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Silverlight 3 Custom Sorting with Paging Support by manish.dalal

This post updates the custom sorting technique I had originally posted for Silverlight 2 and adds paging support. Introduction Silverlight 3 includes PagedCollectionView class, which provides grouping, sorting, and paging functionality for any data source...
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Silverlight 3 ComboBox Control by manish.dalal

This post outlines technique for displaying ComboBox control with .net RIA services to handle Foreign Key scenarios....
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Silverlight ObjectDataSource by manish.dalal

A DataSource control represents a data object that acts as a data-interface for the data bound controls. In terms of MVVM pattern, it represents the ViewModel. Silverlight 3 introduces the DomainDataSource as part of .net RIA Data Services, that can be...
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Silverlight ServiceReferences.ClientConfig Alternatives by manish.dalal

Silverlight uses the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig file to store and lookup WCF related configuration. Since the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig file is packaged and deployed along with the application in a XAP file, you have to change it for QA, Production...
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Silverlight DataGrid Custom Sorting by manish.dalal

Silverlight DataGrid provides automatic sorting functionality for any data source that implements IList. It does this by internally wrapping the data source in a ListCollectionView. However there are many situations where it is desirable to alter the...
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Cross Browser Clipboard : DataGrid with Excel support – Part 2 by manish.dalal

In the previous post we saw how to implement Copy and Paste clipboard operations, completely in Silverlight with cross browser support. In this post, we will extend the functionality to support multiple rows and introduce some Excel like enhancements...
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Cross Browser Copy and Paste in DataGrid with Excel support – Part 1 by manish.dalal

Silverlight 2 is a cross browser platform(plug-in), providing developers with a familiar .net programming model for building RIAs. However it is also a relatively young platform. This came to surface other day when a tester came to me complaining about...
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ConfigSwitcher: ServiceReferences.ClientConfig Switcher Utility by manish.dalal

Silverlight 2 uses ServiceReferences.ClientConfig to store WCF related configuration. It is packaged and deployed along with the application in XAP file. Since XAP is a compressed file container (similar to zip), it is possible to uncompress the XAP file...
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Cascading ComboBox by manish.dalal

In the post ComboBox in DataGrid , we examined the usage of a simple ComboBox, displaying a fixed list of values. One of the scenario that is quite common in business applications is that of a dependent data selection, where data from one item is used...
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Updated Samples for Silverlight 2 by manish.dalal

Now that Silverlight 2 has been released, I have updated all the samples. Conversion was mostly straight forward, with very few changes to code. Building Business Applications with Silverlight 2 Introduces the basic building blocks of a data centric application...
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