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Create Cross-Platform Apps with Avalonia UI

November 2, 2023
Actipro Avalonia UI Pro includes themes and UI controls for creating platform-independent applications with the Avalonia UI framework.

Avalonia UI is a cross-platform UI framework for building desktop, mobile, web, and embedded applications using a .NET single codebase. It is considered a spiritual successor to WPF, as it provides a similar developer experience, but with a number of improvements. As a mature, production-ready framework, it is used by companies such as Unity, JetBrains, and GitHub. Avalonia UI has a flexible styling system that allows you to create custom themes and appearances for your applications.

Actipro Avalonia UI Pro is a set of controls and components for building cross-platform Avalonia UI applications. It includes a collection of advanced controls, such as a customizable MessageBox and TaskDialog, a versatile MultiColumnPanel, and a complete theme framework. Actipro Avalonia UI Pro also includes the full XAML source for its default control styles and themes, giving developers the flexibility to customize their applications' look and feel. An optional Blueprint License allows access to the product's source code.

For more information, visit our Actipro Avalonia UI Pro product page.

Create Organizational Charts in React

October 31, 2023
KendoReact v6 R3 2023 adds a new OrgChart UI component that allows you to design tree-like organizational structures with ease.

KendoReact by Telerik is a professional UI kit of more than 120 responsive and customizable native UI and DataViz components for React developers. Designed to save time building powerful high performance React apps, it helps ensure a modern, consistent look-and-feel across your app's UI.

KendoReact v6, part of the R3 2023 release, adds a new OrgChart component which provides a tree-like view where users can edit items, change their parents, and group nodes within a user-friendly, organizational structure. It supports lazy loading to load child items on demand, local and remote data binding, and allows users to expand or collapse branches, as well as customize the width, height, title height, group title, spacing, and general appearance of nodes. OrgChart also includes templates, enabling the customization of individual item metadata, plus support for keyboard navigation.

To see a full list of what’s new in R3 2023 (v6.0.0), see our release notes.

KendoReact is available to buy in the following products:

Replicating Desktop Docking Experiences in Web Applications

October 30, 2023
Kendo UI R3 2023 introduces DockManager, a UI component for jQuery that provides flexible, customizable web app layouts.

Kendo UI by Telerik is a suite of JavaScript UI components and widgets that can be used to build modern, responsive, and accessible web applications. Available for jQuery, Angular, React, and Vue, Kendo UI includes over 110 components, including data grids, charts, schedulers, tree views, menus, and more.

The Kendo UI R3 2023 release introduces a new jQuery DockManager component designed to help developers easily transition from desktop to web environments. It replicates the familiar desktop user experience, enabling users to create and manage movable, dockable, and pinnable elements with automatic layout adjustments. With support for various pane and dock types, DockManager can emulate desktop environments like Microsoft Visual Studio. It gives users full control over their layouts, allowing them to customize their interface through pinning, resizing, moving, maximizing, and hiding panes. DockManager also provides flexible configuration options for different pane types and docking scenarios, both inside and outside boundaries.

To see a full list of what's new in R3 2023, see our release notes.

Kendo UI is available to buy in the following products: