Telerik RadControls for Silverlight

Product Information

RadControls for Silverlight includes over 25 UI controls that can be used in pure Silverlight applications or as parts of existing ASP.NET applications. Sharing the same codebase with Telerik's WPF components, the Silverlight controls offer a clean and intuitive API, complete Blend support and powerful theming capabilities that will radically improve your RIA development. The WPF controls come with a range of ready-to-use themes including a Metro-inspired theme.

Included components

Calendar, ContextMenu, CoverFlow, Cube, Docking, Drag & Drop, Expander, Gauge, GridView, MediaPlayer, Menu, Navigation, TabControl, TreeView, Upload, Window...

And more!

New Features

New in Q2'13

• TileList (official release)- provides easy viewing and scrolling through data via tiles (similar to Windows 8) - new grouping capabilities arrange your tiles in pre-defined groups.
• Spreadsheet (beta release)- provides MS-Excel-like editing of tabular data, now features an improved set of built-in formulas, Find and Replace functionality and hyperlink support.
• Touch support improvements- drag-and-drop with touch improvements and take advantage of gestures across all controls.
• ChartView- introduces a new series - PointSeries, 2 new annotation types - MarkedZone and CustomLine plus built-in support for scroll-to-zoom and drag-to-pan interactions.
• ContextMenu- new RadMenuGroupItem and RadMenuSeparatorItem.
• DataForm- introduces keyword navigation.
• DateTimePicker- improved keyboard navigation.
• Diagrams- introduces RadDiagrams export, RadDiagramContainerShapes collapsible containers, extendible SettingsPane plus more.
• GanttView- the GanttView is now printable and has a common API for exporting parts in BitmapSource objects.
• Map- new VisualizationLayer to perform calculation heavy operations and async map shape reader for ESRI shape files, KML files, WKT/WKB formats (SQL Geospatial).
• Menu- RadMenuGroupItem to put different controls on the menu.
• PivotGrid- new steps for DateTimeGroupDescription and a new UI to set and simultaneously use different steps at runtime.
• RichTextBox- introduces code blocks to insert code snippets in the editor via UI and supports custom syntax highlighter plugins.

New in Q1'13

• PivotGrid (official release)- the official release introduces a range of new features including sorting, report filter and total formats support for OLAP.
• Spreadsheet (CTP release)- allows Excel-like editing of tabular data with a variety of cell formatting options, styles and themes.
• TileList (beta release)- displays tiles in a mosaic manner allowing you to represent a small amount of data in the form of tiles that the end-user is able to smoothly scroll left or right with a gesture, as is the case in Windows 8.
• BarcodeReader (beta release)- decode most of the one–dimensional codes offered by Telerik, such as Code128 and code 11.
• Touch support improvements- drag-and-drop with touch and take advantage of gestures across all controls.
• Dynamic fonts for Windows 8 and Windows 8 touch themes- fonts and font sizes in these themes can now be changed globally.
• ChartView- introducing chart legend, support for inverse mode on all axes, MVVM support for dynamic number of series and more.
• Diagram- new text tool, full connection editing, localisation, semantic zoom and more.
• GanttView- drag to reorder tasks, create relations with the mouse, drag from external source and more.
• RichTextBox- Word-like UI for editing of conditional table styles, undo/redo command grouping, HTML export improvements and more.
• TimeBar & TimeLine- customisable interval formatters.

New in Q3'12

• New! PivotGrid (beta)- data summarisation tool with great data visualisation capabilities
• New! GanttView- designed for managing and visualising complex planning data and tasks, this control makes it notably easier to understand and analyse that data
• New! AutoCompleteBox- new light-weight autocomplete component allows your end users to choose single or multiple items from the suggest-list, populated based on their input
• New! Heatmap- matrix-like control that uses color to encode values along two axes is now official
• New! Touch Theme- new Windows8 Touch theme enables new scenarios on touch enabled devices
• Visual Studio 2012 Compatibility- all controls work with Visual Studio 2012
• RichTextBox- introduces support for footnotes and end-notes, bibliographic references, stylesheets and table formatting with conditional styles
• ChartView- introduces support for annotations and light rendering of large data
• GridView- introduces performance optimisations in grouped scenarios and column aligned aggregates
• Diagrams- introduces HTML5 export support, visual containers, gliding connectors, ruler smart-scaling and free hand and polygon drawing tools
• ScheduleView- introduces support for hourly and minutely recurrences
• PDFViewer- introduces annotations and support for encrypted documents
• Barcode- introduces PDF417 barcode support
• Docking Control- introduces drag reorder of panes
• Timeline- introduces annotations and expand/collapse of groups.

Benefits

A comprehensive toolset from the masters of web UI

Traditionally, being one of the leaders in web interface technologies, Telerik now offers you RadControls for Silverlight – a comprehensive suite of 25+ controls that bring style and interactivity to your LOB applications.

Engineered for Great Performance

RadControls for Silverlight are engineered for outstanding performance and smart use of UI and Data virtualization. Built-in "Load On Demand' mechanism for relevant controls allows for significant performance gains when working with heavy data.

Full support for Expression Blend

RadControls for Silverlight are fully stylable through Microsoft Expression Blend. You don’t need to learn yet another proprietary styling application or configuration tool.

Common codebase and shared API with WPF controls

All of the controls in the Telerik Silverlight suite are derived from the same codebase with their Telerik WPF counterparts, guaranteeing synchronized future development. Furthermore, both suites share the same API, which cuts in half the learning periods and ensures complete code reusability.

Full Interoperability with ASP.NET AJAX

RadControls for Silverlight are perfect addition for existing ASP.NET AJAX applications and work perfectly with Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. This enables you to add sections with advanced vector interfaces when needed, without rewriting your working applications for scratch.

Ready-to-use Themes

Group styling is made easy thanks to the integrated theme support. Just set a single property and the components will be re-skinned. New skins will be added with every release. A unique style building mechanism allows you to change the skin’s color scheme of the whole suite with just a few clicks.

Industry-Best Technical Support

A successful software project does not take just quality tools. If you encounter a problem or need an advice, just contact our renowned support team. We will make sure you get your job done and deliver more than expected.

Editions

Starter licences

• Community Assistance
• Dedicated support - covering up to 10 incidents
• Support response time of 72 hours
• Supports up to 3 purchased starter licences per company - cannot be combined with any 'Professional' licences.

Professional licences

• Community Assistance
• Dedicated support - unlimited support incidents
• Support response time of 24 hours
• Updates for subscription period
• Source code
• Licenced developer switching
• Supports an unlimited number of purchased licences per company.