Project Creation and Configuration
With the new Visual Studio Extensions for Silverlight you can quickly create an application pre-configured to use Telerik UI for Silverlight.
The quickest way to have such a project is using the New Project Wizard in Visual Studio. There is a new node under the Telerik node – Silverlight, where two project templates exist:
For convenience the same project templates could be found under the Visual C# -> Silverlight and Visual Basic -> Silverlight nodes.
After you click the OK button, you get the Project Configuration Wizard, provided by the Telerik UI for Silverlight Visual Studio Extensions. The wizard detects all the installed distributions of Telerik UI for Silverlight and lists them in a combo box. You can select a distribution which you want to be applied to your project. The wizard helps you manage the references to the Telerik UI for Silverlight that will be added to your application as well.
You can access the Project Configuration Wizard through the Telerik menu when you need to configure your Telerik Silverlight application or you need to convert an existing Silverlight application to a Telerik Silverlight application. These depend on the active project in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer:
Configure Telerik Silverlight Application
Convert to Telerik Silverlight Application
Both menus have their context menu counterparts accessed by right clicking on the project you want to convert or configure.
The Project Configuration Wizard lets you tune your project's use of Telerik UI for Silverlight.
The Project Configuration Wizard’s first page lets you:
Select a Telerik UI version from the list of versions detected on your system
Navigate to a folder you’ve manually downloaded and extracted a hotfix by clicking the Browse button
Download the latest versions available on our website using the Download button
Choose whether you want to copy the referenced assemblies to your solution folder
Choose whether you want to use implicit styles or not (more information)
Specify which assemblies your project would use. When selecting a Telerik UI for Silverlight assembly all dependent controls are selected automatically and vice-versa
The list of available assemblies might be empty in cases where the installed version of Telerik UI for Silverlight does not match the Silverlight version your project targets. For instance, you will not be offered any assemblies if you attempt to create a project targeting Silverlight 4.
Through the Project Configuration Wizard’s second page you can:
Select the way you want themes to be applied in your project
via referencing theme assemblies
via adding theme xaml files to your project (only available when using implicit styles)
Select the theme(s) you wish your to use
When you click the Finish button:
The selected assembly references get added to your project
The necessary theme xaml files get included in your project
A default application-wide theme gets set if you select theming based on implicit styles. The first selected theme will be used for a default theme in case you select multiple themes