PHPRunner 8.0/ASPRunnerPro 9.0/ASPRunner.NET 8.0 are here. Purchase info and download links.

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Major new features

  1. Dashboards
  2. Multiple database connections (part of Enterprise Edition)
  3. Import page with columns mapping
  4. New Printer page/PDF options (portrait/landscape, fit to page, scale)
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Some large forms would benefit from having auto-save functionality. We have built a simple auto-save script that your can add to any Edit page in your PHPRunner/ASPRunnerPro/ASPRunner.NET application. Here is how it looks right after record was saved: Limitations: uploaded files are not saved automatically if page shows one details tables – details won’t be saved automatically The code below can be pasted as is to any Edit page Javascript OnLoad event.   // to log off user automatically after a certain amount of incativity…Continue Reading “How to implement auto-save feature”

We are working on the next version of all our code generation products. We plan to release all three products at the same time and expect all of them to carry the same set of functionality.

Download PHPRunner 7.1 preview

Starting with this update we will offer both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of our software. 64-bit version will solve out of memory issue that may occur while working with  large projects having hundreds of tables and thousands of fields.

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These CSS snippets are designed to be pasted to Custom CSS section on Style Editor in PHPRunner/ASPRunnerPro.

Making page background fully transparent

.function-list .rnr-c > *,
.function-list .rnr-s-undermenu > *,
.function-list .rnr-b-vmenu > *,
.function-list .rnr-s-2 > *,
.function-list .rnr-row > *,
.function-list .rnr-toprow > *
{
background-color : transparent !important;
background : transparent !important;
}

Sample screenshot:

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Data validation is very important in web applications. You do not want your users to enter incorrect data. Our web application builders can help you with this.

In this article we cover different validation type starting with built-in validation and making it all the way through to advanced AJAX-based validation.

Client-side validation

Client side validation (Javascript based) provides instant feedback to the user making it a good usability choice.

Built-in validation types

This validation will work if you need to make sure that all required fields are populated or validate a relatively simple data format like US Social Security Number.

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We are glad to announce a first public preview of ASPRunner.NET 6.0. This is a not a stable release, feel free to use it for evaluation purposes. We expect final version to be available in a few weeks. ASPRunner.NET 6.0 is built on the top of MVC3 framework. Download links: http://asprunner.com/files/asprunnernet60-trial-setup.exe http://asprunner.com/files/asprunnernet60-trial-setup.zip Here is the list of features that are not implemented yet in this preview. All features below will be available in the final version. Right now SQL Server and MySQL databases are supported….Continue Reading “ASPRunner.NET 6.0 preview”