Thursday, August 07, 2008

Telerik Watch Minute: Getting started with RadControls for Silverlight

Hope you enjoy this new, fine-blended episode of Telerik Watch Minute. In this installment, I take a little more time (about 3 minutes) to quickly show you how to get started with the new RadControls for Silverlight (beta). I de-emphasize "beta" because we're really just waiting on Microsoft to go-ahead and published the "official" Silverlight 2 plug-in, which if I were a betting man would guess is coming out shorting after the Olympics (which is running in Beta 2). Once the plug-in is final, we'll release v1 of our controls. In any event, this episode shows you how to take the Silverlight controls you've downloaded and unzipped (there is no installer yet- that will come in a pending SP1 release) and start using them in a new Visual Studio Silverlight 2 beta 2 project. A quick word of caution to those of you that have been developing with Silverlight 2 beta 1: the new Silverlight 2 beta 2 installers don't do a great job of getting your system cleaned-up and ready for Beta 2 development. I strongly encourage you to spend a few minutes cleaning your system of Beta 1 and then installing Beta 2 before starting development with Telerik's tools. If you have problems, leave a comment and I'll try to help as I just learned the hard way a lot of the tricks to upgrading. Enjoy the "Minute" and stay tuned for more!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice and fast demo :)

Todd Anglin said...

@Greg- Thanks for the feedback. I know this episode runs a little longer than the last few, but hopefully 3 minutes is still short enough to be "bite size."

Anonymous said...

Hello Sir, great demo. I like the "bite size" idea and your timing is right on! Not too long and not too short.

I look forward to viewing additional "bites" as you create them for other features and functions.

Keep up the great work!

Later!

Dave

P.S. How's the weather in Houston? Are you holding up ok?