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Integrate Reporting Services with Silverlight and RIA Services

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Integrate Reporting Services with your Silverlight Line-of-Business applications.
namespace ReportingServicesDemo
{
    using System;
    using System.Windows;
    using System.Windows.Controls;
    using System.Windows.Data;

    /// <summary>
    ///     Provides extension methods for performing operations on a <see cref="DataField"/>.
    /// </summary>
    public static class DataFieldExtensions
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Replaces a <see cref="DataField" />'s <see cref="TextBox" /> control with another control
        /// and updates the bindings.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="field">The <see cref="DataField"/> whose <see cref="TextBox"/> will be replaced.</param>
        /// <param name="newControl">The new control you're going to set as <see cref="DataField.Content" />.</param>
        /// <param name="dataBindingProperty">The control's property that will be used for data binding.</param>        
        public static void ReplaceTextBox(this DataField field, FrameworkElement newControl, DependencyProperty dataBindingProperty)
        {
            field.ReplaceTextBox(newControl, dataBindingProperty, binding => { });
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Replaces a <see cref="DataField" />'s <see cref="TextBox" /> control with another control,
        /// and updates the bindings
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="field">The <see cref="DataField"/> whose <see cref="TextBox"/> will be replaced.</param>
        /// <param name="newControl">The new control you're going to set as <see cref="DataField.Content" />.</param>
        /// <param name="dataBindingProperty">The control's property that will be used for data binding.</param>        
        /// <param name="bindingSetupFunction">
        ///  An optional <see cref="Action"/> you can use to change parameters on the newly generated binding before
        ///  it is applied to <paramref name="newControl"/>
        /// </param>
        public static void ReplaceTextBox(this DataField field, FrameworkElement newControl, DependencyProperty dataBindingProperty, Action<Binding> bindingSetupFunction)
        {
            if (field == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("field");
            }

            if (newControl == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("newControl");
            }

            // Construct new binding by copying existing one, and sending it to bindingSetupFunction
            // for any changes the caller wants to perform
            Binding newBinding = field.Content.GetBindingExpression(TextBox.TextProperty).ParentBinding.CreateCopy();

            if (bindingSetupFunction != null)
            {
                bindingSetupFunction(newBinding);
            }

            // Replace field
            newControl.SetBinding(dataBindingProperty, newBinding);
            field.Content = newControl;
        }
    }
}

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Written By
Web Developer Sigo S.A.
Venezuela Venezuela
Ernesto Herrera is a Senior Developer, Architect with more than 12 years experience, actually working with Silverlight Line-of-Bussiness Applications, he holds a MCTS Web Application 2.0 Certification, and have a wide experience with sql server since the 6.5 version, on his free time he likes to play tennis with his wife,kids and friends, also enjoy playing Wii with his sons, he works at Sigo S.A., a retail business located at Margarita Island, Venezuela.

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