Silverlight Controls - High Performance UI Controls
Now built on our Unified XAML Product Strategy that shares a common API across Silverlight 4 and WPF 4, high performance NetAdvantage® for .NET: Silverlight controls for Line of Business deliver your users everything you need to quickly and easily create great user experiences. Couple that with the fastest Silverlight data grid control available on the market today with unrivaled UI virtualization for blazing speed that's faster than the competition in common business scenarios (see the whitepaper for a peek at this advanced technology) and you already have a robust toolbox for creating killer Silverlight apps that just got better from its greater parity with our WPF toolset.
Our Silverlight controls leverage the best styling capabilities, including Visual Studio® 2010 and Expression® Blend support, Rich Internet Application (RIA) services and styling support, and next generation UI from the business logic empowering you to create Killer Apps.
Explore these Silverlight Controls for Line of Business Applications
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Support for Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 brings a rich developer experience for building Silverlight 4 apps, and we support the entire design-time experience around Silverlight, including:
- WYSIWYG drag and drop design surface
- Full property browser support
- Enhanced debugging
Windows Forms and ASP.NET developers have been accustomed to these features in Visual Studio for years. It's about time that you see the ease with which you can build Killer Apps on a Unified XAML Product Strategy that lessens your learning curve and facilitates easier porting across XAML platforms with our Silverlight controls for Line of Business applications and this new Visual Studio experience. Explore Visual Studio 2010 and NetAdvantage Silverlight.
Expand Your Silverlight Toolbox
To bring you the most complete set of Silverlight UI controls for Line of Business applications, we've worked closely with Microsoft® to deliver controls that are not already included in Silverlight. Then we reached into our toolset of world-premier WPF controls and on the foundation of our Unified XAML Product Strategy we brought many of them to your Silverlight toolbox. We expand your Silverlight toolbox with unique, powerful UI controls that provide value and functionality above and beyond what you get "in the box". By introducing new experiences inherent to Silverlight such as animations, easy styling, data validation and navigation frameworks, and templating into the controls, we give you the tools you need to create familiar experiences for high performance, business-focused applications directed at productivity-focused users--all while giving them an amazing, immersive user experience! Our blazing fast performance in our data grid control and other controls will amaze your users because UI and data virtualization techniques keep the application's footprint low, and its responsiveness high.
What can NetAdvantage® Silverlight UI Controls do for You?
- Push the envelope of performance with a Silverlight grid capitalizing upon unrivaled data and UI virtualization for blazing speed, or a Silverlight tree with totally-integrated lazy loading.
- Enter next generation user experiences with scenic ribbons and tile views plus Microsoft Excel®-style editing, selection and conditional formatting functionality in our Silverlight grid.
- Embed islands of richness into your existing ASP.NET applications like Silverlight tag clouds, business and financial charts that give end users an experience beyond what HTML can achieve.
- Design powerful RIAs with Silverlight's native animation, styling and templating supported across controls, and our WPF-like commanding framework.
- Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) support for assistive technology plus ease when accessing, identifying and manipulating UIElements™ for automated testing.
- Build Killer Line of Business applications. No problem.
- Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 support.
Product Roadmap
We just keep releasing one feature-packed volume after another, all through the year! Review our Silverlight Roadmap to look ahead to what controls and features we have planned in your future.
Need Help?
Use the Get Help page to find more information, as it pertains to our Silverlight Product, located in our online documentation, our community forums and our WWW site. This resource is provided to help you find the answers you need as quickly as possible.
Advanced Technology – Get It Now
Silverlight controls for Line of Business applications are part of the NetAdvantage for Web Client toolset which also includes ASP.NET; they are also included in the complete NetAdvantage for .NET package — which includes all four .NET platforms — Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET and the Silverlight controls for Line of Business applications.