Blazing fast performance with RadGridView for Silverlight 4, RadDataPager and WCF RIA Services

In my previous post I’ve used almost 2 million records to the check the grid performance in WPF and I’ve decided to do the same for Silverlight 4 using WCF RIA Services. The grid again is bound completely codeless using DomainDataSource and RadDataPager:

 <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition />
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto" />
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <riaControls:DomainDataSource Name="orderDomainDataSource" QueryName="GetOrdersAndOrderDetails">
            <riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
                <my:NorthwindDomainContext />
            </riaControls:DomainDataSource.DomainContext>
        </riaControls:DomainDataSource>
        <telerik:RadGridView Name="RadGridView1" IsReadOnly="True" AutoExpandGroups="True" 
 ItemsSource="{Binding Data, ElementName=orderDomainDataSource}" />
        <telerik:RadDataPager Grid.Row="1" PageSize="10" 
 Source="{Binding Data, ElementName=orderDomainDataSource}" DisplayMode="All" />
    </Grid>

And the query again will return join between Northwind Orders and Order_Details:
…

 public IQueryable<OrdersAndOrderDetails> GetOrdersAndOrderDetails()
    {
        var q = (from o in this.ObjectContext.Orders
               from od in this.ObjectContext.Order_Details
               select new OrdersAndOrderDetails()
               {
                   OrderID = od.OrderID,
                   ProductID = od.ProductID,
                   UnitPrice = od.UnitPrice,
                   Quantity = od.Quantity,
                   Discount = od.Discount,
                   CustomerID = o.CustomerID,
                   EmployeeID = o.EmployeeID,
                   OrderDate = o.OrderDate
               }).OrderBy(o=>o.OrderID);

        return q;
    }
…

public class OrdersAndOrderDetails
{
    [Key, Display(AutoGenerateField=false)]
    public Guid ID { get { return Guid.NewGuid(); } }
    public int OrderID { get; set; }
    public int ProductID { get; set; }
    public decimal UnitPrice { get; set; }
    public short Quantity { get; set; }
    public float Discount { get; set; }
    public string CustomerID { get; set; }
    public int? EmployeeID { get; set; }
    public DateTime? OrderDate { get; set; }
}

…

The grid operations like sorting, grouping and paging are applied directly to the server and only page-size data are returned!

Enjoy!