What's New R3 2023

New Control: WinForms PipsPager

With R3 2023, the Telerik UI for WinForms controls suite offers a new intuitive way to navigate through a linearly paginated collection with the PipsPager control. It utilizes navigation buttons and glyphs known as pips.

This PipsPager enables users to easily navigate through pages of content in a visually appealing manner. It comes with data-binding, animation options, orientation modes and a variety of customization capabilities. Additionally, the PipsPager offers seamless integration with the newly-added SlideView control.

See the WinForms PipsPager documentation: Overview

New Control: WinForms NotifyIcon

As the name suggests, the Telerik UI for WinForms NotifyIcon displays a predefined icon in the Windows taskbar notification area. It is used to display tooltips, popups, balloon notifications and respond to user interaction. 

The NotifyIcon control offers every functionality that a user may expect from it. It comes with a popup, a context menu, balloon notifications and a tooltip. Another notable benefit is that you can set up the NotifyIcon with ease thanks to the design time experience.

See the WinForms NotifyIcon documentation: Overview

Introducing WinForms SlideView Control

The Telerik UI for WinForms SlideView control is a navigation control that offers a simplified UI for transitioning between different views. All users must do is click the navigation buttons and they will be presented with a different view.

The SlideView brings an engaging and interactive navigation experience into your WinForms application thanks to a set of built-in animations, orientation modes and customization options. Additionally, it comes with a data-binding capability and integrates easily with the PipsPager control.

See the WinForms SlideView documentation: Overview

New Theme: Windows11Dark

In the R3 2022 release of the UI for WinForms suite, we've unveiled the all-new Windows 11 Dark Theme. Taking its cues from the revitalized Windows 11 operating system, this theme imparts a noticeably cleaner aesthetic to your WinForms applications and will ease the eyes of your users at the same time.

Telerik UI for WinForms: Compatibility with the Latest .NET 8 Release Candidate (RC)

With the purpose of continuing to provide industry-leading support for Microsoft’s newest frameworks and following the evolution of .NET 8, the Telerik UI for WinForms library now features compatibility with the latest .NET 8 RC. Reap the benefits of .NET 8 RC performance improvements in .NET apps.