Introduction
The holiday season is a time for rich food, the warmth of family and friends, and festive fun and good times. And, if you are like me, you were able to squeeze in some computer time when the kiddies were playing their XBoxes or watching their new DVDs in between sledding and ice skating.
Of course, if you are going to play with technology during the holidays, you might as well play with fun technology. When I wasn't fighting the Lich King, I was working with Devexpress controls for Windows and the web. The Windows controls are part of an application I am helping a friend with, and the web controls because Devexpress put out a new release 8.3. Naturally, I wanted to take Devexpress' new controls for a spin.
One of the most popular web controls is Devexpress' ASPxGridView. To help you explore, I have included several graphics and some code that show you how to use the new filter feature, grid sorting, and grouping, and how to use the XPO Persistent Classes to help you generate your custom entity classes.
The article is a little on the long side, so if you want to go refill your eggnog from whatever's left over, I'll wait. Already back, I see. Good.
Binding Persistent Classes to an ASPxGridView
An entity class is a class that represents a database table, generally. It's not worth being dogmatic about where you get your entity classes. Sometimes, you might roll your own, you might use something like Microsoft's LINQ to SQL, or you can use Devexpress' XPO Persistent Classes. The Express Persistent Classes (XPO) are designed to work with Devexpress' XpoDataSource and controls; if you are creating an application that leverages Devexpress' professional looking controls, the XPO Persistent Classes may be the way to go.
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