>>As someone coming into silverlight programming from the ASP.NET world (and many earlier worlds), I'm absolutely astounded as to how completely broken and not-ready for BETA the combobox in Silverlight is when trying to populate it from any data source.
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>>I've literally spent days trying to get a combobox in a datagrid to populate the items from a RIA domaindatasource or any other method of getting data from my entity framework (using domaindatasource) objects.
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>>I've read so many contradictory/fragmented/error filled/incomplete blogs and other articles on the web that I could just hurl.
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>>I've yet to get it to populate (then I have to tackle setting selected item which appears more broken).
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>>This is supposed to be silverlight 4. IMHO it hasn't reached an alpha release for a 1.0 version yet.
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>>If anyone has a clear cut, COMPLETE and ACCURATE example of doing this I'd love to see it.
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>We use the Telerik RadComboBox exclusively. No such frustration. Works like ASP.NET DropDownList for the most part.

You know who is part of something called the Telerik Speaker's Bureau? John Peterson.