.NET 8 Blazor News

Improve Blazor App UX with a Navigation Bar

November 23, 2023
Telerik UI for Blazor V5.0 helps you build a visually pleasing navigation experience with its new AppBar component.

Telerik UI for Blazor is a comprehensive UI library that provides over 110 native Blazor components for building modern and feature-rich web applications. This professional-grade solution offers a complete set of components to satisfy all user interface requirements, saving time and effort in UI design.

Telerik UI for Blazor R3 2023 SP1 (v5.0.0) introduces the AppBar component, empowering developers to create personalized navigation bars that seamlessly integrate with their application's design. The AppBar is fully customizable with control over height, width, position, theme color, and layout, the ability to choose between sticky, fixed, or static behavior, and the option to define and reorder navigation items for an optimal navigation flow. The new component delivers a seamless and visually appealing navigation experience that allows users to effortlessly navigate your application, switch between screens, and maintain contextual awareness throughout their journey.

To see a full list of what's new in R3 2023 SP1 (v5.0.0), see our release notes.

Telerik UI for Blazor is available to buy in the following products:

.NET 8: A New Era of Performance and Productivity

November 23, 2023
Microsoft has officially released .NET 8, the latest version of its popular development platform.

Microsoft has released .NET 8, the latest version of its popular development platform. This new Long Term Support (LTS) release will be supported by Microsoft for three years after the initial release. .NET 8 delivers significant performance, stability, and security improvements, as well as platform and tooling enhancements that help increase developer productivity and speed of innovation.

Key highlights of .NET 8 include:

  • Unparalleled performance: .NET 8 comes with thousands of performance improvements across the stack.
  • .NET Aspire: An opinionated stack to build observable, production-ready cloud-native applications with .NET.
  • .NET 8 Container Enhancements: More secure, compact, and productive.
  • Native AoT: Compile your .NET apps into native code that uses less memory and starts instantly.
  • Artificial Intelligence: Infuse AI into your .NET applications.
  • Blazor: Build full stack web applications with .NET.
  • .NET MAUI: Elevated performance, reliability, and developer experience.
  • C# 12 Features: Simplified syntax for better developer productivity.

Learn more about .NET 8 in this blog post by Microsoft's Gaurav Seth, or see Microsoft's article What's New in .NET 8.

Many ComponentSource Partners are updating their products with support for .NET 8:

See .NET 8 Compatible Products

Create Web, Desktop, and Mobile Apps for .NET 8 with Telerik

November 21, 2023
The latest updates add support for .NET 8, enabling users to build modern applications and reporting solutions targeting the new .NET release.

Progress Telerik is a leading software publisher that provides a range of tools and solutions to help developers build and deploy modern applications. Its product range include UI libraries, reporting tools and testing frameworks. Telerik products are used by millions of developers around the world to build a wide variety of applications.

The following Telerik products have been updated with support for .NET 8, allowing developers to build web, desktop, mobile and reporting apps in the latest version of Microsoft's popular framework:

Build .NET 8 Blazor Web Applications with Blazorise

November 20, 2023
Blazorise 1.3.3 adds .NET 8 compatibility, offering enhanced performance, security, and the latest .NET features.

Blazorise is a versatile component library that empowers developers to build modern and feature-rich web applications using Blazor, a client-side web development framework from Microsoft. It offers a comprehensive collection of user interface components, including buttons, forms, tables, charts, and navigation elements, all built with accessibility and responsiveness in mind.

Blazorise 1.3.3 is now fully compatible with .NET 8, providing developers with access to enhanced performance, security, and the latest features of the .NET framework.

To see a full list of what’s new in version 1.3.3, see our release notes.

For more information, visit our Blazorise product page.