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New Dev Tooling from Progress Telerik, Infragistics and Uno Platform
Three major third-party tooling providers have rolled out significant updates to their developer platforms recently, with Progress Software (Telerik), Infragistics, and Uno Platform all introducing new features designed to accelerate .NET and cross-platform application development workflows.
With AI dominating all software development these days, the first two vendors listed above made more concentrated updates in that space compared to Uno Platform, an open-source specialist that in this cycle focused heavily on UI/UX improvements and tooling enhancements. Uno Platform has previously indicated more AI functionality would be introduced in future offerings.
Here's a look at the three most recent releases.
Progress Telerik and Kendo UI Q2 2025 Release
Progress Software updated its Q2 2025 release blog about Telerik and Kendo UI last month, positioning the update as a major step toward AI-powered development. The release introduces AI Coding Assistants specifically designed to work within popular AI-powered IDEs and code generators like GitHub Copilot and Cursor to generate optimized code for Telerik and Kendo UI components.
Here's more information about the release in three key areas.
"Our new AI Coding Assistants help serious developers reach new levels of productivity working directly with their favorite AI-powered IDEs," said Loren Jarrett, EVP & GM, Digital Experience. "These tools provide the needed context to broader AI code generators, such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor, to produce quality code and minimize the need to spend time reworking generic results."
Infragistics Ultimate 25.1
Infragistics announced Ultimate 25.1 on May 29, emphasizing AI-driven functionality to accelerate application development speed and performance. The release focuses heavily on enhancements to the company's exclusive low-code App Builder and updates across the Ignite UI component library for major frameworks.
Some specific improvements include:
- AI-Powered App Builder Enhancements: AI-powered view generation to create UI layouts and components from free-text prompts; AI-driven functionality to generate application views, images, and data sources; multiple-actions support with reordering functionality for greater control over component interactions; remote data handling with new Card, Row and Column layout capabilities for large datasets; enhanced customization capabilities while maintaining full code ownership.
- Indigo UI Kit for Figma Updates: Custom in-house theme designed for modern and unique app aesthetics; new component variants and enhanced customization options; automatic Value Binding for Grid Column Templates to simplify configurations; initial Advanced Filtering and new AI Chat UI components; Query Builder for customizable data views.
- Ignite UI Framework Updates: For Angular, major SSR and SSG updates, Angular 19 support, a new Carousel Component with vertical orientation, Dashboard Tile charting feature, and customizable Grid samples; for Web Components, a new Tile Manager component with resizing and reordering capabilities, Grids Declarative Filtering, and File Upload Component updates; for Blazor, Dashboard Tile charting feature and Elements Grids Declarative Filtering; for React, Dashboard Tile feature, React Wrappers, and Grids Declarative Filtering; and for WPF/Windows Forms, Dashboard Tile charting and Data Pie Chart components with customizable thresholds.
"Infragistics Ultimate 25.1 represents a significant advancement of our mission to equip developers and teams with powerful, modern tools with an emphasis on usability and customization," said Jason Beres, chief operating officer. "With powerful AI-assisted design features, improved component responsiveness, and industry-leading performance, we're making it easier than ever to build high-quality applications--faster and more efficiently."
Uno Platform 6.1
Uno Platform, known for its open-source, cross-platform development capabilities, this week rolled out version 6.1, focusing significantly on UI/UX improvements and enhancements to its premium tooling, Uno Platform Studio. This release follows their 6.0 launch two months prior, which introduced a unified Skia rendering engine and the general availability of Uno Platform Studio. Version 6.1 integrates over 300 pull requests, refining previous features and adding new functionalities for .NET developers building cross-platform applications.
Key highlights of Uno Platform 6.1 include:
- New UI Control and Core Platform Enhancements:
Items of note here include:
- CommandBarFlyout: A new UI control providing a floating contextual toolbar for primary and secondary commands, fully integrated with Uno Platform to support keyboard accelerators and the StandardUICommand API (e.g., Copy, Cut, Paste).
- Status Bar APIs for Mobile: Developers can now directly customize the background and foreground colors of the status bar on both iOS and Android.
- Cookie Handling for WebAssembly: Support for cookie handling in the WebAssembly (WASM) runtime simplifies session management and user preference storage for web applications.
- Enhanced Input Experience: The
InputReturnType property is now supported on iOS (UIKit) and Android, allowing for customizable keyboard return keys (for example, "Search" or "Go").
- Updated NumberBox Control: Aligned with the latest version from WinUI 1.7.1.
- Smoother Scrolling & Gestures: Significant under-the-hood improvements have been made to gesture recognition and scrolling performance.
- Chefs Sample App: A new sample application designed to provide hands-on learning with Uno Platform, showcasing real-world architecture, MVUX patterns, and responsive cross-platform UI.
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Uno Platform Studio Updates (Hot Design):
Uno Platform Studio, which includes Hot Design, Hot Reload, and a Design-to-Code Figma plugin, sees significant UX improvements in version 6.1, particularly for Hot Design. Hot Design acts as a visual designer for live-running Uno Platform applications, offering:
- Improved Thickness Editor: A new experience for setting
Margin, Padding, and Border Thickness properties with intuitive visual indicators and support for "Full symmetry," "Axis symmetry," and "Asymmetrical" modes.
- New Visualizations for Spacing: Overlays visually represent Margin and Padding values when an element is selected, and hovering reveals the current values. When dragging elements, properties of the parent container, such as Padding and Spacing, are highlighted to clarify positioning.
- Enhanced Design Time Data Support: Initial property values (design time data) added from the Toolbox are now indicated by a yellow dot in the property grid and Elements tree. When these properties are changed, the yellow dot is replaced with a blue dot, signifying that the property is set in XAML. A warning prompt is displayed if an attempt is made to exit Hot Design or an editor without changing design time values, which would remove them.
Regarding that lack of AI functionality in this release, the company addressed that issue when it announced version 6.0 in May: "Without a doubt, the future of software development involves AI. We are monitoring trends and testing various tools ourselves. The conclusion we've reached is that, at this time, AI works best as an assistant rather than an autonomous coder, which is why we will start to introduce AI tooling where we think it makes sense."
Uno Platform continues to support development across Visual Studio, VS Code, and Rider, targeting platforms such as Windows 10/11, iOS, Android, WebAssembly, Linux, and macOS.
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David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.