Darren Parkinson

It seems that every time I'm looking into something, you create a show on it Thanks for another great one, and also your little comments which make me feel better like the one about how do you know you're in the right template -- I thought it was just me that never knew which one I was supposed to edit...

Thanks again.

Firstly, thanks for the great videos and related docs -- really appreciate the time and effort involved...

I have a quick question if that's ok... (Basic Question Alert!!!)

I'm quite new to a lot of the technologies involved here, (i.e. Silverlight4, Silverlight Navigation, Entity Framework, WCF Services, VS2010 even), and this isn't my day job, so I know this is a basic question, but just wondered what your view was.

Basically, my backend database is heavily normalised and therefore I have a lot of IDs in my main table rather than perhaps the fields I would like to show in the datagrid.  What's the correct way to ensure I get the fields from those related tables into the appropriate datagrids?  I first thought that I should maybe change the Entity Framework model, but that was generated for me by VS and is aware of the table relationships, so that doesn't make sense does it?  Then I thought maybe I should do it in the Bindings, but the datagrid is tied to a particular view source which is tied to the EF right?

As an example, in your Events application, if your Event Venue Name wasn't directly in the table but extracted to a separate table because you want to keep extra details about the venue, how would you achieve that?

Sorry for the basic level of this question, but just want to get it clear in my head.  Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.