Declined
Last Updated: 19 Nov 2025 09:58 by ADMIN
Ian
Created on: 17 Nov 2025 13:45
Category: UI for WinForms
Type: Feature Request
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Licenses

(This request may be specific to VS solutions which produce only DLLs, and not to ones which create a .exe.)

At the moment, the default behaviour for everything else in my VS project is to not produce warnings unless something might be wrong, which I may need to action.

WinForms,as of the latest release (2025) is the only thing which produces warning messages where there is not problem, which is not very tidy. I only want to see things in the build output which need my attention, defintely not 'happy' messages, or warnings which are not needed.

Currently, for each project in my solution, I get a message like:

1>  [Telerik and Kendo UI Licensing]
1>        Valid Telerik UI for WinForms license found. Make sure the main application also references Telerik.Licensing when using a class library.

...but I have a valid licence, and everything is OK. No action is needed.

Your support suggested adding...

  <TelerikLicensingVerbosity>quiet</TelerikLicensingVerbosity>

...to each project in my solution, but that still produces the above build message.

A polite solution would be to turn-off ALL such warning messages, and let me switch them ON when needed. Preferably via a setting somewhere, not by editing the VS project file, which means unloading, editing the project file, and realoading each of many  projects.

(Visual Studio 2026, not currently an option in the drop-down below)

1 comment
ADMIN
Nadya | Tech Support Engineer
Posted on: 19 Nov 2025 09:58

Hello, Ian,

Thank you for submitting your feedback.

As we have already resolved this issue in the other ticket you opened earlier, by suppressing the licensing messages through the quiet mode, I will proceed with declining this feature request. We currently provide such an option to suppress these messages if they are annoying for our clients. I agree with you that some property that can turn off/on such warnings might be useful, but at this moment, we will continue to use the existing API for the same. The licensing model is utilized across other Telerik products as well, not only WinForms, and we aim to maintain consistency throughout our product suite.

Visual Studio 2026 has already been added to the drop-down. You should be able to fill it next time when you submit a ticket.

Regards,
Nadya | Tech Support Engineer
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