Classic Windows Forms, Stunning Visual Effects

RadControls for WinForms includes over 45 UI controls that you can use to easily build visually appealing, high performance Line of Business applications. Boasting a well-designed architecture and support for Visual Studio 2010 and CAB, Telerik WinForms Controls are perfectly suited for your Enterprise desktop development.

Telerik controls support Visual Studio 2010

Why Choose

Powerful Set of Business Critical UI Components

Telerik Windows Forms component suite is ideally designed to meet the ultimate demands of large-scale businesses for superfast, reliable and feature rich desktop applications. Leveraging the years-long expertise in interface development, Telerik delivers a comprehensive set of desktop components and tools to aid businesses focus on the core logic of their projects. RadControls for WinForms includes all essential UI components critical for any upscale enterprise project – from GridView’s exceptional performance, modern UI and unbeatable end-user capabilities, through a slick and versatile Scheduler, to the lightweight, business oriented Charting component. All Telerik Windows Forms controls are built with productivity in mind and invariably help developers create better and more reliable applications that accommodate even the most demanding business scenarios.

Support for Visual Studio 2010

RadControls for WinForms provide full support for Visual Studio 2010, including support for the .NET 3.5/4.0 Client Profile (except RadChart), toolbox installation, and WYSIWYG preview for all supported controls. The tools further simplify development by installing many pre-configured WinForms Templates and Visual Studio Extensions, which allow you create new projects in a few easy steps and upgrade applications with hassle-free wizards. Telerik is working closely with Microsoft to ensure best practices are followed and that it provides the most complete design experience in all supported Visual Studio platforms (2005/2008/2010). Read more

Superior Performance

Despite having animations and rich visual effects, RadControls for WinForms features excellent performing components aimed at helping businesses improve their productivity and deliver better and faster applications in shorter periods of time, effectively increasing the ROI. The suite has been crafted for high performance by minimizing the amount of repainting and layout rearrangements.  By leveraging a complete set of supercharged navigation controls, a robust Grid, an innovative RibbonBar, flexible charting, scheduling and docking components you have all high-speed building blocks perfectly suited for your enterprise desktop development. It also comes with highly customizable generic controls, such as buttons, checkboxes, menus and toolstrips, which will allow you to provide complete desktop solutions with the same look and feel.

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. Telerik WinForms controls enable developers to transform data into interactive, richly animated and modern layouts that empower end-users to analyze complex business scenarios. This showcases the magnitude of what can be achieved with GDI+ and Windows Forms.

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 through an intuitive and unique Visual Style Builder tool. Themes can be applied across all controls built on the Telerik Presentation Framework. Telerik WinForms controls ship with eight major themes: Windows 7, Vista, Breeze, Aqua, and Desert as well as Office Blue, Black and Silver. These themes help you deliver a consistent, next-generation look-and-feel throughout your line of business applications. In addition, the Visual Style Builder enables easy, point-and-click customization of themes for the RadControls for WinForms suite and allows you to create custom skins in minutes.

Unique Architecture, Inspired by WPF! Works on XP!

By following WPF best practices, the Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF) provides a completely customizable architecture for all RadControls. The uniform nature of the RadControls architecture makes it possible to nest controls within one another for more flexible and modern-looking user interfaces. The Telerik Presentation 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 or learn a new technology. The RadControls just look better and they also work on Windows XP!

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. In addition, Telerik’s suite is one of the 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.

Visual Studio Extensions for RadControls for WinForms

The Visual Studio integration package helps you become more productive when managing a WinForms project in Visual Studio. The Extensions automatically create, upgrade and configure your RadControls projects in seconds, eliminating the need to manually set any assembly references. The WinForms Project configuration wizards automatically handle the dependencies between the assemblies, ensuring you will never run into a version conflict, and allow you to always utilize the latest version of RadControls in your application with only a few mouse clicks.

Powerful Productivity Tools

Five productivity tools are included in the RadControls for WinForms Suite: a Visual Style Builder allows you to codelessly customize the appearance of all WinForms Controls. A Control Spy helps you examine and change properties at run time. A Shape Editor can be used to define free-form UI elements for advanced interfaces. A Project Update Utility assists you in upgrading your current RadControls-based applications to newly released versions. An  Element Hierarchy Editor allows you to work with complex control types, navigate the class and element hierarchy, and set properties directly in Visual Studio design time. In addition, the data-intensive controls such as RadGridView and RadTreeView come with design-time property builders, which allow you to connect to data and customize the look and feel of the controls through a simplified and intuitive UI.

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.

Royalty Free Licensing with Source

RadControls for WinForms are the perfect solution for dazzling desktop applications with excellent performance. 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.

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.