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Wednesday, May 4, 2011PrintSubscribe
ASP.NET 3.5 Membership, SQL Anywhere, DataViewLookup

The following features and bug fixes are included in this release of Code On Time web application generator:

  • Enhancements to Tab and Enter key handling in Data Sheet view when the focus is in the last column. Pressing either one of these keys in edit mode will post the record and advance to the next row. If the row is in “new” mode then the keys will post the new row and start another new row.
  • Support for Sybase SQL Anywhere is now incorporated in the web application generator. Try the link even if you are not developing with SQL Anywhere. The post showcases several cool features of web applications created with Code On Time.
  • Export to CSV has been enhanced to include the utf-8 signature in the data stream. This ensures that Microsoft Excel will understand extended symbols including multi-byte characters. You can export data as CSV file if you select Actions|Download option above any grid or data sheet view.
  • Globalization settings in web.config of generated applications are now including utf-8 file encoding attribute.
  • Data Format String is now exposed in Designer in the list of fields of a data controller.
  • Recent releases have are based on the April 2011 release of Ajax Control Toolkit. The new toolkit has broken membership functionality in ASP.NET 3.5 applications. Login / logout links were not displayed. The new releases fixes this problem.
  • Component  aquarium:DataViewLookup has been fixed and works correctly. You can use this component as a replacement for standard ASP.NET “list” controls in custom forms. The component  will render a lookup input control with all advanced features available in integrated lookups. Read about it at /blog/2009/04/objectdatasource-vs-controllerdatasourc.html under section “Filtering”.

Support for capturing of extended properties in file upload / download has been postponed until 5/7/2011. The next update will also include several improvements to Data Sheet view and enhancements to time zone handling.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011PrintSubscribe
Data Sheet Enhancements

The following enhancements and bug fixes were introduced in the latest update.

Miscellaneous Improvements

  • Search bar is correctly displayed if activated on start in browsers other than IE.
  • Firefox bug preventing creation of lookup items in-place has been fixed.
  • Core CSS enhancements to improve support for IE 9 and enhance quality of the data sheet rendering
  • Several new resource constants in Web.DataViewResources.js to support new functionality in the data sheet view.

Data Sheet

Summary of data sheet enhancements.

  • Menu “Actions” in the action bar will feature “Show in Data Sheet” or “Show in Standard View” option if your application has been produced by Premium or Unlimited edition. These new options are executing actions with Data Sheet and Grid command names, which causes switching between data sheet and standard grid view.   
     
    See the Data Sheet view in action at http://codeontime.com/demo.aspx.
     
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  • Data Sheet view now display an arrow pointer in the gap column to indicate the row that is currently selected in the view. The focused cell may be positioned in any row. The selected row is designated by the arrow. Any linked child data views are filtered to match the primary key of the selected row.
     
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  • Several bugs related to keyboard handling were fixed. Pressing Enter key while working in the child data sheet with the master form would have caused erratic selection of buttons in the master form.
  • User can start creating a new row in the data sheet by pressing Insert key or navigating past the last row in the data sheet view.
  • User can end editing an existing or entering a new row by pressing Tab or Enter key while in the last column of the row. Tab key will cause automatic creation of a new row if the current row has been persisted successfully. Enter key will leave the selection focus on the last focused column.
  • Empty data sheet view offers a link to enable instant creation of new rows. Users can click on a link to start creating a new row.
     
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  • User can press Ctrl+Delete keys to delete the row with the current focus in the data sheet.
  • User can press Ctrl+Space to select a a row if multiple-row selection is enabled in the data sheet.
  • Pressing Tab or Shift+Tab key in edit mode will skip the read-only cells.

Next Update

The upcoming update will introduce the long awaited enhanced file upload/download processing to allow capturing file name, size, and content type. 

Sunday, April 24, 2011PrintSubscribe
Data Sheet View, Date & Time, Rounded Shadows

New update includes the following enhancements.

  1. Data Sheet View
  2. Smooth Grid Refresh is the added benefit of the Data Sheet view support in the application framework. The client library will measure the width of columns when a grid / data sheet view is rendered and will try to maintain the same width when users and interact with the view. The provides an affect of smooth grid presentation refresh further improving the usability of generated web applications.
  3. Date and Time
  4. Rounded shadows and modal views
  5. Support for Internet Explorer 9
  6. New version of Ajax Control Toolkit is now integrated in the code generator library. All web applications are generated with the latest version of the toolkit available from Codeplex at http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/.
  7. Free version allows creating Web App Factory applications that compile without an error message.
  8. Spaces are now allowed in the names of projects when uses with IIS Express. Previous version of the application generator was not able to configure an IIS Express web app to execute correctly if spaces were present in the project name.

By the end of this week we expect to release another update with support for enhanced file uploading/downloading and new data sources. There will be also several important bug fixes.

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