13.8. Summary

This chapter demonstrated how the Silverlight controls work through a sample application. This application used WCF RIA Services for data access, and the full implementation was through Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.

The beginning of the chapter covered how to configure the Silverlight application to run Telerik's components. The suggested approach is using Telerik Visual Studio Extensions for Silverlight to prevent possible configuration mistakes that are introduced when doing manual configurations.

The first steps in building the application were to improve the navigation between pages. For that, we used RadMenu to replace the links based menu of the application template. Then we used RadTransition to have an animation ...

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