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• Dynamic Search with LINQ, the Entity Framework and Silverlight – Part 2

  Wednesday, April 25, 2012

  .NET Entity Framework LINQ Silverlight 4

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  After my previous blog post, I realized that using SQL strings is not a great way to do things. Sometimes we start blogging too quick and then realize our mistakes after. But, no big deal, live and learn... I am going to now rewrite this application and use some lambda expressions to solve the problems inherit with concatenating strings to SQL statements; namely escaping a single quote and SQL Injection attacks. I am going to use the same search screen shown in Figure 1.

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• Dynamic Search with LINQ, the Entity Framework and Silverlight

  Tuesday, April 24, 2012

  .NET Silverlight 4

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  I have been helping a client with a Silverlight application and one of his requirements was to allow his users to be able to query 1 to 5 fields and use different operators for each field. For example, they can choose to search for a Company Name that “Starts With” a certain value and also search for an Email field that “Contains” another value. You can see an example of this search screen in Figure 1.

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• Silverlight Tree View with Multiple Levels

  Monday, April 9, 2012

  .NET Silverlight 4 Tree View

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  There are many examples of the Silverlight Tree View that you will find on the web, however, most of them only show you how to go to two levels. What if you have more than two levels? This is where understanding exactly how the Hierarchical Data Templates works is vital. In this blog post, I am going to break down how these templates work so you can really understand what is going on underneath the hood. To start, let’s look at the typical two-level Silverlight Tree View that has been hard coded with the values shown below:

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