The Visual Studio Extensions for Progress® Telerik® UI for WinForms is an integration package that will significantly increase you productivity when managing WinForms projects in Visual Studio. The product helps you work smarter with streamlined features and minimizes the learning curve for new users.

The Extensions automatically create, upgrade and configure your Telerik UI projects in seconds, eliminating the need to set any assembly references manually. The Project Configuration Wizards automatically handle the dependencies between the assemblies once you choose the control assemblies your project needs. The Upgrade Wizard allows automatic checks for new Telerik UI distributions. A subsequent download/project upgrade is offered as well.

To get an overview of the extension, please refer to this documentation article.

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2021.2.614
- What's Fixed
  - Preview does not display the selected theme in case the selected Office2019 theme variation is not deselected
  - Resolve DirectoryNotFoundException error
2021.2.505
- What's New
  - Added new document processing assembly Telerik.Documents.Flow.FormatProviders.Doc
  - Set the Fluent theme as default one when dragging a toolbox item
  - Enable Code Converter support for VS 2019
  - Add Telerik.WinControls.RadToastNotification.Design.dll when Telerik.WinControls.RadToastNotification.dll is used
  - Add Office2019 Light, Gray and Dark themes in WinForms Configuration and Convert Wizards
2021.1.421
- What's New
  - Rename WinForms Office2019Colorful theme to Office2019Light
- What's Fixed
  - Improved extension responsiveness in Visual Studio 2019
2021.1.218
- What's New
  - Added new Office2019Colorful theme
- What's Fixed
  - 'Get Latest' does not work in Visual Studio 2012/2013
  - Exclude ItemTemplates assembly from the extensions VSIX
  - SystemOverflow exception is thrown when trying to set VS notifications position and VS window coordinates are negative
2021.1.121
- What's New
  - Set the default theme to ControlDefault in the project templates
2021.1.108
- What's New
  - Add RadToastNotification control
  - Configure Fluent theme in all project templates
- What's Fixed
  - FileNotFoundException is thrown when "lib" folder is used in Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019
2020.3.1216
- What's New
  - Move Telerik user settings into Visual Studio Options dialog
- What's Fixed
  - Visual Studio unresponsiveness improvements
  - Visual Studio Solution Explorer project context menu is displayed with noticeable delay when UI for WinForms Extension is installed
2020.3.1117
- What's Fixed
  - DirectoryNotFound Exception is thrown when path to ShadowCopy is too long
2020.3.1016
- What's New
  - Enable usage tracking of DPL NuGet packages
- What's Fixed
  - App.manifest file is replaced when performing a project upgrade
  - Upgrade Wizard fails when adding manifest file
  - Upgrade wizard option is not available under Telerik menu for Class Library projects
2020.3.918
- What's Fixed
  - Telerik.WinControls.VSX.Actions.MultyProjectAddDPIScalingManifestAction error is thrown when when adding a manifest file at the Telerik project upgrade
2020.3.915
- What's New
  - Improve the Unable to launch scenario wizard message
  - Add support for Telerik.Documents.Spreadsheet.FormatProviders.Xls and Telerik.Windows.Documents.CMapUtils assemblies in Telerik wizards
  - Add support for NuGet package distributions to WinForms .NET Core templates
  - Add WinForms Item templates for .NET Core and .NET 5
- What's Fixed
  - Need Help links in WinForms VS extension wizards are outdated
2020.2.612
- What's New
  - Adapt Notifications to Visual Studio 2019 Telerik menu locations
  - Update Visual Studio extension icons
- What's Fixed
  - Remove redundant files form Visual Studio extension package files
  - Visual Studio extension name is updated to Progress Telerik UI for WinForms
2020.2.512
- What's New
  - Implement .NET Core Convert Project wizard
- What's Fixed
  - FileNotFound exception is thrown when we try to get information for assembly referenced from a not restored NuGet package
2020.1.214
- What's New
  - Remove duplicate project template entries in Visual Studio 2019 project wizard list
  - Add tags for Visual Studio 2019 project template entries
  - Track SpreadSheetStreaming assembly usage
- What's Fixed
  - Visual Studio Notifications do not work correctly on monitors with high DPI
  - Project type parameter in DPL ComponentUsed metric is always Wpf
2020.1.115
- What's New
  - Update EULAs, Third Party notices and extensions names
  - Introduce RadSyntaxEditor control to Telerik UI for WinForms
  - Added .NET Core 3.1 support and updated project templates to target correct framework based on selected distribution version
- What's Fixed
  - Download location is not updated when using Browse button in VS extensions options wizard
2019.3.1106
- What's Fixed
  - System.AggregateException error is thrown when VS extension packages are not initialized
2019.3.1014
- What's Fixed
  - Notifications from Telerik Visual Studio extensions do not appear in Visual Studio 2019
  - Visual Studio hangs after launching Telerik project from .sln file
  - Telerik Visual Studio extensions make RPC (Remote Procedure Call) calls from background threads in AsyncPackage
2019.3.910
- What's New
  - Updated "not met prerequistes" message for .NET Core project templates
  - Add new RadWebCam control to the Convert and Configure project wizards
  - Update .NET Core project templates to conform with Preview 9 changes
- What's Fixed
  - Lib folder is not checked in with Solution when integrate with source control option is selected in VSExtensions
  - Get Latest Version dialog is missing in VS2012
  - VS extensions tracking data is not sent for VS2012 and VS2015
  - Path to the "Use preview versions of the .NET Core SDK" in the .NET Core SDK required dialog is out of date
2019.2.614
- What's New
  - Improve Visual Studio 2019 template selection
- What's Fixed
  - VS extensions throw NullReferenceException while trying to initialize ProductUsedTrackers
  - UI for WinForms VSExtensions throw ArgumentNullException when trying to create project
  - UI for WinForms Blank project creation fails with exception
2019.2.503
- What's New
  - Created .NET Core 3 templates for WinForms
2019.1.404
- What's Fixed
  - VSExtensions throw InvalidCastException while creating new project
2019.1.403
- What's New
  - Fix "FullPath" property usage in VS extensions
- What's Fixed
  - VSExtensions throw NullReferenceException while trying to use TFS integration
2019.1.215
- What's New
  - Improve getting user available releases in VS extensions
  - Add context menu for UI for WinForms in VSExtensions for Class library projects
  - Set app.manifest as default for HDPI enabled projects
2019.1.118
- What's Fixed
  - Upgrade Wizard crashes when upgrading old project in Solution context
2019.1.116
- What's New
  - Updated Newer Online Version notification text
- What's Fixed
  - Upgrade Wizard crashes when upgrading old project
2019.1.110
- What's New
  - Asynchronous VS extensions loading
  - Add support for VS 2019 in Visual Studio extensions
  - Update company name in VS extensions copyright
  - Add option to the default template so the manifest file is directly added to the project (with dpi enabled)
  - Add a new assembly in Telerik UI for WinForms suite - Telerik.WinControls.CrystalDarkTheme.dll
  - Add a new RadTabbedForm item in Visual Studio
2018.4.1121
- What's New
  - Visual Studio integration improvements
2018.3.1011
- What's Fixed
  - Metrics are always sent when isolated storage xmls are invalid
  - Isolated storage files are invalid after removal of old checks
2018.3.907
- What's New
  - Update newer online version notifications messages
  - Add Support Menu Options in VS Extension
  - Add the new Crystal theme to the Telerik UI for WinForms suite
- What's Fixed
  - UnauthorizedAccessException is thrown when we access %appdata%\Telerik*.xml files
  - DPL commands in Telerik menu remove all themes referenced by the project
2018.2.813
- What's Fixed
  - An exception is thrown in VS Extensions wizard when identity service cannot be accessed
2018.2.710
- What's Fixed
  - VS extensions fails with NullReferenceException when trying to log result from adding assemblies to GAC
2018.2.618
- What's New
  - Acquire user consent for collecting data in VS extensions
- What's Fixed
  - Trial distributions are not sorted below dev ones when are from same version
  - Result from AddAssemblyToGAC action is not properly logged in VS Output window
2018.2.514.1
- What's New
  - Update Telerik AD to Telerik EAD in VS extensions
  - Add all WinForms assemblies to GAC
  - Update newer online version notifications texts
  - Expose DPL in Telerik menu for all relevant products
  - Add Conversational UI to VSExtensions
  - Add Telerik.WinControls.Themes.HighContrastBlack.dll in GAC
- What's Fixed
  - WinForms options allow including LIB when checking for newer version but LIBs are not released
2018.1.215.2
- What's New
  - Improve extensions notifications messages
  - Add new Fluent Dark theme
  - Update Fluent theme image
- What's Fixed
  - Configuration folder with DistributionInfo and DistributionMetadata xml files is deployed with WinForms converter extension
  - VSExtensions throw NullReference exception when trying to handle UnauthorizedAccessException
2018.1.115.1
- What's New
  - Add a new theme in Telerik UI for WinForms suite - Telerik.WinControls.FluentTheme.dll
- What's Fixed
  - Telerik name is duplicated in toolbox categories for all products with Toolbox integration
  - VS Extensions crash in Visual Studio 2017 due to missing Text Templating component
  - Handled XamlParseException is sent when trying to show notifications in VSExtensions
  - Extensions notifications do not show up after extension upgrade
  - UpdateReferences action throws UnauthorizedAccessException trying to access distribution.xml file
  - UnauthorizedAccess exception is shown when user uses notification without write access to %Appdata%\Telerik
  - Visual Studio crashes during project upgrade due to AccessViolationException
  - UnauthorizedAccessException is shown when the options dialog is used without write access to %Appdata%\Telerik
2017.3.1017.0
- What's New
  - Add a new template in WinForms Create New Project Wizard
  - Update demos.telerik.com URLs to use HTTPS in VS extensions
  - Rename products short names in VS extensions
- What's Fixed
  - Design assembly could not be added to GAC warning is shown in Upgrade log when using Visual Studio 2017
2017.3.906.0
- What's New
  - Improve VS extensions UI in custom DPI
  - Add new material themes in WinForms
  - Add a new assembly in Telerik UI for WinForm suite - Telerik.WinControls.RadSpreadsheet.dll
- What's Fixed
  - VS Extensions UpdateReferences action crash with FileNotFoundException
  - Class library project is not detected by Upgrade Wizard
2017.2.629.0
- What's New
  - Implement monitor DPI and resolution metrics
  - Use all release notes URLs in VS Extensions
2017.2.613.0
- What's Fixed
  - WinForms VS Extensions Upgrade wizard CreateBackupAction fails with NullReferenceException for VC projects
2017.2.501.0
- What's New
  - Rebrand Visual Studio extensions
  - Update toolbox categories
  - Add a new theme in Telerik UI for WinForm - Telerik.WinControls.Themes.Material.dll
2017.1.327.0
- What's New
  - Add Digital Signature for VSExtensions
- What's Fixed
  - Telerik.VSX.Actions.EnsureItemTemplateReferencesAction throws COMException caused by already existing project reference
2017.1.216.0
- What's New
  - Integrate Telerik API Analyzer for WinForms VS extensions
  - Show unavailable project templates as disabled instead of hiding them when specific distribution is selected
2017.1.113.0
- What's New
  - Minor changes
2016.5.1111.0
- What's New
  - Added support for Visual Studio 2017 RC
  - Dropped support for Visual Studio 2010
2016.4.1021.0
- What's Fixed
  - XamlParseException is thrown when notifications are shown
  - WinForms main assembly is not listed in Configure/Convert wizards
  - VS Extensions crash when non-existent drive is entered in backup location path in Upgrade Wizard
2016.3.909.0
- What's New
  - Add link to release notes in the new version notification in Visual Studio
  - Implement notifications synchronization
  - Rebrand VS extensions
  - Add Trial notifications in VS extensions
  - Prefill credentials in Get Latest Version dialog when user has already logged in
  - Improve license notifications schedule
  - Rework VS extensions About dialog
  - Improve how VS extensions notifications are displayed
  - Add product/extension name in latest version acquirer
  - Remove option for controlling license notifications in VS extensions
  - Rework VS extensions user settings UI design
  - Add new assembly in Telerik UI for WinForms suite
  - Implement logic for selecting more than one theme in WinForms Configure wizard
  - Add support for default theme in WinForms VS extensions
- What's Fixed
  - Wrong text in VS Extensions Upgrade wizard
  - Error message is shown when tracking products in VS extensions
  - There is no field validation for Download folder in VSExtensions options
  - VSExtensions icons are jagged in the Extensions Manager for Visual Studio 2013 or later
  - Telerik.VSX.Shell.VS10 assembly does not have strong name
  - System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException is thrown in VS extensions
  - Suggest Trial to Dev update option name in User Settings package is not clear
  - WinForms new VB project refers not existing form as startup form
  - Need Help link in WinForms get latest version dialog is wrong
  - WinForms VS extensions crash when theme reference is broken
2016.2.712.0
- What's New
  - Minor changes
2016.2.603.0
- What's New
  - Add missing assemblies in Visual Studio Extensions for UI for WinForms
  - Change “Convert to Telerik Windows Forms Application” menu item text to “Add References”
- What's Fixed
  - Winforms assemblies could not be selected with key navigation when WinControls.UI assembly description is expanded
  - WinForms Convertion tool and Telerik VSExtensions have same names in Visual Studio About dialog
2016.2.428.0
- What's New
  - Rework UI design in download latest version dialogs
  - Rework UI design in toolbox configuration wizard
  - Rework UI design in upgrade wizard
  - Rework UI design in convert wizard
  - Rework UI design in configure wizard
  - Rework UI design in create new project wizard
  - Mark Latest Internal Builds in VS Extensions so that users can distinguish them
  - Remove support for GAC versions
  - Add link to documentation in VS extensions
  - Add "How to" information in toolbox wizard for users that have no admin privileges
  - Add Telerik.Documents.SpreadsheetStreaming assembly
  - Integrate WinForms Converter in VS Extensions
- What's Fixed
  - Visual Studio crashes if multiple notifications are shown and they fade-out
  - Upgrade Wizard does not detect Telerik projects when CopyLocal property is set to false
  - Fix key navigation in navigation pane
2016.1.414.0
- What's Fixed
  - VSExtensions crash when using Text Templating in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2
2016.1.216.0
- What's New
  - Minor changes
2016.1.111.0
- What's New
  - Track DPL usage from VS extensions
  - Add VS extensions version in callhome metrics
  - Add method name in VS extensions error reports
  - Add release mismatch metrics in VS extensions
- What's Fixed
  - Telerik UI for WPF menu item is available in the project's context menu for WinForms project
2015.5.1030.0
- What's Fixed
  - Minor Fixes
2015.4.925.0
- What's New
  - List GAC versions with low priority in VS extensions
  - Added wizard usage tracking in VS extensions
  - Add third party EULAs in VS extensions installation folder
- What's Fixed
  - Save my password option does not work in Get Latest Version dialog
  - Create New Telerik Project does not preselect the correct category and template when Reporting is installed
2015.3.622.0
- What's New
  - Update RadForm item template for WinForms
  - Send ProductUsed metric only once per day and product
  - Report product code and Visual Studio version in ProductUsed event
  - Add VS templates usage metrics in VS extensions
  - Add new project templates
- What's Fixed
  - Using Telerik Configure Wizard from Telerik menu throws an error report when Visual Studio 2010 IDE Solution Explorer is closed
  - Adding Telerik item template from Telerik menu throws an error report when Visual Studio 2010 IDE Solution Explorer is closed
  - Session Id parameter in callhome events is different for each product
  - Upgrade wizard crashes when trying to write upgrade log to not existing location
  - Unsupported distribution is not detected
  - VS extensions crash when browsing to the distribution with different target .NET framework than the project's in VS 2005 and VS 2008
2015.2.317.0
- What's Fixed
  - VS extensions licensing access token is not refreshed if Visual Studio is running
  - License tracking does not work under Visual Studio 2010
2015.1.224.0
- What's New
  - Added support for Visual Studio 2015
  - Added new project templates
2014.6.1128.0
- What's Fixed
  - Excluded components are listed in the distribution configurator when using GAC distribution
2014.6.1124.0
- What's New
  - Improved handling of additional assemblies
- What's Fixed
  - EQATEC.Analytics.Monitor assembly reference is not removed when upgrading to an older version where it is not distributed
  - WinForms Upgrade wizard removes WPF references from WPF project which contains WinForms reference
  - Telerik.WinControls.Analytics reference is not removed when upgrading project to an older version
2014.5.1021.0
- What's Fixed
  - VS extensions crash on UnsubscribeSaveEvents
  - WinForms projects cannot be upgraded in VS 2005
  - VSExtensions crash when adding an Item template to regular application and there is no controls distribution found
2014.4.918.0
- What's New
  - Add support for .Net Framework 4.5.2
- What's Fixed
  - Creating new project with latest VS extensions crashes when the project references solution distribution created with previous version of the extensions
  - VSExtensions crash when adding an Item template to regular application and there is no controls distribution found
2014.3.820.0
- What's New
  - Add support for Document Processing Library in WinForms VS extensions
  - Add warning message in Upgrade Wizard
- What's Fixed
  - VS extensions crash after opening the Upgrade wizard when the solution file is selected in the solution explorer
  - Spell mistake in the VSExtensions Error report dialog
  - VS extensions crash when project configure or upgrade is performed when Add referenced assemblies to solution option enabled
2014.2.707.0
- What's Fixed
  - VS extensions crash with System.InvalidCastException when closing solution in Visual Studio
2014.1.514.0
- What's Fixed
  - Wrong UI colors in VSExtensions when using Visual Studio standard themes
2014.1.318.0
- What's Fixed
  - VS extensions crash when adding Telerik scenario inside a project folder
  - EQATEC.Analytics.Monitor assembly is not updated when Update project wizard is run
  - Upgrade wizard fails if there is no .sln file created
2014.1.224.0
- What's New
  - Implement Telerik Analytics integration in WinForms VS extensions
2013.3.1316.0
- What's New
  - Updated wizards and icons design
  - Updated product name
2013.3.1031.0
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: Telerik compatibility issue
2013.3.1022.0
- What's New
  - Telerik credentials saved on shared location for all Telerik products
- What's Fixed
  - Visual Studio 2013 hangs when opening solution containing Windows Store C++ project under Windows 8.0
2013.3.1015.0
- What's New
  - Added: Support for Visual Studio 2013
  - Added: Support for .Net 4.5.1
2013.1.320.0
- What's New
  - Improve project setup in regard to source control integration
2013.1.215.0
- What's New
  - Added error reporting
2012.3.1212.0
- What's New
  - Resolve Telerik VSExtensons compatibility problems
  - Update of User Settings package version
2012.3.1016.0
- What's New
  - Telerik RadControls for WinForms Q3 2012 release compatibility update
2012.2.913.0
- What's New
  - Telerik WinForms VSExtensions UI Refresh
  - Visual Studio 2012 UX implementation
2012.2.815.0
- What's New
  - Telerik RadControls for WinForms Q2 2012 RTM refresh release compatibility update
2012.2.724.0
- What's New
  - Telerik RadControls for WinForms Q2 2012 SP1 release compatibility update
2012.2.709.0
- What's Fixed:
  - Optimized solution load times
2012.2.606.0
- What's Fixed
  - Configure wizard fails to launch if there is a broken reference
  - Upgrade Wizard fails to remove in-proj reference files when they are resolved to project bin folder
2012.1.419.0
- What's New
  - Telerik RadControls for WinForms Q1 2012 SP1 release compatibility update
2012.1.320.0
- What's New
  - Improved: Inconsistency in the toolbox groups naming
2012.1.214.0
- What's New
  - Telerik RadControls for WinForms Q1 2012 release compatibility update
2011.3.1305.0
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: This is a consistency update to avoid errors with concurrent Telerik VSExtensions running on the same instance of the IDE.
2011.3.1219.0
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: Toolbox Configurator does not launch after older parallel version removed
2011.3.1125.0
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: This is a consistency update to avoid errors with concurrent Telerik VSExtensions running on the same instance of the IDE.
2011.3.1116.0
- What's New
  - Added: Improve the Upgrade Wizard in regards to changing the target fremework.
  - Added: Make Visual Studio Extensions download folder configurable.
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: Issues with parallel Visual Studio Extensions versions installed.
  - Fixed: Machine text size > 100% garbles the wizard UI.
  - Fixed: Wrong encoding in VS Template files.
2011.2.915.0
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: This is a consistency update to avoid errors with concurrent Telerik VSExtensions running on the same instance of the IDE.
2011.2.831.0
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: Minor improvements in the codebase, related to Upgrade Wizard issues with a WebSite in the Telerik WebUI VSExtensions. This is a consistency update to avoid errors with concurrent Telerik VSExtensions running on the same instance of the IDE.
2011.2.719.0
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: Upgrade wizard issues
2011.2.712.0
- What's New
  - Improved: Downloading Telerik AJAX controls updates through VS Extensions (asynchronously)
  - Improved: Get Latest Version wizard UI
  - Improved: ToolBox upgrade
  - Improved: Upgrade Wizard - implement design assembly deployment in the GAC
  - Added: Solution-wide upgrade
  - Added: Toolbox items grouping
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: Browsed custom distributions not persisted
  - Fixed: Incorrect upgrade log because of wrong API
  - Fixed: Upgrade log shows invalid warnings when upgrading project with GAC references with other GAC references
2011.1.422.0
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: Fix regarding the project wizard's themes tab
2011.1.315.0
- What's New
  - Improved: Project Management wizards can not finish when no assemblies are selected
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: All VS template files are saved in the machine's default encoding instead in Unicode
  - Fixed: Browsed custom distributions not persisted
  - Fixed: Upgrade log shows invalid warnings when upgrading project with GAC references with other GAC references
  - Fixed: Reference not updated if the referenced assembly is contained in the project
  - Fixed: WinForms Item Templates not appearing correctly in Visual Studio 2005
2010.3.1317.0
- What's New
  - Improved: Toolbox Configurator UI
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: QuickStart.dll is no more added to the Toolbox after using the Toolbox Configurator
2010.3.1109.0
- What's New
  - Added: A new ToolBox Configuration utility to keep the Toolbox and the project references in sync
  - Added: A common Options dialog to manage notifications
  - Added: Latest internal builds can be downloaded through the VSExtensions (activated through the Options dialog)
- What's Fixed
  - Fixed: UpgradeLog notes assembly reference not updated while the reference is actually updated

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