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• Quick Preview

  07/04/2009 17:46:08

  Just a quick detour, whilst we were working on the ecommerce stuff we felt we needed a quicker way of previewing the page as we were losing time waiting for the .Net compiler to build the pages.

  We decided to work on a Quick Preview utility that enabled us to view the page in a flash without recourse to the .Net compiler. Our senior programmer Dylan grabbed the nettle and produced a very effective preview utility written in C# to run in Windows.

  Now we can see whats going on it's time to press on with the development (and everything ...

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• Database Schema

  06/03/2009 13:01:37

  For those of you that want to see where we are with the schema I have put together a PDF of the different diagrams. They are work in progress and not complete so may well change as we go forward.

   

  
  

  ECommerce Schema - SQL Server 2005

  "Work in progress"

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  Database Schema

• Ecommerce Database Design

  06/03/2009 10:38:00

  After getting my feet wet yesterday with V6 I wanted to step back a bit and look at the design for the database. We will be using SQL Server 2005, you should find the project works with SQLExpress as required.

  Schema

  The database design is very import as far as ISD is concerned. It relies on the table relationships in order to determine how best to provide the quickest and most efficient experience. What I mean by that is that when creating pages with bound data you tend to find on the whole that you want to see data that ...

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• Jumping straight in

  05/03/2009 17:43:05

  I shall be covering the db design shortly, but for now I just wanted to create a few pages in V6 to get a feel for the new features. I would advise against creating to many pages to start with, start small and build up, add pages only when you need them. This will ensure a faster and less painful approach should you need to radically redesign.

  I'm starting with a single table, the address table. This will hold address information used in the app as a customer may have many addresses. I wanted to keep it down t a ...

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  V6

• Change of Direction...

  05/03/2009 16:06:40

  Since my last entry things have changed! We have decided to change the topic of the V6 project, instead of the recruitment site we have decided to have a go at putting together an Ecommerce site. We shall start with the back end admin site as this is required to populate the products etc.

  We have put together an schema in SQL Server 2005 and are currently checking the relationships and overall design. We won't wait until we think it's 100% complete as we may never start! I would rather get us to 80% and evolve the design as we ...

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  V6

  Ecommerce

• Project Outline

  19/02/2009 14:39:25

  Hi

  It's a cold morning and time to catch up. The sun is shining, the snow has stopped and the heating has been fixed so I can stop shivering at home (any excuse to stay in the office!).

  Whilst we eagerly await the release of Iron Speed V6 we have been knocking around some ideas as to the kind of application we could develop to showcase Iron Speed.
  
  In the end we went for a job seekers site. The concept is as follows:
  
  Light Speed Recruitment Ltd (a fictitious recruitment company) is setting up in business and wants top open ...

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  Example Project Iron Speed

• Who are we & what do we do?

  19/02/2009 14:29:07

  My name is Tim Titchmarsh. I am an Iron Speed MVP for the MVP Consulting Organization "Light Speed Solutions" based near London in the UK. We provide Iron Speed design, consulting and training services to customers here in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia and beyond.
  
  The aim of this blog is to help new and not so new Iron Speed Users get familiar with ISD 6.0 and demonstrate how application generation is a real alternative to hand-coding. To that end I thought it would be a good idea to try to create a real world application that shows of the ...

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• Application Generation - a real alternative to hand-coding

  19/02/2009 14:19:56

  Let’s be clear from the outset. It is possible to create real .Net web applications that require no hand coding with Iron Speed. My company has created many such web applications to support internal processes for ourselves and our clients. Admittedly the apps err of the simplistic side but are by no means simple. They all hook up to SQL Server databases that provide valuable information in a quick, simple and reliable fashion. And when I say quick I mean 30 minutes from initial generation to live roll out.
  
  From the 30 minute app things start to get more complex ...

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