Thursday, 19 July 2012

Lightswitch: Get multi-selected items from DataGrid

This allows you to access all the selected items in the grid instead of just one (the SelectedItem property)
private const string Grid = "gridname";
private DataGrid _gridControl = null;
partial void Screen_InitializeDataWorkspace(List<IDataService> saveChangesTo)
{
    
this.FindControl(Grid).ControlAvailable +=
new EventHandler<ControlAvailableEventArgs
>(Grid_ControlAvailable);

}
void Grid_ControlAvailable(object sender, ControlAvailableEventArgs e)
{
_gridControl = e.Control
as DataGrid
;

if (_gridControl != null
)
_gridControl .SelectionMode =
DataGridSelectionMode.Extended;
}
partial void SomeAction_Execute()
{    
foreach (ObjectName e in
_gridControl.SelectedItems)     {         ...   
}

}

Lightswitch: Get choice value of a property

I have found quite a number of things from the internet when I was doing my Lightswitch development, but I cannot remember most of the source now. So thanks for people in the community who have contributed but sorry I cannot acknowledge them properly.

 

Here is an extension method for getting the choice value of a property in code:

public static string GetDisplayedChoiceValue(this IEntityStorageProperty property)
{
// If the value is null, it has no display value
if (null == property.Value)
return null;

string valueAsString = property.Value.ToString();
// Get the list of choices for this property
IEnumerable<ISupportedValueAttribute> choices = property.
GetModel().Attributes.OfType<ISupportedValueAttribute>();
// Find the choice that matches the property value
ISupportedValueAttribute choice = choices.Single(
c => String.Equals(c.Value, valueAsString, StringComparison.Ordinal));

// If the choice does not have a display name, return the choice value instead
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(choice.DisplayName))
return choice.Value;
else
return choice.DisplayName;
}

To use it with your object:

CodeName = o.Details.Properties.Code.GetDisplayedChoiceValue(),

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

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