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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

You're reading from   Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action Develop a full LOB Silverlight 5 application from scratch with the help of expert advice and an accompanying case study with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683548
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Express Introduction to Silverlight FREE CHAPTER 2. Forms and Browsing 3. Data Binding 4. Architecture 5. RIA Services Data Access 6. Out of Browser (OOB) Applications 7. Testing your LOB Application 8. Error Control 9. Integration with other Web Applications 10. Consuming Web Services 11. Security Index

Creating modal dialogs


Modal dialogs are also common components in LOB (Line Of Business) applications and management applications. That is to say, a pop-up window that blocks the rest of the application appears. Once the user has completed the pertinent application, he or she can close it and the application unblocks.

ChildWindow is the implementation of a modal dialog in Silverlight.

Example of modal dialogs

We will continue with the previous example, now adding a ChildWindow control. Also, we will make the modal window host the same content as the main window, adding the UserControl we previously created. Finally, we will communicate with the main page using the modal control. To do so, we will copy the values we entered in the form of the modal window to the form of the main page, as shown in the following screenshot:

To create a ChildWindow, carry out the following steps:

  1. On the Views folder, right-click and select Add | New Item.

  2. Choose the option Silverlight Child Window and name it MyDialogView...

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