By Gill Cleeren, Kevin Dockx

Written in a cookbook type, this e-book deals studying and strategies via recipes. It comprises step by step directions for builders who are looking to construct wealthy data-driven company purposes utilizing Silverlight or home windows mobile 7. The e-book is designed in the sort of manner that you should confer with issues bankruptcy by way of bankruptcy, or learn them in no specific order. while you're a .NET developer who desires to construct expert data-driven purposes with Silverlight or home windows mobile 7, then this publication is for you. easy event of programming Silverlight and familiarity with gaining access to information utilizing ADO.NET in common .NET functions is needed.

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However, WPF's data binding platform has changed the way we perform data binding; it allows loosely coupled bindings. The BindingSource control in Windows Forms has to know of the type we are binding to at design time. WPF's built-in data binding mechanism does not. We simply define which property of the source the target should bind. At runtime, the actual data—the object to which we are binding—is linked. Luckily for us, Silverlight inherits almost all data binding features from WPF, and thus has a rich way of displaying data.

This means deploying it! NET to be installed on the server. Remember that it's a client-side technology. The Silverlight plugin on the client will download and run the application, using the version of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) embedded in the Silverlight plugin. In this recipe, we'll look at how we can deploy a Silverlight application. How to do it... xap file. Getting this file on the client side and running it from there is our only concern. The following steps are to be carried out to deploy a Silverlight application: 1.

At this point, all the controls know what property they need to bind to. However, we haven't specified the actual link. The controls don't know about the Owner instance we want them to bind to. Therefore, we can use DataContext. We specify the DataContext of the OwnerDetailsGrid to be the Owner instance. Each control within that container can then access the object and bind to its properties. DataContext = owner; } 6. The result can be seen in the following image: 44 Chapter 2 How it works... Before we take a look at the specifics of data binding, let's see what code we would need to write if Silverlight did not support data binding.

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