Telerik RadControls for Silverlight 4 and RadControls for WPF 3.5 support discontinued as of Q3 2012

by XAML Team | Comments 2

Earlier this year we introduced two schemes showing the support life cycle of RadControls for WPF and RadControls for Silverlight. With this blog post we would like to remind you that with the Q3 2012 official release you will no longer receive future updates, new features and installations for WPF 3.5 and Silverlight 4 controls.

 

Since the WPF 4.0 and Silverlight 5 have been around for quite some time now and the public trends are that they are already widely adopted (what is more .NET 4.5 along with WPF 4.5 are also alive), we truly believe that this step will not cause you hassle. Furthermore, our higher versions offer you more features, improvements and more controls. If you are still wondering, the Q3 2012 official release, expected in a couple of weeks, is the perfect release for upgrading your projects.

Hristo Maradjiev
Unit Manager,
Telerik XAML Team

2 Comments

Kevin Kalitowski
I'm all for trimming the number of supported frameworks since it lets you guys focus on a smaller set of test cases.  However it worries me that Telerik may cut off .NET 4.0 once .NET 5.0 (or whatever it is called) is released.
NET 4.0 is a special case because it is the last version supported on Windows XP. Unfortunately a lot of businesses are stuck on XP for what seems like eternity.  Please keep this in mind when making the next decision.
Vlad
Hi Kevin,
One day we will stop .NET 4.0 for sure as well however this will not happen any time soon. At least not in the next 5 years. 

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