Build .NET Applications Without Hand-Coding

BUILD .NET APPLICATIONS WITHOUT HAND-CODING
BUILD .NET APPLICATIONS
WITHOUT HAND-CODING
USE APPLICATION GENERATION TO EXPEDITE
WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT "Every minute spent on infrastructure programming is a wasted minute." -Juval Lowy, .NET Software Legend, April 2003

Iron Speed Designer builds database, forms, and reporting applications for .NET - without hand-coding. Quickly create feature-complete custom applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security. Iron Speed Designer accelerates development by eliminating routine infrastructure programming, giving you ready-to-deploy n-tier Web applications in minutes.
Increasingly, developers, CTOs, IT business analysts are turning to a new, breakthrough approach for rapidly developing robust web applications: Application Generation.
White Paper December 2004
Iron Speed, Inc. 1953 Landings Drive Mountain View, CA 94043 http://www.ironspeed.com
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Table of Contents
Build Stunning Web Applications Quickly ............................ 3
The Iron Speed Designer Approach................................................................ 4 Drag and Drop Application Generation ........................................................... 5 Generating an N-Tier Architecture .................................................................. 6
Generating a Web-Based Application.................................... 7
Create Hundreds of Application Web Pages................................................... 7 Design Themes Provide Page Customization and Extensibility...................... 8 Specify the Application's Basic Functionality .................................................. 9 Connecting Web Pages to the Database ...................................................... 10
Extending Generated Application Code .............................. 11
Avoiding Code Orphaning ............................................................................. 11 Customizing and Extending Your Application ............................................... 12 Scalability....................................................................................................... 13
Generating SQL Queries and the Database Layer.............. 13
SQL Efficiency ............................................................................................... 13 Location of the SQL Statements ................................................................... 15 Transaction Management.............................................................................. 15 Concurrency Handling................................................................................... 15 Cursor Management...................................................................................... 17
Application Security.............................................................. 18
Generating Role-Based Application Security ................................................ 19
Contact Iron Speed................................................................ 19
What Iron Speed Designer Generates .......................................................... 19 Contact Iron Speed........................................................................................ 20
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Build Stunning Web Applications Quickly
Developing web applications provides an opportunity to build highly-creative, user-friendly applications like these:

To most application users, web applications look better than traditional desktop applications, and they're also perceived as much easier to use. Web applications afford the opportunity to reach out to both internal and external users like never before, and many organizations are enhancing web applications to integrate customers and suppliers, in addition to internal users.
At the same time, building web applications put you, the developer, in a completely different scenario. Web-based applications add additional development burdens of security, stateless transaction man... [download for more]