In my previous post , I introduced the most common ways to bind an AgDataGrid control to a data source and provided a walkthrough of how to data bind using WCF RIA Services. This is the second post in the data binding series and here, I’ll take a look at how to use a WCF web service and LINQ to...

When using a grid control in your application, the first step is of course always to bind it to data. Now, using the Silverlight Data Grid Control , this is quite easy when loading data from a list at runtime. You can see a short video on the steps required to accomplish this here: http://tv.devexpress...

The AgDataGrid in v2010.1 will introduce a new set of features to work with unbound columns. Now, it was possible to do unbound or calculated columns before but the approaches used to accomplish those had limitations. For example you could add a “calculated field” (a.k.a a Read only property) to your...

DXperience v2010.1 will introduce a new Filter Control to let the end-users build complex filter criteria. Operators Conditions In addition to the standard comparisons like equal, greater than etc…, DateTime fields have an additional set of date specific conditions. Cheers Azret

AgDataGrid in v2010.1 will introduce support for Data Annotations. This is especially useful if you have adopted .NET RIA Services for your data transport. In the first release the DataGrid will support the following annotation attributes from System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations DisplayAttribute -...

Check out the AgDataGrid and Activity Control in Silverlight 3 video which shows off some interesting new technologies. Chris Walsh is a smart developer who loves cutting edge technology like Silverlight and DevExpress. And you can usually find him hanging out in our ASP.NET or Silverlight forums helping...

In the recent year or two, touch interfaces (with the help of cool devices like iPhone) become more popular then ever. Even some of the new desktop machines are now touch enabled. If you have been to PDC2008, you might have seen those cool all in one HP TouchSmarts. They were showing them off during...

For Version 2009 Volume 1, we have added the following features to our Grid Control for Silverlight. New Data Editor Controls In previous versions of the AgDataGrid, we had multiple column types – one for each data type. For this release, we have implemented several different types of data editors...

What's New in 8.2.5 If you have not downloaded the latest version of the AgDataGrid you must ! This release (8.2.5) includes some significant changes. The grid is much much faster now. W00t!. (I know some of you have been waiting for this.) This was not an easy task. The problem is that any change...

We all at Developer Express truly believe that Silverlight will be a great platform for business application development. It is still very young and lacks some essential pieces, but even what it has right now provides a lot of power and flexibility and the upcoming Silverlight 3 will move it farther...