The UI suite that brings LOB applications to the RIA world
RadControls for Silverlight includes 31 UI controls that can be used in pure Silverlight applications or as parts of existing ASP.NET applications. Sharing the same codebase with our WPF components, the Silverlight controls offer a clean and intuitive API, Blend support and powerful theming capabilities that will radically improve your RIA development.
Why choose
A Comprehensive Toolset from the Masters of Web UI
Traditionally, being the leader in web interface technologies, Telerik now offers you RadControls for Silverlight – a comprehensive suite of 31 controls that bring style and interactivity to your LOB applications.
Engineered for Great Performance
Telerik Silverlight controls are engineered for outstanding performance through native UI virtualization, innovative LINQ-based data engine, asynchronous databinding, RadCompression module and other techniques for reducing page loading time and improving the user experience.
Support for Expression Blend
RadControls for Silverlight are stylable through Microsoft Expression Blend. As result, you can unleash your imagination and redefine how elements should look and behave. Read full details
Common Codebase and Shared API with WPF Controls
All of the controls in the Telerik Silverlight suite are derived from the same codebase with their Telerik WPF counterparts, guaranteeing synchronized future development. Furthermore, both suites share the same API, which cuts in half the learning periods and ensures complete code reusability. See a demo
Rich Data visualization Capabilities
Featuring everything from a super powerful Silverlight grid, to animated, fully customizable Silverlight charts and Gauges, Telerik Silverlight controls allow developers to transform various business scenarios into interactive, animated visuals that enable end users to analyze complex data.
Full Interoperability with ASP.NET AJAX
RadControls for Silverlight are perfect addition for existing ASP.NET AJAX applications and work perfectly with Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. This enables you to add sections with advanced vector interfaces when needed, without rewriting your working applications from scratch.
Ready-to-use Themes
Group styling is made easy thanks to the integrated theme support. Telerik Silverlight controls ship with 3 major skins, Vista, Office Black and Summer, which will help you deliver a consistent look and feel in your application.
Advanced Styling Capabilities
Customization of your application is even easier with Telerik Advanced Styling Mechanism. It allows you to change the skin’s color scheme of the whole suite with just a few clicks. There are common resources for each theme that determine the overall look and feel of the controls’ visual elements. Changing these common resources will change the appearance of the controls.
Enhanced Routed Events Framework
To help your code become even more elegant and concise, we implemented 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.
UI Automation Support
As the Silverlight platform exposes a full accessibility tree trough UIA (UI Automation), Telerik RadControls for Silverlight fully support UI Automation for UI elements access/manipulation, screen readers and other accessibility tools.
Technical Resources
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 will enrich at a fast pace
Industry-Best Technical Support
A successful software project does not take just quality tools. If you encounter a problem or need an advice, just contact our renowned support team. We will make sure you get your job done and deliver more than expected.
Wealth of Examples and Demo Applications
Hundreds of examples of RadControls for Silverlight and integrated demo applications demonstrating RadGridView, RadChart, Drag & Drop Framework, Page Navigation Framework, binding RadControls for Silverlight to ADO.NET Data Services and many others are available for you to provide deeper understanding of our product.