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Filtering Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView

published 900 days, 17 hours, 20 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 902 days, 43 minutes ago
Monday, December 06, 2010 5:45:28 PM GMT Sunday, December 05, 2010 10:22:06 AM GMT
In my last article, we discussed about “Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView” where we grouped our data records by column name using the PagedCollectionView. In this article, we will see how this PagedCollectionView will help us to filter out the records based on the search keyword. Not much code but the trick done with the same class will do everything for us in some easy way. We will learn about this here in this article. Not only this, we will also see the filtering o... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, DataGrid, filter, pagedcollectionview
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Grouping Records in Silverlight DataGrid using PagedCollectionView

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 902 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes ago
Sunday, December 05, 2010 4:00:47 AM GMT
Do you work with Silverlight DataGrid and want to group your records inside the DataGrid in a proper manner? If so, this article is for you. Here we will learn about data grouping inside a DataGrid. In this article, we will learn how to group data inside a Grid. We will discuss all these steps-by-step and with proper images, so that, you can understand it very easily.   The full source code has been attached. You can freely download it and that will be more helpful for you to understand. Read the c... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, DataGrid, pagedcollectionview
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Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part–4)

published 902 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 903 days, 6 hours, 1 minute ago
Sunday, December 05, 2010 8:40:15 AM GMT Saturday, December 04, 2010 5:03:46 AM GMT
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a DataSource without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement. In this chapter, I will guide you to create a List and Details screen using LightSwitch. This will show you how to integrate two or more tables into a single screen. Also, we will discuss on some custom validation. These all steps are wi... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio, LightSwitch, Light Switch
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Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part–3)

published 902 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 903 days, 6 hours, 4 minutes ago
Sunday, December 05, 2010 8:40:15 AM GMT Saturday, December 04, 2010 5:00:56 AM GMT
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a DataSource without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement.   In this chapter, I will guide you step-by-step to create a DataGrid of records. Here you will know, how to insert/modify/delete records. These all steps are without writing any code. We will use just the tool to improve our existing app... (more)
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New Features Announced for Silverlight 5 Beta

published 903 days, 14 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 904 days, 15 hours, 43 minutes ago
Friday, December 03, 2010 8:29:42 PM GMT Thursday, December 02, 2010 7:22:14 PM GMT
Today is the 2nd December 2010, when ScottGu gave a Keynote on the future of Silverlight. There he spoke about the next version of Silverlight, yes, Silverlight 5 Beta. He gave a brief overview of the new & improved features which are coming in Silverlight 5. Read the full post to know more about the features of Silverlight 5. Silverlight 5 Beta is not yet launched. This is just the preview of the features which are going to come in this new version.  New Features at a glance Silverlight 5 wil... (more)
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Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend

published 921 days, 22 hours, 45 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 924 days, 4 hours, 26 minutes ago
Monday, November 15, 2010 12:19:44 PM GMT Saturday, November 13, 2010 6:38:49 AM GMT
In some case, we need to customize the Scrolling functionality in Silverlight depending upon the requirement. The default look of ScrollViewer doesn’t give proper UI effect. In such case, you need to create the whole scroll behavior by modifying XAML and writing a bunch of C# code. In this article, I will demonstrate you how to create the above scrolling functionality simply without writing any lines of C# code. You have to use only Expression Blend to create the richness of the Scrolling. Read more t... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, Blend
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Using EventTrigger in XAML for MVVM – No Code Behind Code

published 928 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 930 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes ago
Tuesday, November 09, 2010 7:37:01 AM GMT Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:14:34 AM GMT
I have seen people writing Code Behind a lot while they are working in the MVVM framework. A huge lines of code in their xaml.cs file actually creates problem to the designers to change anything present in the XAML. Why is this so? Because, lots of people don’t know how to use Triggers to call the MVVM methods to complete their business need. In this article, I will show you how to fire Triggers to call some methods present in your ViewModel, instead of writing in the code behind file. Read more to lear... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, mvvm silverlight, EventTrigger, Silverlight 4, Trigger, Silverlight4, MVVM
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Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part - 01) - CodeProject

published 944 days, 23 hours, 17 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 946 days, 20 hours, 36 minutes ago
Saturday, October 23, 2010 11:48:23 AM GMT Thursday, October 21, 2010 2:29:11 PM GMT
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool for building data-driven Silverlight Application using Visual Studio IDE. It automatically generates the User Interface for a DataSource without writing any code. You can write a small amount of code also to meet your requirement. Recently, I got some time to explore Visual Studio LightSwitch. I created a small DB application with proper data inserting UI within a small amount of time (without any XAML or C# code). Here in this article, I will guide ... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, Silverlight 4, VisualStudio 2010, LightSwitch, VisualStudio, Light Switch, visualstudio2010
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Telerik JustCode Developer License Giveaway worth $249 – 1 License

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 980 days, 17 hours, 31 minutes ago
Friday, September 17, 2010 5:34:32 PM GMT
If you are a developer and want to get the “Telerik JustCode Developer License”, here is the chance for you. I am going to give you one license code absolutely Free which costs around $249. The registration process will end on 15th October 2010. Based on the registration, I will announce the Winner name on 20th October 2010.   So, why are you waiting for? Read the full post for the steps of Registration for this offer.   Telerik JustCode is an agile development add-in for Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and... (more)
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tags: Telerik
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Step-by-Step Guide to Silverlight Shape Controls

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 985 days, 7 hours, 14 minutes ago
Monday, September 13, 2010 3:51:07 AM GMT
In my previous post “Introduction to Shapes in Silverlight 4” I introduced you with various types of Shapes available in Silverlight 4 and informed you that, I will post an article describing each one of them and here it is. In this article, I am going to describe you about each shapes and the process to add them in our application (whenever you need). This article is for the Beginners, who don’t know much about the shape controls. If you have any suggestions/concerns please use the feedback section ... (more)
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tags: Silverlight, Control, Silverlight 4, Blend, Expression Blend, Silverlight4
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Articles Archive (Silverlight): March 2010 to August 2010

posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 993 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes ago
Saturday, September 04, 2010 1:28:04 PM GMT
First of all, a Big Thanks to all my readers who continuously supported me during last six months by voting my articles in CodeProject. I also appreciate you for your regular feedbacks and suggestions to improve. I tried my level best to answer your queries in each article’s page. Here, I am consolidating all the Silverlight articles that I posted in my Blog and CodeProject for your further reference. (more)
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Generally How I describe MVVM in the Presentations or to my Friends

published 996 days, 20 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 998 days, 16 hours, 45 minutes ago
Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:30:56 PM GMT Monday, August 30, 2010 6:20:12 PM GMT
MVVM, which is an abbreviated form of (M)odel-(V)iew-(V)iew(M)odel is not new to you all. But there are someone who don’t know about it. If you are a Core ASP.Net developer you may know about MVC & MVP, may also know about MVVM which mainly used in WPF/Silverlight. For them, it is tough to remember about its concept. In general in any of my discussions or presentations, I used to describe MVVM in a way which is very easier to understand and easy to recall. Hence thought, why shouldn’t I share this t... (more)
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Tips & Tricks: How to get the Screen Resolution in Silverlight? << Kunal's Blog

published 997 days, 18 hours, 57 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 999 days, 21 hours ago
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 4:08:28 PM GMT Sunday, August 29, 2010 2:05:05 PM GMT
In this Tips & Tricks, I will show you the steps by which you can get the Screen Resolution of Client’s PC in Silverlight Application. It is quite simple. You have to just call the HTML DOM object to receive the handle of the screen and from that you can easily get the Screen Resolution. (more)
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First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–II)

published 998 days, 19 hours, 28 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 999 days, 21 hours, 6 minutes ago
Monday, August 30, 2010 3:36:48 PM GMT Sunday, August 29, 2010 1:59:02 PM GMT
In my previous article “First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–I)” I discussed about MEF with a small simple console application. Hope that was useful to you to understand the basic knowledge of MEF. In this article, I will guide you to create a simple Silverlight application using the MEF. If you are new to MEF, I strongly recommend you to read my previous article to gain knowledge on the basic things of MEF like Importing, Exporting, Catalog, Container etc.   Read the complete article and at the en... (more)
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Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio « Abhijit's World of .NET

published 998 days, 19 hours, 28 minutes ago posted by abhijitjanaabhijitjana 999 days, 21 hours, 32 minutes ago
Monday, August 30, 2010 3:36:48 PM GMT Sunday, August 29, 2010 1:33:33 PM GMT
In this post I am going to discuss about few tips on customizing debugging debugging windows. This may be very helpful during debugging of application. While debugging, you may want to simplify debug window or you may want to clean up all the unnecessary fields that are not important during debugging from debugging windows. Here is few tips for customization of debug window. (more)
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tags: Tips & Tricks, Customization, Debugging, Visual Studio, how to
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First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–III)

published 999 days, 20 hours, 6 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 1001 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes ago
Sunday, August 29, 2010 2:59:30 PM GMT Saturday, August 28, 2010 3:27:34 AM GMT
In my last two articles on MEF i.e. “First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part - I)” and “First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part - II)” I described about the framework with the help of a Console Application and a Silverlight Application. Hope that gave you basic idea on it and what this MEF does. In this article I will try to give you more knowledge on MEF & it’s benefit. This time, I will again use a Console Application which will give more visibility to the underlying scenarios. Hope, like th... (more)
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tags: MEF
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First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–I)

published 1011 days, 18 hours, 43 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 1014 days, 15 hours, 5 minutes ago
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:21:41 PM GMT Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:00:33 PM GMT
MEF is a framework to extend your application and was introduced in .Net Framework 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0. Recently I got a chance to look around the MEF with Silverlight. I found it useful in various scenarios and thus thought to do something with MEF in Silverlight.   In this article I will first discuss little about the MEF framework to give you some basic knowledge on it and then will show you how to create a small HelloMEFWorld console application step-by-step. In the next article I will use it i... (more)
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tags: .NET, MEF, Silverlight 4
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Silverlight Tutorials Chapter 4: Introduction to Controls

published 1016 days, 23 hours ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 1017 days, 23 hours, 40 minutes ago
Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:04:44 PM GMT Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:24:49 AM GMT
In my earlier three chapters of Silverlight Tutorial, I described about “Introduction to Silverlight”, “Introduction to Silverlight Application Development” and “Introduction to Panels”. I got lots of responses & wishes from my readers for the next chapter. I know, there was a big gap between these chapters and I am really apologizing to you. Thank you for your passion. Hope, this time also I will get more responses from you. Read the complete tutorial and provide your valuable feedbacks. You suggest... (more)
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tags: Tutorials, Silverlight 4, Tutorial
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Tips & Tricks: How to change the output location of the Silverlight XAP?

published 1016 days, 23 hours ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 1017 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes ago
Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:04:44 PM GMT Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:23:13 AM GMT
In this Tips&Tricks, I will describe about changing the location of the output of your Silverlight application i.e. the .XAP file from it’s original “ClientBin” location to a different place. Developers sometimes need to put the XAP file in a specific directory based on their requirement. This trick will help them relocating the XAP file. Read the full post & if you have any queries or suggestions, please let me know. Appreciate your feedbacks. To change the location of the output XAP file just... (more)
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Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML)

published 1024 days, 1 hour, 27 minutes ago posted by http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/ 1025 days, 17 hours, 25 minutes ago
Thursday, August 05, 2010 9:37:51 AM GMT Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:40:02 PM GMT
I was working with WPF/Silverlight since March 2008 and learnt lots of things. I wrote lots of Articles on Silverlight and published in my Blog. Today I decided to share you some of the best practices you should follow while doing development in WPF/Silverlight. Hope, this will help you guys while writing XAML codes. Read and try to strict with the guidelines whenever you are modifying your XAML.   Feedbacks are always appreciated. Hence, don’t forget to leave your comments at the end. If you have any ... (more)
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