps that are
high-performance and intuitive to use, they need the right tools,” said
Faris Sweis, SVP & General Manager, Developer Tooling Business,
Progress. “With the new additions to Telerik tooling in today’s release,
developers can now build with full support for the latest Microsoft
technologies and new components for Blazor, so they can create apps that
users love.”

New capabilities and features also include:

Web—Telerik UI for Blazor, ASP.NET Core, MVC and AJAX
In
addition to the 17 components and the SASS-based themes for Blazor:

• Progress® Telerik® UI for ASP.NET Core now includes official support
  for .NET Core 3.0 preview 5, allowing developers to utilize the
  component suite with the latest version of the .NET Core framework.
• In Progress® Telerik® UI for ASP.NET MVC and Telerik UI for ASP.NET
  Core:
  • PDFViewer and Drawer components have been introduced. PDFViewer
    allows developers to load and manipulate PDF files in the browser.
    With Drawer, they can greatly enhance the navigation and usability
    of their web app.
  • Many existing components, controls and widgets have been improved.
    The ListView widget now supports displaying large amounts of data
    by appending additional pages of data on demand. Loading can
    happen automatically by enabling the endless scrolling
    functionality.
  • Mobile support for DateRangePicker has been added and the
    component now runs seamlessly on mobile devices and across all
    platforms.
  • The Adaptive Rendering for two of the most commonly used
    components, Grid and Schedule, has been improved.
  • The Spreadsheet component now supports images, cell comments and
    additional events.
• Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX includes updates to the
  MultiColumnComboBox and Button controls as well as a series of
  stability improvements.

Mobile—Progress® Telerik UI® for Xamarin

• New Map control enables the visualization of shapes from ESRI shape
  files consisting of lines, polylines and polygons, such as floor
  plans, concert halls, airplane seat distribution and even maps.
• The new Image Editor control allows mobile application end users to
  perform basic and several advanced image manipulations straight from
  their mobile devices.
• PDFViewer now has a series of new enhancements and features, including
  improvements in performance and in the rendering mechanism. It also
  has a new load-page-on-demand functionality.
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac support has been added so that developers
  can use the menu and toolbox for Telerik UI for Xamarin when they
  develop on Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.

Desktop—Progress® Telerik® UI for WPF and WinForms

• Visual Studio Templates of Telerik UI for WPF and WinForms have been
  migrated to .NET Core and can be now used to create brand new .NET
  Core-based applications faster.
• The RibbonView control in Telerik UI for WPF and WinForms has been
  simplified to enable developers to provide a modern and intuitive UX.
  Simplified Ribbon, a mode of the regular Ribbon, offers ease of access
  to commonly used commands organized in a compact interface.
• A new Tabbed Window control for WPF has been added for creating
  tab-based navigation in applications. Another new control, WebCam,
  allows embedding a media player in a desktop application for video
  streaming and taking pictures.
• Three new customizable file dialogs have been introduced to Telerik UI
  for WinForms: Open, Browse and Save File Dialogs, as well as new
  DomainUpDown control which enables browsing through and selecting from
  a list of items.

Reporting, Testing & Productivity Tools

• Progress® Telerik® Reporting and Progress® Telerik® Report Server now
  include:
  • PDF documents accessibility—the most used PDF documents are now
    enabled to meet all applicable accessibility standards.
  • JSON DataSource component has been added to help developers easily
    feed data for creating reports.
• Implement support for Azure DevOps pipeline with build agent hosted in
  the cloud, verification of method call prerequisites, automatic
  resolving of test context when using asynchronous tasks for Progress®
  Telerik® JustMock.

The latest Progress Telerik release is available today. To learn more
about the new capabilities and features, register for the “Telerik
R2 2019 Release Webinar” on May 29 and visit https://www.telerik.com.

Additional Resources

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• Read the Progress blog

About Progress
Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading platform for developing and deploying
strategic business applications. We enable customers and partners to
deliver modern, high-impact digital experiences with a fraction of the
effort, time and cost. Progress offers powerful tools for easily
building adaptive user experiences across any type of device or
touchpoint, award-winning machine learning that enables cognitive
capabilities to be a part of any application, the flexibility of a
serverless cloud to deploy modern apps, business rules, web content
management, plus leading data connectivity technology. Over 1,700
independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers, and two
million developers rely on Progress to power their applications. Learn
about Progress at www.progress.com or
+1-800-477-6473.

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Contacts

Kim Baker
Progress
+1 888-365-2779
pr@progress.com