SpreadsheetGear 2017 for Silverlight comes with the SpreadsheetGear Explorer sample solution which is a helpful Silverlight application for Visual Studio 2010.

The SpreadsheetGear Explorer for Silverlight is available with C# source code and is composed of a set of user controls, each of which demonstrates commonly used SpreadsheetGear 2017 functionality and API's. Source code can be viewed and copied directly from the source viewer below each sample. Follow the steps below to open and run the SpreadsheetGear Explorer for Silverlight solution from Windows (requires a version of Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013 or Visual Studio 2015 which supports Silverlight 5 solutions).

Running the SpreadsheetGear Explorer Sample Solution

1. Install SpreadsheetGear 2017 for Silverlight.
2. In Windows 10 open the Windows Start menu, click on SpreadsheetGear 2017 and click on SpreadsheetGear Silverlight Samples.
3. In Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 navigate to the Windows Start Screen, start typing "SpreadsheetGear Silverlight Samples", and click on SpreadsheetGear Silverlight Samples.
4. In earlier versions of Windows open the Windows Start menu, click on All Programs, click on SpreadsheetGear 2017, click on SpreadsheetGear 2017 for Silverlight and click on SpreadsheetGear Silverlight Samples.
5. For the best performance, make sure that the current configuration is set to Release rather than Debug.
6. Open the Build menu and choose Rebuild Solution.
7. Open the Debug menu and choose Start Without Debugging to run SpreadsheetGear Explorer.
8. In SpreadsheetGear Explorer, choose among the various samples on the left. Note that many of the samples require user input, such as clicking on a Run Sample button or entering the specified text or number into a cell.
9. Source code can be viewed and copied directly at runtime from the source viewer below each sample.
10. It is important to note that the SpreadsheetGear Explorer for Silverlight samples demonstrate the usage of GetLock and ReleaseLock which are required when using the WorkbookView control with background calculation enabled. ASP.NET developers will almost never use GetLock and ReleaseLock, and at the time of this writing none of the ASP.NET samples provided by SpreadsheetGear LLC use GetLock and ReleaseLock.