LightSwitch Fill Form with a Query

Hi,
I added a button in an add and edit screen to edit information related to the paticular id I am editing but need to launch another edit screen so I can edit the information stored in another non relational table with the id in the previous screen. Since
I do not have an entity information of that table I needed to pass the id and the edit form be fill in with a query so I can edit that table after.
Anyone has an idea would appreciate it.
Thanks,

Yeah, the way I usually go about doing that sort of thing is by overloading the main constructor of the Form which does the editing..
So for example:
public Form1(){
Initialise();
You'd also make another like this:
public Form1(int id){
Initialise();
LoadRecord(id);
To open up the form you'd write this in the event handler of the original form:
Form frm = new Form(123);
frm.Show();/frm.Visible=true; (whatever it is)
Hope this helps,
Antony
:D

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