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Thursday, December 30, 2010Print Subscribe

Code On Time generator is a Windows application that hosts an Internet Explorer web browser within the boundaries of the main window. The code generator navigates to the HTML files stored locally on the hard drive of your computer. HTML files provide interactive user interface of the code generator based on JavaScript. No information is transmitted over the web to our server when you generate your applications. The input and output files of the code generator are stored entirely on your computer.

In a few instances there were reports of the code generator displaying a blank page with Code On Time logo at the top when the generator starts. No other user interface elements were present. Re-installation of the code generator would not help.

The issue has to do with the security settings of Internet Explorer.

Background

Internet Explorer allows controlling if execution of the JavaScript embedded into HTML pages is allowed.

The computer has five security zones, namely:

(0) Local Machine zone,
(1) Internet,
(2) Local intranet,
(3) Trusted sites, and
(4) Restricted sites.

However the Internet Explorer user interface allows users to configure only 4 of the 5 security zones using the Internet Explorer interface.

The Local Machine zone (0), is an implicit zone that exists on the local computer, security settings for this zone cannot be configured using the Internet Options Control Panel.

Any configuration done from the Internet Explorer interface have absolutely no effect on enabling scripts to run within Windows Applications on the local computer (a matter which also affects Code On Time code generator).

Steps to Reproduce

If you save the emphasized text below to the file named "Steps to reproduce.reg" and double-click the file to add the file entries to the registry then the script execution in the Local Machine Zone will become disabled. DO NOT DO THAT !!! Winking smile

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0]

"1200"=dword:00000000
"1201"=dword:00000001
"1400"=dword:00000000
"1406"=dword:00000000
"1C00"=hex:00,00,02,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]

"Security_HKLM_only"=dword:00000001

Steps to Rectify

If you save the emphasized text presented below to the file "Script Permissions Fix.reg" and double-click the file to add the file entries to the registry then the script execution in the Local Machine Zone will be allowed. Code On Time generator will start functioning correctly.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0]
"1400"=dword:00000003
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"Security_HKLM_only"=dword:00000001

References

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833633

This information has been provided courtesy of Gabriel Inya-Agha of Quickening Group.

Labels: Code Generator, Installation, Tips and Tricks

Wednesday, December 29, 2010Print Subscribe

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.

Labels: Application Factory, Release Notes

Tuesday, December 28, 2010Print Subscribe

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

Labels: AJAX, Application Factory, User Interface, Web 2.0