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Hide or unhide data using Visibility ValueConverter class
Posted By sarinmall on May 02, 2013     44 Views	Data from database comes in many different ways and most of the times; you need to format the data before it is bound to the control. In silver light, we use value converter to format the data before it is bounded to the control. Simplest example of using value converter would be to format the date to be displayed in “date of birth” column.

Calling silverlight methods from javascript

Posted By sarinmall on Mar 04, 2013     199 Views

Few weeks ago, I posted an article on how to call JavaScript functions from silver light. I never knew that there is a way of calling silverlight code from JavaScript but while composing my preceding article, thought came to my mind that since silverlight code resides on browser (Client side), there must be a way of calling silverlight code from JavaScript. I searched on Google and after some minor tussles, was able to create a small demo on calling silverlight code from JavaScript.

Call JavaScript functions from silverlight

Posted By sarinmall on Feb 21, 2013     203 Views

Silverlight is a great technology to build highly presentable business centric applications. One of the coolest feature of silverlight is it easy integration and communication with HTML and JavaScript. Silverlight allow us to call JavaScript functions of our embedded silverlight control web page. It also allows you to call basic JavaScript function like alert, confirm and prompt directly just by adding to a reference to System.Windows.Browser namespace.

Populating RSS XML Feed or XML data on Datagrid

Posted By sarinmall on Jan 24, 2013     216 Views

Data is the backbone of any business application and one of the major issues in silver light is interacting with data source to retrieve data. For small line of business application, quite often the data is stored in xml. So, in this article, we will see how to retrieve data from xml data source and display it on silverlight data controls like datagrid. Additionally I will also show how to bind xml rss feed on silver light datagrid.

showing row details on button click of silver light datagrid
Posted By sarinmall on Nov 15, 2012     208 Views	In this article, we will see how to use Silverlight DataGrid RowDetails Template. First let us drag and drop a data grid control on MainPage.xaml page. This will add the required references and namespace automatically.

How to sort an ObservableCollection
Posted By sarinmall on Nov 06, 2012     207 Views	Unlike List and other collection, ObservableCollection does not support inbuilt sorting and most of the user built applications demand sorting. So, in this article, we will see different ways of sorting an observable collection.

Displaying Image in silverlight Datagrid
Posted By sarinmall on Oct 24, 2012     208 Views	One of the features provided by Silverlight is implementing value converters. Value converter is mostly used you want to change the format of data before binding it to the datagrid. In this article, we will see how to display images in datagrid using value converter. I will be using the same datagrid used in my previous article.

Paging in silver light Datagrid

Posted By sarinmall on Oct 18, 2012     184 Views

In my previous article, we saw how to create data grid and implement various sort of functionality with Silverlight data grid. When the data becomes huge, then displaying the whole data at the same time doesn’t seems a good idea specially when you have thousands of records and the user is facing difficulty in looking through all the records. In such cases, it becomes very essential to split up the data across various pages and showing the user one page at a time. This technique of splitting the data in many pages and showing one page at a time is called paging.

Working with silver light datagrid
Posted By sarinmall on Oct 14, 2012     182 Views	This article will give you a brief insight on how to use basic features of silverlight datagrid. Similar to asp.net gridview, silver light data grid allows you to show data in rows and columns. However it has much more inbuilt UI features which makes it a better replacement of default asp.net grid view.

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Posted By sarinmall on Sep 29, 2012     171 Views	There are many reasons for this error and there are many recommended solutions for this error. Sometimes any one of the following solutions would work whereas other times you have to try a combo of below solutions to make it work.

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