Reusing SimpleSearcher in a Tab Control

   as for me I completely refused this Searchers, SearcherControllers, Views and so on. they just make the jogic more complicated and harder to maintain and understand.

my simple solution is:
1. create searcher view. simple AppView not having the ControlBindingManager and so on. but this view can have access to MainBindingSource and EntityManager through it's Presenter (see the example).
2. put all your textboxes, dropdowns, buttons to this view.
3. in your search button click handler just create your Query and refresh objects in your MainBindingSource.
4. that is all.

of course, this is not "the CAB way" from some points of view. but you are not struggling with this Searchers-logic. you are not messing your page controllers. you can have different searcher views and switch them easily in your page controller. think about it.

how to get your MainBindingSource:

public class NewBasicAppViewPresenter : AppViewPresenter<IAppView>

{

protected override void OnViewContextSet()
{
base.OnViewContextSet();

GetMainBindingSource();
}
#region MainBindingSource

private void GetMainBindingSource()

{
EntityBindingSource ebs = CabFns.GetMainBindingSource(WorkItem) as EntityBindingSource;

if (ebs != null)

{
this.mainBindingSource = ebs;

this.entityManager = ebs.EntityManager;

this.persistenceManager = entityManager.PersistenceManager;

}
}
private EntityBindingSource mainBindingSource;

public EntityBindingSource MainBindingSource

{
get

{
return mainBindingSource;

}
}
private IEntityManager entityManager;

public IEntityManager EntityManager

{
get

{
return entityManager;

}
}
private PersistenceManager persistenceManager;

public PersistenceManager PersistenceManager

{
get

{
return persistenceManager;

}
} 
#endregion 

}

this class is replacement for BasicAppViewPresenter.