In it's current state the RadButton only emulates the looks of a SplitButton, but not the behaviour. In my point of view, such control should prove valuable to customers. More over, there is a growing need of base controls since we already have a at least three such implementations. A RadSplitButton should be the base (or it's base should be the base) for all control specific implementations of a split button
Yeah, the RadButton already has a splitbutton mode, but unfortunately, you have to also drop a RadContextMenu and hook it all up manually, which is a pain. We ended up having to create our own splitbutton CompositeControl that does the work for us. It would be nice if the RadButton had it all built-in.