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Adding Silverlight Control In Lightswitch 2011






Software Requirement


  1. Visual studio 2010 is installed on your machine.
  2. Visual Studio 2010 service pack 1 is installed on your machine.
  3. Microsoft Visual Studio Lightswitch 2011 is installed on your machine.

Prerequisite Knowledge


  1. What is Lightswitch?
  2. How to create buttons and how to write the button’s execute events?
  3. Basic programming in Silverlight.
  4. How to create the Lightswitch screens?
  5. How to create the Lightswitch tables?

Why Do We Need Custom Controls In Lightswitch?





Table Creation


Picture showing design view of LoginInformation table

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Login Screen


Picture showing the design view of login screen in Lightswitch

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Add Silverlight Library Project Type




  1. Right-click on the solution and click on "Add – New Project.."
  2. Select the "Silverlight Class Library" as project type.
  3. Enter "MyControl" in the Name field.
  4. Click on the "Ok" button.
  5. A pop-up message prompts up to select the Silverlight version


  6. Picture showing a pop up to select Silverlight version.

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  7. Select the Silverlight Version as Silverlight 4.
  8. Click "Ok".


Picture showing the project structure once project is created

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Add A Password Control


Picture showing PasswordControl XAML file in project explorer window

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<UserControl x:Class="MyControl.PasswordControl"
	xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
	xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
	xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
	xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
   mc:Ignorable="d"     
   d:DesignHeight="40" d:DesignWidth="210"><Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White"><PasswordBox x:Name="PasswordCtrl" Width="200" Height="30"></PasswordBox></Grid></UserControl>



Add Binding To Password Control






<PasswordBox x:Name="PasswordCtrl" x:FieldModifier="public" Width="200" Height="30"  
   Password="{Binding Path=Screen.LoginInformationProperty.LoginPassword,Mode=TwoWay}"></PasswordBox>





Add A Custom Control In Lightswitch Screen




Picture showing how control is changed to custom control

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Picture showing the property window for login password control

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Picture showing a popup window for adding Silverlight control in Lightswitch application

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Save Value In Database




Picture showing the window for adding records when we run the application

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Output


Picture showing the record list as an output

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Posted By  -  Karan Gupta
 
Posted On  -  Saturday, June 16, 2012

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