Dumb linking to SQL down(feature request)

[xx xx]

I guess i'm not nearly as tech savvy within the web environment as many others.  I love what I see on the Telerik demo's for silverlight...looks very powerful.

I wish telerik would add some sort of wizard to massively dumb down connecting their controls to SQL data.  In dot .net it is so easy to drop a new SQL data source onto the page...and tie controls to it.  In silverlight, unless i'm missing something...it takes an act of congress to to get your control to tie to data.  I'm pretty sure thats a side effect of sliver light.....maybe telerik could make it easier.

[Vlad]

Hello,

You can try WCF RIA Services - you can bind the grid to DomainDataSource completely codeless.

Best wishes,
Vlad
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[xx xx]

Well RIA got me a lot closer....

I've got an ado.net entity data model and data domain service set up correctly tied to a SQL database.  I also have the radgrid sitting on a silverlight page I just can't figure out how to tie the control to the data domain service without going into code?  Its probably simple.

[Milan]

Hello xx xx,

You can check out our RIA Services example which demonstrates codeless binding. Here is stripped-down version of the example:

<Examples:GridViewExample x:Class="Telerik.Windows.Examples.GridView.DomainDataSource.Example"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:riaData="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Data;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Ria"
    xmlns:riaControls="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Ria"
    xmlns:data="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Controls;assembly=System.Windows.Controls.Data"
    xmlns:Examples="clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Examples"
    xmlns:telerik="clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Controls;assembly=Telerik.Windows.Controls.GridView"
    xmlns:e="clr-namespace:ExamplesWeb">
    <Grid>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition />
            <RowDefinition Height="30" />
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <!-- QueryName specifies the query to be used to load data-->
        <riaControls:DomainDataSource x:Name="DomainDataSource1" AutoLoad="True" QueryName="GetCustomers" PageSize="10">
            <riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
                <!-- Replace with your DomainContext here -->
                <e:NorthwindDomainContext />
            </riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
        </riaControls:DomainDataSource>
        <telerik:RadGridView x:Name="RadGridView1" ItemsSource="{Binding Data, ElementName=DomainDataSource1}"/>
    </Grid>
</Examples:GridViewExample>

Greetings,
Milan
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