23 Create ModelViews (Edition) (Wpf, Xamarin) - chempkovsky/CS2WPF-and-CS2XAMARIN GitHub Wiki

View (or ModelView) is the structure that the Web Api service sends to and receives from the client. For each entity, the developer must create at least one view.
To Add a View to the project
- Run Visual Studio and Open “WpfDemo” solution
- Right Click “Literature” of the “Dm03Views”-project and select “ModelView Wizard” menu item to open the Wizard dialog
Note:
- On the first page of the dialog the destination folder is shown. The destination folder is the folder in which the generated file will be created.

- Click “Next”-button

On the second page of the dialog the developer should select existing DbContext file.
- Select:
  - Dm02Context (project)
  - LitDbContext (context)

- Click “Next”-button

On the third page of the dialog the developer should select entity file.
- Select:
  - Dm01Entity
  - LitEdition

- Click “Next”-button

On the fourth page of the dialog the developer can select existing view for modification.
- Uncheck “Select View”

- Click “Next”-button

On the fifth page select root node and check “Generate JsonProperty Attribute”.
- Two classes will be generated:
- “View” and “Page View”.
- The last one is used by pagination.

- Leave these names unchanged.

On the fifth page check “Is Selected” for “EditionId” and “EditionName” nodes. Leave “Property Name” and “Json Property Name” unchanged.

- Click “Next”

- click Next

On the seventh page click “Save”.
- Open “C:\Development\Demo\ReactDmLit” which is a root of the solution.

- New “.json” file has been created. This is the repository of the wizards.

- Click “Next”

- It generates the second class

On the ninth page click save and close the dialog. The repository (.json) file has been updated again.

- Note #1:
    - The repo file is updated only when you click the save button.
- Note #2:
    - A separate repo file is created for each DBContext.