I love the fact that in Silverlight you can get all of your data onto the datagrid at the same time, rather than having to used a paged control in ASP.NET. However I’ve found that some users really want the data paging to remain, which means that I’ve got to roll may own DataGrid paging control. I know there are a few example out there, but I wanted to create a control that was a simple as possible but covered all of the major bases – so as little ‘code-behind’ as possible, and all the styling... [More]

During the creation of a recent demo Silverlight project, I tasked myself with creating a generic (re-useable) filter control that I could use to filter rows in a Silverlight DataGrid. The control had to be lightweight, and work automatically with any object collection that the DataGrid was bound to – thus making it plug-and-play for any future uses. I’ve created a great starting point with this, by designing a set of inter-operating classes that have the following key features. The Filter... [More]

Working in investment banking, I often get asked to create semi-functional prototypes of user interfaces, where the development methodology is all about speed and not about code-quality. Often these projects will be centred around the Silverlight DataGrid, and I want to get it up and running fast with whatever data object that needs to be used (the DataGrid will need to be bound to a collection of such objects). By default, a DataGrid for Silverlight will automatically generate columns, which ... [More]