Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

Column sorting in my recent Silverlight 2.0 Datagrid app wasn't a priority, but I wanted to be able to click on a column header and sort, darn it.  I added a CanUserSortColumns="true" property to the DataGrid and CanUserSort="true" to each DataGridTemplateColumn.  Still nothing. It wasn't ... [More]

I downloaded the new Silverlight Toolkit from CodePlex and used the AutoCompleteBox control on my recent Silverlight Datagrid app.  It worked great, that is, after I struggled to figure out why it wasn't. My problem was that I was replacing a ComboBox control with an AutoCompleteBox and was try... [More]

This is the first in a series I'm calling the "Silverlite" series, posts covering issues I encounter working with Silverlight 2.0.  I hope to work with Silverlight for a long time, so hopefully the series will be around for a long time, too. Tonight's Silverlite looks at what to do if XAML file... [More]

This post describes the issues I encountered moving my Silverlight 2.0 Application from development to a hosted server environment.  The app is running great and deployment really wasn't too bad, considering I had never installed a Silverlight application before. The first experience I had with... [More]

Two good screencasts on passing parameters to a Silverlight 2.0 Control are available on Silverlight.Net. The first from Mike Taulty demonstrates InitParameters as a property in the ASPX Silverlight control.  The second from Tim Heuer demonstrates using InitParameters as well as how to pass in ... [More]

This will be my last Silverlight 2.0 Immersity post because we've arrived at the portion of our show where it's all .NET all the time.  Now that the datagrid is pretty much in place, we're back to supplying the Business Logic to populate lists, update, insert and delete data on the back end of ... [More]

Our Silverlight 2.0 period of Immersivity today gives us the opportunity to work with ComboBoxes in our DataGrid.  The issues that need to be addressed are binding the correct value of the ComboBox-enabled column, binding a list to the ComboBox, and handling data updates. Without further adieu ... [More]

The Silverlight 2.0 period of Immersivity continues with today's keywords being Silverlight 2.0 Datagrid; Silverlight 2.0 Two-Way Data Binding; 2-Way Data Binding; No-Way Data Binding. (Just joking with the last one.  HA! HA!) For good or bad, I stuck with my master plan of not spending resourc... [More]

I have the opportunity to immerse myself in Silverlight 2.0 for a week or two.  The immediate objective is to replace a bandwidth-intensive custom Community Server form with a Silverlight 2.0 version.  The long-term objective is to move the interactive quality of the apps I write to the ne... [More]