Or the quickest way to acquire and start utilizing RadControls
Okay, I’m throwing it out: With Visual Studio 2010 on your machine and a Telerik account, you can set up a project utilizing the latest RadControls in less than two minutes.
Here is how:
Start Visual Studio 2010
Launch the Extension Manager and navigate to the Online Gallery tab
Search for Telerik VSExtensions
Install the VSExtensions you’re interested in. For the time being there are four of them:
WebUI
(
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
),
Silverlight
(
RadControls for Silverlight
),
WPF
(
RadControls for WPF
) and
WinForms
(
RadControls for WinForms
). VSExtensions for ASP.NET MVC are in production and will be published...
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