I've only been using Silverlight for a little over 24 hours. So I am still finding me feet.
I'm Currently using Silverlight 3 (Beta) (I require its great offline mode feature)
When using the data grid that is bound to a data source, is it possible for users to add data via the grid? Or is the data grid just limited to displaying & editing data from the bound data-source?
Many Thanks
Luke
Unless something has changed recently, you'll need to add the new row to the data source yourself. Take a look at this post describing the process:
http://weblogs.asp.net/manishdalal/archive/2008/08/25/silverlight-business-application-part-1-add-new-item.aspx
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I was planning to create a MVC web app that displays graphs and charts that Is built from LIVE data. The app would display the charts in a carousel style. 4 pages total.
My question is:
1) Is there a framework or tool that does most of this for me? If so, I would just have to create the graphs and chart
2) What hardware/Software do I need to display this on a TV monitor that is remote? (i.e monitor on a shop flop of a production plant)
3) What are other options instead of a web app? (i.e create a console app that generates a .png and spit out to a file location on a shared drive. The TV would cycle through the images when pointed to the shared folder)
Something similar to this question
Data visualization / analytics / dashboard in ASP.NET (NOT Google analytics integration)
I have a similar revolving dashboard setup that consist of the following:
1. Standard TV
2. Standard networked PC with monitor cable going to TV
3. PC configured not to go to sleep/display screen saver
4. Browser open and in full screen mode, navigated to my internal MVC website
5. MVC site using bootstrap template with NAV removed.
6. MVC site utilizes highcharts for ease of generating my dashboard components.
7. Main display page (Home controller Index view) includes js that fires off Ajax calls to controller to fetch data from my DB and responds with json to reload/refresh my highcharts displays on Ajax get response every 5 minutes on a counter.
Maybe this can point you in the right direction. When researching when I was going to do it I also considered a wpf application that functions similar to a screen saver to load dynamically created images. What won me over with my current setup was ease of use of highcharts. It's an insanely easy, free, and produces high quality graphics. That combined with twitter-bootstrap for auto screen sizing made the project a breeze. I'm sure if you can get ahold of a smart TV to negate the need for a connected PC then it may be even easier if a physical setup for you.
I'm handling a lot of data and I would like to show it in my app. Is there is UI component, table with support of pagination on server site? So I can handle it via REST or some AJAX request.
Doing "traditional pagination" is pretty easy with Vaadin components (some layouts, labels and buttons). Here is an example how you can do it:
https://github.com/viritin/viritin/blob/master/src/test/java/org/vaadin/viritin/it/MTableWithTraditionalPaging.java
That example calls just some dummy data service, but you can naturally replace that with anykind of backend: for example JPA or accessing a remote REST service. It uses MTable from Viritin, but the same approach can be used with plain Table or Grid as well and in Vaadin 8 beta (with Grid) the usage is almost the same, just swap "setBeans" to "setItems".
If you want to list your stuff in a VerticalLayout, this add-on might also be helpful: https://vaadin.com/directory#!addon/pagingcomponent
The project will be built in MVC4 using Entity Framework.
First of all, The targeted grid should be looking like this(It's just a sketch I've made graphically, But it should like this in the end):
What will it contain, what I am questioning and what I have done so far:
*These are all the steps i've done until now created without any grid/ 3rd party grid/ helpers to avoid restrictions when receiving the project's actual HTML.
Data retrieved by dynamic grouping - (Done)
The data is sortable(ViewBag sorting) and have paging(IPagedList) (Done)
Filtering each row with distinct value like in the picture example, Running ranges/searches within - Not sure how to implant it without using UI grid - Not done yet.
Exporting grid , Adding rows dynamically from within the grid in a list and updating it on demand - Also something that a UI grid could suggest in much easier manner , Not done yet.
So from what you've understood so far, Should I work and could I work with a 3rd party grid that could handle all those options without restriction or should I build all those options manually like i've build the sorting/paging so far?
Many thanks in advance.
First you need to note down your requirements and if you cant achieve it the crucial part in Grid, then going for the 3rd party controls would be better choice.
For MVC Grid, please check the demo links of leading products such as Telerik, Syncfusion.
Syncfusion MVC Grid demo
Telerik MVC Grid
You can evaluate these controls for some period and if it satisfies your needs, you can go ahead with one product.
Mostly all product vendors would give an Export option for Grid to PDF/Excel/Word.
UPDATE:
I guess Syncfusion MVC Grid will satisfy your requirement. They have filtering with essential features.
It will load distinct values in the filter choice list.
You can filter string values with casesensitive and vice versa.
Can be able to filter values according to its datatype.
Can be able to filter values using customer filter.
Can be able to filter using filter tokens.
Better check the below links.
http://mvc.syncfusion.com/demos/ui/grid/Filtering/ServerFiltering
http://help.syncfusion.com/ug/asp.net%20mvc/grid/default.htm#!documents/howtofilterdatausingfiltertokensinthefilterbar.htm
I am building a media library from a tutorial to get up to speed on MVC 4. I did the whole thing and now I'm re-building it using jQuery Mobile. The only piece I've yet to find simple is paging which should be easy. Can someone steer me in the direction of a nice tutorial on the subject?
We do have similar kind of Use case.
Store the Data in Session object in the form of Dictionary in this form.
On click of Next or previous button in Pagination control, fetch data from Controller, bind data to appropriate control in the UI and show data.
Make sure to show only limited data in UI. Restrict the number[max 10 per page]
Format Dictionary
I have already watched Apples's WWDC 2010 video of Building a Server-driven User Experience.
It is really a great concept but i need a simple example or tutorial to start with.
I have searched hours in Google for iOS Dynamic UI generation from XML or JSON based web services but didn't find anything useful so far.
More Information:
I am developing an iPhone application where i present user a Input Form like questionnaire with different types of question with different UI Controls to answer like Text Field, switches, image, audio, video etc.
Now I have different questionnaire for different user, I want to generate them dynamically and also store completed form in Core Data.
Any help or guidance to solve this problem will be greatly appreciated.
Thanx
have you seen heroku's Core Data Buildpack video?
http://mobile.heroku.com/