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Wednesday, December 29, 2010PrintSubscribe
Web App Factory –Compilation, Browsing, and Subversion Compatibility

Code On Time code generator for ASP.NET/AJAX has been extended to support automatic compilation of Web App Factory projects.

A Web App Factory project is produced as Visual Studio solution with the core application incorporated into a Class Library. The website pages are hosted in WebApp web application project included in the same solution. This type of project is recommended for experienced developers.

The latest release of the code generator automatically compiles and starts the compiled project in a web browser. This feature requires Visual Studio 2010/2008 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010/2008 installed on your computer. This behavior can be disabled in the project wizard on the Web Server page.

Web App Factory projects can be also compiled and started through browser action available on the start page of the code generator next to the name of the project.

Web App Factory projects are now ignoring system folders and files created by Subversion version control software.

The client library has been enhanced to add a supplemental CSS Class name to auto complete component in order to reflect the type of the auto-complete behavior. Classes SearchBar, Filter, AutoComplete, and Lookup and rendered to indicate the type of the auto complete control, which allows creating custom visual presentation of the control. The current version the theme collection does not create any visual distinctions of the four types of auto complete control.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010PrintSubscribe
Multiple Value Filters

Code On Time applications now support multiple value adaptive filters that can be activated from the context menu of a columns in a grid view and in a search bar.

The screen shot below shows new Filter option in the context menu of Category Name column or the Products page.

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The menu option will activate a a selection window similar to the one below.

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Displayed options are sensitive to the presence of other filters. The window automatically adapts the list of available options.

Here you can see the products filtered by Category Name and Supplier Company Name. Both fields are filtered by multiple values.

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If you activate the search bar by clicking on the arrow next to the Quick Find field then the new “include” function is selected in the relevant search parameter. Click on any of the filter options in the search value field of a parameter to activate the option selection window.

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Notice that options presented in the selection window are sensitive to search criteria entered on the search bar if the window has been activated from the search bar.

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Multiple value filtering works with all data types including numbers and dates. The next screen shot shows products further restricted to those with Reorder Level of “0” and “10”.

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Users can collapse the search bar and further refine the search results using the Quick Find search box.

Multiple value filtering significantly simplifies development of data aware applications and saves tremendous amount of time required to develop a similar functionality from scratch. Multiple value filtering requires no programming and is automatically available in all views of your application.

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.

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    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.