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Show And Hide Grid Columns At Runtime 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 Light switch 2011 is installed on your machine.

Prerequisite Knowledge




  1. What is lightswitch?
  2. What are screens and entities in lightswitch?
  3. How to create an entity in lightswitch?
  4. How to create a screen in lightswitch?



Creation Of Employee Entity




  1. FirstName
  2. LastName
  3. Address
  4. Picture showing the Employee table in lightswitch designer
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Creation Of An Editable Grid




Picture showing the Editable Grid Screen for the Employee table
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Adding Data In The Grid




Picture showing adding the data in the Editable Grid Screen
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Add Buttons For Show And Hide




  1. Double click on the screen EditableEmployeeGrid inside the Screen folder in Solution Explorer.
  2. On the designer screen click on the Screen Command Bar.
  3. On click of it Add button becomes visible.
  4. Click on the arrow sign on the Add button.
  5. A context menu appears.
  6. Click on New Button… option.
  7. Picture showing adding the new button in the editable grid screen
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Picture showing the popup window for adding a new button
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Picture showing the designer screen after adding the button
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  1. Click (single click) on the button.
  2. Press F4.
  3. Property window will open on right hand side.
  4. Change the Display Name and save.
  5. Picture showing changing the display name of the button in the properties window
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Add A Dll




  1. Click on the project and click on the arrow as shown in figure below.
  2. Picture showing view change dropdown in the solution explorer
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  3. A context menu appears click on the file view
  4. Picture showing changing the view to File view for the project
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  5. Once you click on file view the project view changes as shown in figure below
  6. Picture showing the project in the File View
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Picture showing adding System.Windows.Control.Data as reference in the project
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Code For Showing The Grid Column




  1. Right click on the button
  2. Click Edit Execute Code.
  3. Picture showing opening the code screen by clicking on the Edit Execute Code menu
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    private DataGrid _dataGrid;
    
    partial void Command_Show_Execute() {
      // Write your code here.
      this.FindControl("grid").ControlAvailable += ShowGrid;
    }
    
    private void ShowGrid(object sender, ControlAvailableEventArgs e) {
      if (e.Control is DataGrid) {
        _dataGrid = (DataGrid) e.Control;
        _dataGrid.Columns[2].Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
      }
    }





Code For Hiding The Grid Column




  1. Right click on the button
  2. Click Edit Execute Code.
  3. Add the following code in the execute method.
  4. partial void Command_Hide_Execute() {
      // Write your code here.
      this.FindControl("grid").ControlAvailable += HideGrid;
    }
    
    private void HideGrid(object sender, ControlAvailableEventArgs e) {
      if (e.Control is DataGrid) {
        _dataGrid = (DataGrid) e.Control;
        _dataGrid.Columns[2].Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;
      }
    }



Output




Picture showing the output of Show and hide grid columns at runtime in lightswitch 2011
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Picture showing the output of Show and hide grid columns at runtime in lightswitch 2011
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Picture showing the output of Show and hide grid columns at runtime in lightswitch 2011
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Posted By  -  Karan Gupta
 
Posted On  -  Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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