Hi I've seen a few posts about the design time databinding. How exactly are the entities added to the tool box in VS? I can't seem to find any instructions to help and I'd like to give it a go... Thanks Mark

design time databinding works with collections, to setup grids and the like. Entities can't be added to the containers.

Hi Thanks for the reply.

.....then how do I go about adding collections to the toolbox?

Mark

You need a collection for that. So drop a collection on a form, do as if you bind that collection to combo box, that will define the combo box, but at runtime in your code, you bind it to a collection in some entity

Its the first bit 'drop a collection on the form' that I don't get. How do I do this?

zephyrs wrote:

Its the first bit 'drop a collection on the form' that I don't get. How do I do this?

By compiling your generated code and then click with teh right mousebutton on a toolbox tab and select add/remove items, then browse to your compiled assembly and select the collections you want to add. If you're using adapter, select 'EntityCollection'. This is also in the documentation btw, ('Databinding' section).

I've got it working now. Thanks very much for your help.

This feature is excellent - it will make setting up grids much quicker via the Janus designer rather than in code. Nice work!

Yeah, I first thought "what's the big deal?" but after I got it working, it's a real timesaver It was hard to get it working, but I'm glad it now works