RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the XAMLflix! We hope you enjoyed the marathon that ended yesterday with DataBars. In today’s episode we will take a look at the RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF. Also, don’t forget that you can get caught up at any time by visiting ourXAMLflix page or read below for a short introduction.

What is XAMLflix? In case you missed the previous episodes, it is Telerik’s way of teaching you how to use both new and existing controls from Telerik’s XAML suite. Each and every Thursday, we will provide a fresh batch of videos and sample projects highlighting a different control. Since our Silverlight and WPF share a common codebase and API, you only have to learn how to use these controls once! You can simply copy and paste the code between frameworks.

Say Hello to my Powerful Grid - RadGridView

The RadGridView control features sorting, grouping, editing, filtering, displaying of hierarchical data and asynchronous loading of data. A completely different level of interactivity and performance has been added on top of the basics. RadGridView can work with millions of records without compromising its performance and rich feature set. The RadGridView can be easily customized to fit perfectly into a variety of business applications.

Note: You may download the source code here that demonstrates samples from each video included below.

• Getting Started with RadGridView – In this video, we will see how easy it is to get started using RadGridView, part of the Telerik RadControls for Silverlight & WPF suite. This video demonstrates using the design surface to add RadGridView to the page, hooking up data, and the sorting, grouping, filtering, and column operations available out-of-the-box.
• RadGridView – Exporting Grid Contents to Additional Formats – We will learn how to export the contents of the RadGridView control to CSV, Excel, HTML or Text in this video.
• RadGridView – Data Paging with RadDataPager – Need Data Paging? We have you covered with RadDataPager. You can easily page the data of your RadGridView with the Telerik RadDataPager control.
• RadGridView – Group Aggregates- When you are using programmatic grouping, you can add aggregate functions to the group rows. These functions allow you to display information about the data in the group such as first item, last item, count of items etc.
• RadGridView – Localization – Localization is a big deal to our customers and Telerik recognizes that. In this video, we will learn how to use the built-in localization of RadGridView to localize any string resource found in the control.
• RadGridView – Validating Cells – It is hard to write a LOB application that does not have any data validation. In this video, we will walk you through adding data validation for your grid’s cells. This allows you to take complete control of the data being entered.
• RadGridView – Copy and Paste Excel - In this video, we will learn how you can start taking advantage of the new copy and paste features build into RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF. With these features, you can seamlessly copy and paste rows and cells between RadGridView and Excel, allowing for a tighter integration between Excel and your XAML applications.
• RadGridView – Style and Template Selectors – In this video, we will learn how you can start using the Style and Template selectors in RadGridView for Silverlight and WPF. With this feature, you can easily maintain multiple templates within RadGridView and show different ones based on underlying data for the row or cell.

Wrap-Up

Thanks for reading and if you have any questions or comments then please let me know.

Also, keep watching the Telerik blogs as we are planning on releasing new videos for XAMLflix each and every week. You can download a trial of RadControls for Silverlight and WPF right now.

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