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this time from telerik.  telerik has just announced their RAD Controls for Silverlight 1.1(2.0).  they have a site up with some demonstrations, etc. (obviously requiring 1.1 to render).  they have controls like:

    • upload
    • button
    • combobox
    • listbox
    • menus
    • progress bar
    • tab strip
    • textbox
    • treeview
    • slider
    • and some animation controls

a pretty comprehensive list.  very cool.  i've always been impressed with the partner ecosystem of microsoft 3rd party developers.  telerik is no substitute.  i knew that they'd be one that would be providing a great control story for silverlight.

take a look at their demo site and play around.


12/19/2007 2:22 PM | # re: more silverlight controls emerge
I have seen a lot of third party samples creating custom form controls for Silverlight. GOA comes to mind off the top of my head, for instance.

We love and use Telerik controls for a lot of WebForms stuff, but I am wondering if this jumping the gun.

Don't we expect to see some common form controls in the Silverlight 2.0 release? Wouldn't it be better to wait and inherit/customize these for maintainability sake going forward?

12/19/2007 2:28 PM | # re: more silverlight controls emerge
ian: i agree with you on lurking slowly. silverlight 2 will likely bring some common controls, and i personally would expect control vendors to at least analyze them to use as a base. in addition, silverlight 2 is in alpha, meaning things can change -- companies like telerik know that. their components will change as the api and abilities iprove on silverlight. regardless, this is interesting to wet your apetite on what vendors are thinking and how their controls might be a little bit more beyond the base.

 
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