With Telerik RadControls for WinForms, you get the visual attractiveness of WPF while still using the familiar Windows Forms controls. The product enables developers to build previously impossible interfaces that are both high-performing and visually impressive. The Telerik RadControls architecture allows the building of complex UI scenarios with multiple levels of nested elements. It includes over 30 WinForms components that offer advanced WPF-like UI capabilities.
Telerik RadControls for WinForms provide advanced GDI+ rendering techniques such as rotation, scaling, animations and transparencies. The controls run natively on all .NET 2.0 platforms (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, etc.) and offer excellent WinForms-grade performance. They do not require Vista-class hardware and are the ideal choice for enterprise business systems (CAB support is provided).The controls are shipped with three productivity tools: Control Spy, Visual Style Builder and Shape Editor. The Subscription License comes with a Gold Support Package (up to 24 business hours response time), full C# source code, redistribution rights and free updates for the latest products for 1 year. The Telerik tools work without license keys and can be freely deployed on any server.
Hundreds of code samples and comprehensive documentation are provided to accelerate your learning.
Why choose RadControls for WinForms:
Unique architecture, inspired by WPF - The Telerik Presentation Framework provides a completely customizable architecture for the controls in the suite 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.
Superior Performance - the Telerik Presentation Framework (TPF) is carefully crafted for high performance by minimizing the amount of repainting and layout rearrangement that needs to be done when constructing complex nested controls to the screen.
Standalone Visual Studio Builder – In addition to the standard methods of user interface customization through writing code, Telerik RadControls for WinForms suite also includes an innovative VisualStyleBuilder. 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.
Flash-like animations – The Visual Style Builder is not limited to assigning static values to properties in condition-driven states. Any numeric property value can be animated, thus offering the ultimate user experience, much like the new Vista animations. In other words, you can achieve smooth transition effects by animating the control's property values.
Rotation and scaling – Apply free transformation to any graphical element with the help of the Visual Style Builder. Elements can be rotated, zoomed, and scaled depending on their state which gives you the ultimate Vista-like appearance.
Visual Shape designer – You can use the Shape Designer 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 Designer supports Bezier curves as well, for complete control on the element's appearance.
Interactive VS2005 and VS2008 design-time support – All Telerik Windows Forms controls provide full VS2005 and VS2008 design time support such as applying and managing themes in design time; adding nor editing items through the design pane; Smart Tag support for easy interaction with any Telerik control or item displayed in Visual Studio's design pane; managing shortcuts and images, and much more
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