Shared Styles between WPF and Silverlight Controls

[J]

Hello,

I am in the middle of a project where I am trying to create a set of styles that can be used for both Silverlight 5 and WPF 4.5 controls. I started with the RibbonView and only ran into a few issues so far. One of them was WPF not liking the telerik:primitives Popup, and the other had to do with WPF not liking telerik:ScrollViewerExtensions.EnableMouseWheel property. I changed the popup markup to <Popup> and it seems to run fine in both WPF and SIlverlight, and I also removed the enable mouse wheel property and I seem to still have mouse wheel scrolling support in silverlight.

I am assuming those two items were necessary early on on Silverlight's life, but not needed anymore in Silverlight 5. Is this assumption correct? Is there any documentation on depreciated controls / properties in Teleriks Silverlight control suite? Has anyone else created a Telerik Theme that can be applied to both SL5 and WPF 4.5 projects and have the Telerik controls look and function the same across the two?

Thanks in advance,
JJ

[Vanya Pavlova]

Hello Jim,

 

Straight to your questions:


1. The mentioned Popup is obsoleted and you are doing the right thing to replace it with the native Microsoft Popup control. As you marked it will run under both platforms - WPF / Silverlight.

2. In our online documentation you may find a detailed description about Changes and Backward compatibility per control, please follow this link. 

3.As per your questions about themes - we are constantly working on the improvement of our controls and
our components share common code-base in order to work simultaneously under both WPF/SL. However their styles still use platform specific properties, which are needed to achieve the desired look and feel.  

Greetings,
Vanya Pavlova
the Telerik team