Trailblazer Version 1.2 released

November 30th 2012  |  Posted by Jim Dunstan  

 

Trailblazer has been updated to take advantage of the Ajax control toolkit released by Microsoft. This makes the application snappier, and more reliable, and gives us coding features that will make it a lot easier to extend in future. The Ajax control Toolkit contains a wealth of controls for building web applications, and we are taking full advantage of them. If you are interested in using this toolkit for your own purposes, take a look at the microsoft site - AjaxControlToolkit

Read more

CodeSpark ASP.NET forms and code generator

November 15, 2012  |  Posted by Jim Dunstan  

CodeSpark is a powerful code and forms generator for ASP.NET applications. It can generate Entity classes, control classes, along with aspx forms for item lists (grids),and edit and create functions. The code can be produced as C#, or VB.NET source. Having built many ASP.NET applications from scratch in the past, I know just how long it can take to hand code the base classes, and Data Access code, before even starting to build forms, and user interactions. Using CodeSpark, a developer can build an entire interactive web application, simply by selecting the database, and clicking 'generate'. CodeSpark will then analyse the database schema, generate the base classes, and create forms with appropriate controls for table field data types. Depending on the constraints on table columns, CodeSpark will also add Required field validators, or Range Validators to each field, and specify the maximum length for each text field on the user interface. This will make the end product much more robust, and will save developers huge amounts of time and effort.

Read more