Creating a Custom Search Screen in Visual Studio LightSwitch

While I was on my speaking trip in Europe a couple folks asked me how they could create their own search screen instead of using the built-in search functionality that LightSwitch provides. Basically they wanted the search to come up blank until a user entered specific search criteria and they only wanted to search on a specific field. In this post I’ll explain a couple options you have that allow you to tweak the default search screens and then I’ll show you how easy it is to build your own. Let’s get started!

Creating a Search Screen

Creating search screens in LightSwitch is really easy – it takes about 5 seconds once you have your table defined. You just describe your data, create a new screen and then choose the “Search Screen” template. Take a look at this video here: How Do I: Create a Search Screen in a LightSwitch Application?

For instance, say we have a Patient table that we’ve created in LightSwitch (if you don’t know how to create a table in LightSwitch see this video):

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