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Saturday, January 21, 2012 #

Saving Telerik PersistenceFramework data to a string

In the project I'm involved with, we've been saving column arrangement and column width data for quite a while. I had a request to give the users a way to select which columns to display and it just seemed natural to include the display order with that data.

Recently I've been tasked with saving the filtering and sorting information as well. We're using the Telerik RadGrid, so I went to their site to find out how to do that.

Saving all sorts of Grid-related data to Isolated Storage was really easy as I'll show first. Saving that data to the database was a bit more involved. I'm not going to really fire off to SQL in this post, but I'm going to go as far as saving the data to a global string variable, and read it back.

Live Silverlight sample on the page, appropriate snippets of code discussed, and a download of the app at the end.

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Monday, January 02, 2012 #

Moving UIElements around in Metro

I'm playing with some code for the First Apps Contest, and since I had to dig some of this out, I thought maybe others might be interested. Was just thinking that ratting through documentation and trying to make stuff work is very reminiscent of WPF/E back in... holy crap... December 2006... doesn't seem like 5 years ago!

Where to start

I figured the easiest thing to do would be to put a circle on the screen and move it around. This has *got* to be easier than drag/drop, right?

Well yes it is, but as with most things you gotta figure out where to poke it to make it work, and of course I got involved in other stuff so I made it a bit tougher than I needed. I called this "Application3", and it's like the last one except I'm not doing a snap pane on this one.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011 #

One Month in... and things change...

One month in...

Well, it's been a month on the new site now.

I guess at first I thought everyone would just start following the new feed and the traffic would magically appear at WDN, but I still saw a lot of folks hitting GWB, presumably looking for good Silverlight links.

So I announced my postings at GWB to not leave anyone out of the loop.

And now I find that's annoyed some people... sorry about that!

I can't see cross-posting the posts completely, so you'll just have to go to the new site to see them I guess.

SilverlightCream.com is still up and still growing with every post. The aggregation there can be searched as always and if you have a driving desire to submit there vs submitting to WindowsDevNews, I'm still getting those emails.

When I blog, I am posting links to @SilverlightNews in addition to @WindowsDevNews, at least for now.

I am also still blogging all the links I was blogging before, the difference is now I'm also blogging other stuff as well.

The only real thing *YOU* need to change is the Feed location.

I'm not giving up this blog, I will announce new things as I go, and the history is here to be viewed.

As everyone is aware, some things have changed, and that causes other changes.

Stay in the 'Light!