The autocomplete box within Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is an incredibly powerful tool that has many uses.
There are several settings for the type of matching that can be used, these include, ‘Starts with’, ‘Contains’ & ‘Equals’ Each of these can be case sensitive or insensitive.
The autocompletebox can be used for a variety of tasks within a Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch application, the first and probably most used place is to select data from a linked entity (where we may have in the past used a combobox), the advantage of this is we can filter the data by typing into the box, thereby not having to display all records at once, this post will not be dealing with these instances as the development environment deals with them automatically.
A second big use of the autocompletebox is for filter screens of data, often for reporting purposes. In these screen a ...