Telerik RadControls enable new breed of WinForms apps

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 by WinForms Team | Comments 5
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We have done a lot recently to make it possible for a WinForms app to get closer to the new UX trends set by the great WPF and Silverlight technologies. I know it would be hard to convince you that, but luckily I happen to have a slick new WinForms demo app to help me in this endeavor.

The new RadControls for WinForms QSF comes with an animated welcome screen describing some of the unique features of Telerik WinForms suite:

WelcomeScreen

The fisheye bar at bottom animates so smoothly, that anytime I run the app I just can’t help myself but play with it :)

Besides the totally new appearance, there are also many new and improved demos, such as the Themes Color Blending:

CategoryCarousel

ColorBlendingDemo

In addition to the theme color blending feature, the new theming approach employs different themes:

ThemingPanel

It makes the new Breeze theme look remarkable on the much polished RadGridView:

Filtering

SettingsPanel

RadControls for WinForms QSF - Grid Hierarchy


As a result of the improved performance of our tools, the Demo app loads faster than ever.

If you are still not convinced, download the new Q1 2009 version of RadControls for WinForms and run the demo. And while having fun, do not forget that it really is 100% WinForms 2.0 app!

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5 Comments

  • George 18 Mar 2009
    wow! I can't believe this is really WinForms! You guys have once again outdone yourself.
  • Mahmud Ahmadinedjad 18 Mar 2009
     I can't believe this is done using winforms. I thought such a great  effects and animations could be done only using WPF.

  • JN 18 Mar 2009
    No offence, but your Winforms examples are much more impressive than those for Silverlight and WPF at the moment. It's funny that I am slowly becoming a believer in your desktop UI controls. They have always been pretty impressive visually but I had to deal with lots of bugs, memory leaks and performance issues. I am very happy to see that you have addressed almost everything I had on my list with the latest release. Like the above poster, I think you've outdone yourself and you have an amazing product.

    Joakim

    p.s. Don't forget us poor souls who are waiting for a richtext editor:)
  • Mike 18 Mar 2009
    Thank you for the kind words, guys! It is really rewarding to know that all of our efforts are noticed.

    I do not want to be too enthusiastic, but having the Q1 milestone behind our backs, we will continue with greater enthusiasm towards even better products!
  • David 01 Apr 2009
    Quick questions about the performance of WinForms:

    As I understand it, internally WinForms is fundamentally based on GDI+ at the unmanaged layer.  My understanding is limited, so feel free to correct me gently :) if I'm wrong.  WPF is based on milcore/Direct3D at the unmanaged layer which provides hardware acceleration.  Is there reason to believe that GDI+ will keep up with the performance of WPF+Direct3D on modern GPUs?  Do you guys have the inside track from Microsoft that they intend to provide hardware acceleration for GDI+ and thus WinForms?  If so, can you let us know when that is going to happen?

    If not, how do we move WinForms into the 21st century and begin to use those GPUs, many of which are as capable as the CPUs in today's modern computers.  I've always thought that Microsoft didn't go far enough to fully utilize the hardware of modern systems.  Do you see that changing with WinForms, or is WPF (and possibly Silverlight 3's newer stripped-down CLR) the way to go if we want to build new applications toward a hardware-accelerated platform?


    David
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