Refresh list in view

[Rick]

I'm using Magellan succesfully for a wizard-style application where
the navigation make perfect sense, but now I've got a screen that the
user is going to stay on for an extended period of time and I need a
way to 'refresh' the data in a list.

In an ASP.NET MVC app I'd simply make a Ajax call to the controller.
Would I use a similar concept with Magellan?

Rick...

[Paul Stovell]

Very similar.

Your view model would look like this:

private void RefreshList()

{

    Navigator.Navigate<MyController>(c => c.Refresh(this));

}

The controller would have an action like this:

ActionResult Refresh(MyViewModel model)

{

    model.Customers.Clear();

    model.Customers.AddRange(GetCustomers());

    return DoNothing();

}

That will add the items to the ObservableCollection that is shown on screen, without navigating to a new page. 

Regards,
Paul Stovell

[Rick]

ah...I was so close. I had the view model performing the navigate,
but didn't think about passing a reference of itself to the controller
in order to update the list

Thanks for the quick response.

Rick...