Telerik Winforms Ui -

Overview — Telerik UI for WinForms

Telerik UI for WinForms is a commercial .NET UI component suite that provides a wide set of desktop controls and tools for building rich Windows Forms (WinForms) applications. It offers ready-made, themeable, high-performance controls (grids, charts, schedulers, ribbon bars, data editors, reports, and more) plus design-time support and productivity features.

The Hybrid Approach

You do not need to replace everything at once. Telerik controls are standard WinForms controls (System.Windows.Forms.Control). You can host a RadGridView next to a native TextBox.

RadDocking – Complex Layouts Made Simple

Building a WinForms application with tool windows, property grids, and a document area is painful natively. With RadDocking, you instantiate tool windows, set Dock = DockState.Docked, and the framework handles splitting, hiding, and pinning.

Getting Started: Your First Telerik WinForms Project

Step 1: Download from Telerik.com – a 30-day free trial is available. telerik winforms ui

Step 2: Install the MSI or use NuGet: Install-Package Telerik.WinControls.UI

Step 3: In Visual Studio, open the Toolbox. You’ll see a new “Telerik UI for WinForms” tab.

Step 4: Drag a RadGridView onto a form. Set its DataSource to a DataTable. Overview — Telerik UI for WinForms Telerik UI

Step 5: Run the app. You’ll see built-in column sorting, filtering, and a context menu.

Step 6: Apply a theme via code in Form_Load:

using Telerik.WinControls;
using Telerik.WinControls.Enumerations;
public Form1()
InitializeComponent();
ThemeResolutionService.ApplicationThemeName = "Fluent";
 That’s it

That’s it. You’ve just modernized your WinForms app.