Getting Started with WinForms StepProgressBar

This tutorial will help you to quickly get started using the control.

Adding Telerik Assemblies Using NuGet

To use RadStepProgressBar 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 RadStepProgressBar

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

WinForms RadStepProgressBar Getting Started

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

Defining RadStepProgressBar

To start using the RadStepProgressBar control, you can just populate its Items collection with StepProgressItem objects. Each StepProgressItem will produce a step visual element with track bar rendered between the steps. The following example shows how to add 5 steps along with text to each step added via several properties of the StepProgressItem elements.

private void CreateStepProgressBar()
{
    var stepProgressBar = new RadStepProgressBar();
    stepProgressBar.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
    var item1 = new StepProgressItem() {FirstHeader="Step 1", SecondHeader = "New", SecondDescription = "Unassigned" };
    var item2 = new StepProgressItem() {FirstHeader="Step 2", SecondHeader = "InProgress", SecondDescription = "Dev" };
    var item3 = new StepProgressItem() {FirstHeader="Step 3", SecondHeader = "ReadyForTest", SecondDescription = "Dev" };
    var item4 = new StepProgressItem() {FirstHeader="Step 4", SecondHeader = "Testing", SecondDescription = "QA", Progress = 61, };
    var item5 = new StepProgressItem() {FirstHeader="Step 5", SecondHeader = "Done", SecondDescription = "N/A" };
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item1);
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item2);
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item3);
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item4);
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item5);
    this.Controls.Add(stepProgressBar);
}

Private Sub CreateStepProgressBar()
    Dim stepProgressBar = New RadStepProgressBar()
    stepProgressBar.Dock = DockStyle.Fill
    Dim item1 = New StepProgressItem() With {
        .FirstHeader = "Step 1",
        .SecondHeader = "New",
        .SecondDescription = "Unassigned"
    }
    Dim item2 = New StepProgressItem() With {
        .FirstHeader = "Step 2",
        .SecondHeader = "InProgress",
        .SecondDescription = "Dev"
    }
    Dim item3 = New StepProgressItem() With {
        .FirstHeader = "Step 3",
        .SecondHeader = "ReadyForTest",
        .SecondDescription = "Dev"
    }
    Dim item4 = New StepProgressItem() With {
        .FirstHeader = "Step 4",
        .SecondHeader = "Testing",
        .SecondDescription = "QA",
        .Progress = 61
    }
    Dim item5 = New StepProgressItem() With {
        .FirstHeader = "Step 5",
        .SecondHeader = "Done",
        .SecondDescription = "N/A"
    }
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item1)
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item2)
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item3)
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item4)
    stepProgressBar.Steps.Add(item5)
    Me.Controls.Add(stepProgressBar)
End Sub

When you run the project, you can observe that the first step is complete. While the second one is half completed. Each step has two headers and two descriptions thus allowing you to add detailed information about each step.

Getting Started with WinForms StepProgressBar

Adding Telerik Assemblies Using NuGet

Adding Assembly References Manually

Defining the RadStepProgressBar

Defining RadStepProgressBar

See Also

Telerik UI for WinForms Learning Resources

Getting Started

Support Resources

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