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Thursday, October 18, 2012PrintSubscribe
Order Form Sample–Part 4

The Database Connection page is the first page you will see after creating a new project. This page allows you to specify your data provider and connection string. We will be using Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Select your data provider from the list, and press the “…” button to compose a connection string.

Button to activate the database connection string page.

A typical project will start with selection of an existing database. For this example, we will create a new one. Enter your server name, credentials, and enter “Northwind” in the Database field.

Property Value
Database Northwind

Press Create to the right of Database field, confirm the creation, and the database will be created.

Database with the name of 'Northwind' created on the specified server.

Under Sample Tables, select Northwind from the dropdown. Press Install, and confirm. This will install the Northwind sample database into the specified server.

Installing the Northwind sample into the specified database.

You can monitor the progress in the log at the bottom. The web app generator will notify you upon completion.

Thursday, October 18, 2012PrintSubscribe
Order Form Sample–Part 3

Let’s create a baseline Code On Time Web Site Factory application. Run the web app generator, and select Web Site Factory project type. If you have already created a project previously, click on the Create new web application link under the list of projects to access the New Project screen.

Create a new Web Site Factory project.

Web Site Factory project type is based on a directory structure. Files will be compiled upon saving to the hard drive. Web Site Factory is suitable for an application of any complexity and is the easiest to manage. If you’re starting web development or coming to ASP.NET from other technologies, then this is the project type for you.

In the Name field, enter “OrderForm”. This will be the name of the folder that stores the project, and will be the display name shown on the start page of the code generator. Select the programming language of your choice, and press Create.

Specify the name for the project, as well as the programming language of your choice.

When finished, press Next. This will create the project.

On the next page, you can enter the Namespace, which will be used throughout the whole application. The namespace is a prefix used in all classes of the generated code base. We’ll leave the default name “MyCompany”. You can also change the Framework to either .NET 3.5 or 4.0. The latter is suggested, as it has better performance.

This screen allows changing the Namespace and Framework of the project.

Press Next to continue to the next page.

Monday, October 8, 2012PrintSubscribe
Feature: Extending Apps With Build-in Application Server

Code On Time applications may include a built-in application server. The application server components of a generated app allow extending web apps with custom clients implemented on virtually any modern platform. The clients issue REST requests to the application server to perform CRUD operations when allowed by the web app configuration.

For example, one can create a static HTML page that allows submission of application data by anonymous users.

An HTML form configured to POST data to web app created with Code OnTime

A desktop application implemented as a Native Windows Client can browse and search data of a web app.

A native Windows Client allows searching and browsing product data managed by a web app created with Code On Time

A custom user control can be  jQuery-enabled to perform CRUD request to the web app.  This provides ultimate flexibility when implementing custom user interface.

A jQuery-enabled User Control can interact with the application server built-in the web app for ultimate flexibility when implementing custom user interface

The application sever supports cross-domain CRUD operations. This makes possible creating an entire data access layer with business rules and dynamic access control rules in the foundation of an application. The user interface of the app can be completely custom made and reside on different server if needed.