The 12.1 release brought a lot of cool new features for the XamPivotGrid. Some of them are Calculated Members, Custom Header and Cell Templates, Dynamic Metadata Tree, Lockable Components, Field Chooser and so on. In order to make all these improvements possible, improve performance and fix issues, some breaking changes took place. Below is the list of all breaking changes regarding the pivot grid and the data sources…

This article is an updated version of the one by Douglas Hohensee. You will understand how to build a custom data provider for the Silverlight xamPivotGrid in versions 11.2 and 12.1. Here the same approach for connecting to the SSAS server is used; however there are some structural changes in the provided solution in order to achieve clearer separation of logical components.

Before You Begin

Be sure to install the Microsoft…