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Release Notes ASP.NET Beta2 (June 17 2006)
We are extremely happy to announce Beta2 of the ASP.NET templates. We have come a long way since beta 1, and we hope it was worth the wait. This release contains also an updated NHibernate Template release. With this release we hope the usability of the tool and the ASP.NET templates comes very close to what we wanted to achieve in the first Gold version.
Points of attention
 | Your old BO-layer project should load. |
| If you have Pre-beta 2 ASP.NET applications you will have to re-create them. They will not load. |
So what is in it:
| Improved template options editing. Now the Template options editing is much more intuative. Explanations of the colors have been extended and moved to a tooltip in the Legenda. |
| Improved Template editing in the Webform designer. With this we mean the FormView, Details view and Browse Datagrid in place editing of fields. Use right mouse on a data grid and choose "Edit Template" |
| Improved table editor in the Webform designer. This is a work in progress, but basic editing is now supported. |
| Now images as links to CRUD operations in a datagrid browse work. |
| Browse also shows pictures in the datagrid. (don't forget to turn on a template option on the table you want to show the picture of (Called blob support). |
| When using edit in place you can actually assign drop down combos to editing. This also applies to forms where drop downs are automatically created for related parent files. |
| In the ASP project both Cassini and IIS are now supported. There is a template option and settings for this now. |
| The navigation template is extended so you can change the text of the menu option or leave out the item of the menu all together. The navigation menu on the delivered standard skin now has become much nicer. |
| Support for custom view is improved. |
| Ms-Access Custom views can now be browsed. There was a bug with browsing in the SQL. |
| More warnings in the BO-layer against non supported operations and relations in the datastore conforming to the NHibernate restrictions. |
| Code completion parameter support on method prototypes is now supported. |
| Template types for data-time are now added, You can choose between a on screen of pop-up calender. |
| Browse filtering is now added as a template option. The filtering can be done on several levels. The most interesting being able to filter on another datasource. |
| Many small tweaks. |
We have created a small demo video to show you filtering on a datagrid browse.
To start the video click here.
Known Limitations
| No all filter types on grid and drop combo templates are implemented. For example related control is not. |
| The lookup only generates drop downs for now, not a procedural lookup (pop-up) |
| AJAX template not included. Some work still needs to be done for this. |
| Menu navigation editor on the main extension does not update changess to children, so use the child navigation extension if you want to change the look and feel of the menu. |
| When going back and forward between form and borwse no information is kept about sorting and browse location (active record). Planned for next iteration |
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