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The Future is Easy: RadControls for WPF and Silverlight

by Telerik Corp.

Are you ready for the future of .NET application development? Microsoft has been unleashing new developer technologies at a dizzying pace over the last couple of years, and while many must still prove their worth, WPF and Silverlight have emerged as “must know” technologies. Building on the new XAML (pronounced Zamal) markup language, these UI platforms are poised to enable a new generation of interactivity on the client and on the web.

Telerik, one of the world’s leading vendors of UI components and .NET developer tools, is now shipping the controls you need to leverage WPF and Silverlight. Telerik’s new components help you build real world, line-of-business (LOB) applications with these new Microsoft frameworks while still delivering Telerik’s trademark ease of use, support, and training resources. If you’re familiar with Telerik’s RadControls for WinForms or the award winning RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, then transitioning to WPF and Silverlight is even easier as many of the new controls have counterparts in Telerik’s current UI component suites.

The goal of the RadControls for WPF and the RadControls for Silverlight is to build a complete toolbox of UI components that enable you to quickly develop XAML-based applications. While people often talk about the “flashy,” media-oriented features of WPF and Silverlight, Telerik knows you need tools that help you easily build business applications. So that’s exactly where we’re starting with our UI component suites. From a LINQ-based, high-performance RadGridView to a remarkably rich RadTree- View, Telerik is making sure you can use WPF and Silverlight to build real applications- not just flashy marketing applications.

But this is XAML, so even though you’re building LOB apps, UI customization is still important. Telerik’s controls make UI customization easy by providing full Expression Blend support for all controls within both the suites. By setting a single property, you can even use several pre-defined themes to style the controls. The smart use of UI and Data virtualization also ensures great performance across the controls, even as you customize their look-and-feel.

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Further enhancing Telerik’s new WPF and Silverlight controls is the innovative way in which they’re being developed. Instead of building two separate suites internally, Telerik is building one, unified suite for both WPF and Silverlight. Obviously, all controls are optimized for their target platform, but the APIs and features of the RadControls for Silverlight and the RadControls for WPF are identical! That means you will be able to completely reuse any code you write for Telerik’s new controls in either WPF or Silverlight- a huge benefit if you’re still not sure which next generation platform your company wants to target.

The RadControls for WPF and Silverlight are the next step in Telerik’s long tradition of providing industry leading UI components, and they are one of the easiest ways to get started with real application development in XAML. But whether you choose to use WPF, Silverlight, WinForms, or ASP.NET, Telerik will be there with the tools you need.

You pick the platform. We’ll provide the tools.

For more information visit: www.telerik.com