1. Silverlight - Hello World
2. Silverlight - Anatomy of an Application
3. Silverlight - The VS Environment
4. Silverlight - Content Controls
5. Silverlight - Built-In Controls
6. Silverlight - Width, Height, Margins, Padding, Alignment
7. Silverlight - Using a GridSplitter
8. Silverlight - Grid Layout
9. Silverlight - StackPanel Layout
10. Silverlight - Canvas Layout
11. Silverlight - Databinding UI to .NET Classes
12. Silverlight - Simple Styles
13. Silverlight - Custom Types in XAML
14. Silverlight - Binding with Conversion
15. Silverlight - List Based Data Binding
16. Silverlight - Simple User Control
17. Silverlight - Templating a Button
18. Silverlight - Resources from XAP/DLL/Site Of Origin
19. Silverlight - Animations & Storyboards
20. Silverlight - Uploads with WebClient
21. Silverlight - Downloads with WebClient
22. Silverlight - Calling HTTPS Web Services
23. Silverlight - Calling Web Services
24. Silverlight - Making Cross Domain Requests
25. Silverlight - Using HttpWebRequest
26. Silverlight - File Dialogs and User Files
27. Silverlight - Using Sockets
28. Silverlight - Using Isolated Storage
29. Silverlight - .NET Code Modifying HTML
30. Silverlight - Using Isolated Storage Quotas
31. Silverlight - Calling JavaScript from .NET
32. Silverlight - Evaluating JavaScript from .NET Code
33. Silverlight - Handling HTML Events in .NET Code
34. Silverlight - Handling .NET Events in JavaScript
35. Silverlight - Calling .NET from JavaScript
36. Silverlight - Displaying a Custom Splash Screen
37. Silverlight - Passing Parameters from your Web Page
38. Silverlight - Loading Media at Runtime
39. Silverlight - Dynamically Loading Assemblies/Code
40. Silverlight - Reading/Writing XML
41. Silverlight - Multiple Threads with BackgroundWorker
42. Silverlight - Insert/Update/Delete with the DataGrid
43. Silverlight - Getting Started with the DataGrid
44. Silverlight - Embedding Custom Fonts

Thats it!. Have  a great weekend!!.

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And I was trying out visual studio 2008 and SQL server 2008 these days. And last night I found out that SQL server now support Tabled valued Parameters which allow us to send data tables as parameters to stored procedures. It still uses the same ADO.Net API.

Now I’m going to show how it works. For this I’m using the same scenario which I used in my previous post (reading contents of a folder and saving their information). here i have used sql server 2008 november ctp and visual c# 2008 express edition.

 First create the table given below:

CREATE TABLE FileDetails(
FileName varchar(50) PRIMARY KEY,
CreatedDate varchar(50) ,
Size decimal(18, 0) )

Then, we should declare a new Table User Defined Type in the database:

create type FileDetailsType as table
(
    FileName        varchar(50),
    CreatedDate        varchar(50),
    Size       decimal(18,0)
)

Then create a stored procedure that gets a parameter of the above type, and inserts many rows in a single command.

create procedure InsertFileDetails
(
    @FileDetails FileDetailsType readonly
)
as

    insert
    into   FileDetails (FileName, CreatedDate, Size)
    select FileName, CreatedDate, Size
    from   @FileDetails;

Then to execute this procedure, we can create a data table and add the rows in to it. And then pass this data table as parameter to the database.

private static void SaveFileDetail(List<FileInfo> info)

 {

  Console.WriteLine(“**********updating with tablevalued parameters****”);

  DataTable dt = preparedatatable();

  foreach (FileInfo file in info)

     {

       DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();

       dr[0] = file.Name;

       dr[1] = file.CreationTime.ToShortDateString();

       dr[2] = (decimal)file.Length;

       dt.Rows.Add(dr);

     }

 

           

 using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(“your connection string”))

    {

       SqlCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand();

       cmd.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure;

       cmd.CommandText = “dbo.InsertFileDetails”;

       SqlParameter param = cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue(“@FileDetails”, dt);                              

       conn.Open();

       cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

       Console.WriteLine(“Completed Updating the database”);

     }

Now that’s cool isn’t it????

Download the code