R1 2021 Changes and Dependencies

This article explains the manual changes required when upgrading to Telerik Reporting R1 2021 (15.0.21.120).

Report Model

The member Normal of the Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.WatermarkSizeMode enumeration is now obsolete. Please use the Center member instead. This enumeration is used in the Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.PictureWatermark.Sizing property.

Telerik.Reporting for .NET Core

The Telerik.Reporting library build for .NET Standard 2.0 that all .NET Core apps reference now depends on System.Text.Json NuGet package version 5.0.0 the and its internal dependencies.

All HTML5-based Report Viewers

All web assets depending on the Kendo UI for jQuery suite (HTML5-based report viewers, Web report designer, Telerik Report Server) now require Kendo JS and themes version 2020.3.1118 or later.

All HTML5-based Report Viewers

ReportViewer's RadButtons are replaced with RadPathButtons.

WPF Report Viewer for .NET Framework

The viewer is built with Telerik UI Controls for WPF 2021.1.119.40. If you are using a newer version, consider adding binding redirects. For more information see: How to Add report viewer to a WPF .NET Framework project.

WPF Report Viewer for .NET Core

The viewer is built with Telerik UI Controls for WPF 2021.1.119.310 and targets .NET Core 3.1.

WPF Report Viewer for .NET 5

The viewer is built with Telerik UI Controls for WPF 2021.1.119.50 and targets .NET 5.

Silverlight Report Viewer

The viewer is built with Telerik UI Controls for Silverlight 2021.1.119.1050.

Standalone Report Designer

TRDX, TRDP and TRBP report definitions created by the Standalone Report Designer now use schema version http://schemas.telerik.com/reporting/2021/1.0.

Dependencies

HTML5 Report Viewer Dependencies

The HTML5 Report Viewer depends on the following libraries:

Telerik Kendo UI (2020.3.1118 or later)
jQuery (1.9.1 or later)
Browser's native support for promises. When the browser does not support promises the viewer will automatically load a promise polyfill from Polyfill.io unless one is not already loaded in the application.

Angular Report Viewer Dependencies

The Angular Report Viewer depends on the following:

Angular (4.0.0 or later)
jQuery (3.2.1)

HttpClient Dependencies

Connecting a desktop report viewer (WinForms or WPF) to a REST service or Report Server instance requires the following NuGet packages:

Newtonsoft.Json (9.0.1 or later for .NET Framework projects, 12.0.3 or later for .NET Core projects)
Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client (4.0.30506 or later for .NET Framework projects, 5.2.7 or later for .NET Core projects)