Ciao, 2020! Hello, R1 2021 Release for Telerik UI for WinForms

Toast Notifications

With Windows 8 Microsoft introduced Toast Notifications—a notification system like the one in a mobile OS. The RadToastNotificationManager component builds notifications on that notification system and expands it, making it easier for our customers to create and manage notifications. Toast Notifications are accessed either via the Windows' Action Center or they pop up at the bottom right corner of the monitor:

Their main feature is to notify the user for certain events happening in the workflow. From showing a toast on mail/message arrival, to making a quick reply, this component can be ideal for mail/messaging applications or notifying the user, when there is an update waiting to be installed. RadToastNotificationManager comes with a gallery with predefined notification templates. The design is dependent on the operating system (and its style theme) that shows the notification.

RadPictureBox

RadPictureBox is a small control used to display images in different formats like PNG, JPEG, BMP, etc. However, it is powered by Telerik UI for WinForms vector images engine and supports both raster and vector (SVG) images. RadPictureBox is an extended version of the standard System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox. It allows scrolling, editing raster images, zoom and pan.

Office2019Light

Welcome to the new design of the Office2019Light theme. It is inspired by the latest MS Office application and will help you to bring the modern look and feel right into your WinForms application.

Multiple Resources UI in the RadScheduler Edit Dialog

EditAppointmentDialog now provides UI for selecting multiple resources per appointment. In certain cases (e.g. unbound mode), the Resource RadDropDownList is replaced with a RadCheckedDropDownList. Otherwise, the default drop down with single selection for resources is shown.

To enable the multiple resources selection in bound mode, it is necessary to specify the AppointmentMappingInfo. Resources property. The Resources property should be set to the name of the relation that connects the Appointments and the AppointmentsResources tables.

PdfProcessing’s Engine inside RadPdfViewer

RadPdfViewer is optimized to work together with RadPdfProcessing library model. The idea is to unify the underlying architecture of RadPdfViewer and PdfProcessing to allow feature parity. RadPdfViewer uses the new model by default. However, the user can easily switch to the old model by using the UsePdfProcessingModel and UsePdfProcessingModelDefaultValue boolean properties. They should be set before loading a PDF document.

Along with all this, RadPdfViewerElement now offers the cancelable SignatureDialogShowing and SignSignatureDialogShowing events. They allow customizing or changing the signature dialogs in RadPdfViewer.

FilteringTimePrecision for the GridViewDateTimeColumn

A new GridViewDateTimeColumn.FilteringTimePrecision property is introduced. It works together with the GridViewDateTimeColumn.FilteringMode property when it is not set to Date. The new property allows the end user to specify how the time part of the DateTime value will be evaluated while filtering. The possible values are Hour, Minute, Second, as well as arbitrary combinations, e.g.: Hour | Minute | Second (this is the same as All).

ExportCheckBoxes in TreeViewSpreadExport

TreeViewSpreadExport allows you to export the checkbox values, when they are shown in tree nodes.

Installing Latest Internal Builds (LIB) from NuGet

The Latest Internal Builds are available for installing as a NuGet package:

Improved Visual Studio Extensions Options

The Visual Studio Telerik options dialog aims to improve the UX. From the user’s perspective, the change is that now the Telerik settings can be found in the standard options dialog in Visual Studio under the Telerik node.

What is next? Since our customers’ satisfaction and feedback have always been a top priority, we are working on a suitable mechanism for changing the default theme at design time. Stay tuned! 😎

Try It Out and Share Your Feedback

The R1 2021 release is already available for download in customers’ accounts. If you are new to Telerik UI for WinForms, you can learn more about it via the product page. It comes with a 30-day free trial, giving you some time to explore the toolkit and consider using it for your current or upcoming WinForms development.

We would love to hear what you think, so should you have any questions and/or comments, please share them in our Feedback Portal.

You can also check our Release History page for a complete list of the included improvements.