Announcing New
Iron Speed Designer Version 6.2 Features!



New Generated Application Features

Application Security Enhancements

Code Customization Improvements

Page Customization Enhancements

Upgrading to V6.2

New Generated Application Features

.NET Master pages. Control application-wide page layout with automatically generated master pages. Use your own master pages to implement corporate standards for common header, footer, menu and other components.
Direct to ASPX page generation. HTML layout page files have been eliminated! The enhanced Quick Layout Spreadsheet lets you access all page areas, simplifying page customization and regeneration. There's no need to learn or modify HTML.

Application Security Enhancements

Windows Authentication security. Add this popular access control mechanism to your applications with just a few clicks. (Enterprise Edition feature.)
Use Active Directory and Windows Authorization with Database authentication. Mix and match these popular security methods. Combine Active Directory or Windows Authentication with database security for role-based authentication. (Enterprise Edition feature.)
Easier customized application security. Simplified Authorize and Login methods make it easier to implement customized application security.

Code Customization Improvements

Code tabs simplify code customization. Built-in code tabs make it easy to identify which methods to customize. Select the individual control you want to modify in the Quick Layout Spreadsheet and the relevant code methods are displayed below. There's very little to learn and no need to hunt through code files to find the right class and method.
Updated Query Wizard. Use the updated Query Wizard for simple multi-table joins or filtering by logged-in user.
Standardized connection strings. Connection strings are now stored in the connectionStrings section of Web.config�instead of the appSettings section.

Page Customization Enhancements

Full page editing. Edit any portion of your generated Web pages with the Quick Layout Spreadsheet, including page headers and footers. Double-click panel controls to zoom into individual sections. Zoom out to rearrange your page.
Enhanced cell editor. Quickly format cell contents with the new tool bar. Set font, font size, cell width, colors, alignment, borders and justification with just a button click.
Expanded toolbox controls. The toolbox contains the full set of databound panels, including 'unrelated' tables not linked via foreign key relationships. Also included are third-party controls and additional .NET controls.
Move multiple cells across pages. Select a group of cells containing fields, panels and controls and quickly drag them to a new location in your page. Cut, copy and paste across pages!
Customize the sign in, select language and other static pages. Use the Quick Layout Spreadsheet for all page types, not just table and record pages. This is very useful for adding custom application security features to the Sign In page.
Customizable table style attributes. Use the Styles menu to set cell, row and table level style attributes.
Edit page prologue and epilogue contents. Quickly add and remove @register tags, validation summaries and other page-level tags.
Breadcrumb speeds page selection navigation. Zooming in and out is a snap. Or use the pop-up control list to jump directly to a page area.

Upgrading to Iron Speed Designer Version 6.2

Applications created with earlier versions of Iron Speed Designer will be converted automatically to Version 6.2 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 6.2 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, 6.0 and 6.1.

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


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