I'm happy to announce that with our next service pack you will be able to bind RadGridView completely codeless to DomainDataSource in Silverlight 3:
<Grid> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition Height="30" /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <riaControls:DomainDataSource x:Name="DomainDataSource1" AutoLoad="True" LoadMethodName="LoadCustomers"> <riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext> <localWeb:NorthwindDomainContext /> </riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext> </riaControls:DomainDataSource> <telerik:RadGridView x:Name="RadGridView1" ItemsSource="{Binding Data, ElementName=DomainDataSource1}" /> <df:DataPager x:Name="DataPager1" Grid.Row="1" PageSize="10" Source="{Binding Data, ElementName=DomainDataSource1}" /> </Grid>
All operations like paging, sorting and grouping are applied to the REST query with minimal JSON response:
Enjoy!
Vladimir Enchev is Director of Engineering, Native Mobile UI & Frameworks