Welcome to Telerik UI for Silverlight

Thank you for choosing Telerik UI for Silverlight.

Telerik UI for Silverlight provide native controls for Silverlight 5. The suite includes more than 110+ UI controls for building rich line-of-business Silverlight applications.

Sharing the same codebase with Telerik WPF controls, the Silverlight controls offer a clean and intuitive API, Blend support and powerful theming capabilities that will radically improve your RIA development.

To learn more please visit the Telerik UI for Silverlight product overview page.

Telerik UI for Silverlight features the following controls:

• Data Management
  • CollectionNavigator
  • DataFilter
  • DataForm
  • DataPager
  • DataServiceDataSource
  • DomainDataSource
  • ExpressionEditor
  • DataGrid
  • ListBox
  • PivotGrid
  • PropertyGrid
  • TreeListView
• Scheduling
  • Calendar
  • DateTimePicker
  • ScheduleView
  • TimePicker

• Data Visualization
  • Barcode
  • BulletGraph
  • ChartView
  • DataBar
  • Diagram Framework
  • GanttView
  • Gauge
  • HeatMap
  • Legend
  • Map
  • Sparkline
  • TimeBar
  • Timeline
  • TreeMap and PivotMap

• Editors
  • AutoCompleteBox
  • Calculator
  • ColorEditor
  • ColorPicker
  • ComboBox
  • MaskedInput
  • NumericUpDown
  • Rating
  • RichTextBox
  • Slider
  • SpellChecker
  • Spreadsheet
  • WatermarkTextBox
• Media
  • ImageEditor
  • HtmlPlaceholder
  • MediaPlayer

• Navigation
  • Breadcrumb
  • Buttons
  • ContextMenu
  • ConverFlow
  • Menu
  • OutlookBar
  • PanelBar
  • RadialMenu
  • RibbonView
  • TabControl
  • ToolBar
  • TreeView
• Interactivity & UX
  • BusyIndicator
  • DragDropManager
  • PersistenceFramework
  • ProgressBar
  • ToolTip
  • TouchManager

• File Upload & Management
  • PdfViewer
  • Upload
• Layout
  • Book
  • Docking
  • Expander
  • TileList
  • TileView
  • TransitionControl
  • Window
  • Wizard

Throughout this article, you will find the following sections that describe all of the important aspects in depth:

Commercial License

This UI for Silverlight library is a commercial UI library. To use it commercially, you need to purchase a license. Feel free to review the Telerik UI for Silverlight License Agreement to get acquainted with the full terms of use.

Support Options

For any issues you might encounter while working with UI for Silverlight, use any of the available support channels:

• License holders and active trialists can take advantage of our outstanding customer support delivered by the developers building the library. To submit a support ticket, use the dedicated support system.
• Our forums are part of the free support you can get from the community and from the team on all kinds of general issues.
• Our feedback portal provides information on the features/bugs in discussion and also the planned ones for release.
• You may still need a tailor-made solution for your project. In such cases, go straight to Progress Services.

Installation and Deployment

To learn how to install Telerik UI for Silverlight and for comprehensive list of our controls and their assemblies you can visit the Installation and Deployment section.

Consuming Data

To learn more about the different approaches for populating the Telerik ® UI for Silverlight controls, visit the Consuming Data section.

Styling and Appearance

To find how to customize the look of Telerik UI for Silverlight using tools such as Expression Blend and information on how to use our predefined themes visit the Styling and Appearance section.

Related Links

• Telerik UI for Silverlight product page - http://www.telerik.com/products/silverlight/overview.aspx

• Telerik UI for Silverlight demos - https://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/

• Latest news for Telerik UI for Silverlight - http://www.telerik.com/support/whats-new/silverlight

• Essential support - http://www.telerik.com/support

• Creative ideas – http://telerik.com/blogs

Help us Improve the Telerik UI for Silverlight Documentation

We believe that the documentation for a product is at its best when the content is a collaboration between the builders and consumers of that product. Everybody can play a role in making our documentation better and we encourage you to help us with that task in the way that you choose:

Submit a New Issue at GitHub

If you find an issue with our docs that need to be addressed, the best way to let us know is by creating an issue in our Github repository. When creating an issue, please provide a descriptive title, be as specific as possible and link to the documentation in question. If you can provide a link to the closes anchor to the issue, that is even better.

Update the Documentation at GitHub

Creating an issue is great, but what we really love are pull requests. This is the most direct method. So, if you find an issue in the docs, or even feel like creating new content, we’d be happy to have your contributions! The basic steps are that you fork our documentation and submit a pull request. That way you may contribute to exactly where you found the error. After that, our technical writing team just needs to approve your change request. Please use only standard markdown. For a more detailed instructions, please follow the contribution instructions published in GitHub.

Forums

You can visit the Telerik UI for Silverlight forums and leave us a feedback. Please notice that this method will take a bit longer to reach our documentation team. However, if you need a fast reply from our support team, leaving feedback in the forum guarantees a support number for your suggestions and that we will follow up on it.

Thank you for your contribution to the Silverlight Documentation!