Code On Time Generator generates true Web 2.0 web apps that are efficient, fast, and easy to customize. Alpha Five also attempts to do this. This page will help you compare the pros and cons of using Code On Time web app generator and Alpha Five. Code On Time web app generator creates intelligently designed multifunction pages without any customization needed whatsoever. Alpha Five requires you to build your web app using their tools. Application customization is a breeze with Code On Time Designer and Designer Spreadsheet. For comparison, view this 10 minute Alpha Five tutorial on how to create a header. Code On Time applications have Data Sheet View and Chart View available in all pages. Every page has Quick Find, as well as adaptive filtering options and a search bar. You also have the ability to create an RSS of your sorted and filtered data, as well as export to CSV, TIFF, spreadsheet and word document. Don't believe us? Read on below for further elaboration, or request a WebEx presentation now! Our free live presentations will be conducted by knowledgeable developers capable of answering the most tricky technical questions. Without having to specify any settings, all Code On Time web apps have AJAX-powered multi-talented pages that let you sort, filter, generate reports, create charts, and more. Just a few minutes of your time will net you a sophisticated web app that will impress peers and customers alike. View our live demos for the perfect example - none of the example web apps took more than five minutes to make. View the Alpha Five web app sample below for comparison. While the baseline web app may fulfill most, if not all, of your needs, customers and users always want more. Code On Time makes customizing your web app easy with our visual designer tool, Code On Time Designer. For users who want even more control over their application, Designer Spreadsheet is available. For complete control over your web app, the entire source code (C# or VB) is available for modification in your favorite code editor, such as Visual Studio. Alpha Five provides tools for writing HTML and AJAX, and may require you to learn XBasic programming language. Code On Time allows you to use industry-accepted C# or Visual Basic.NET with extensive literature, free web resources, and a wide pool of developers. Code On Time web apps now include Access Control Rules, the first component of EASE (Enterprise Application Services Engine). Access Control Rules allow easy creation of sophisticated data segmentation rules, making multi-tenant applications simple to develop and maintain. The upcoming components of EASE will make this process even easier. What would you say if your users were able to edit data in a web browser as if it were Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel? Surely that would be great. Only Code On Time offers an innovative Data Sheet view that works in major browsers and requires no plugins. Our philosophy is simple - if you have data then there should be a way to find it. Why does one have to define any specific set of fields that users of the application can search by? How about letting your users to search for their data using any combination of field they desire. Read about searching in Code On Time applications. Quick Find, automatic search bars, and adaptive filtering are a part of every data grid. Alpha Five applications will require you to add search bars and other elements to each page that needs it - although they do have a lot of variety, shown here. Alpha Five web apps cannot match the unlimited search capabilities available to end users of Code On Time applications. With Code On Time web apps, you have the ability to create unlimited live RSS Feeds with custom user-defined filters that may eliminate the need to write email notifications, which is simply not possible if you are an Alpha Five developer. Code On Time also makes business data analysis easy. In Alpha Five, this is not possible without application customization. All Code On Time web app pages support a live "Export to Spreadsheet" option with secure user identity verification. Business users can quickly create custom digital dashboards and work with the data without even being required to log in to the website. Being able to take data offline is critical in today's world. Code On Time makes it possible. Learn about charting support in generated web applications. Code On Time web apps are easy to create, and even easier to deploy to the location of your choice. Press the Publish button on the Generator, and a packaged release will be prepared. Copy to your server, and you just deployed a modern web 2.0 application in under 10 minutes! Deploy to a dedicated hosting service, shared hosting, or your own server. Alpha Five requires you to purchase and use their proprietary Application Server to host an Alpha Five application. Instead, use the proven power of Windows 2008 R2 or the highly scalable Windows Azure Cloud. Hosting and maintaining your own on-premise application setup is difficult. Just setting it up will take lots of time and money, let alone updating and scaling to fit the user's needs. Windows Azure cloud hosting makes this easy - deploy your application to the cloud with Azure Factory. With a few clicks, your application will be protected by firewall, enhanced with load balancer, and running on two extra-small Compute instances. There are no upfront expenses or need to have extensive knowledge - just pay as you go. Look at our tutorial for more info. Watch | (3536K) Using a dynamic web portal for your database web applications can dramatically increase flexibility. If you try setting this up on your own, you'll find that this task is not that simple. Instead of building your own portal, why not use the most popular portal software? DotNetNuke can be up and running within minutes. Code On Time's DotNetNuke Factory creates DNN modules that are ready for deployment to your portal. Simply point to your DotNetNuke instance, generate the application, and press deploy. Within a few minutes, you can add your data module to any page. Look at our tutorial for more info. (2109K) The screen shot shows a sample Order Form created with Code On Time.
(6,172K) - download a step-by-step guide that explains how to build the form below. Learn more and watch video tutorials at /blog/2010/11/order-form-sample.html.