AI Coding Assistant

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Telerik UI for WinForms AI Coding Assistant

The Telerik UI for WinForms AI Coding Assistant enhances your developer experience and increases productivity when building WinForms applications with Telerik UI for WinForms components.

The coding assistant is an AI code generator that provides specialized context to AI models, enabling them to produce higher-quality code samples using the Telerik UI for WinForms components and APIs.

Available Tools

The Telerik AI Coding Assistant is available through:

Key Differences

Feature MCP Server GitHub Copilot Extension
Prompt Handling Handles complex, multi-step prompts Offers shorter, focused code snippets
Client Compatibility Works with MCP-enabled clients (e.g., Cursor, Copilot Agent mode) Integrated as a Copilot extension
Code Suggestions Can directly suggest changes and rebuild applications to verify code Provides detailed explanations alongside code suggestions
Response Focus Primarily code-focused Better for learning and understanding implementation

Getting Started

To use the Telerik WinForms AI Coding Assistant, you need:

Intended Use

Always double-check the code and solutions proposed by any AI-powered tool before applying them to your project.

You can use the AI Coding Assistant for:

  • Initial code generation: Quickly add components to your app to speed up the initial development.
  • Basic component configuration: Enable or disable specific component features, or fine tune the configuration through prompting. More complex configurations are possible but may require additional manual work to be production-ready.
  • Dummy data generation and data binding: Quickly add data to your app for testing and prototyping purposes. Avoid exposing or providing access to your proprietary or production data to AI-enabled tools.
  • Step-by-step explanations: Understand the solutions provided by the AI Coding Assistant through the detailed explanations (depends on the tool, mode, and model used). To further develop your knowledge, check the respective documentation.
  • Preliminary troubleshooting: Resolve obvious and easy-to-solve issues affecting your code. For more complex issues, look for assistance by contacting our support team.

Coverage

The Telerik AI Coding Assistant is trained on the Telerik UI for WinForms API reference, official documentation, and purpose-built code examples for the controls in the assemblies listed below:

  • Telerik.WinControls.UI
  • Telerik.WinControls.GridView
  • Telerik.WinControls.RadDock
  • Telerik.WinControls.RichTextEditor

Usage Limits

Access to the Telerik UI for WinForms AI Coding Assistant depends on your Telerik license type:

Subscription License

  • A Subscription is the primary license that grants full access to the AI Coding Assistant.
  • Includes a virtually unlimited number of requests, with a fair use threshold of 300 requests per day.
  • Best for ongoing and high-volume usage.

Perpetual License (Limited Access)

  • Perpetual licenses include limited access of 50 requests per year.
  • Intended for exploring and trying out the AI Coding Assistant.
  • For continued or higher-volume access, upgrade to a Subscription license.

Trial License

  • Trial licenses include 300 requests per trial per year.
  • Reactivating the same trial for a new release does not grant additional requests.
  • Designed for evaluating the feature before purchasing.

Recommendations

Consider the following recommendations when working with the AI Coding Assistant:

  • When switching between tasks and files, start a new session in a new chat window to avoid polluting the context with irrelevant or outdated information.
  • At the time of publishing, Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5 produce optimal results.

Number of Requests

The Telerik WinForms AI Coding Assistant allows the following maximum number of requests based on your Telerik license type:

License Type Request Limit
Perpetual 50 requests per year
Subscription Virtually unlimited with a fair use threshold of 300 requests per day
Trial 300 requests per trial period (does not reset with new trial activations)

All Telerik AI tools share a single request quota for your Telerik account. Usage from the Telerik Copilot extension and Telerik MCP server counts toward the same limit. Complex prompts in the MCP server may consume multiple requests.

Privacy

The Telerik WinForms AI Coding Assistant operates under strict privacy guidelines:

Data Access:

  • No access to your workspace and application code.
  • Exception: when using the Telerik MCP server (or any other MCP server), the LLM generates parameters for the MCP server request, which may include parts of your application code.

Data Usage:

  • Your prompts are not used to train Telerik AI models.
  • Does not generate or access AI responses.
  • Provides enhanced context to improve responses from your chosen AI model (GPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.).

Data Storage:

  • Prompts and context are anonymized and stored only for statistical analysis and troubleshooting.
  • No association between prompts and your Telerik user account.
  • Usage metrics are collected to ensure license compliance.

Make sure also to review the terms and privacy policies of your selected AI model and AI client.

Telerik Document Processing AI Coding Assistant

You can also use the AI Coding Assistant for Telerik Document Processing to generate high-quality code samples and speed up your development. Read the full guide in the dedicated DPL AI Coding Assistant article.

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