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What's New in ASP.NET Maker 9
ASP.NET Maker 9 is a major upgrade from 8.x. It is loaded with a bunch of new features, including many frequently requested ones. ASP.NET Maker 9 is probably the most powerful and flexible product of its kind, and yet still easy-to-use as always.
Improved Grid-Add and Grid-Edit
Support adding/deleting rows to/from the grid during Grid-Add/Edit.
Note: Row adding/deleting is implemented by JavaScript, newer versions of browsers are required.
Master/Detail-Add and Master/Detail-Edit
Allows inserting/updating a master record with multiple detail records of a detail table in the same page. Supports adding/deleting rows to/from the detail grid.
Note: Row adding/deleting is implemented by JavaScript, new versions of browsers are required.
Export to PDF
A new extension for export to PDF is provided. (Note that this extension is experimental only, read Third Party Tools for more information.)
Create, Alter and Drop Views
To encourage use of database views instead of Custom Views (which was designed for old databases that did not support views), ASP.NET Maker now support creating, altering and dropping database views in user interface.
Menu with Grouping (Graphical Extension)
In addition to vertical and horizontal menu, the graphical extension now uses YUI menu and support grouping.
Note: This extension is available for registered users only.
Field Hint as Tooltip
The field hint (entered in the "Title" column of the Field Setup page) is now displayed like tooltip, you can now use HTML for the hint.
More Server Events
- Page_Head - Fired before ending the <head> section. Allows adding your own code (e.g. adding external JavaScript and stylesheet) to the section.
- User_Custom Validate - Fired before default user validation. Allows custom user validation.
- Menu_Rendering - Fired before the menu is rendered. Allows manipulating all menu items.
- Page_DataRendering - Fired after the header is rendered. Allows adding content at the top of page content.
- Page_DataRendered - Fired before the footer is rendered. Allows adding content at the bottom of page content.
Many More
- More than one field per row in the Extended Quick Search panel
- More display fields (up to 4) for selection lists
- Copy file upload fields also on copying a record
- Table synchronization (instead of synchronizing the whole database)
- Option to show loaded tables only (for use with "Load tables dynamically" option)
- Improved sortable and searchable lookup fields
- Hyperlinks for export as cListOptions object. Allows manipulating export links like list options.
- Improved user interface with Unicode support. Resizes better in 64bit Windows.
- Multi-language support for user values in Edit Tag panel
- Advanced setting for maximum number of suggested options in AutoSuggest
- Updated extensions (CKEditor, TinyMCE)
- jQuery extensions (includes jquery.js for user's own use only. ASP.NET Maker does NOT use jQuery.)
- Other minor improvements
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