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Accelerate development with Enhanced UI Tooling

3月 21, 2025
KendoReact v9.4.0 (2025 Q1) adds 12 new Building Blocks, including a new AI Usage Monitoring Dashboard Template for modern app design.

KendoReact by Telerik is a comprehensive library of UI components specifically designed for building modern, feature-rich React applications, enabling developers to create intuitive, responsive, and visually appealing interfaces with ease. It includes robust components like data grids, charts, form elements, and navigation tools, optimized for high performance with features such as virtualization for large datasets and adherence to accessibility standards. Ideal for dashboards, enterprise apps, and data-driven applications, KendoReact empowers teams to accelerate development, ensure design consistency, and deliver inclusive user experiences.

The KendoReact v9.4.0 update enhances UI development efficiency by introducing 12 new Building Blocks, including Dashboard Cards, an AI App Welcome Screen, an AI-powered Editor, and an AI Usage Monitoring Dashboard Template. These pre-configured components, seamlessly integrated with KendoReact, enable developers to accelerate application design, maintain consistency, and reduce implementation effort. By leveraging these ready-to-use elements, teams can focus on building functionality rather than UI assembly, ensuring faster delivery of modern, AI-driven applications with a polished user experience.

To see a full list of what’s new in 2025 Q1 (v9.4.0), see our release notes.

KendoReact is licensed per developer and has two licensing models: an annual Subscription License and a Perpetual License. The Subscription license provides access to the latest product updates, technical support, and exclusive benefits for a flat annual fee, and must be renewed to continue using the software. The Perpetual license is a one-time purchase granting access to the current released version and includes a one-year subscription for product updates and technical support. After this initial period, users can choose to renew the subscription element to continue receiving updates and support; otherwise, they may continue using the installed version available during their active subscription term but will forgo future updates and support. See our KendoReact licensing page for full details.

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Optimize Data Input in .NET WinForms Grids

3月 21, 2025
Use AutoComplete cells to enhance data entry by offering context-aware suggestions, reducing user effort, and decreasing the likelihood of errors.

An AutoComplete cell type in a grid control facilitates efficient data entry by providing predictive suggestions as users type, drawing from a predefined data source to minimize errors and enhance user experience. This functionality, often implemented via lookup editors, custom cell editors, or event handling, streamlines data input by displaying a dropdown list of matching values, allowing for quick selection and reducing typing effort, ultimately contributing to faster and more accurate data management within the application.

Several .NET WinForms grid controls enable the AutoComplete cell type including:

  • DevExpress WinForms Data Grid (part of DevExpress WinForms) enhances user input with an AutoComplete Cell Type, providing real-time suggestions from bound data sources.
  • True DBGrid for WinForms (part of ComponentOne Studio WinForms by MESCIUS) improves data entry efficiency with AutoComplete cells, minimizing errors by offering context-aware suggestions.
  • Telerik UI for WinForms GridView (part of Telerik UI for WinForms) enables seamless data selection with AutoComplete cells, reducing typing effort through intelligent, customizable predictions.
  • Infragistics WinDataGrid (part of Infragistics Ultimate UI for Windows Forms) optimizes UX with the AutoComplete cell type, simplifying structured input by dynamically displaying relevant choices.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our WinForms grid controls comparison.

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Simplify Date Editing with Auto Type Support

3月 21, 2025
DevExpress WPF v24.2 adds automatic DateOnly and TimeOnly editor support in Grid, TreeList, and Property Grid, enhancing data handling.

DevExpress WPF is a powerful suite of controls that enhances your WPF development toolkit. It offers data grids, ribbon menus, rich text editors, spreadsheets, charts, and more – all with beautiful themes and touch-friendly interfaces. DevExpress WPF empowers you to build professional-looking, responsive applications that meet modern user expectations, saving you time and effort while adding polish and functionality.

The DevExpress WPF v24.2 update enhances data handling in Grid, TreeList, and Property Grid by introducing automatic support for DateOnly and TimeOnly properties. This improvement ensures that the appropriate data editors are automatically assigned to cells, filters, and conditional formatting dialogs without requiring manual configuration. By streamlining the editing experience, the update provides a more intuitive approach to working with date and time values while reducing development effort. Users can now rely on built-in editor selection, improving efficiency and ensuring a seamless user experience across their applications.

To see a full list of what's new in version 24.2, see our release notes.

DevExpress WPF is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. We can supply new subscriptions, subscription renewals, and additional licenses. See our DevExpress WPF licensing page for full details.

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Accelerate Workflows with Database Clones

3月 21, 2025
Redgate Test Data Manager enables fast, secure test data provisioning with lightweight clones, reducing delays and streamlining testing.

Redgate Test Data Manager is a comprehensive software solution designed to streamline and automate test data management within database environments. It enables teams to provision realistic, production-like data while masking sensitive information to maintain compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. With data masking, synthetic data generation, and efficient provisioning, it creates reliable test environments that mirror real-world scenarios. This helps teams detect issues early, streamline debugging, and improve software quality while minimizing production risks and ensuring seamless deployments.

Lightweight clones in Redgate Test Data Manager enable software developers to rapidly create isolated, dedicated test environments without the overhead of full database copies. By referencing source data efficiently, these clones minimize storage requirements while maintaining full database functionality. Sensitive information is automatically handled to ensure compliance with security and privacy requirements, allowing developers to work independently with reliable test data while reducing infrastructure costs and accelerating testing cycles.

Redgate Monitor is licensed per server on an annual subscription basis. See our Redgate Test Data Manager licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Redgate Test Data Manager product page.

Simplify Data Collection with a JSON Form Builder

3月 21, 2025
SurveyJS Survey Creator allows you to build dynamic forms directly in your JavaScript application and maintain full control over user data.

SurveyJS is a family of extensible JavaScript libraries designed to help developers build robust form management systems fully integrated into their web applications. These libraries work seamlessly with any backend system and are fully compatible with modern JavaScript frameworks, including React, Angular, and Vue 3.

SurveyJS Survey Creator is a powerful form-building UI component featuring an intuitive drag-and-drop interface that makes form creation accessible to all users. Its UI is fully customizable - from appearance and functionality to the UI language - allowing it to seamlessly blend into your application. Behind the scenes, SurveyJS leverages a JSON-based schema to define forms and surveys, making it easy to store, share, and dynamically render form structures across different environments.

Users can enjoy an intuitive survey-building experience with extensive UI customization options, available through a dedicated UI settings panel. Introduced in version 2.0 the settings panel includes three new predefined UI themes - Light, Dark, and Contrast (with WCAG 2.2-compliant colors). These themes can be used as-is or further customized with options for UI and font scale size, accent colors, and background colors. Along with other enhancements these UI options create a more flexible environment where each user can personalize the form builder UI to align perfectly with their personal preferences.

SurveyJS Survey Creator is licensed per developer with a one-time payment for indefinite use. Access to updates and technical support is available through a subscription. See our SurveyJS Survey Creator licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our SurveyJS Survey Creator product page.