Progress Announces Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017

SINGAPORE—November 21, 2016—Progress (NASDAQ:
PRGS) today announced its support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 RC, enabling
developers to leverage the power of the Telerik®
DevCraft™ by Progress suite to build and deploy .NET
applications with ease. Progress is a Visual Studio 2017 Sim-Ship partner,
underscoring the company’s ongoing commitment to providing immediate support to
new Microsoft development platforms and tooling releases.

The DevCraft suite of productivity tools
enables developers to create high-performance and scalable web, mobile and
desktop applications for any Microsoft platform and device. With the latest
upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 RC, Progress continues its close collaboration
with Microsoft to provide .NET developers an easy path to productivity with
Visual Studio 2017, as well as the ability to build apps on Microsoft’s most
modern platforms and devices.

The DevCraft suite is fully compatible with
Visual Studio 2017; developers can take advantage of the new benefits of Visual
Studio while continuing to enjoy productivity gains enabled by Telerik UI
controls for all major Microsoft developer platforms, including ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET Core,
Xamarin, WPF and WinForms, Universal Windows Platform and Windows Universal.

“Millions of developers look to us to deliver
the best .NET tools for building innovative UIs with unbeatable Visual Studio
productivity,” said Marina Hristova, Vice President and General Manager,
Product Marketing and Management, Progress. “Telerik had a keen focus on the
.NET community, and that focus has continued and in many ways advanced at
Progress. We will continue to work closely with Microsoft to deliver everything
developers need to build great apps on new and existing platforms and devices
for the foreseeable future.”

“The Telerik DevCraft suite has long been a
strong toolset for enhancing advancements within the Microsoft technology
stack. With the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2017 RC, Progress continues
this tradition by helping development teams release applications in concert
with Microsoft’s latest and greatest advancements,” said Shawn Nandi, Senior
Director, Cloud Application Development and Data Marketing, Microsoft Corp.
“We’re excited to see Progress support Visual Studio 2017, enriching the
tooling ecosystem for developers building apps with Visual Studio.”

In addition to supporting Visual Studio 2017,
Progress developer tools will remain integrated and fully compatible with all
previous versions of Visual Studio. For more details about the Progress suite,
please visithttp://www.telerik.com/devcraft