How to Use Virtual Sources
This step-by-step tutorial demonstrates how to use virtual sources.
Complete Examples
- How to Bind to InfiniteAsyncSource
- How to Bind to InfiniteSource
- How to Bind to PagedAsyncSource
- How to Bind to PagedSource
Tutorial Steps
Note
The Issues Service is used as an example of a data source in this tutorial.
This tutorial uses the InfiniteAsyncSource virtual source. See the Other Virtual Sources topic for more information.
Step 1: Fetch Data and Enable Scrolling
Create a virtual source, fetch rows from the service, and enable scrolling in the GridControl.
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Implement the sorting data operations in the virtual source and enable them in the GridControl.
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Implement the filtering data operations in the virtual source and enable them in the GridControl.
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Get summaries and display them in the GridControl.