Black Screen When Showing RadWindow or RadRibbonWindow With NoXaml dlls

Updated on Sep 15, 2025

Environment

Product Version	2022.2.621
Product	RadWindow/RadRibbonWindow for WPF

Description

Black screen is displayed when you open a WPF RadWindow or RadRibbonWindow and the NoXaml Telerik dlls are used.

Solution

This happens when you create a custom control that derives from RadWindow or RadRibbonWindow. For example, if you use the window as a UserControl. In this case, you should also define a style for the custom control and base it on the default window style. This is required for all custom controls that derive from Telerik controls. Read more in the Styling the Controls article.

RadWindow style

XAML

	<ResourceDictionary>
		<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
			<ResourceDictionary Source="Themes/System.Windows.xaml" />
			<ResourceDictionary Source="Themes/Telerik.Windows.Controls.xaml" />
			<ResourceDictionary Source="Themes/Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation.xaml" />
		</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>

		<!-- style for a custom window -->	
		<Style TargetType="local:MainWindow" BasedOn="{StaticResource RadWindowStyle}" />
	</ResourceDictionary> 

RadRibbonWindow style

XAML

	<ResourceDictionary>
		<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
			<ResourceDictionary Source="Themes/System.Windows.xaml" />
			<ResourceDictionary Source="Themes/Telerik.Windows.Controls.xaml" />
			<ResourceDictionary Source="Themes/Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation.xaml" />
			<ResourceDictionary Source="Themes/Telerik.Windows.Controls.RibbonView.xaml" />
		</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>

		<!-- style for a custom ribbon window -->	
		<Style TargetType="local:MainWindow" BasedOn="{StaticResource RadRibbonWindowStyle}" />
	</ResourceDictionary>