Integrate Reporting Services with Silverlight and RIA Services

namespace ReportingServicesDemo
{
    using System;
    using System.Windows.Data;

    /// <summary>
    /// Two way IValueConverter that lets you bind a property on a bindable object
    /// that can be an empty string value to a dependency property that should 
    /// be set to null in that case
    /// </summary>
    public class TargetNullValueConverter : IValueConverter
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Converts <c>null</c> or empty strings to <c>null</c>.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">The value to convert.</param>
        /// <param name="targetType">The expected type of the result (ignored).</param>
        /// <param name="parameter">Optional parameter (ignored).</param>
        /// <param name="culture">The culture for the conversion (ignored).</param>
        /// <returns>If the <paramref name="value"/>is <c>null</c> or empty, this method returns <c>null</c> otherwise it returns the <paramref name="value"/>.</returns>
        public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
        {
            string strValue = value as string;

            return string.IsNullOrEmpty(strValue) ? null : value;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Converts <c>null</c> back to <see cref="String.Empty"/>.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">The value to convert.</param>
        /// <param name="targetType">The expected type of the result (ignored).</param>
        /// <param name="parameter">Optional parameter (ignored).</param>
        /// <param name="culture">The culture for the conversion (ignored).</param>
        /// <returns>If <paramref name="value"/> is <c>null</c>, it returns <see cref="String.Empty"/> otherwise <paramref name="value"/>.</returns>
        public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
        {
            return value ?? string.Empty;
        }
    }
}