Announcing New
Iron Speed Designer Version 6.1 Features!



Team Development Features

New Generated Application Features

Quick Layout Spreadsheet Enhancements

Usability Improvements

Upgrading to V6.1

Team Development Features

Source code control file detection accelerates team development. Iron Speed Designer now detects files that may be under source code control and alerts you to check them out before regenerating your application. Enterprise Edition feature.
Fewer file checkouts reduces contention between team members. Our improved code generation algorithm updates fewer code files and stored procedures. That's fewer files to check out, compile and check back into your source control system.

New Generated Application Features

Microsoft IE8 support. Multi-level menus and other controls have been updated for optimal performance with Microsoft IE8.
64 bit support. Generated applications now are fully 64-bit compliant. BaseClasses are now delivered in 64-bit as well as 32-bit DLLs.
Full Microsoft IIS 6.0 and 7.0 support. Iron Speed Designer automatically creates a Virtual Directory for your application in IIS 6.0 (Windows XP and Windows 2003) or an Application in IIS 7.0 (Windows Vista and Windows 2008). You no longer need to run IIS 7.0 in Compatibility Mode.
Panel field order layout options. The new 'best fit' option arranges panel fields based on size. The traditional 'database field order' option arranges fields based on their database table order.

Quick Layout Spreadsheet Enhancements

Row buttons section. Quickly add and remove row buttons. Just select, drag and drop from the toolbox.
Blank panel lets you add custom controls. Use the Add Panel Wizard to add a blank panel to your page. Then select it in the Page Panels area and add your own custom controls and HTML.
Reorganized right-click menus simplify layout and editing. Just right-click to insert rows, columns, tabs, panels and menus. Access the Panel Wizard, Properties dialog, and Styles dialogs from one location.
Customizable row style attributes. Use the new Styles menu to set cell and row level style attributes.
Vertical and horizontal cell alignment. Quickly set vertical and horizontal cell alignment with these convenient new right-click menu commands.
Improved toolbox organization. Tabs on the side mean you don't have to scroll to see all the toolbox categories.

Usability Improvements

Faster code generation. Our improved code generation algorithm updates fewer code files and stored procedures.
Faster Live Preview. The number of files .NET must compile has been reduced in many cases, so your Live Preview updates faster.
Fewer Visual Studio warning messages. Visual Studio warning messages in the generated code files and BaseClasses DLL have been removed. Messages referencing 'filter' and 'opacity' have also been removed.
Smaller installer size reduces download time by 40%. Separately download and install Enterprise and Professional Edition page styles.

Upgrading to Iron Speed Designer Version 6.1

Applications created with earlier versions of Iron Speed Designer will be converted automatically to Version 6.1 with these caveats:

Iron Speed Designer's Migration Wizard will migrate many of your code customizations. However, code customizations written for Versions 1.X, 2.X and 3.X require migration by hand.
The Version 6.1 code customization model is the same as Version 4.0 and later. No code customization changes are required for applications built in Versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0.

Please see Application Migration for instructions on how to migrate applications created with earlier versions of Iron Speed Designer.


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