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Restoring an Active Tab
Learn how to restore an active tab when navigating back to previous pages.
Iron Speed Designer V6.X
January 25, 2010, Jing Ding
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Enabling RSS and MediaRSS in Iron Speed Designer Applications
Learn how to disply information from your Iron Speed Designer application in RSS format.
Iron Speed Designer V6.X
November 30, 2009, Neil Ennis
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Single Instance of Validation Logic
Learn how to manage validations on various sections of your application with minimal effort.
Iron Speed Designer V6.X
July 15, 2009, Jason Moore
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Display an Iron Speed Designer Record Panel in Popup
Learn how to display an Iron Speed Designer record panel in the built-in AJAX popup.
Iron Speed Designer V6.X
July 7, 2009, Herman Chan
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Restore Focus after TextBox Automatic Postbacks
Learn how to restore focus after automatic postback within an UpdatePanel.
Iron Speed Designer V6.X
June 5, 2009, Jing Ding
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Authenticating into an Iron Speed Designer Application Using XML Web Services
Help application users login to a public website automatically.
Iron Speed Designer V6.X
March 17, 2009, Neil Ennis
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Switch Database Schema at Run-Time
Learn how to switch your database schema without using "Find and Replace."
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
November 10, 2008, Jing Ding
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Set Audit Fields for All Tables
Write custom code once by setting audit fields for all tables in your application.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
October 31, 2008, Jing Ding
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Dynamic Page Headers
Learn how to dynamically change a page header banner based on an image stored in the database through HTTP Handler class.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
October 31, 2008, Jaime Jegonia
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Creating a Single Add / Edit / Copy Record Page
Learn how to create a single Add / Edit / Copy Record page in Iron Speed Designer.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
October 30, 2008, Jing Ding
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Manage Session Variables with Intellisense
This article demonstrates how to apply session variables in your .NET web applications.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
August 6, 2008, Jing Ding
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Displaying Pop-up Alert Messages
Register and show pop-up alert messages even if the current page is redirected.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
June 20, 2008, Jing Ding
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Adding Summaries to Excel Reports
In this article, I will demonstrate one way to accomplish this add functionality to the basic Export-To-Excel API that is provided with the product.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
June 17, 2008, Gil Givati
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Setting Database Connections at Run-time
Learn how to customize your application to support dynamic database connections.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
June 2, 2008, Jing Ding
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Maintain File Upload Control on Postbacks
For security reasons, the File Upload control does not save the posted file name in its View State,
so the file is lost on postback. Learn how to preserve your input data...
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
May 19, 2008, Jing Ding
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Improve Application Performance By Using Indexes
This article shows you how to develop applications with better performance out of the gate,
even if you don’t have a DBA.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
April 14, 2008, Jim Murphy
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Integrating Help In Your Iron Speed Designer Application
Learn how to integrate a help system into any Iron Speed Designer application.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
March 1, 2008, Phil Porter
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Copy Records between Two Table Panels
In this article, I demonstrate how to copy records between two identical table panels on the same page where
the destination table may also contain data.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
November 8, 2007, Gil Givati
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Customizing Style Sheets and Page Styles
Automatically customize hundreds of application web pages using one of many page styles provided with the Iron Speed Designer.
Iron Speed Designer V9.0
December 15, 2011, Iron Speed
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Iron Speed Designer in the Software Conversion Process
The future of application development is at hand, and Iron Speed is the leading archetype of that model.
Iron Speed Designer V5.X
January 8, 2009, Les Cardwell
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Interoperability Can Enable Healthcare Agility
As the scale of regional healthcare operations increase, the advantage for an agile healthcare system could be worth millions
of dollars.
June 25, 2008, Ed Carroll
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Writing Effective Use Cases, Part III
Review practical examples of how to tailor the Use Case creation process around the type of
iterative lifecycle defined in the Agile methods.
August 16, 2006, Ed Carroll
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Writing Effective Use Cases, Part II
Facilitated workshops can be helpful in defining use cases for a complex system. Workshops
focus the attention of key personnel and shorten the development life-cycle.
August 9, 2006, Ed Carroll
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Writing Effective Use Cases, Part I
Developing use cases is both a simple and structured way to define requirements for a software
application.
August 9, 2006, Ed Carroll
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Driving Cost out of Engineering, Part II
Takes a closer look at how engineering executives commonly deal with pressure from the
Board of Directors to outsource.
June 21, 2006, Ed Carroll
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Driving Cost out of Engineering, Part I
To drive cost out of engineering in a software company requires a thoughtful and thorough approach,
well beyond layoffs, because engineering costs are far more than a simple labor coefficient.
June 21, 2006, Ed Carroll
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Optimizing Profitable Agile Software Projects
Time, scope features, and cost...it is CRITICAL you never let a client box you in on all
three of these items.
January 10, 2006, Damon W. Carr
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Critical Success Factors to Agile .NET Development
This article covers absolutely critical Microsoft .NET Best Practices that are core to the
implementation of patterns and the everyday work of just about any effective .NET Leader.
August 23, 2005 , Damon W. Carr
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Outsourcing to Vietnam? Are You Kidding?
April 30th, 2005 marked the 30th anniversary of the end to the Vietnam War...Have things changed?
Today, Vietnam has one of the most enviable economic growth rates in the world.
July 19, 2005, Ed Carroll
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Estimating Software via Use Cases
Creating accurate cost estimates for software product-development projects early in the
product lifecycle has always been a challenge for the industry. Learn how to make estimating
predictability possible when an engineering team gathers highly quantifiable metrics about their
engineering processes.
June 28, 2005, Ed Carroll
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Past the Point of Simplicity: Has the Agile Movement Gone Too Far?
When Agile Development was introduced many were shocked at the 'bare bones' nature of it all.
Gone were many of the 'high ceremony' steps that managers and developers alike had become accustomed
to.
June 14, 2005, Damon W. Carr
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Evolving with Extreme Programming
XP is not a radically new, untried concept. Rather, the rules of XP have evolved from the
best software engineering practices over the past 30 years.
June 1, 2005, Ed Carroll
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Agile in the Trenches
In Agile development, most companies fail to meet their side of the Agile contract. They fail
because they do not perform the necessary QA activities described here. When these are done correctly
productivity levels go up.
May 10, 2005, Damon W. Carr
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Practical Guidelines in Agile Software Process Development
Agile embraces changing requirements and does not even blink when it happens. Agile is about
providing consistent and early working software - not prototypes.
April 26, 2005, Damon W. Carr
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Capability Maturity Models: Debating the Real Solution
I do think that one solution is code generation (or application generation if you
prefer) using standard components. The philosophy behind Iron Speed Designer is that
a big chunk of transactional applications comes down to basic database record retrieval,
data display, data input, data validation, and database record insertion.
March 29, 2005, Ed Carroll & Alan Fisher
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Put Modern Code Generation to Work
The notion of software that writes software has been around for decades, but it is
only recently that developers are taking this notion of code generation seriously.
October 14, 2003, DevX, Alan Fisher
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