| Title Of Each Article | Video Included With Each Post | |
| Part 1 | Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight (This Article) | 7 Minutes |
| Part 2 | Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling | 14 Minutes |
| Part 3 | Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 | 13 Minutes |
| Part 4 | Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template | 11 Minutes |
| Part 5 | Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 | 11 Minutes |
| Part 6 | Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 | 10 Minutes |
| Part 7 | Basic Authentication and Authorization In RIA Services | 5 Minutes |
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In this section, we will talk about what happens when the users presses the “Sessions” hyperlink from the speakers page. If you remember from the last article, we used a special converter on the Speakers.xaml page and bound that to the hyperlink titled sessions as shown below.
When this link is clicked, the navigation created is as follows:
http://localhost:9951/Presentation1TestPage.aspx#/Sessions?SpeakerId=903
// Executes when the user navigates to this page.
protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
{
//Handle SpeakerId
var qs = NavigationContext.QueryString;
if (qs.ContainsKey("SpeakerId"))
{
this.sessionsOverviewDomainDataSource.FilterDescriptors =
new FilterDescriptorCollection();
this.sessionsOverviewDomainDataSource.FilterDescriptors.Add(
new FilterDescriptor("AttendeeId",
FilterOperator.IsEqualTo, qs["SpeakerId"]));
}
}
This simply adds a filter to the current DomainDataSource that filters the column AttendeeId with the passed in query parameter SpeakerId.
The resulting page looks as follows assuming Peter Kellner’s Session link was clicked.
The video referenced in this article goes into building this page in more details, but fundamentally, the major point is just the query parameter.