I'm working with the MM desktop maintenance template. By default the framework wants to validate everything in both the List and Properties tabs. This makes sense if the grid view in the List tab were editable. However, the spec for the project my company is working on is that the List view is read-only. Therefore, when I click the mmSaveButton in the Properties view, I want ONLY the fields in the the Properties view to be validated and updated.

From what I understand, the only way to do this is to have two binding sources. But I'm not sure how to accomplish this. When I go to the BindingSource property of any of my mmTextBox controls in the Properties view, the ellipses forces you to pick the name of an existing business object. This is a problem obviously because the MM framework assumes that if the name of the binding source on the list tab and the properties tab are the same, that a single source should be used to bind the entire form.

How do I get around this? Do I have to make a duplicate business object? Seems like that could be a maintenance nightmare. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Thanks.