Data Service User Interface builder

With WEF, it is possible to create an entire data-driven application with just a few builders. In fact, if we consider the UI segment of the application only, then one single builder can display a result set and a single record from this result set as well as enable you to update, create, and delete records. In addition to performing this operation, this single builder can even take care of pagination and navigation between pages. All these tasks can be performed by the Data Services User Interface (DSUI) builder alone.

Let's develop an application using this builder. However, before we work with the DSUI builder, we need to create and make available the data we will be exposing in the UI.

Creating a simple database Service Provider model

Let's create a simple Service Provider model to produce the data we need for the UI.

Although we will not spend much time in this section, you still will have the opportunity to see some pretty interesting actions performed...