ASP.NET Dynamic Data Unleashed

Chapter 10. Building Custom Forms

In This Chapter

• Multimode Entity Templates

• Configuring Field Templates

• Creating Custom Field Templates

• Implementing Interaction Between Field Templates

• Improving Encapsulation of Field Templates

• Using Entity Templates to Control Field Templates

Dynamic Data offers two different, complementary approaches for implementing user interface. On one hand, you can use data annotation attributes, such as Display and UIHint, to modify the metadata describing entity types in your data model. The dynamic entity and page templates use this metadata information to generate functional pages for displaying, inserting, and editing the entity instances at runtime. On the other hand, you can accomplish the same task ...