Getting Started with WinForms OfficeNavigationBar

This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a sample application that contains RadOfficeNavigationBar.

Adding Telerik Assemblies Using NuGet

To use RadOfficeNavigationBar when working with NuGet packages, install the Telerik.UI.for.WinForms.AllControls package. The package target framework version may vary.

Read more about NuGet installation in the Install using NuGet Packages article.

With the 2025 Q1 release, the Telerik UI for WinForms has a new licensing mechanism. You can learn more about it here.

Adding Assembly References Manually

When dragging and dropping a control from the Visual Studio (VS) Toolbox onto the Form Designer, VS automatically adds the necessary assemblies. However, if you're adding the control programmatically, you'll need to manually reference the following assemblies:

Telerik.Licensing.Runtime
Telerik.WinControls
Telerik.WinControls.UI
TelerikCommon

The Telerik UI for WinForms assemblies can be install by using one of the available installation approaches.

Defining the RadOfficeNavigationBar

The following picture shows the final result produced by the code of this tutorial.

WinForms RadOfficeNavigationBar Sample Overview

The design may vary according to the applied theme to the application.

Defining RadOfficeNavigationBar

To start using the RadOfficeNavigationBar control, you can just populate its Pages collection with RadPageViewPage objects.


    RadOfficeNavigationBar radOfficeNavigationBar = new RadOfficeNavigationBar();
    var page1 = new RadPageViewPage() { Text = "Mail" };
    page1.Controls.Add(new Label() {Text="Mail" });
    var page2 = new RadPageViewPage() { Text = "Calendar" };
    page2.Controls.Add(new Label() { Text = "Calendar" });
    var page3 = new RadPageViewPage() { Text = "People" };
    page3.Controls.Add(new Label() { Text = "People" });
    var page4 = new RadPageViewPage() { Text = "Tasks" };
    page4.Controls.Add(new Label() { Text = "Tasks" });
    radOfficeNavigationBar.Controls.Add(page1);
    radOfficeNavigationBar.Controls.Add(page2);
    radOfficeNavigationBar.Controls.Add(page3);
    radOfficeNavigationBar.Controls.Add(page4);
    this.Controls.Add(radOfficeNavigationBar);


    Dim radOfficeNavigationBar As RadOfficeNavigationBar = New RadOfficeNavigationBar()
    Dim page1 = New RadPageViewPage() With {
        .Text = "Mail"
    }
    page1.Controls.Add(New Label() With {
        .Text = "Mail"
    })
    Dim page2 = New RadPageViewPage() With {
        .Text = "Calendar"
    }
    page2.Controls.Add(New Label() With {
        .Text = "Calendar"
    })
    Dim page3 = New RadPageViewPage() With {
        .Text = "People"
    }
    page3.Controls.Add(New Label() With {
        .Text = "People"
    })
    Dim page4 = New RadPageViewPage() With {
        .Text = "Tasks"
    }
    page4.Controls.Add(New Label() With {
        .Text = "Tasks"
    })
    radOfficeNavigationBar.Controls.Add(page1)
    radOfficeNavigationBar.Controls.Add(page2)
    radOfficeNavigationBar.Controls.Add(page3)
    radOfficeNavigationBar.Controls.Add(page4)
    Me.Controls.Add(radOfficeNavigationBar)

Getting Started with WinForms OfficeNavigationBar

Adding Telerik Assemblies Using NuGet

Adding Assembly References Manually

Defining the RadOfficeNavigationBar

Defining RadOfficeNavigationBar

See Also

Telerik UI for WinForms Learning Resources

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