Step-by-step Tutorial – RadControls for Silverlight 4

Note: The content of this tutorial is based on Silverlight and RadControls for Silverlight 4.

Enjoy over 1000 pages of dense training material that covers most of the Telerik Silverlight controls in a step–by–step fashion. Every chapter comes with lab exercises, tips, tricks and "gotchas" that will help you make the most of our products. Ultimately, you will build "Active Skill", a real–world aptitude testing application that uses most of the UI components in the suite.

Who Should Read This Courseware

This courseware assumes that you are familiar with VB.NET or C# code. The courseware uses VisualStudio 2010 and assumes you know your way around this environment. You should be able to navigate thebasic functional areas of the IDE (e.g. Solution Explorer, Properties, code/designer web pages etc.) and beable to run and debug applications and class libraries. You should have a basic familiarity with XML syntax.

What Do You Need to Have Before Reading This Courseware

• Computer Setup -The courseware assumes you are running Windows X86 or x64 500-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor with 128-megabytes (MB) of RAM
• Silverlight Setup -For information on system requirements for Silverlight, see "Microsoft Silverlight System Requirements" at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx. This will show you the combinations of operating system and browser that will support Silverlight
• Development Tools -This courseware assumes that you have installed:
  - Visual Studio 2010 or better Expression Blend 4
  - Silverlight 4 SDK Silverlight Toolkit
• Services -See the Silverlight Getting Started site at http://silverlight.net/getstarted/ for links to these resources
• RadControls for Silverlight - Get RadControls for Silverlight at http://www.telerik.com/purchase/individual/silverlight.aspx

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Silverlight Introduction
3. Working with Silverlight
4. Data Binding
5. Expression Blend
6. Theming and Skinning
7. Localization
8. UI Automation Support
9. Input Controls
10. Menu Controls
11. Tabbed Interfaces
12. ToolBar
13. Expander
14. Drag and Drop
15. Date, Time and Calendar
16. ComboBox
17. TreeView
18. GridView
19. Scheduler
20. Gauges
21. ProgressBar
22. Charting
23. Docking
24. Windows
25. HTMLPlaceholder
26. MediaPlayer
27. CoverFlow
28. Upload