Silverlight Search Page

This generator creates a standard Silverlight search page with a criteria panel and a results grid based on a single model operation, for which a list row and criteria Xomega objects are defined.

For the most part this generator is similar to the WPF Search Form generator. However, due to the differences between Silverlight and WPF, the generated page has to be slightly different as outlined below.

• The generated page uses the Silverlight version of the Xomega Framework and the corresponding namespace.
• The property names are hardcoded in the XAML for the control bindings, since Silverlight doesn't support x:Static.
• Silverlight DataGrid is used instead of the WPF grid view.
• TextBlock is used instead of Label.
• Each TextBlock that serves as a label has an explicit binding of the FontWeight to the Required attribute of the property.
• All service operations are invoked asynchronously.

This generator can be rerunnable during initial prototyping phase to allow quickly visualizing the object model. During this phase you can add additional code to a separate partial class, e.g. to add a Details button handler to navigate to a details page. However, you will eventually want to edit the generated code manually to remove columns or fields that should not be displayed and perhaps add other controls or rearrange the controls on the page. At this point you may want to rename the generated file, so that the generator doesn't accidentally override it or delete it during the cleanup operation. This is why it is recommended to make the generated files start with an underscore to distinguish them from non-generated files.

Below is a sample page that was generated by this generator.