This one feature that I am going to pen down here, personally I have longing for it quite sometime now.

So before going into the HOW part of it, let’s understand the why part of it? When do I need show a Lookup dialog Programmatically? Well the answer is, numerous occasions. Like if you need to throw up a lookup dialog on change of field on the form OR you needed to throw the lookup dialog on click of a button on a web-resource.

All this time, we have achieved this but not in a supported way. Probably we may have ended up using or some method of rnal namespace. But all these are unsupported and mere workaround to this perennial problem.

Well, no more messing around. Microsoft has finally brought in the

So let’s see how it works.

Let’s take a not so good example here. Let’s say whenever…