The Most Advanced UI Suite for RIA Development

RadControls are built on Microsoft Silverlight and include 40+ UI controls for building rich line-of-business Silverlight applications. Sharing the same codebase with Telerik WPF controls, the Silverlight controls offer a clean and intuitive API, Expression Blend support, Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 support,  and powerful theming capabilities that will radically improve your RIA development.

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Why choose

Native Silverlight 4 Controls 

RadControls for Silverlight are natively built on the Silverlight 4 platform, taking advantage of the capabilities of the latest Silverlight version, such as clipboard integration, right-click support, multi-touch support and more. The suite offers a rich environment for developing robust and lightning-fast enterprise applications. Check out useful  for Silverlight 4.

Support for Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend

RadControls for Silverlight provide support for Visual Studio 2010, offering toolbox support, property browsing and WYSIWYG preview for all controls. Telerik is working closely with Microsoft to ensure best practices are followed and that we provide the most complete design experience, allowing you to develop in Visual Studio 2010 and style your controls in Expression Blend with ease.

Engineered for Great Performance

Telerik Silverlight controls are engineered for outstanding performance by utilizing streamlined themes and templates, as well as incorporating virtualized scrolling in our more data-centric controls. We have also engineered an innovative LINQ-based data engine, built-in support for databinding,  module and other techniques that help reduce page loading time and speed up data operations. See demo

WCF RIA Services support

All data-bound Telerik Silverlight controls support completely codeless binding to WCF RIA Services. This enables all data operations to execute on the server, which may result in quicker sorting, filtering and paging for RadGridView. In addition to that you can even compress your RIA Services using the RadCompression module. Read more about  support for WCF RIA Services and start utilizing the future of data access in your Silverlight applications today.

Rich Data Visualization Capabilities

Featuring everything from a powerful and feature-rich Silverlight Grid, to animated, fully customizable Silverlight Charts and Gauges, a Map that integrates with both Bing Maps and OpenStreetMaps, and a TileView component that allows for a richly animated and dynamic layout, Telerik Silverlight 4 controls enable developers to transform data into interactive, animated visuals that empower end-users to analyze complex business scenarios.

Support for SharePoint 2010

WebParts that wrap the controls enable combining the expertise of the SharePoint platform and the interactivity and functionality of Telerik's Silverlight components. Enjoy seamless deployment by integrating Telerik Silverlight suite into SharePoint 2010 and radically improve your web pages performance and interactivity. See video

Professional, Ready-to-Use Themes

Styling is made easy thanks to integrated theme support in RadControls for Silverlight. Telerik Silverlight controls ship with seven major themes: Windows 7, Vista, Summer and Transparent as well as Office Blue, Black and Silver. These themes help you deliver a consistent look-and-feel throughout your application and put you on your way to next-generation line of business applications.

Full Interoperability with ASP.NET AJAX

The RadControls for Silverlight 4 suite is a perfect addition for existing ASP.NET AJAX applications and work seamlessly with Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. This enables you to add islands of rich functionality to standards-based websites when needed, without rewriting your working applications for scratch.

Validation and Out of Browser Support

All Telerik Silverlight input controls support metadata-driven validation via data annotations. RadControls also provide out of browser support which enables the application to be run from the user's desktop, allowing you to take advantage of the rich out-of-browser experience.

RadControls for Silverlight VS Extensions

This Visual Studio integration package will help you become more productive when managing a Silverlight project in Visual Studio. The Extensions automatically create, upgrade and configure your RadControls projects in seconds, eliminating the need to set any assembly references manually. The Silverlight Project configuration wizards automatically handle the dependencies between the assemblies, ensuring you will never run into a version conflict and can always utilize the latest version of RadControls in your application with only a few clicks of your mouse. Read more

Testing Silverlight

Telerik developer-friendly automated testing tooldelivers the industry-first testing solution for automating Silverlight UI. Now users can benefit from UI object model that covers the complete list of UI elements in Silverlight as well as use a rich feature set with few limitations. Learn more

Command Support

Full implementation of the Command pattern is available by using the Telerik RadControls for Silverlight. Now you can build complex UIs and yet keep your code simple by using Commands, allowing for a greater separation of concerns between design code and your business layer and aiding with patterns like MVP (Model-View-Presenter) and MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). Read more

Integration with Leading-Edge Technologies

RadControls for Silverlight 4 are designed to work effortlessly with cutting-edge Silverlight technologies like MVVM and Microsoft Composite Application Guidance (Prism). Check out the  demo to see a real world example of using RadControls for Silverlight in the MVVM pattern. See how to implement the Prism Guidance using RadControls by checking out our Sales Dashboard demo and corresponding whitepaper (also available for RadControls for WPF).

Enhanced Routed Events Framework

To help your code become even more elegant and concise, we implemented an Enhanced Routed Events Framework for RadControls for Silverlight. This gives you more freedom when you design your applications since you can write instance handlers as well as class handlers for the routed events of our controls.

Technical Resources and a Wealth of Examples

To help you jumpstart your projects faster and deliver better results, we have compiled various support resources: technical documentation, KB articles, code library items,forums and blogs, which we regularly update with new tricks, tips, and scenarios to help you get the most out of RadControls. You can also check out our for Silverlight Learning Guide to quickly learn the entire suite, complete with sample projects that you can work along with as you read. Silverlight 4 and integrated demo applications are also available to provide you with a deeper understanding of our product.

Code Re-Use with RadControls for WPF

RadControls for Silverlight 4 and RadControls for WPF suites are derived from the same codebase and share the same API. They represent two almost mirror toolsets for building rich line-of-business web and desktop applications, allowing for substantial code and skills reuse between Silverlight and WPF development, shortening your learning curve and enabling you to get the most out of working with Telerik RadControls for XAML development. Learn more and see demo.