In this article you will see how to enable and
disable paging in a Visual Studio LightSwitch application. Paging is an advanced
concept for a Visual Studio LightSwitch application. Paging is used when you want
to see all the data or records in a display page but there is a limited number of records that can be displayed
in one page. Such as there are 100 records in your table but display page shows
only 10 records at a time. Now if you want to see all the records then here you will use
paging concept.
Step 1 : First of all open Visual Studio
LightSwitch application->Click on create new table.
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Step 2 : Create table like as students.
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Step 3 : Now we will add a screen. Right
click on screens->Add screen.
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Step 4 : Select editable grid
screen->Select screen data->Ok.
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Step 5 : Now we will go to students
properties->Mark support paging and enter the value for number of item to display
per page in the next textbox.
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Step 6 : Run the application (Press F5). Now
you can use the paging concept to show all the data like as in the following image.
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Step 7 : When you click on 2 in the
paging property then you will see the next record in the display page like as in the following image.
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Step 8 : If you want to disable
paging in a LightSwitch application then you can do that. To do that go
to the student's properties->Unmark support paging.
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Step 9 : Run the application (Press F5). Now
you will see there are no paging properties in your display page. The same as in the
process sown above you can disable the searching box, sorting and auto execute query.
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Summary
So the paging concept has significant importance in a
LightSwitch application. Using the paging properties you can see the whole data one by
one page.
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