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Using Silverlight in Enterprise: RAD of User Friendly Database Access

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This article introduces FulcrumWeb RAD Framework - A Silverlight UI Engine to build user friendly database driven applications
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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Xml;

using Framework.Utils;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Framework.Metadata
{
  /// <summary>
  /// Class to read and hold information about application entities.
  /// </summary>
  public class CxEntitiesMetadata : CxMetadataCollection
	{
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected Hashtable m_Entities = new Hashtable(); // Entities dictionary
    protected List<CxEntityMetadata> m_Items = new List<CxEntityMetadata>(); // Entities list
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Constructor.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="doc">XML doc to read metadata from</param>
    public CxEntitiesMetadata(CxMetadataHolder holder, XmlDocument doc) : 
      base(holder, doc)
    {
    }
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Constructor.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="docs">name of file to read assemblies metadata</param>
    public CxEntitiesMetadata(CxMetadataHolder holder, IEnumerable<XmlDocument> docs)
      : base(holder, docs)
    {
    }
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Loads metadata collection from the XML document.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="doc">document to load data from</param>
    override protected void Load(XmlDocument doc)
    {
      base.Load(doc);
      foreach (XmlElement element in doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("entity"))
      {
        CxEntityMetadata entity = new CxEntityMetadata(Holder, element);
        m_Entities.Add(entity.Id, entity);
        m_Items.Add(entity);
      }
      LoadOverrides(doc, "entity_override", m_Entities);
    }
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Finds entity with the given ID.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="id">ID to find</param>
    /// <returns>found entity metadata or null</returns>
    public CxEntityMetadata Find(string id)
    {
      return (CxEntityMetadata) m_Entities[id.ToUpper()];
    }
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Entity with the given ID.
    /// </summary>
    public CxEntityMetadata this[string id]
    {
      get
      { 
        CxEntityMetadata entity = Find(id);
        if (entity != null)
          return entity;
        else
          throw new ExMetadataException(string.Format("Entity with ID=\"{0}\" not defined", id));
      }
    }
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Entities dictionary.
    /// </summary>
    public Hashtable Entities
    {
      get { return m_Entities; }
    }
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Entities list.
    /// </summary>
    public List<CxEntityMetadata> Items
    { 
      get { return m_Items; } 
    }
    //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Returns default name for the metadata XML file.
    /// </summary>
    override protected string XmlFileName
    { get { return "Entities.xml"; } }
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  }
}

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