This section contains several examples to help you learn the power of Iron Speed Designer.

The focus of each example is on showing you how to use Iron Speed Designer to implement various features in your application.  The examples do not focus on how to create great looking layout pages; so each page uses the simplest HTML necessary to show the functionality of the code generation tags and not to distract from their use.  You or a web designer can create great looking web pages by incorporating the code generation tags shown in the examples within your layout page.  You can also use the page templates feature of Iron Speed Designer to generate great looking web pages.

The examples are organized to show successively more complex features.

Many of the examples use the Southwind sample database.  The Southwind sample database is a copy of the Northwind sample database that is shipped with Microsoft SQL Server with some minor differences.  The Southwind database contains data about a hypothetical store including tables for customers, employees, products, orders, and order details.  The PhotoPath field of the Employees table in the Southwind database has been modified to provide an image file name for each of the employees in the database.  This is used in one of the tutorial examples shown below.  Other examples can be built using the Northwind database as well.