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Friday, August 28, 2009Print Subscribe

We are pleased to announce the release of a powerful design environment for Code OnTime Generator.

Code OnTime Designer has been created to support premium project developers and provides a powerful visual environment for code generation projects. Built on top of Data Aquarium Framework, the designer is instantly familiar to premium project developers and is integrated directly into the code generator.

Start Code OnTime Generator and begin generating a Data Aquarium or Aquarium in a Box project. A summary of data controllers is displayed just before the code is ready to be generated.

Start the designer by clicking on “Start Designer” button.

The familiar user interface will be displayed when designer loads.

Exclude from the code generation process the objects that are not needed and change any properties that you need to alter.

The following screenshot demonstrates CustomerCustomerDemo, CustomerDemographics, and EmployeeTerritories tables excluded from code generation.

The next screenshot shows the properties of the [Products].[SupplierID] field in edit mode.

The purpose of the designer is to provide a 360° view of your project and allow you to be as productive as possible. The initial release of the designer covers about 80% of all available project properties and will reach 100% coverage in the coming weeks.

All project changes made in the designer are automatically re-applied whenever your run the code generator again. This allows continuous modification of the database and project properties at the same time.

Code OnTime Designer is a subscription-based add-on product and requires its own subscription. You must be a premium project subscriber to take advantage of the product. Subscribe now and be productive.

Labels: Data Aquarium Framework, Designer, Release Notes

Friday, March 6, 2009Print Subscribe

Business Rules Compatibility Issues

New business rules in the latest release of Data Aquarium Framework have lost compatibility with data filters and custom action handlers.

If you do have a legacy code and are experiencing System.InvalidCastException error when framework is trying to create a custom action handler or a data filter instance then run Code OnTime Generator and wait until a prompt to install an update will be displayed. Proceed with installation.

Create a brand new Data Aquarium project for any database and complete code generation. Copy ~/App_Code/Data/ViewPage.cs(vb) and ~/App_Code/Data/ControllerConfiguration.cs(vb) to your current project.

The filters and custom action handlers will be working again.

Make sure to migrate any future code to business rules.

New Membership premium project is a great example of business rules. Generate a project with membership and research ~/App_Code/Security/MembershipBusinessRules.cs(vb).

Labels: Data Aquarium Framework, Release Notes

Monday, March 2, 2009Print Subscribe

Data Aquarium Update

This update includes the following enhancements:

The bug in business objects in Visual Basic.NET projects was causing a conversion error at runtime when executing requests such as the one below:
```
Dim territories As List(Of EmployeeTerritories) = _
    EmployeeTerritories.Select(employeeId, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
```
Attribute RowFilter has been enhanced with Operation property to allow creation of programmatic business rule filters other then equality checks. Here is the definition of RowFilterOperation in C#:
```
public enum RowFilterOperation
{
    Equal,
    NotEqual,
    LessThan,
    LessThanOrEqual,
    GreaterThan,
    GreaterThanOrEqual,
    Like,
}
```
Query-by-example lookups when enhances to perform a range check for field of DateTime type. Filters where not working well when dates contain time. Now a list of samples dates for DateTime fields is stripped off of time. If you select a date then a range filter is applied to capture any dates in the filter on a selected date.
There was an issue with display of view selector in browsers other Internet Explorer. Incorrectly positioned frame was displayed when user moved mouse over the view selector drop-down. The issue has been resolved. Here is screen shot of Mozilla Firefox with "orange" Employees view selector drop down when mouse is moved over it.

Labels: Data Aquarium Framework, Release Notes