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Data Context with Carousel

Greg posted over 16 years ago

If you have created a Data Context using Linq to SQL, how do you bind it with a carousel? Meaning, how do you read the data from the database and display the various pieces to various textboxes? If possible, please show in XAML and in procedural code.

Thanks.

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Offline Joe Modica posted over 16 years ago

Hi -

The XamDataCarousel control exposes a property called DataSource of type IEnumerable - you can bind a datasource to this property exactly as you would with the ItemsControl.ItemsSource property. The default behavior of the XamDataCarousel is to examine the data it is bound to and automatically discover all the fields contained in the data source including fields within each hierarchical level of data (if nested data is present in the datasource). Any data source supported by the ItemsControl is supported by the XamDataCarousel.

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Greg posted over 16 years ago in reply to Joe Modica

Thanks for the reply. How would you write the code to connect them. Filename: Persons.dbml located in Data directory of my project. This was created using a Linq to SQL class with basic fields like FirstName, LastName, etc. I would like each item in carasousel to display the items. Is there a better way to connect to the database besides using the Data Context?
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Offline Joe Modica posted over 16 years ago in reply to Greg

Hi -

If a DataContext has been set on the XamDataCarousel or one of its ancestors then you can bind the DataSource property to the DataContext in XAML like this:

<igDP:XamDataGrid x:Name="xamDataGrid" DataSource="{Binding}"/>

Creating a binding like this without a Path tells the binding infrastructure to bind to the DataContext. As for how to 'connect' the Persons.dbml file you would do it the same way as with an ItemsControl. I have not worked with dbml files myself so I cannot give you specifics on this.

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