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title: "Progress Software Announces New Telerik and Kendo UI Release to Accelerate AI-Powered UI Development"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/progress-software-announces-new-telerik-and-kendo-ui-release-to-accelerate-ai-powered-ui-development-cj9zcodrf
source_url: https://sdtimes.com/ui-development/progress-software-announces-new-telerik-and-kendo-ui-release-to-accelerate-ai-powered-ui-development
type: article
source: "SD Times"
published: 2026-08-20T20:18:59.192Z
updated: 2026-08-20T20:39:56.449Z
tags: [".net", "ai-coding", "accessibility", "xamarin", "kendo-ui"]
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# Progress Software Announces New Telerik and Kendo UI Release to Accelerate AI-Powered UI Development

**[SD Times](https://daily.dev/sources/sdtimes)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Progress Software released updates to Telerik and Kendo UI aimed at AI-powered UI development. New features include an Agentic UI Generator for accessibility compliance, Fiddler Agent Skills for in-IDE debugging, agent tools in Telerik Document Processing Libraries, WebMCP support for direct AI agent interaction with UIs, automated WinForms modernization tooling, RAG-as-a-Service integration for .NET apps, and UI components like Smart Paste, PromptBox, and SmartBox.

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## Questions this post answers

### What is WebMCP and how does it let AI agents interact with a web application's UI?

WebMCP is a capability introduced in the latest Telerik and Kendo UI release that lets AI agents interact directly with application interfaces instead of relying on fragile screen-scraping techniques. It is positioned as enabling more reliable, agent-driven experiences by giving agents a structured way to work with UI elements rather than parsing rendered pixels or DOM text.

_Developers building agent-facing UIs can follow WebMCP adoption and similar standards on daily.dev._

### How can I modernize a legacy WinForms application UI using Telerik tools?

Progress Telerik UI for WinForms now includes automated conversion tooling that uses intelligent control mapping, code parsing, and MCP-based automation to accelerate legacy WinForms transformation. This lets teams update older desktop application interfaces without manually rewriting each control, speeding up modernization projects for existing .NET WinForms codebases.

_Teams planning legacy UI modernization can track tooling updates like this on daily.dev._

### How can I add RAG capabilities to a .NET application without building my own AI infrastructure?

Progress RAG-as-a-Service, integrated with Telerik and Kendo UI tooling, lets .NET applications connect to a hosted retrieval-augmented generation service so LLMs can analyze and converse with unstructured enterprise data and documents without teams standing up their own RAG pipeline. It is offered as part of the broader agentic UI feature set in the release.

_Developers evaluating RAG integration options for .NET apps can compare approaches on daily.dev._

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