Getting Started
This tutorial will walk you through the creation of a sample application that contains RadPanelBar.
- Adding Telerik Assemblies Using NuGet
- Adding Assembly References Manually
- Adding RadPanelBar to the Project
- Declaratively populating the RadPanelBar control Items collection
- Databinding the RadPanelBar control
Adding Telerik Assemblies Using NuGet
To use RadPanelBar when working with NuGet packages, install the Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation.for.Wpf.Xaml package. The package name may vary slightly based on the Telerik dlls set - Xaml or NoXaml
Read more about NuGet installation in the Installing UI for WPF from NuGet Package article.
With the 2025 Q1 release, the Telerik UI for WPF has a new licensing mechanism. You can learn more about it here.
Adding Assembly References Manually
If you are not using NuGet packages, you can add a reference to the following assemblies:
- Telerik.Licensing.Runtime
- Telerik.Windows.Controls
- Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation
- Telerik.Windows.Data
Adding RadPanelBar to the Project
Example 1 demonstrates how you can add a RadPanelBar in xaml.
Example 1: RadPanelBar with statically declared items in xaml
<telerik:RadPanelBar>
<telerik:RadPanelBarItem Header="Item 1" />
<telerik:RadPanelBarItem Header="Item 2" />
<telerik:RadPanelBarItem Header="Item 3" />
</telerik:RadPanelBar>
Figure 1: Result from Example 1 in Office2016 Theme
Declaratively Populating the Items Collection of the RadPanelBar Control
Example 2 demonstrates how you can add RadPanelBarItems directly to the Items collection of the RadPanelBar in code behind:
Example 2: Adding RadPanelBarItems in code
RadPanelBar myPanelBar = new RadPanelBar();
RadPanelBarItem item1 = new RadPanelBarItem() { Header = "Item 1" };
RadPanelBarItem item2 = new RadPanelBarItem() { Header = "Item 2" };
RadPanelBarItem item3 = new RadPanelBarItem() { Header = "Item 3" };
myPanelBar.Items.Add(item1);
myPanelBar.Items.Add(item2);
myPanelBar.Items.Add(item3);
Dim myPanelBar As New RadPanelBar()
Dim item1 As New RadPanelBarItem() With {
.Header = "Item 1"
}
Dim item2 As New RadPanelBarItem() With {
.Header = "Item 2"
}
Dim item3 As New RadPanelBarItem() With {
.Header = "Item 3"
}
myPanelBar.Items.Add(item1)
myPanelBar.Items.Add(item2)
myPanelBar.Items.Add(item3)
Databinding the RadPanelBar Control
RadPanelBar can be also be bound to a collection of objects. You can learn more about this in the Bind to Object Data article in our documentation.
Setting a Theme
The controls from our suite support different themes. You can see how to apply a theme different than the default one in the Setting a Theme help article.
Changing the theme using implicit styles will affect all controls that have styles defined in the merged resource dictionaries. This is applicable only for the controls in the scope in which the resources are merged.
To change the theme, you can follow the steps below:
Choose between the themes and add reference to the corresponding theme assembly (ex: Telerik.Windows.Themes.Windows8.dll). You can see the different themes applied in the Theming examples from our WPF Controls Examples application.
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Merge the ResourceDictionaries with the namespace required for the controls that you are using from the theme assembly. For the RadPanelBar, you will need to merge the following resources:
- Telerik.Windows.Controls
- Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation
Example 3 demonstrates how to merge the ResourceDictionaries so that they are applied globally for the entire application.
Example 3: Merge the ResourceDictionaries
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/Telerik.Windows.Themes.Windows8;component/Themes/System.Windows.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/Telerik.Windows.Themes.Windows8;component/Themes/Telerik.Windows.Controls.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary Source="/Telerik.Windows.Themes.Windows8;component/Themes/Telerik.Windows.Controls.Navigation.xaml"/>
</ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Application.Resources>
Alternatively, you can use the theme of the control via the StyleManager.
Figure 2 shows a RadPanelBar with the Windows8 theme applied.
Figure 2: RadPanelBar with the Windows8 theme
Telerik UI for WPF Learning Resources
- Telerik UI for WPF PanelBar Component
- Getting Started with Telerik UI for WPF Components
- Telerik UI for WPF Installation
- Telerik UI for WPF and WinForms Integration
- Telerik UI for WPF Visual Studio Templates
- Setting a Theme with Telerik UI for WPF
- Telerik UI for WPF Virtual Classroom (Training Courses for Registered Users)
- Telerik UI for WPF License Agreement