DockManager UI Component for Desktop-Like Experiences in Web

Recreating desktop-like experiences in your Blazor web apps is now possible with the newly introduced DockManager UI control. It allows you to replicate the docks along with their respective behavior in desktop applications, such as Visual Studio, which are typically designed for larger screens.

Telerik UI for Blazor DockManager control empowers users to manage and organize multiple panes within a single container. It supports features like docking, undocking, resizing, and repositioning, offering a flexible and customizable layout.

If you are looking to migrate from a desktop framework to Telerik UI for Blazor, the DockManager component will significantly speed up the process without breaking the user experience in the meantime. 

See the Telerik UI for Blazor DockManager demo 

New FloatingAction Button for Showing Primary Actions on Click

Enhance your Telerik UI for Blazor applications with the new FloatingActionButton, a sleek UI component that stays visible above page content, ensuring quick access to essential actions even when scrolling. Designed for seamless user interactions, the component performs the most logical action expected from a user looking at a particular screen.

The Telerik UI for Blazor Floating Action Button comes with built-in customization features that let you refine the positioning and alignment of the component, customize its appearance, use icons, and attach click events.

Empower users with an intuitive and efficient way to navigate and interact with your Blazor app, delivering a polished and modern UI experience.

See the Telerik UI for Blazor FloatingActionButton demo 

Effortless Telerik UI for Blazor Data Grid Export to PDF

Generate a polished PDF out of your Telerik UI for Blazor DataGrid data with a single click. The newly introduced Grid Export to PDF feature ensures that all applied filters, sorting, paging, grouping, column order, and sizes are reflected in the exported file.

Hit the Export button and your browser will instantly download a well-formatted PDF.

See the Telerik UI for Blazor DataGrid export to PDF demo

AI Prompt Integration with Microsoft.Extensions.AI Preview Package

The Telerik UI for Blazor AI Prompt component is now integrated with Microsoft.Extensions.AI preview package. Build AI-powered features in your Blazor applications more efficiently with out-of-the box abstractions for integrating popular AI services into your web apps.

See the updated Telerik UI for Blazor AI Prompt demo

CSS Variables for Effortless Customization

With 2025 Q1 release, we’ve added support for CSS variables in Telerik UI for Blazor Charts, Arc, Circular and Linear gauges, making the customization effortless. Fine-tune colors, fonts, and sizes with a single variable, there is no need to modify the core code.

Enhanced UI Customization Tooling

Progress Page Templates and Building Blocks collection got enriched with 12 new Building Blocks such as Dashboard cards, AI App Welcome screen and AI-powered editor, alongside a new AI Usage Monitoring dashboard template.

Page Templates and Building Blocks are pre-configured with Telerik UI for Blazor components embedded and come for free with the newly introduced subscription packages.

Telerik and Kendo UI License Key Files

A few years ago, we introduced a licensing mechanism for Kendo UI, and with Q1 2025, we are expanding the same straightforward and flexible licensing mechanism to the rest of the products in the portfolio. The goal is to provide a unified approach to licensing across Telerik and Kendo UI collection of libraries and tools, allowing teams to focus on innovation while maintaining compliance with ease. We believe that this change better serves the evolving needs of developers and organizations and will enable us to further improve the license management experience we provide.

The process is simple. You just need a License Key File. Learn more about the License Key Files in the dedicated documentation.

More Updates and Enhancements in Telerik UI for Blazor

• Adaptive mode for flawless user experience on all screen sizes is added to Telerik UI for Blazor ColorPicker and ToolBar.
• Telerik UI for Blazor ColorGradient, ColorPalette and FlatColorPicker now support a size parameter.
• InputMode parameter is added to multiple Telerik UI for Blazor components, including AutoComplete, ComboBox, DateInput, DatePicker, DateRangePicker, DateTimePicker, TimePicker, MultiColumnComboBox, MultiSelect, TextBox, NumericTextBox.
• Telerik UI for Blazor TabStrip is enhanced with multiple features, including support for tabs swipe scroll on mobile devices, sizing options and control over the visibility and the position of the scroll buttons.

Check out the Telerik UI for Blazor 2025 Q1 release notes.

Document Processing Libraries (DPL) Enhancements in 2025 Q1

With 2025 Q1 release, we’ve introduced a major enhancement to the PdfProcessing library by adding support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It enables conversion of images of typed, handwritten, or printed text into machine-encoded text from a scanned document.  

Several other improvements in the PdfProcessing library accompany the OCR update. These include support for adding barcodes to a PDF document, option for setting height to table rows, API that allows optimization and reduction of the size of existing PDF files and so much more.  

Check out the Document Processing Libraries (DPL) 2025 Q1 release notes.