A Quick Tour of Iron Speed Designer

When starting Iron Speed Designer for the first time, the Start screen will be displayed. As you can see, Iron Speed Designer has a friendly, easy-to-navigate user interface.

The Start Tab

Use the Start tab as a jumping-off point to guide your create new applications and edit existing ones.

The Start tab can get you going quickly. Just click “Create a New Application” to create your first application.

The Application Tab

After creating an application, the Application tab will be visible. You’ll spend the majority of your time with Iron Speed Designer in the Application tab editing and configuring your application.

Use the Application tab to edit and configure your application.

The Application Explorer window

Iron Speed Designer has several primary file groupings, identified by the top-level nodes in the Application Explorer.

Use the Application Explorer window to navigate your application, selecting specific web pages, database tables, and source code files.

Group	Description
Pages	The application’s web pages and code-behind source code files generated by Iron Speed Designer.
Data Access Layer	Lists the application’s Data Access Layer source code files generated by Iron Speed Designer.
Stored Procedures	Lists the application’s stored procedures (SQL) generated by Iron Speed Designer. (Enterprise Edition only).
Database	Shows the database tables, views and named queries available to your application for each selected database. See which tables are available to your application View database table schemas and foreign key relationships Set various default data display and field validation properties
Generated Documentation	Lists the documentation files generated by Iron Speed Designer.

The Toolbox

The Toolbox contains a variety of panels and components that can be placed onto your application’s web pages. Simply drag the panel or component from the toolbox onto the web page.

Use the Toolbox window to drag components and panels onto your application’s web pages.