Creating a Popup in LightSwitch Visual Studio 2012
In this article I describe how to create a popup for a LightSwitch Application.
A popup temporarily appears on top of a screen, and users close a popup by clicking anywhere outside it. You can create multiple popups for any screen, but you can't share them between screens.
Steps for Creating a Popup
Step 1
Open the Solution Explorer.
Step 2
In Solution Explorer, open the HTML client screen for which you want to create a popup.
Step 3
The Screen Designer appears.
Step 4
In the Screen Designer, right-click on the popups node and choose "Add popup".
Step 5
After adding a popup, the Screen Designer consists of the popup and looks like this as shown:
Step 6
Open the properties window.
Step 7
In the properties window, you can give the popup a name.
Step 8
Now the Screen Designer consists of that popup name that you provided.