Chapter 4. Entity Templates

In This Chapter

• Creating an Entity Template

• Composite Entity Templates

• Generic Entity Templates

• Dynamic Entity Templates

• Edit and Insert Entity Templates

• Entity Template Lookup Rules

• Built-in Entity Templates

Most web applications that work with data have pages that display information pertaining to a single item, as well as allow users to create new or modify existing items one at a time. Figure 4.1 shows an example of such page, which displays a single customer record from the Northwind sample database. Aside from the obvious lack of visual polish, driven by the need to keep the code examples simple, this type of page is common in internal, commercial, and packaged web applications today. You can easily ...

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