Published:
01 Jun 2005
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A walkthrough and review of a powerful Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for ASP.NET, Iron Speed Designer. |
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by Steven Smith
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Iron Speed Designer is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool developed by Iron Speed Inc. Unlike many similar products I’ve encountered and worked with, Iron Speed Designer has immense breadth and depth of coverage and details. It’s been my experience that a particular tool might be good at generating a data access layer, or providing some simple UI for managing the contents of a table. Another might have decent documentation or supporting samples and videos. One of the things that immediately struck me about Iron Speed’s product is that it includes all of these things in a single package. Their designer handles the data access layer as well as the user interface, and includes very detailed wizards, documentation, and even video walkthroughs.
In order to put the product through its paces, I constructed a simple link management administration site using the tool. This was a real-world requirement of mine, albeit a fairly simple one. |
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Title:
Personal Opinion
Name:
ISDSucks
Date:
6/23/2008 2:39:35 PM
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Ok, I'm really sick of all the rosy red reviews of Ironspeed. This program is garbage, that produces more garbage. Within Ironspeed, you cannot make any meaningful changes to the program, and outside of ironspeed, in Visual Studio, none of the controls will even load. If you have to make any sort of actual custom code/buttons/anything good luck with this 'Code generator'. It makes me sad to think that people are so hard up for cash that junk like this passes for a "Code Generator".
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Title:
Buyer Beware
Name:
btaplin
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4/15/2008 2:06:06 PM
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Beware of their licensing policy. Iron Speed 'froze' my paid-for-license and won't unlock it until I buy a second license because I unknowningly breached their licensing. The license was only activated on one machine and only one user was using it at a time but since I am the 'licensed user' (although I don't develop with it) but someone else at my company does (who isn't the 'named user') and since I logged on to audit his work they are trying to soak me for more money. This has been the worst customer service experience I have ever had...bar none.
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Title:
Nice
Name:
A Maven
Date:
6/13/2007 6:05:25 AM
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This article is very nice to get started with this new tool
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Versions and Updates
Name:
Steven Smith
Date:
1/3/2007 10:40:03 AM
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Dragondevil - You're right, I should have included the version number in this review. I guess the article date is the best you can go from in this case, but it's definitely good feedback for future articles and reviews.
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Valuable info made more valuable?
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dragondevil
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1/3/2007 6:36:55 AM
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ahhh I thought this article contained a version number but I guess I was wrong. Including that would be very valuable as well as demonstrate your consistency and as well, attention to detail.
Updates, no matter how minor, would also suggest some integrity in ownership and recognition of value in having done the review in the 1st place.
Versions, dates, updates
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So, it is worth a try,... Thanks
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jbd
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8/4/2005 9:15:03 AM
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Thanks for your review, I am considering developping applications for our cie using this tool and I understand from you comment that the tool is worth a try.
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