Progress Announces Telerik UI for Blazor, the First-to-Market Set of Native UI Components for Microsoft Blazor

Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today announced the latest release of Progress Telerik tooling for .NET developers. With today’s release, Progress introduces extended support for the recently introduced Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Preview across the full Progress Telerik .NET product line, as well as .NET Core 3.0 Preview support in Progress Telerik UI for WPF and Progress Telerik UI for WinForms products. In line with these announcements, the Progress Telerik Reporting tool also features support for .NET Core, which extends deployment opportunities for the products beyond the Windows ecosystem. Progress also introduced an early preview of Progress Telerik UI for Blazor, a set of native UI components for Microsoft’s experimental .NET web framework using C# and HTML that runs in the browser.

“The hallmarks of a great web, mobile or desktop application are speed, performance and a modern UI. However, as developers ourselves, we know that delivering on all three of these is no easy feat,” said Faris Sweis, SVP & General Manager, Developer Tooling Business, Progress. “For years, Progress has been trusted by developers worldwide to provide modern and high performing UI controls for desktop, web, and mobile development to make delivering a great UI easy. With new components and expanded support for the latest .NET and JavaScript advancements such as Blazor, we continue to be at the forefront, providing the tooling and UI controls developers need to build rich user experiences even faster.”

Adding to its rich library of UI components, Progress has released 20 new components as well as a preview release of Telerik UI for Blazor, the first-to-market set of native UI components, built from the ground-up and without any dependencies for the latest Microsoft web technology – Blazor. This preview features multiple components including Data Grid. This is in addition to expanded support for Visual Studio 2019 Preview, .NET Core 3.0 Preview, which includes more than 120 ready-to-use components in both Telerik UI for WinForms and Telerik UI for WPF and .NET Core compatibility of Telerik Reporting tools.