Blog of an IT Guy

So all those modules leading up to this. Seems anticlimactic eh?

We’ll be creating two screens that will be used for navigation with the new Metro (Modern) tiles.

1. In Visual Studio
2. Add a new Browse Screen
3. Screen Name: Start
4. Screen Data: none
5. Add a new Data Item to the screen
6. Local Property, Boolean, Not required
7. Name it: itgReady
8. Add a Custom Control under Rows Layout
9. Leave the Screen as the data path
10. Set the Label Position to None
11. Edit Render Code for this Custom Control
12. Add the following code to the method

    		// This will initialize the system, getting user info, permissions, etc
    		// Only needed in your startup screen. Called once.
    		itgLsHelper.init({
    			readyPropertyName: "itgReady",
    			contentItem: contentItem,
    			element: element,
    			menuName: "Start"
    		});
    

13. Again if you drag over the itgLsHelper.js file to the top of the screen you’ll have Intellisense.
14. Also, Set this screen as your Home screen.

    We need to create another screen for our Security menu.

15. Add a new Browse Screen
16. Screen Name: Security
17. Screen Data: none
18. Add a Custom Control under Rows Layout
19. Leave the Screen as the data path
20. Set the Label Position to None
21. Edit Render Code for this Custom Control
22. Add the following code to the method

    	// Pretty easy... just pass the name of the menu to render
    	itgLsHelper.tileMenu(element, "Security");
    

Yay! Time for a new part of the process, creating a database project that we can use to prepopulate our data. I can’t imagine anyone not using this feature going forward with LightSwitch, its such a time saver.

Next… Create a Database Project

Here are the topics and their logical order:

1. Create the project
2. Add external CSS
3. Add external scripts
4. Update the default.htm
5. Add LogIn/LogOut/Register/ChangePassword
6. Create the security data source
7. Screens for permissions
8. Screens for role management
9. Screens for user management
10. Tables for tile menus
11. Screens for icon management
12. Screens for menu management
13. — You
14. Create a database project
15. How to deploy successfully
16. Wrap up