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.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.
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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.
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Application Security Enhancements |
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Windows Authentication security.
Add this popular access control mechanism to your applications with just a few clicks.
(Enterprise Edition feature.)
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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.)
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Easier customized application security.
Simplified Authorize and Login methods make it easier to implement customized
application security.
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Code Customization Improvements |
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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.
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Updated Query Wizard.
Use the updated Query Wizard for simple multi-table joins or filtering by logged-in user.
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Standardized connection strings.
Connection strings are now stored in the connectionStrings section of Web.config�instead of the appSettings section.
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Page Customization Enhancements |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Customizable table style attributes.
Use the Styles menu to set cell, row and table level style attributes.
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Edit page prologue and epilogue contents.
Quickly add and remove @register tags, validation summaries and other page-level tags.
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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.
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