Release Notes

Labels
AJAX(112) App Studio(9) Apple(1) Application Builder(245) Application Factory(207) ASP.NET(95) ASP.NET 3.5(45) ASP.NET Code Generator(72) ASP.NET Membership(28) Azure(18) Barcode(2) Barcodes(3) BLOB(18) Business Rules(1) Business Rules/Logic(140) BYOD(13) Caching(2) Calendar(5) Charts(29) Cloud(14) Cloud On Time(2) Cloud On Time for Windows 7(2) Code Generator(54) Collaboration(11) command line(1) Conflict Detection(1) Content Management System(12) COT Tools for Excel(26) CRUD(1) Custom Actions(1) Data Aquarium Framework(122) Data Sheet(9) Data Sources(22) Database Lookups(50) Deployment(22) Designer(178) Device(1) DotNetNuke(12) EASE(20) Email(6) Features(101) Firebird(1) Form Builder(14) Globalization and Localization(6) How To(1) Hypermedia(2) Inline Editing(1) Installation(5) JavaScript(20) Kiosk(1) Low Code(3) Mac(1) Many-To-Many(4) Maps(6) Master/Detail(36) Microservices(4) Mobile(63) Mode Builder(3) Model Builder(3) MySQL(10) Native Apps(5) News(18) OAuth(9) OAuth Scopes(1) OAuth2(13) Offline(20) Offline Apps(4) Offline Sync(5) Oracle(11) PKCE(2) Postgre SQL(1) PostgreSQL(2) PWA(2) QR codes(2) Rapid Application Development(5) Reading Pane(2) Release Notes(184) Reports(48) REST(29) RESTful(29) RESTful Workshop(15) RFID tags(1) SaaS(7) Security(81) SharePoint(12) SPA(6) SQL Anywhere(3) SQL Server(26) SSO(1) Stored Procedure(4) Teamwork(15) Tips and Tricks(87) Tools for Excel(3) Touch UI(93) Transactions(5) Tutorials(183) Universal Windows Platform(3) User Interface(338) Video Tutorial(37) Web 2.0(100) Web App Generator(101) Web Application Generator(607) Web Form Builder(40) Web.Config(9) Workflow(28)
Archive
Blog
Release Notes
Monday, December 27, 2010PrintSubscribe
Web App Factory, Multiple Value Filters, …

The latest release of Code On Time generator introduces several bug fixes and new major features.

  • Advanced Filters and Search Bar options have been enhanced to allow adaptive filtering with multiple values. The screenshot below shows the new “include” search bar option that allows selecting multiple values to filter a column.

    image
    Multiple value filter can be activated from the context menu of the column header. The context menu with the highlighted filter option is shown in the picture.
     
  • Web App Factory project now supports ASP.NET 4.0 and ASP.NET 3.5. Projects of this type are generated as a Visual Studio solution with the core application and data controllers placed in a separate class library and application pages hosted in a separate Web Application project. A bare-bones Sandbox project is also included to provide a starting point for developers looking to integrate the core application in their own projects.

The new release will produce applications with EnableCdn property of the ScriptManager set to “False” by default to prevent errors during development without Internet connection.

Rich Editor is now provided with a dedicated host page that prevents a runtime error in Windows 2008 deployments.

Web App Factory provides additional entries that will ensure application operating without errors in Windows 2008 instances of IIS 7 with the new pipeline mode.

Business Objects now support an  advanced version of Select and SelectSingle methods that will allow to use filter expressions to be executed against the database.

Coming Soon

The next release of the code generator will include new Chart and Pivot views. Stay tuned.

Friday, July 16, 2010PrintSubscribe
ASP.NET 4.0, Permalinks, History, Relationship Explorer

code generation Speed Improvements and ASP.NET 4.0

We are pleased to announce the next release of the Code OnTime Generator featuring significant gains in processing speed and support for ASP.NET 4.

The internal engine has been re-engineered to support simultaneous code generation of core framework, pages, and business rules resulting in three to four times increase in speed of code generation. Premium and Unlimited subscribers will be able to take full advantage of modern multi-core processors. Numerous code generation optimizations will also benefit Standard subscribers resulting in up to two times faster code generation.

ASP.NET 4 has arrived and we now support the new technology in Web Site Factory code generator project. Microsoft has invested time in making improvements to the core AJAX engine and you will notice performance gains in responsiveness of the UI of generated applications. New Report Viewer component also produces better looking Excel reports when Report | Spreadsheet option on the action bar of data views is selected.

New Features

The update of code generation library offers several new features.

You can now declare virtual views that are automatically presented on the page when a server-side code expression evaluates as true. A view can be configured as virtual if VirtualViewId and OverrideWhen properties are not blank. Property VirtualViewId must reference a non-virtual view (for example, grid1). Property OverrideWhen must represent a code expression that evaluates to a boolean value.

Here is an example of OverrideWhen definition:

Context.User.IsInRole(“Clerk”).

If the current user belongs to role Clerk then the virtual view will substitute grid1, whenever grid1 is expected to be presented.

Permalinks can now be created for selected master records on any page of your application. Permalink is a bookmark that can be created if user clicks on the hyperlink labeled “Permalink” on the left-hand side of the membership bar. Selection of a bookmarked permalink will navigate user to the corresponding page and automatically select the master record.

Interactive history of previously selected data objects can now be activated if a user clicks on “History” link on the membership bar. A stacked collection of  summary cards of previously selected master records is presented. Activation of a summary card will result in the navigation to the  corresponding page and automatic selection of the appropriate master record. The history summary cards look exactly as summaries that are presented on the side bar when you select a master record on a page.

Relationship Explorer may be enabled to allow direct navigation to the master records referred by the lookup fields. Lookup fields will be rendered as hyperlinks if the feature is enabled. Click on the hyperlink will navigate a user to the page of the master record and select the corresponding master record.

We have scheduled the final release of the new update to go out on July 19th, 2010.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010PrintSubscribe
Intelligent Master-Detail, Grid Templates, etc.

The new update has been released.

The following enhancements were included:

  1. Code generator will automatically detect presence of Visual Studio 2010 and use included Web Developer Web Server to run generated ASP.NET projects. This feature allows using the code generator on computers with the new Visual Studio 2010. If both, Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 are installed then the newer web server is launched. Note that the applications are still generated as ASP.NET 3.5 web sites. Support for ASP.NET 4.0 is expected to be available in June of 2010.
     
  2. Master-detail support has been enhanced with Auto Hide feature. The JavaScript client library of Web Site Factory applications will automatically hide detail records if a master view does not have a selected record.  This will effect classic, stacked, and tabbed page layouts automatically created by the code generator.  The first two master-detail layouts will display only a grid of master records up until a selection is made. The tabbed layout will hide the detail tabs until a user makes a selection of a master record.
     
    The user interface elements that present the detail records will also disappear if a user is creating a new master record or if a selected master record has been deleted.
     
    The new library will also eliminate server requests if the master view has refreshed without the selected key being changed. This significantly improves overall performance of the generated ASP.NET+AJAX web sites. 
     
    Intelligent master-detail data presentation eliminates hours of complicated coding and make presentation of complex data layouts easy within the boundaries of a single web page.
     
  3. Grid views now support three types of custom row templates. If controller Customers has a grid view with id grid1 then the JavaScript client library will be looking for templates with the following names: Customers_grid1, Customers_grid1_selected, and Customers_grid1_new.

    The first template will be used to format the row in edit mode. The second template will be used to format the selected row. The third template will be used to format the new row. Learn more about custom grid templates at /blog/2008/09/custom-templates-for-ajax-grids-in-data.html.

We will post video tutorials explaining these features on our YouTube channel.

Continue to Sort and Filter