Declaration

Updated on Sep 24, 2025

This article demonstrates how you can declare a RadColorSelector and populate it with colors.

Selection

• RadColorSelector has a SelectedColor property, which is of type Color and it is used to store selected color value.

  XAML

  	<telerik:RadColorSelector SelectedColor="Red" />

  C#

  	RadColorSelector colorSelector = new RadColorSelector();
  	colorSelector.SelectedColor = Colors.Red;

  VB.NET

  	Dim colorSelector As New RadColorSelector()
  	colorSelector.SelectedColor = Colors.Red

• Whenever a color is selected the SelectedColorChanged event is raised:

  C#

  	colorSelector.SelectedColorChanged += new EventHandler(colorSelector_SelectedColorChanged);
  	
  	 void colorSelector_SelectedColorChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
  	{
  	   RadColorSelector selector = sender as RadColorSelector;
  	   Color selectedColor = selector.SelectedColor;
  	}

  VB.NET

  		colorSelector.SelectedColorChanged += New EventHandler(colorSelector_SelectedColorChanged)
  	
  		Private Sub colorSelector_SelectedColorChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
  			Dim selector As RadColorSelector = TryCast(sender, RadColorSelector)
  			Dim selectedColor As Color = selector.SelectedColor
  		End Sub

Populating

You can populate the RadColorSelector with any of the built-in palettes using the ColorPreset enumeration. It has HeaderPalette, MainPalette and StandardPalette properties, which represent the corresponding parts of the selector.

• MainPalette property:

  XAML

  	<telerik:RadColorSelector MainPalette="Grayscale" />

  C#

  	RadColorSelector colorSelector = new RadColorSelector();
  	colorSelector.MainPalette = ColorPreset.Grayscale;

  VB.NET

  		Dim colorSelector As New RadColorSelector()
  		colorSelector.MainPalette = ColorPreset.Grayscale

• HeaderPalette property:

  XAML

  	<telerik:RadColorSelector HeaderPalette="Office" />

  C#

  	RadColorSelector colorSelector = new RadColorSelector();
  	colorSelector.HeaderPalette = ColorPreset.Office;

  VB.NET

  	Dim colorSelector As New RadColorSelector()
  	colorSelector.HeaderPalette = ColorPreset.Office

• StandardPalette property:

  XAML

  	<telerik:RadColorSelector StandardPalette="Standard" />

  C#

  	RadColorSelector colorSelector = new RadColorSelector();
  	colorSelector.StandardPalette = ColorPreset.Standard;

  VB.NET

  	Dim colorSelector As New RadColorSelector()
  	colorSelector.StandardPalette = ColorPreset.Standard

• If you prefer to use your own collection of Colors you can always use HeaderPaletteItemsSource, MainPaletteItemsSource and StandardPaletteItemsSource.

  • StandardPaletteItemSource property

    XAML

    	<telerik:RadColorSelector StandardPaletteItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource ColorList}}" />

    C#

    	RadColorSelector colorSelector = new RadColorSelector();
    	colorSelector.StandardPaletteVisibility = Visibility.Visible;
    	Collection<Color> colors = new Collection<Color>();
    	colors.Add(Colors.Red);
    	colors.Add(Colors.Green);
    	colors.Add(Colors.Blue);
    	colorSelector.StandardPaletteItemsSource = colors;

    VB.NET

    	Dim colorSelector As New RadColorSelector()
    	colorSelector.StandardPaletteVisibility = Visibility.Visible
    	Dim colors As New Collection(Of Color)()
    	_colors.Add(Colors.Red)
    	_colors.Add(Colors.Green)
    	_colors.Add(Colors.Blue)
    	_colorSelector.StandardPaletteItemsSource = _colors

  • HeaderPaletteItemSource property

    XAML

    	<telerik:RadColorSelector HeaderPaletteItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource ColorList}}" />

    C#

    	RadColorSelector colorSelector = new RadColorSelector();
    	colorSelector.HeaderPaletteVisibility = Visibility.Visible;
    	Collection<Color> colors = new Collection<Color>();
    	colors.Add(Colors.Red);
    	colors.Add(Colors.Green);
    	colors.Add(Colors.Blue);
    	colorSelector.HeaderPaletteItemsSource = colors;

    VB.NET

    	Dim colorSelector As New RadColorSelector()
    	colorSelector.HeaderPaletteVisibility = Visibility.Visible
    	Dim _colors As New Collection(Of Color)()
    	_colors.Add(Colors.Red)
    	_colors.Add(Colors.Green)
    	_colors.Add(Colors.Blue)
    	colorSelector.HeaderPaletteItemsSource = _colors

  • MainPaletteItemSource property

    XAML

    	<telerik:RadColorSelector MainPaletteItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource ColorList}}" />

    C#

    	RadColorSelector colorSelector = new RadColorSelector();
    	Collection<Color> colors = new Collection<Color>();
    	colors.Add(Colors.Red);
    	colors.Add(Colors.Green);
    	colors.Add(Colors.Blue);
    	colorSelector.MainPaletteItemsSource = colors;

    VB.NET

    	Dim colorSelector As New RadColorSelector()
    	Dim _colors As New Collection(Of Color)()
    	_colors.Add(Colors.Red)
    	_colors.Add(Colors.Green)
    	_colors.Add(Colors.Blue)
    	colorSelector.MainPaletteItemsSource = _colors