I am developing two applications, one WPF and the other Silverlight, with the intent to share as much code as possible. We chose Telerik controls as they are said to be cross-compatible, although in practice I am finding otherwise.
Sharing code worked well enough until I tried to customize the RadGridView control. When exporting the Template, I see that the Silverlight version uses Visual States to control the appearance of the grid, while the WPF version utilizes Triggers. The ScrollContentPresenter is a different type in the two templates as well. These issues are making it extremely difficult (impossible) to share XAML across the applications - do you have any suggestions/workarounds for these issues?
Thanks for your time,
Noah
1 Answer, 1 is accepted
I have already replied in your support ticket.
For those clients who might be interested in your case I am pasting the answer here as well:
Thank you for choosing Telerik RadGridView/Silverlight! Let me try to explain the idea behind the cross-platform compatibility between our WPF and Silverlight components. They share a Common API - the code-behind you write either in desktop or web applications is valid for both platforms. As you might know we provide support for WPF 3.5 / WPF 4.0. In WPF 3.5 you may use triggers, WPF 4.0 - states as you may in Silverlight. Considering this fact it is not possible to support triggers and states for both WPF versions simultaneously. Thinking in this way I would like to know what is the WPF version you are currently using?
Vanya Pavlova
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