XAMLflix Video Tutorial: RadCalculator for Silverlight and WPF

Hello everyone and welcome back to XAMLflix with RadCalculator for Silverlight and WPF. I hope you have been enjoying the series as last week we took a look at RadPropertyGrid and RadComboBox. This week we will be taking a look at RadCalculator for Silverlight and WPF.

What is XAMLflix you might ask? Well, it is Telerik’s way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Telerik’s XAML suite. Each and every Tuesday and Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control. Since our Silverlight and WPF share a common codebase and API, you only have to learn how to use these controls once! You can simply copy and paste the code between frameworks.

Be sure to check out www.telerik.com/xamlflix for all the videos!

RadCalculator

RadCalculator for Silverlight/WPF has a simple easy-to-use interface enabling the end user to perform all basic calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division as well as some more complicated ones – reciprocal, square root, negate. The operations can be executed either by clicking the calculator buttons, or by using your keyboard. You can also use the numeric keypad to type numbers and operators by pressing Num Lock. Furthermore, all the Memory and Clear features are exposed as well.

• Getting Started with RadCalculator – In this video, we will see how easy it is to get started with RadCalculator. We will begin by adding RadCalculator to a new Silverlight Application and explore its features. We will wrap up the video by learning how to add the RadCalculatorPicker to you Silverlight project as well. (Download the Project)
• Customize RadCalculator by Creating Custom Operations – In this video, we will learn how RadCalculator can be easily extended by defining custom operations that are needed in specific scenarios. We will add four additional buttons and define the custom operations in code. (Download the Project)
• Use RadCalculatorPicker as an editing element in RadGridView – In this video, we are going to show that RadCalculatorPicker can be embedded as an editing element for a column in RadGridView. Your users will be able to perform calculations inside RadGridView with ease! (Download the Project)

Wrap-Up & Share Your Thoughts

Hopefully you’ve seen here just how quickly and easily you can add RadCalculator in your next line-of-business application. And as a reminder, this is only one of the controls offered in the Silverlight/WPF suite. So, feel free to download your own copy of the Silverlight and WPF control suite right now.  

Also, tell us what you want to see in the future. Whether it is new controls, additional features or content based off of existing controls, drop a comment in this post.