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Progress Telerik is First to Market Again in .NET Components, with 40+ Blazor Components and .NET 5 Support in Latest Release
.NET leader brings to market support for .NET 5 Preview, Blazor WebAssembly and 40+ Blazor-native components BEDFORD, Mass., May 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
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[{"type":"text","content":".NET leader brings to market support for .NET 5 Preview, Blazor WebAssembly and 40+ Blazor-native components\n BEDFORD, Mass., May 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, today announced the R2 2020 release of its leading lineup of developer tools including Progress® Telerik® and Progress® Kendo UI®. With this release, Progress now offers over 40 native components for Progress® Telerik® UI for Blazor, including WebAssembly compatibility, and more. In addition, Progress is the first to deliver support for Microsoft’s preview of .NET 5 – what it calls, “the future of .NET.” Progress Telerik UI for BlazorAs the first set of native development tools available to support Microsoft Blazor, Progress Telerik UI for Blazor dramatically decreases the amount of time and effort required for developers to get new apps up and running with Blazor. With today’s release, the Telerik UI for Blazor development tool is now equipped with more than 40 production-ready native components made up of the most requested components across the Telerik portfolio, including Upload, ListView, MultiSelect, DateRangePicker, Drawer, Pager, Tooltip, CheckBox, and more. Telerik UI for Blazor is also compatible with the latest release of Blazor WebAssembly, one of the newest technologies available to web developers with promising new features for performance and expanding the boundaries of web languages. In addition to the new components, Telerik UI for Blazor also includes Scheduler improvements, new Grid features such as column virtualization, autogenerated columns, and support for nested models. “Blazor is taking off as the newest .NET web framework in enterprises of all sizes, and we’re proud to offer the most comprehensive suite of native UI components for Blazor available,” said Loren Jarrett, GM, Developer Tools, Progress. “We are committed to continually raising the bar for innovation and quality to enable .NET and JavaScript developers to deliver more than expected. This release continues our delivery on that commitment.” Support for .NET 5 PreviewAccording to Microsoft, “The .NET 5 project is an important and exciting new direction for .NET. You will see .NET become simpler but also have broader and more expansive capability and utility. All new development a...