# Options

The **Visual Studio Extensions** options dialog provides settings, so you can configure the Telerik Visual Studio Extensions to best suit your needs.

It can be accessed through the **Visual Studio >> Extensions >> Telerik >> Telerik UI for WinForms >> Options**:

![Visual Studio Extensions Options command for Telerik UI for WinForms](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/assets/8635229b41fc305f4d19052fbbfa8445/installation-deployment-and-distribution-vsx-options-dialog001.png)

The **Options** dialog contains two sets of options that affect the **Telerik UI for WinForms** Visual Studio Extensions.

![Telerik UI for WinForms Visual Studio Extensions Options dialog with General and WinForms settings](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/assets/6c5077196e77d052513b78eae73e9c14/installation-deployment-and-distribution-vsx-options-dialog002.png)

The settings under the **General** category affect all of the installed **Telerik Visual Studio Extensions**.

## Project setup

**Copy referenced assemblies to solution and integrate with source control** - When enabled, the referenced assemblies will be copied to the solution when using Telerik wizards

## Project Upgrade Notifications for Detected Local Distributions

* **Show me a message when a newer version is available on [www.telerik.com](http://www.telerik.com/)**  – When enabled, you will be prompted to upgrade upon opening a project, which is not using the latest version of Telerik UI for WinForms installed on your system.

  ![Telerik UI for WinForms Visual Studio Extensions option for upgrade notifications](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/assets/db2fe77fd33a7370f9d11125700f01b9/installation-deployment-and-distribution-vsx-options-dialog004.png)

All settings under the WinForms category affect only the Telerik UI for WinForms Visual Studio Extensions.

> note As of **R2 2021** in the **Options** dialog, there is a setting that controls whether the message for changing the default theme will be shown.

![Telerik UI for WinForms Visual Studio Extensions option for suggesting a default theme](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/assets/866e133f73587f7dabdc6afdbb8230df/options-default-theme.png)

If **"Suggest default theme"** is set to **true**, the following message will be prompted to the user when you drag a Telerik RadControl from the toolbox and drop it onto the form:

![Telerik UI for WinForms default theme confirmation message shown after adding a control](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/assets/0e2f4221574c88064ed8a6cd2484a996/default-theme-message.png)

If you accept the changes and restart the designer, the Fluent theme will be used as [default theme](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/styling-and-appearance/default-theme) for the design time experience.

## Select a folder for downloads

Configures the path where the extensions look for and store distributions.

> tip Changing the folder path will not move existing folder contents from your previous path. Please, move your previous folder contents manually in case you still want to use them.

## Latest version retrieval

**Include internal builds in Latest Version update and retrieval** – When enabled, the **[Latest Version Acquirer](https://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/documentation/visual-studio-integration/visual-studio-extensions/latest-version-acquirer)** tool will retrieve internal builds as well as official releases when checking for a new version.

## Notifications

**Show me a message when a newer version is available on** [the Telerik website](http://www.telerik.com/). When enabled and a solution containing a UI for WinForms project is loaded, you will receive a notification if a new version of **Telerik UI for WinForms** is available on the Telerik website.