ASP.NET Code Generator

Code OnTime Generator will automatically generate projects to My Documents folder. You will find your projects code broken down by project type name under root  [My Documents]\Code OnTime.

This might introduce a problem with running your code under ASP.NET Development Server if your network policy has mapped this folder to a network drive.

Code OnTime Generator is built as an open code generation platform and allows free alterations to the code generation script.

For example, you can redirect the project output folder for Data Aquarium projects to you local folder C:\Data\MyProjects by modifying [My Documents]\Code OnTime\Projects\Data Aquarium\CodeOnTime.Projects.xml code generation script.

You can download the code generator script for Data Aquarium premium project at http://dev.codeontime.com/CodeOnTime.Project.zip. This script is current as of the date of publication of this article.

Open [My Documents]\Code OnTime\Projects\Data Aquarium\CodeOnTime.Projects.xml in your favorite XML editor and scroll all the way to the bottom.

        ........
        <load path="DataAquarium.Project.xml">
            <if test="a:project/a:webServer/@run='true'">
                <execute fileName="$CommonProgramFiles\microsoft shared\DevServer\9.0\WebDev.WebServer.EXE" arguments="/port:{a:project/a:webServer/@port} /path:&quot;$ProjectPath&quot; /vpath:&quot;/$ProjectName&quot;" mode="nowait"/>
                <execute fileName="http://localhost:{a:project/a:webServer/@port}/$ProjectName/default.aspx" arguments="-new" mode="nowait"/>
            </if>
        </load>
    </build>
    <actions>
        <action name="browse" toolTip="View &quot;{0}&quot; in a web browser.">
            <load path="DataAquarium.Project.xml">
                <execute fileName="$CommonProgramFiles\microsoft shared\DevServer\9.0\WebDev.WebServer.EXE" arguments="/port:{a:project/a:webServer/@port} /path:&quot;$ProjectPath&quot; /vpath:&quot;/$ProjectName&quot;" mode="nowait"/>
                <execute fileName="http://localhost:{a:project/a:webServer/@port}/$ProjectName/default.aspx" arguments="-new" mode="nowait"/>
            </load>
        </action>
    </actions>
</project>

Replace this code with the following:

    <load path="$ProjectPath">
        <variable name="MyProjectPath" select="'C:\data\MyProjects'"/>
        <forEach select="//file">
            <copy input="$ProjectPath\{@path}" output="$MyProjectPath\{@path}"/>
        </forEach>
    </load>
    <load path="DataAquarium.Project.xml">
        <if test="a:project/a:webServer/@run='true'">
            <execute fileName="$CommonProgramFiles\microsoft shared\DevServer\9.0\WebDev.WebServer.EXE" arguments="/port:{a:project/a:webServer/@port} /path:&quot;$MyProjectPath&quot; /vpath:&quot;/$ProjectName&quot;" mode="nowait"/>
            <execute fileName="http://localhost:{a:project/a:webServer/@port}/$ProjectName/default.aspx" arguments="-new" mode="nowait"/>
        </if>
    </load>
</build>
<actions>
    <action name="browse" toolTip="View &quot;{0}&quot; in a web browser.">
        <load path="DataAquarium.Project.xml">
            <variable name="MyProjectPath" select="'C:\data\MyProjects'"/>
            <execute fileName="$CommonProgramFiles\microsoft shared\DevServer\9.0\WebDev.WebServer.EXE" arguments="/port:{a:project/a:webServer/@port} /path:&quot;$MyProjectPath&quot; /vpath:&quot;/$ProjectName&quot;" mode="nowait"/>
            <execute fileName="http://localhost:{a:project/a:webServer/@port}/$ProjectName/default.aspx" arguments="-new" mode="nowait"/>
        </load>
    </action>
</actions>

The script in introducing a new variable $MyProjectPath, which is set to c:\data\MyProjects.

The variable is used to copy the generated code from [My Documents] location to the one specified by the variable and then ASP.NET Development Server is directed to use this location when executing the project.

All web application projects generated by Code OnTime Generator are built on standard ASP.NET infrastructure. Excellent globalization support is an element of ASP.NET that can be quickly turned on in a matter of minutes. Let's give it a try.

Generate an Aquarium Express application with Northwind database and wait until it shows up in a web browser. Select Orders data controller in a drop down of the default page. A view similar to the one below will be presented.

Notice that by default Order Date, Required Date, Shipped Data, and Freight are using formatting accepted in United States. Dates are displayed in mm/dd/yyyy format. Currency values are displayed with a leading symbol of US dollar.

Open the generated web site in Visual Studio or Web Developer Express and select MasterPage.master in Solution Explorer. Find markup of asp:ScriptManager and add EnableScriptGlobalization attribute as shown in the snippet.

<asp:ScriptManager ID="sm" runat="server" ScriptMode="Release" 
    EnableScriptGlobalization="true"/>

Next bring up web.config configuration file of your web site and change globalization section as follows.

<globalization culture="en-gb" uiCulture="en-gb" />

Run the web site and select Orders option in data controller drop down one more time.

Now you can see that all dates are displayed in dd/mm/yyyy format common to European countries. Values in Freight column are also presented with a symbol of British pound.

The same consistent display is available when users are editing data in any grid or form view of Aquarium Express or Data Aquarium Framework applications.

You can read more about globalization and localization support in ASP.NET at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c6zyy3s9.aspx.