The UI suite that brings LOB applications to the RIA world
RadControls are built on Microsoft Silverlight 3 and include 31 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.
Why choose
A Comprehensive Toolset from the Masters of Web UI
An established leader in web interface technologies, Telerik now offers you RadControls for Silverlight 3 ? a comprehensive suite of 31 controls that bring style and interactivity to your LOB applications.
Engineered for Great Performance
Telerik Silverlight 3 controls are engineered for outstanding performance through native UI virtualization, an innovative LINQ-based data engine, asynchronous databinding, RadCompression module and other techniques that help reduce page loading time and speed up data operations. See demo
.NET RIA Services support
All data-bound Telerik Silverlight 3 controls support binding to .NET RIA Services. This enables all data operations to execute on the server, which results in speedier sorting, filtering and paging for RadGridView. With completely codeless binding, it takes almost no extra effort to bind RadControls for Silverlight 3 to .NET RIA Services. Learn more
Validation support
All Telerik Silverlight 3 input controls support metadata-driven validation via data annotations. See demo
Out of browser support
RadControls for Silverlight 3 introduce out of browser support which enables the application to be run from the user's desktop.
Support for Expression Blend
RadControls for Silverlight are stylable through Microsoft Expression Blend. As a result, you can unleash your imagination and redefine how elements look and behave.
Ready-to-Use Themes
Styling is made easy thanks to the integrated theme support. Telerik Silverlight controls ship with 5 major themes: Vista, Summer, Office Blue, Black and Silver. These themes help you deliver a consistent look-and-feel throughout your application.
Code Re-Use with RadControls for WPF
RadControls for Silverlight 3 and RadControls for WPF suites are derived from the same codebase and share the same API. They represent two almost mirror toolsets for building rich line-of-business web and desktop applications, allowing for substantial code and skills reuse between Silverlight and WPF development. Learn more and see demo
Rich Data Visualization Capabilities
Featuring everything from a super powerful Silverlight grid, to animated, fully customizable Silverlight charts and gauges, Telerik Silverlight 3 controls enable developers to transform data into interactive, animated visuals that empower end-users to analyze complex business scenarios.
Full Interoperability with ASP.NET AJAX
RadControls for Silverlight 3 are a perfect addition for existing ASP.NET AJAX applications and work perfectly with Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. This enables you to add islands of rich functionality to standards-based websites when needed, without rewriting your working applications for scratch.
3D Charts for Silverlight
Pushing the envelope of rich data presentation, Telerik offers the first commercial 3D chart control for Silverlight. See demo
Free Testing Framework for RadControls
The free WebAii Testing Framework helps developers build automated functional tests and end?to-end scenario tests for both Silverlight- and AJAX-powered applications. The framework ships with special wrappers for Telerik RadControls for Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX, making it easier than ever before to create and maintain tests. Read more
Integration with Leading-Edge Technologies
RadControls for Silverlight 3 are designed to work effortlessly with cutting-edge Silverlight technologies like MVVM and Microsoft Composite Application Guidance (Prism). To show you how you can benefit from integrating RadControls with these cutting-edge technologies, we prepared several demos. See an example showing how to integrate RadControls for Silverlight in the MVVM pattern and see how to implement the Prism Guidance using RadControls.
Enhanced Routed Events Framework
To help your code become even more elegant and concise, we implemented an Enhanced Routed Events Framework for RadControls for Silverlight 3. To help your code become even more elegant and concise, we implemented an Enhanced Routed Events Framework for RadControls for Silverlight 3. This gives you more freedom when you design your applications since you can write instance handlers as well as class handlers for the routed events of our controls.
Technical Resources and Wealth of Examples
To help you jumpstart your projects faster and deliver better results, we have compiled various support resources: technical documentation, KB articles, code library items, forums and blogs, which we regularly update at a fast pace. Hundreds of examples of RadControls for Silverlight 3 and integrated demo applications are also available to provide you with a deeper understanding of our product.
