Ever want to filter data in Silverlight? here's a simple example that uses a lambda expression to search on name (case sensitive)

[code:c#]

ComboBox cbx = ((ComboBox)sender);

ICollectionView dataView =
            CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(this.DataContext);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(cbx.Text))
    dataView.Filter = f => ((Job)f).Name.Contains(cbx.Text);
else
    dataView.Filter = null;

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I've had a few people asking me how did I host Silverlight 3 in blog engine.

Silverlight Usercontrol

It was pretty simple really (when you know how)

Basically Silverlight3 needs an <object> tag.

So I created a user control with the object tag and some script handling for client side errors (actually VS2010 did all the hard lifting).

[code:c#]

<%@ Control Language="C#" ClassName="SilverlightControl" %>

<script runat="server">

</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="~/Silverlight.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function onSilverlightError(sender, args) {
            var appSource = "";
            if (sender != null && sender != 0) {
                appSource = sender.getHost().Source;
            }

            var errorType = args.ErrorType;
            var iErrorCode = args.ErrorCode;

            if (errorType == "ImageError" || errorType == "MediaError") {
                return;
            }

            var errMsg = "Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application " + appSource + "\n";

            errMsg += "Code: " + iErrorCode + "    \n";
            errMsg += "Category: " + errorType + "       \n";
            errMsg += "Message: " + args.ErrorMessage + "     \n";

            if (errorType == "ParserError") {
                errMsg += "File: " + args.xamlFile + "     \n";
                errMsg += "Line: " + args.lineNumber + "     \n";
                errMsg += "Position: " + args.charPosition + "     \n";
            }
            else if (errorType == "RuntimeError") {
                if (args.lineNumber != 0) {
                    errMsg += "Line: " + args.lineNumber + "     \n";
                    errMsg += "Position: " + args.charPosition + "     \n";
                }
                errMsg += "MethodName: " + args.methodName + "     \n";
            }

            throw new Error(errMsg);
        }
    </script>

  
    <div id="silverlightControlHost">
    <object data="data:application/x-silverlight-2," type="application/x-silverlight-2" width="100%" height="100%">
    <param name="source" value="<%Silverlight.xbap%>"/>   // where <%Silverlight.xbap%> is location of silverlight xbap
    <param name="onError" value="onSilverlightError" />
    <param name="background" value="white" />
    <param name="minRuntimeVersion" value="3.0.40818.0" />
    <param name="autoUpgrade" value="true" />
    <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=149156&v=3.0.40818.0" style="text-decoration:none">
      <img src="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161376" alt="Get Microsoft Silverlight" style="border-style:none"/>
    </a>
     </object><iframe id="_sl_historyFrame" style="visibility:hidden;height:0px;width:0px;border:0px"></iframe></div>



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My first (public silverlight application)..

Had quite a bit of fun getting this Silverlight 3.0 application hosted in Blog Engine .. More to come.. time for some sleep now.. 02:20am...

ERROR - UNABLE TO LOAD CONTROL : ~/User controls/SilverlightControl.ascx