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Friday, July 21, 2017Print Subscribe

Addendum for 8.6.5.0 Release Notes

Some additional information is available below on the fixes and new features present in release 8.6.5.0.

New Feature: Support for Report Viewer 2016. Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 RDLC editor automatically upconverts RDLC files to the latest format, incompatible with earlier versions of Report Viewer. Starting in 8.6.5.0, .NET 4.5 or 4.6 apps created on a computer with VS2017 installed will be prompted to automatically download Report Viewer 2016 Runtime and SQL CLR Types 2016. The required files will be copied into the ~/bin folder of the app.
New Feature: Support for Microsoft Graph OAuth Handler. Microsoft Graph offers a single API to offer Single Sign-On for users with a Microsoft, Windows Live, Office, Azure, or Azure Active Directory accounts. Simplified instructions are as follows:

a. Add SiteContent to your app, if not already enabled.
b. Register your app at https://apps.dev.microsoft.com.
c. Copy the Application Id. This is your Client ID.
d. Generate a new password. This is your Client Secret.
e. Press “Add Platform”. Select “Web”. Enter the Redirect URL of “https://[yourwebsite]/appservices/saas/msgraph”
f. Insert the following record to the SiteContent table:
    File Name: msgraph
    Path: sys/saas
    Text:
       Tenant ID: [TenantID or “common”]
       Client ID: [ApplicationID]
       Client Secret: [Press “Generate New Password”]
    Redirect Uri: [URL of site]/appservices/saas/msgraph

d. Append “Sync Roles: true”, save the record, reselect, and push “ADD SYSTEM IDENTITY” if you desire to synchronize groups from your Azure AD or Office system.
e. Open the login form. The button “LOGIN WITH MICROSOFT” will now be visible.
Corrected detection of Visual Studio 2017 and MSBuild tools in order to resolve compilation and publishing issues.
Apps with Active Directory Membership will no longer throw “asp_CheckSchema” exception.
“Membership uses standalone database” option will now stay selected.
BusinessRules.UserId will no longer throw an exception if the user is not logged in.
RowFilterOperation.IsEmpty and IsNotEmpty have been added.
Developers can now copy controller views onto pages in the Project Designer.
DotNetNuke projects compile correctly.
“Select All” option displayed in basket lookups.
Action “Select” with When Last Command Name of “Update” now works correctly in reopening the form after a record is updated.

Labels: Application Builder, ASP.NET, Touch UI, User Interface, Web Application Generator

Monday, July 17, 2017Print Subscribe

July 2017 Hotfixes 2

Code On Time release 8.6.5.0 introduces the second collection of July hotfixes described below:

Added support for ReportViewer 2016.
Trust Origin URI specified for Report Viewer 2016 to ensure reporting DLLs loading correctly after being copied to another machine.
Windows Live OAuth Handler wrong redirect URI fixed.
App generator “User Interface” option now has "Touch UI + Classic" option. When "Touch UI" is set, no Desktop themes will be generated.
URL Hashing in HTML implementation is now fixed.
New projects will not permit “space” characters in the name.
Reports Viewer version is now a variable stored in the project file.
Fixed issues with Report Viewer version not detecting when generating from Project Designer.
Home page of the app generator displays the descending order of projects
Older ReportViewer references are removed from the VS project file.
ReportViewer DLL files are copied to the “bin” folder only when v14 is used.
Added MSGraphOAuthHandler implementation.
"Login with Microsoft" button appears on login page when MSGraph config entry is present in the site content.
Fixed exception in BusinessRules.UserId implementation raised when user is not logged in.
Added "IsEmpty" and "IsNotEmpty" to row filter operations. New options can be used in “soft” filters set on the server.
Fixed DotNetNuke Factory project compilation issues.
Touch UI: Fixed. Multi-select checkboxes are not cleared after Batch Edit.
Touch UI: New “Select All” option is displayed when more than one option is available for selection in a basket.
Touch UI: Keyboard navigation in the list scrolls the page when item is not visible.
Touch UI: Key “Right” goes to the lookup page after selecting “See All”.
Touch UI: Last focused field is recorded in the touch.lookup() method to correctly restore input focus when the lookup view is canceled.
Touch UI: Blank lookup field shows a popup when scrolled into view.
Touch UI: Removed excessive blank space in front of Add Item in empty basket.
Touch UI: Calendar is opened in correct position if the date input field has been scrolled into view in IE.
Updated app generator to use correct version of MSBuild for VS 2017, 2015, 2013, with MSBuild4.0 as fallback.
Touch UI: Command separator is displayed in popup with items for AutoComplete/Lookup.
Action with command name Select works correctly after command Update.
Fixed issue with Active Directory loading ASP.NET membership provider with no connection string.
Dropping/pasting controller view onto page will set the view as well.
Ensure "standalone database" checkbox is checked when membership dialog is loaded.
Fix for "asp_CheckSchema" exception with custom membership.

Labels: Application Builder, Application Factory, Mobile, Release Notes, Reports, Touch UI

Tuesday, March 14, 2017Print Subscribe

Touch UI 2017 Hot Fixes 2

Code On Time release 8.6.2.0 fixes another set of issues that were introduced in 8.6.0.0.

Universal Input safely handles incorrect field names reported by business rules.
It is now possible to select filter fields of data views on the pages in Project Designer.
The font size of lookup links in Project Designer is now matched with the font size of text.
Fixed the status bar / wizard text color in Modern theme.
Help can now be disabled in Touch UI using help option in ~/touch-settings.json.
Double-page header is not created when modal lookup is selected on top of non-modal page.
NEW: Multiple form layouts can be downloaded in a single file from Developer Tools option in context menu.
Enhanced instructions on Data Model page of Project Wizard.
Fixed processing of initalMode option from touch-settings.json configuraiton file.
NEW: Northwind sample dates shifted to 2014-2016.
User Avatar title is assinged to the button instead of the icon. This will correctly refresh the title if the window became wider since the previous title of the button will be overriden with the user name.
Fixed filter processing in surveys to support original filter:{from:'', to:''} syntax.
Multi-line text fields are display in full height in edit mode.
Disabled reading of UserID for Active Directory.
Fix for "OAuthHandler" undefined compilation error with Unlimited and no membership.
Fix for "MimeMapping" is "Friendly" in .NET 4.0 Projects with SiteContent.

Labels: Application Builder, Code Generator, Data Aquarium Framework, Release Notes, Touch UI