Casting the net ...
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Hello, I am searching for inspiration ... I'm currently building an business application using Silverlight. To be honest, this is my first "proper" UI project in a long time, and I have had to do a lot of technology catchup - EF, MVVM, Prism, MEF/Unity - the list is endless - and I just hope that I'm on the right track ... Part of the requirment is to enable the administrator to add custom defined fields the core entities within the application. these fields will change between customers - so it needs to be data driven. For example, a particular customer may have a requirement for certain bespoke finanacial fields on a Order header. these custom fields would then be rendered at runtime into the SL page - and support all of the usual validation rules. The sort of functionality I'm looking for is similar to the custom lists you get in sharepoint. I had considered using (or integrating into) sharepoint - but then this give me an added dependency that I did not want. I am capabable of developing this whole framework myself, but before I dive-in, I thought I would ask to wider community if anyone is aware of any similar framework that would offer all (or part) of the functionality that I'm looking for. Regards, Gary.
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Hello, I am searching for inspiration ... I'm currently building an business application using Silverlight. To be honest, this is my first "proper" UI project in a long time, and I have had to do a lot of technology catchup - EF, MVVM, Prism, MEF/Unity - the list is endless - and I just hope that I'm on the right track ... Part of the requirment is to enable the administrator to add custom defined fields the core entities within the application. these fields will change between customers - so it needs to be data driven. For example, a particular customer may have a requirement for certain bespoke finanacial fields on a Order header. these custom fields would then be rendered at runtime into the SL page - and support all of the usual validation rules. The sort of functionality I'm looking for is similar to the custom lists you get in sharepoint. I had considered using (or integrating into) sharepoint - but then this give me an added dependency that I did not want. I am capabable of developing this whole framework myself, but before I dive-in, I thought I would ask to wider community if anyone is aware of any similar framework that would offer all (or part) of the functionality that I'm looking for. Regards, Gary.
Have you considered looking into Visual Studio Lightswitch? It sounds like it could be exactly what you want. See here[^].
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