With RadControls for WinForms you can achieve the latest visuals, following the recent Vista craze. Any numeric property value can be animated, thus offering the ultimate user experience. Inspired by WPF, the suite supports animation and transition effects and showcases the magnitude that can be achieved with GDI+ and Telerik Windows Forms.

     Building Vista Style Interfaces with RadControls for WinForms
      A comprehensive paper on Telerik WinForms features which can help you build Vista style UI

Apply free transformations to any graphical element. Elements can be rotated, zoomed, and scaled depending on their state which gives you the ultimate WPF-like appearance.

     Building Vista Style Interfaces with RadControls for WinForms
      A comprehensive paper on Telerik WinForms features which can help you build Vista style UI

The Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF), the underlying architecture of all controls in the RadControls suite, provides a completely customizable design for the controls by following WPF best practices. The Framework and its tools supply attractive and functional defaults for the Telerik RadControls, while simultaneously allowing the developer to exercise very fine-grained, CSS-like control over every aspect of their appearance and behavior. The TPF defines a wide variety of useful abstractions and services that provide functionality to all Telerik RadControls.

The Telerik Presentation Framework has been crafted for high performance by minimizing the amount of repainting and layout rearrangement that needs to be done on the screen. This leads to excellent paint performance even with handling rotations, transparency and complex nested controls.

The uniform nature of the control architecture makes it possible to nest controls within each other for more flexible and modern user interfaces. This unique feature of the Telerik Presentation Framework gives you the ability to provide the solution you have been searching for, without writing code or worrying about things going bad.

Telerik RadControls for WinForms provides designers and developers with the ability to alter, at design- or run time, any property of any control. Because all Telerik controls are composed of primitives, this customization can be applied at a very fine level of detail. Changes in response to events can be animated, so that a property moves smoothly through a range of values in response to a mouse movement, or any other event. Property values (such as colors or fonts) can be inherited from parent elements to child elements, or overridden at the child element level.

All RadControls for WinForms come with full Theme support which can be used from the very start of your project. You can use any of the pre-defined themes, or build one from scratch to fit your exact scenario. Themes can be applied across all controls built on the Telerik Presentation Framework.

With the Telerik Presentation Framework you can easily build custom controls and take advantage of the animation effects and visual appearance options of the Visual Style Builder. All TPF-based controls can also be configured through the RadControl Spy for complete control over their properties.

The Control Spy is a tool that lets you examine the detailed internal structure of any Telerik RadControl at run-time. It is not a stand-alone tool. Rather, the Control Spy is supplied as part of a library that you compile into your application. After adding this library, you can start the Control Spy and use it to examine and alter the properties of any Telerik RadControl which is currently running, providing you with extra control over development and design.

In addition to the standard methods of user interface customization through property settings and code writing, the Telerik RadControls for WinForms suite includes an innovative Visual Style Builder. This tool, which runs either within Microsoft Visual Studio .NET or as a standalone utility, gives designers and developers alike a flexible way to build stylesheets for completely codeless customization of control appearance and behavior. 

     Build Great User Interfaces with the Telerik VisualStyleBuilder 
      An innovative guide on how to use Telerik's Visual Style Builder for Windows Forms 

The Shape Editor is used to create curved free-form designs for your UI elements on an integrated drawing surface. There is no code involved, keeping the design as simple as possible. The Shape Editor supports Bezier curves as well, for complete control over the element's appearance.