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Wednesday, June 29, 2011Print Subscribe

Lookup Item Sorting, Multi-Value Filters, Login Control Localization

Several core framework fixes were released to address some urgent issues.

Project Wizard will enforce the port used by IIS Express to test applications to be above 1100. The port is assigned randomly. Lower range port value requires running IIS Express in administrative mode.
Dedicated page Login.aspx is now based on YOUR_NAMESPACE.Web.PageBase class to ensure that its content is being localized.
The bug that prevents selection of multi-value filters has been fixed.
New enhancement has been introduced to the processing of items displayed by lookups with styles Drop Down List, List Box, Radio Button List, and Check Box List based on data controllers.

Previous implementation has sorted values by the field name specified in Data Text Field property of the lookup field. This may be undesirable if a specific order of items is required.

Going forward the order of items will depend on the grid view of the lookup data controller. Simply set the Sort Expression of the grid view to a desired combination of fields and use asc|desc to indicate the order as you would do in a SQL statement selecting data.

We are planning to release another update shortly after the 4th of July.

Labels: Application Factory, Release Notes, Web App Generator

Tuesday, June 28, 2011Print Subscribe

Custom Date Formats, Designer History

Code On Time has released another update that solves the following issues:

Designer got its memory back. Filters, selected record, page, and sort order are automatically restored as you navigate between configuration properties of project objects.
Custom date formats such as dd-MMM-yyyy and MM-yyyy, dd are now handled correctly by the client library. Standard data formats native to the selected UI culture are handled automatically and require no configuration. Custom date format parsing has been broken in the last release.
External filter values are now available to business rules in the native “typed” form. The previous release has been passing external values as “typed strings”.
Additional localized resources for no, nl, and sv cultures have been included in the code generation library.

We are working on the localization tutorial and hope to make it available in a day or two.

Labels: Release Notes, Web App Generator

Monday, June 27, 2011Print Subscribe

Chinese Culture Processing

Code On Time web application generator now correctly performs automatic translation of all English resources to Chinese (Simplified) or Chinese (Traditional) when required. This change effects zh-CHS, zh-CHT, zh-CN, zh-HK, zh-MO, zh-SG, and zh-TW user interface cultures of generated web applications.

The following sets of culture-specific resources are now included with the code generation library: de, es, fr, hi, it, ja-JP, pt, pt-PT, zh-CHS, and zh-CHT.

If your culture is not listed then the web application code generator will automatically translate the baseline set of resources in English to your locale with the help of Google Translate. Translation is performed only one time per project. Subsequent code generation does not require translation.

Note that translations are of “automated translation” quality.

Labels: Globalization and Localization, Release Notes