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Monday, May 23, 2011Print Subscribe

Dynamic Client Expressions, Page Base, Resetting Cascading Lookup, etc.

This release of Code On Time web application generator includes several bug fixes and enhancements.

Annotations column rendering in Data Sheet view has been enhanced in all themes.
It is now again possible to click on a thumbnail of an image field in grid and data sheet view to download the original file stored in the database table column. The first click will activate a row. The second click will initiate the download process.
Visual Basic.NET version of generated applications will correctly handle extended upload/download utility fields File Name, Content Type, and File Size.
Check boxes are correctly rendered in form views with templates.
Read-only and static fields are not causing “Field value is required” error in the user interface when user saves a form even if the field is not set to “Allow Nulls=false”.
Client library includes significantly improved processing of Client Script expressions used to evaluate conditional styling and control field / category visibility. All data types are handled correctly. You can also use special JavaScript Date class extensions. For example, the client script Date.$within([RequiredDate], 5) will return true if Required Date is within 5 days as of now. The client script Date.$pastDue([ShipDate], [RequiredDate]) will return true if the ship date of an order is greater than required date or if a ship date is not specified and the time to ship the order has passed. This type of expressions may be useful to specify conditional styling calling for attention.
Some enhancements to the system files of the code generation library were deployed to support the upcoming Azure Factory web application generator project.
Field property “Copy” now supports expressions in format FieldName=null to support clearing/resetting of cascading lookup fields when the value of the master field has changed. Read about configuring cascading lookups in Code On Time applications at /blog/2011/05/cascading-lookups.html.
All pages of the generated applications are now based on Namespace.Web.PageBase. This partial class will detect “right-to-left” cultures and switch the text flow to right-to-left from standard left-to-right. The class will also handle culture/language selection that will be enabled on the membership bar. User Interface Language selection feature will be available in the upcoming releases.

Labels: AJAX, ASP.NET Code Generator, Release Notes, Web App Generator

Wednesday, May 18, 2011Print Subscribe

Bug Fixes, Just-In-Time Formatting of Numbers

The new update includes the enhanced client library. Any numeric values with data format strings are automatically formatted as soon as a field input control loses its focus.

The following issues were resolved in this release:

Processing of numeric values entered with percent symbol are correctly converted to floating values. You can enable Percent data format if you enter letter “p” in the data format string of a numeric field in Designer.
Source code generated in Visual Basic projects now uses “TypeOf X is Y” expressions to determine if an instance X is of a specific type Y of if an instance X is implementing interface Y. This corrects the issue that was introduced in last update that had to do with various conversion error messages when business rules were invoked.
Client library now correctly processes read only primary key values that are not auto-incremented. This fixes the problem with Designer that was reported as “Cannot create duplicate object” and was preventing creation of page containers and actions.
Interactive History is correctly rendered in IE 9 and WebKit browsers.

Make sure to clear the browser cache after re-generating your project.

Labels: Application Factory, ASP.NET Code Generator, Release Notes, Web App Generator

Tuesday, May 17, 2011Print Subscribe

Bug Fixes

The following bugs / issues were addressed in this release:

Read-only primary key field values are now passed from the client to the server with both properties NewValue and OldValue set to the original value of the primary key field. This ensures that Value property of a FieldValue class instance is returning the correct result. The change is required to bring the read-only primary key fields in compliance with the new processing model for read-only fields. The enhancement also ensures that annotations will not raise an exception when a new annotation is saved.
Data Sheet view will now render a “pretty” annotation column.
Free version of Code On Time will allow creating projects with up to ten database tables or views.

Labels: ASP.NET Code Generator, Release Notes, Web App Generator