Unique and Dazzling Visual Effects in Classic Windows Forms
Inspired by WPF, Telerik WinForms Controls support incredible visual effects like transparency, rotation, animation, and transition. This suite showcases the magnitude of what can be achieved with GDI+ and Windows Forms. You will enjoy creating incredible looking User Interfaces with ease.

Superior Performance
Despite having animations and rich visual effects, RadControls for WinForms features great performing components such as the GridView that processes thousands of records in milliseconds. The suite has been crafted for high performance by minimizing the amount of repainting and layout rearrangement required on the screen.

Theme Support
All Telerik WinForms Controls come with full theme support – you can use any of the included themes, or build new, customized ones from scratch. Themes can be applied across all controls built on the Telerik Presentation Framework.

Unique Architecture, Inspired by WPF
By following WPF best practices, the Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF) provides a completely customizable architecture for all RadControls. This Framework supplies attractive defaults for the controls, while allowing developers to exercise fine-grained, CSS-like control over every aspect of their appearance and behavior. This unique feature of Telerik Controls for Windows Forms allows you to achieve previously impossible visual effects without having to write any code.

Royalty Free Licensing with Source
RadControls for WinForms are the perfect solution for dazzling desktop applications. Source code is available with most licenses. Telerik also offers the most aggressive release schedule in the industry with three major releases guaranteed per year.

Outstanding Technical Support and Training Resources
To facilitate effortless development experience, Telerik provides a great variety of resources: demos, self-paced tutorials, videos, extensive online documentation, Knowledge Base articles, Code Library, sample applications, and much more. In addition, a very active online community is always available to help in the Telerik forums. Telerik also offers superior technical support, for which it is famous industry wide.

Classic Windows Forms: No Learning Curve, Works on XP!
Telerik WinForms Controls provide you with stunning visual effects while allowing you to work with the familiar Windows Forms technology. You can achieve unique visuals without having to learn a new technology. The RadControls just look better and they also work on Windows XP!

Powerful Productivity Tools
Five productivity tools are included in the RadControls for WinForms Suite: Visual Style Builder allows you to codelessly customize the appearance of all WinForms Controls. Control Spy helps you to examine and change properties at run time. Shape Editor can be used to define free-form UI elements for advanced interfaces. Project Update Utility assists you in upgrading your current RadControls based applications to newly released versions. The Element Hierarchy Editor allows you to work with complex control types, to navigate the class and element hierarchy, and to set properties directly in Visual Studio design time.

RTL Language Support
Due to business globalization, multi-lingual and culturally-aware applications are a must. Telerik WinForms Controls can be used in all languages supported by the .NET framework, including Right-to-Left ones such as Arabic and Hebrew.

Unlimited Nesting of UI Elements
The uniform nature of the RadControls architecture makes it possible to nest controls within one another for more flexible and modern-looking user interfaces. This helpful feature of Telerik's Controls for WinForms allows you to further customize control behavior and appearance.

Enterprise Services
Telerik provides an extensive level of support and customized training services designed to help developers advance their knowledge about our products and fully utilize them in their projects, thus ensuring maximum ROI. See more information on Enterprise Services.

Ideal Choice for Enterprise Line of Business Applications
Telerik WinForms Controls is a powerful set of controls for business applications that works beautifully in the most demanding scenarios. Telerik’s suite is one of very few to offer enterprise-level CAB support. The Telerik CAB Enabling Kit for WinForms provides easy integration with CAB and its underlying infrastructure. It assists developers in using best patterns and practices and is therefore well-suited for enterprise applications.