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Extend Visual Studio LightSwitch with Telerik Dev Tools

Learn how to integrate Telerik UI controls into your LightSwitch applications as well as how to populate them with LightSwitch data. You will be up to speed and developing seamless end-user experiences in your business applications in no time.

Visual Studio LightSwitch offers developers an entirely new way to construct rich and responsive Silverlight applications. To make your transition to this new platform easier, we provide hands-on labs to guide you through the process and continue making the most of your existing Silverlight skills.

RadControls for Silverlight Hands-On Labs

Chart in LightSwitch

In this Telerik Hands on Lab, we add RadChart to our LightSwitch application and hook up the necessary data to enable rich charting scenarios.

Download (ZIP, 3.4MB)

RichTextBox in LightSwitch

In this Telerik Hands on Lab, our LightSwitch solution is enhanced with RadRichTextBox. It shows just how easily you can create a custom screen to display and utilize this control.

Download (ZIP, 2.8MB)

CoverFlow in LightSwitch

In this Lab, we are fully utilizing the fact that LightSwitch is built on top of the Silverlight framework to display slick animations and visuals for your end users using the RadCoverFlow control.

Download (ZIP, 2.4MB)

GridView in LightSwitch

In this Telerik Hands on Lab, we add RadGridView to our LightSwitch application and hook up the necessary data to support different operations on our data.

Download (ZIP, 2.5MB)

Add BulletGraph to GridView

In this lab we are going to add some data visualizations to enhance the RadGridView for LightSwitch implementation with RadBulletGraph for Silverlight.

Download (ZIP, 2.3MB)

Editing in RadBulletGraph

In this lab we add RadNumericUpDown to our GridView + BulletGraph implementation, which edits projected values within the grid, removing the need for editing through the LightSwitch command bar.

Download (ZIP, 4.2MB)

Gauge in LightSwitch

In this Lab, we bring rich visualization into your LightSwitch application by adding RadGauge. The lab demonstrates how to utilize different gauge types and styles, as well as how to hook it up to your data.

Download (ZIP, 2.6MB)

Input Controls in LightSwitch

Download this lab to see how to add several controls from the RadMaskedInput Telerik Silverlight suite to our LightSwitch solution. With the input controls you can control how data is being entered by the user and how it will be displayed in your solution.

Download (ZIP, 2.5MB)

ScheduleView in LightSwitch

If you need to add rich and dynamic scheduling capabilities for your end users with a graphical overlay similar to what they would expect from applications like Outlook, then download this Telerik Hands on Lab. It will show you how to add RadScheduleView to a LightSwitch application and hook up the necessary data to enable a rich scheduling experience.

Download (ZIP, 2.5MB)

System Requirements


  • RadControls for Silverlight Q2 2011
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 installed (Professional Edition or higher)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2+
  • Silverlight Toolkit 4.x