Hi Greg. Am working my way through a sample for a generic browse. Just a few questions at this stage (prompted after looking at your example)

How do I instantiate a BO in C#

Does this work:

On your sample, I have seen references to :

Just not sure if I have to use CType, and if I have to use it, what is it doing ?

 

My pleasure. Let me know if you need more clarification or if you come upon another solution. Always good to learn/discover different ways of solving a problem and/or understanding all the nuances of a problem!

Hi Greg.

Many thanks for this and particulalrly taking the time to tease out and explain the pros and cons. I have had a quick look at it , but will need to sit down and devote some time to it, but no doubt your very detailed explanations should help a lot.

Regards,

Gerard

I just took a look at the sample (nice Ivan) and then tried to "genericize" it. See the samples section for the new version of Ivan's sample that includes a couple of possible ways to make this more generic.



http://forum.strataframe.net/FindPost27814.aspx

Hi Ivan.

I will plough ahead then and see if I can develop a small Class. I initially wanted to ensure that this was feasible before devoting a lot of time and effort. I use these lookups all over the place , and in our VFP system, we have a few classes specificaly for this which are fairly generic and wanted to replicate something similar in SF if possible. I realise it may be a bit of work up front, but should pay off in the long run

Regards, Gerard

Hi Gerard.

Well, I would say that almost everything is possible given the amount of energy you are willing to put into the action.

That is how I accomplished the task using the StrataFrame way of doing things. I guess you could create properties and methods to make it generic. I tend not to fight the framework whenever I can.

Hi Ivan. I have looked through the sample and am havong some difficulty just trying to understand whats going on, mainly because of my lack of experience on meaty c# projects. Obviously some of the code is generated by the framework, and some is not, and this is part of the difficulty I am having.

At this stage, before I do any serious work on this, I'd like to know in principle if it is feasible to have a 'Black Box' scenario where , in my 'LookupClass' , there are no dependencies on Browse Dialogs or even a Business Object  being dropped on a form.

In simple terms , I would like to have say a 'TextBox' with a no. of Properties (e.g. BusinessObject I will be looking up, a subset of the browseDialog parameters to identify the style of Dialog I will be calling, and then a no. of methods where I will populate the business object).

Ideally, I dont want to be dependent on any Business Objects or browse Dialogs having to be dropped on a form and want this to be a completedly self contained piece of code. i.e. By looking at the Class, everything will be in there

Do you reckon doing something like this is feasible ?

You're welcome, Gerard.

Many thanks for your replies. I'll have alook at these

Regards,Gerard

Hi Gerard.

Here is a sample on how to deal with BrowseDialogs and LookUp controls:

http://forum.strataframe.net/FindPost27794.aspx

Cheers.