Question

I started reading the Pro Business Applications with Silverlight 4 and I’m having the following problem here with my visual studio 2010

I can’t find the data sources tab page as mentioned here:

When you open the Data Sources window in Visual Studio, you will
find that a data source has
already been created for each domain context created by RIA Services
in the Silverlight project, with the entities that they expose beneath
them (as shown in Figure 6-2). Dragging and dropping one of these onto
your design surface will create both a DomainDataSource control and a
bound control to display the data.

I know that the Data Sources window and Data menu are intentionally disabled in Websites and Web Application Projects but my project is a Silverlight business application.

Can someone tell where i can find this window or what should i do to create the DomainDataSource control and the bound control?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you have MainWindow.xaml open, the DataSources tab is normally right next to the Toolbox tab.

If it does not appear there, go to View -> Toolbars, and turn on the Data Design toolbar. Click the Show Data Sources button.

Or just use Shift + Alt + D