What’s New in DXperience 12.1

Silverlight Form Layout Control

New Data Layout Control

The Data Layout Control is a data-aware version of the Layout Control and allows you to quickly build a layout of controls for the WPF and Silverlight platforms. Once bound to an object, the Data Layout Control fetches the object's public properties and automatically builds a layout for editing these properties.

In-place editors for editing underlying data are selected based on a property's data type. For instance, a Check Edit control is used to edit Boolean properties, a ComboBox Edit control is used to edit enumeration properties, etc. You can mark properties on a bound object using specific attributes to indicate that these properties should be edited using multi-line text editors, password edit boxes, or text editors with a phone mask enabled.

Automatic arrangement of in-place editors into groups and tabbed groups is supported. You can mark a property on a bound object with a dedicated attribute specifying the name of a target group or tabbed group. The in-place editor will go directly into this group during layout generation. If there is no group/tabbed group with this name, it will be automatically created. As such, you can combine multiple editors into the same group, group box, tabbed group or individual tabs.

Examples of supported attributes are shown in the code above.

Miscellaneous

A new IsRequired property has been added that allows you to mark specific fields as those that require mandatory data input. Labels for mandatory items use bold fonts. In the following image, the first two layout items have this property enabled: