.NET 9 WinForms News

Integrate Rich Calendaring with Minimal Code

May 20, 2025
Offer flexible views, color-coded events, and drag-and-drop rescheduling so users can take full control of their calendar.

Calendars are specialized components that allow developers to present and manage dates and events directly within their applications. They provide ready-made interfaces for selecting dates and displaying scheduled items while synchronizing with external services such as Microsoft 365 and Google Calendar. Common use cases include online booking systems for reserving resources, shift planning tools for staff schedules, and customer-facing appointment portals in industries like healthcare or personal services. By leveraging these calendar components, teams deliver polished, reliable scheduling experiences with minimal effort.

Several .NET Winforms UI suites offer a calendar component including:

  • MindFusion.WinForms Pack lets you embed interactive calendar controls with customizable views, recurrence rules, and event management for scheduling applications.
  • Bunifu UI WinForms allows you to add sleek calendar widgets featuring animations, themes, date-pickers, and range selection for improved scheduling.
  • Telerik UI for WinForms facilitates calendar controls with multiple view modes, data binding, localization, and event highlighting for enterprise scheduling.
  • DevExpress WinForms lets you integrate feature-rich calendar components with customizable appointment templates, resource grouping, and flexible navigation views.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET Winforms UI suites comparison.

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Bunifu Technologies Adds .NET 9 Support

May 19, 2025
The Bunifu product range can now be used to integrate modern user interface and charting components in the Microsoft .NET 9.0 ecosystem.

Bunifu Technologies is a leading provider of UI/UX components, design tools and data visualization components for developers building WinForms applications, and for integrating charting functionality. The Bunifu Ultimate Bundle offers a comprehensive suite of premium grids, charts, forms, and navigation components that make it easy to craft visually stunning, user-centric interfaces. By leveraging Bunifu’s expertise, developers can significantly improve the look and feel of their applications while reducing development time, ultimately delivering exceptional user experiences.

With support for Microsoft .NET 9, developers can use Bunifu UI WinForms and BuniCharts to create high quality applications that combine modern user interface elements with high-performance data visualization. This compatibility aligns these components with the latest advancements in the .NET ecosystem, allowing developers to deliver more modern, stable, and future-proof applications without compromising on design or performance.

Bunifu products are licensed per developer and are available in four plans, three of which are annual licenses while the other is perpetual. All plans come with free version updates and Premium support for the active license period. See our Bunifu Ultimate Bundle licensing page for full details.

For more information, see the following product pages:

Utilize Data Editors with Accessibility Support

May 13, 2025
Equip WinForms applications with data input controls that support assistive technologies and features, making them accessible to all users.

Data input controls with accessibility support are user interface components designed to capture user input, such as text fields, checkboxes, dropdowns, date pickers, and numeric fields, that can be used by anyone, regardless of physical or cognitive limitations. With assistive technologies like screen readers, voice input systems, and keyboard navigation, they ensure that individuals with disabilities or impairments can enter and manipulate data without obstruction. By adhering to accessibility standards like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and supporting technologies, these controls help developers deliver user-friendly interfaces that improve user experience for all, and help organizations meet legal and ethical accessibility obligations.

Several WinForms data editor collections include accessibility support, such as:

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of .NET WinForms data editor collections.

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Instantly Visualize Data Within Spreadsheets

May 12, 2025
Transform raw figures into interactive charts directly inside your .NET spreadsheet application for faster insights and cleaner reporting.

Chart support in a spreadsheet component refers to the ability to create, render, and manipulate various types of charts - such as line, bar, pie, and area charts - all within the spreadsheet environment. This functionality allows spreadsheet developers to present data visually and dynamically, without needing to rely on external charting libraries. The integration of charting capabilities enhances the end-user experience by making complex data more understandable. For developers, this reduces the need for separate visualization components, improves performance through tighter integration, and simplifies the deployment of data-centric applications.

Several .NET Winforms spreadsheet controls offer chart support, including:

  • MindFusion.Spreadsheet for WinForms empowers users with interactive charts directly within cells, enhancing data visualization and making analysis readily understandable.
  • Infragistics WinForms Spreadsheet (part of Infragistics Ultimate UI for Windows Forms) can embed rich charts, facilitating interpretation of trends and performance metrics.
  • Spread.NET WinForms by MESCIUS facilitates dynamic data visualization through customizable charts and conditional formatting, enabling users to highlight key insights.
  • DevExpress WinForms Spreadsheet (part of DevExpress WinForms) lets developers integrate interactive charts, offering visually compelling representations for analysis.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our .NET Winforms spreadsheet controls comparison.

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Implement SSO Effortlessly in Your Apps

May 7, 2025
Cloud SSO helps you implement Single Sign-On in minutes using standard protocols like SAML and OpenID Connect.

Cloud SSO, a new product in the The Red Carpet Subscription Vol. 2 2025 update, dramatically simplifies the implementation of Single Sign-On (SSO) in modern applications. By supporting widely adopted standards like SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and OpenID Connect, this toolkit ensures seamless integration with virtually any major identity provider - including Microsoft, Google, Apple, GitHub, GitLab, Okta, and others. Developers can now enable centralized authentication without writing custom code for each provider, making it easier to build secure, scalable, and user-friendly login flows across cloud, mobile, and desktop applications.

To see a full list of what's new in Red Carpet Subscription Vol. 2 2025, see our release notes.

Red Carpet Subscription is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. See our Red Carpet Subscription licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our /n software Red Carpet Subscription product page.