Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition

Using the data contract to make changes to the dialog

Let's take a step back. When the main method of ConVMSVehicleGroupChangeController is called, the framework constructs the user interface based on the data members of the data contract. The system will use the EDT returned by the method to determine the type and label of the form control it creates. Sometimes we may wish to alter this standard behavior. This is done by adding attributes to the data member methods.

The system then builds the user interface using the data contract. It reads the metadata from the data contract and adds each data method as a control on the dialog. We can adjust some of this by adding attributes to the data methods. The following table shows some of the most ...