Creating Your First Application

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After starting Iron Speed Designer, you may proceed with creating a new application or editing an existing application.  The easiest way to get started with Iron Speed Designer is to use the Application Wizard to create your application.

Use the Application Wizard to create new applications.

The Application Wizard in Iron Speed Designer creates your new application and walks you through the process of:

  1. Selecting database tables to use in your application.  The Application Wizard connects to a designated database and uses the table schemas of selected tables when generating your application.

  2. Creating web pages containing your selected database tables (see What is a Generated Application? for details).  The Application Wizard can create a variety of template-based web pages for your application, including Table, Record, and Workflow pages.

  3. Constructing menus and other navigation for your application.

  4. Creating a virtual directory for your application if you are using Microsoft IIS as your web server.  Creating a new application also establishes a virtual directory for your application with the Microsoft IIS web server.  This points the Microsoft IIS web server at your application so that it can serve up the associated web pages and run your application.

  5. Generating your application.

The process of creating a new application in Iron Speed Designer establishes the directory structure for your application, including:

  1. The source files.  The input files for your application – the “source code” used by Iron Speed Designer to generate your application – consist of the database table, view and individual component property settings.

  2. The generated application files.  Generated application files include the Presentation Layer ASPX and ASCX files, C# or Visual Basic code-behinds, the Data Access Layer, and the Database Layer stored procedures and SQL statements.

Next Steps

Step 1: Prepare your Database

Step 2: Select a Web Page Style

Step 3: Connect to a Database Server

Step 4: Select Pages to Generate

Step 5: Select Virtual Primary Keys and Virtual Foreign Keys

Step 6: Select Language and Localization Settings

Step 7: Name Your Application

Step 8: Build Your Application

See Also

What is a Generated Application?

Creating Your First Application