Hello,
I am using Csla with Silverlight 4. To make things simple, think of an order screen on a POS system, you add items to an order and you can click on items in the order and edit them. Assume that editing a line item can affect other line items. For instance buying a related item in another line affects the price of the first line, etc. The important thing is that line items can affect other line items.
I have an order object which has a child itemsCollection. When an item is added/edited it's handled on the server side via dataportal. So far so good. What I want to do is create a queue collection to handle line item changes. So adding an item, or editing an item is just an object I drop in a queue (just a Csla collection itself). On the server side, I can just loop the queue and process that add's or edits one at a time. The thing is, as I process these edits they can cause other line items to change.
I need a way to tell my Silverlight UI elements in the view to show the line as currently updating.
Even if I iterated the queue on the client and marked the line as busy while they processed, I still wold not see affected lines updating so that doesnt work either.
How can I update my UI rows, when the items on the server are being processed?
Thanks for any suggestions!
-Jeff
Hi,
This is not a supported scenario within Csla DataPortal.
See this thread for more details: http://forums.lhotka.net/forums/t/7369.aspx
Jonny is right.
However, maybe this would work:
Use the dual http channel (Silverlight has one - it uses efficient polling from client to server) for the data portal configuration. I think the data portal will work fine with it, though I've never tried.
If the data portal works with the dual channel, then you can pass a callback reference to the server code, so it could do callbacks to the client. You'll have to read through how to use the dual channel to actually do this - I've never looked into it.
So it might not be easy, but it might be possible - at least from Silverlight.
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