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24 Feb 2011

Iron Speed Data Standard Import Features

There are occasions when it is required for data to be imported into your applications database via the client interface. From within the Iron Speed Designer there exists an option to include a wizard based import solution that will allow the user to declare their external data ...

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Posted by: Mark Errington
22 Feb 2011

Dot Net Architect Application Security

Dot Net Architect systems can include our in-house developed Security application module to manage and control user accounts, user roles, and page access permissions, throughout all our developed systems. Alternatively, for Iron Speed developed solutions there are several methods of security available from the Iron Speed Designer....

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Posted by: Mark Errington
25 Jan 2011

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Posted by: Mark Errington
21 Dec 2010

(Tip) Iron Speed Migration - Application Generation Options

It has been noticed that sometimes when migrating early Iron Speed applications to 7.1.1, that some settings in the 'Application Generation Options' for 'Page Header' may not appear to have been applied on examination during runtime. A fix for the 'Page Header' settings in the 'Application Generation ...

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Posted by: Mark Errington

Tags: Tip , Migration
29 Nov 2010

Iron Speed Designer 7.1.1 Improvements

Iron Speed have released version 7.1.1 of their designer tool, which is available for download from their website for licensed users. The release note for this version can be found at: http://www.ironspeed.com/products/ReleaseNotes.V711.aspx The main feature of this new version was enhancements to base code to allow dropdownlists ...

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Posted by: Mark Errington

Tags: improvements
05 Nov 2010

Iron Speed Migration - Time and Money Savings

For the past week I have been upsizing the company's Iron Speed projects to use the latest base classes in ISD 7.1. According to Iron Speed Designer 7.1 I have saved 16250 hours of coding time which equates to approximately £650,000 ... Not bad for a week's ...

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Posted by: Mark Errington
18 Oct 2010

(VB.NET) DirectCast v CType

Q. When should you use CType and when should you use DirectCast and which one performs better?? A.The short answer is: DirectCast is twice as fast for value types (integers...etc), but identical for reference types.

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Posted by: Mark Errington
15 Oct 2010

Iron Speed 7.1 Migration + .NET 2010

This week I have been managing the migration of a project to Iron Speed v7.1 from v6.2.2. The actual migration took only a few minutes, and within a couple of hours of manually migrating some custom code from other projects the project was ready for the testing ...

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Posted by: Mark Errington
14 Oct 2010

SQL Server Management Objects (SMO)

Recently I have been researching SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) and then developed a Windows application to validate development database objects prior to being released. This tools is one of many that are used to ensure the database design and implementation is of the highest standard before ...

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Posted by: Mark Errington
12 Oct 2010

Sign in with Enter key

When logging into the application it would be nice if the password box would accept the enter key as a way of pressing the 'Sign In' button.The code below will do just that! Copy the code below to the LoadData method found in Shared/SignIn_Control.ascx.cs inside your solution ...

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