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Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

Last post 12-04-2008 4:33 PM by jimibt. 11 replies.

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  • Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    09-10-2008, 11:08 AM
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    • jimibt
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    Hi all,

    Anyone that 'knows' me will be totally aware of how much i go on and on regarding the Flixon Site Generator (just don't invite me to your dinner parties ). Well, after having made considerable changes since the last version, I'm pleased to announce that V2 is now in an advanced beta stage and is available for download.

    A brief outline of what the last version was capable of can be found here:

    http://www.flixon.com/site-generator/

    The new features since version 1 include:
    • Entity 'style' relationship model. This allows for one to many, many-many and parent/child (as well as child parent) relationships to be modelled.

    • New improved interface which stores previous entries for easy re-runs

    • New template set which visually presents the foreignkey fields as readable attributes from the primary table.

    • Full lazy-loading of objects.

    • Custom List<T> objects that can be serialised in/out to an xml stream, maintaining all child objects

    These are just a few of the very worthwhile highlights in V2. Why are you still sitting there, you can download the entire version from:

    http://www.originaltalent.com/downloads/FlixonV3.06.zip

    And you can download a (rough and ready) version of the user-guide from here:

    http://www.originaltalent.com/downloads/SiteGenerator.doc

    To see an example of the generator after being run against the Ubiquitous 'Northwind' database, click below:

    http://site412.mysite4now.net/jimibt/giftedgeezer/Nwind/Admin/

    Ok, happy downloading and playing. I look fwd to comments on both the concepts and changes included in this version.

    Please note that to take advantage of the many new features that were rolled into SQLServer2005, 2005 is the lowest supported database version that the Site Generator is compatable with. There are no plans (yet) to make it backward compatable to SqlServer 2000. I apologise for this but will take it into consideration if there is a strong case supporting 2000 compatability.

    Cheers for now

    [edit 04-Dec-2008] - V3.06 now available for download.

    jim


    jimi
  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    09-17-2008, 5:02 PM
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    • jimibt
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    Hi all,

    As a result of all the phenomenal feedback, the site generator beta has (in the short space of 7 days) been upgraded to the new and improved version 2.7...

    pick yourself another winner here:

    http://www.originaltalent.com/downloads/FlixonV2.7.zip

    cheers again to all who have supported this new version so far - and let me know how you get on, it's only thro' dialog that we can improve and innovate Geeked

    jimi


    jimi
  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    09-26-2008, 12:51 PM
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    • jimibt
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    Another quick update,

    now onto version 2.8. This includes various small updates as suggested by a few testers as well as support for TransactionScope added to objects with child collections attached. A few other cosmetic enhancemnts and minor bug fixes included also.

    You can pick it up here:

    http://www.originaltalent.com/downloads/FlixonV2.8.zip

    Thanks again for the continued support on this one.

    jimi


    jimi
  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    10-27-2008, 5:06 AM
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    • hung_asd321
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    hix!

     Help me!!! I cannot download it

     

  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    10-27-2008, 5:37 AM
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    • jimibt
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    hix,

    apologies, i had temporarily removed that version as i was updating it to version 3. You can download it from here now:

    http://www.originaltalent.com/downloads/FlixonV3.00.zip

    All the best for now, let me know how you get on.


    jimi
  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    11-05-2008, 6:04 AM
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    • jimibt
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    Once more,

    Thanks to all who've given such detailed feedback so far. As a result, I think we've now arrived on a stable version and I'd like for everyone (that's interested and following this project) to pilot this for the next few days, prior to release. The new feature in this release (other than a few cosmetics), is the way that the cacheing is handled (thanks andy) as this now has a variety of switches on a formatted constant to allow for domain objects by ID/paged set etc to be persisted/invalidated very tightly - this makes the framework very performant.

    Anyway, without further ado, you can pick this 'final' version up from:

    http://www.originaltalent.com/downloads/FlixonV3.03.zip

    Please do give as much feedback on this version as possible as i've now 'frozen' any new features for this release.

    Thanks again for the generous support to date.


    jimi
  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    11-24-2008, 5:10 AM
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    • jimibt
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    once more (once more Smile)...

    been over it all with a hoover now (as well as mr muscle), so it's as clean as an ermmm - pin. (cough) - anyway, in keeping with the promise to keep this simple and effective, i've spent a few weeks focussing on each section of the site builder and have arrived at a (almost) perfect implementation of this that is 100% fit for purpose. As before, just download from the link below and have a play. 

    http://www.originaltalent.com/downloads/FlixonV3.05.zip

    I can only presume that the last version was so good that no-one wanted to comment (after an initial barrage of praise/critique on the 1st 2 versions, all went quiet on v3.03) Smile. I'd love to hear of any suggestion/criticisms on the above version as this project is aimed at 'us', and my view is that it should be taken over by the community following this version, so any thoughts at this stage would be most welcome.

    All the best once more...


    jimi
  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    12-04-2008, 9:51 AM
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    • T. R. Tinker
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    Okay, jimi, for those of us who do not install software on their C: (O/S) drive, the Site Builder fails.  It can't find any of the supporting dll's.

    Sorry.

    Tinker

  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    12-04-2008, 2:29 PM
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    • jimibt
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    T. R. Tinker:

    Okay, jimi, for those of us who do not install software on their C: (O/S) drive, the Site Builder fails.  It can't find any of the supporting dll's.

    Sorry.

    Tinker

    ok - i'll look into that issue then and see if i can put a quick fix up...

    sorry about that - nice to have it tested and spotted mind you Smile


    jimi
  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    12-04-2008, 2:36 PM
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    • T. R. Tinker
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    Jimi, only the truly paranoid - like me - are ever going to be inconvenienced.  :o)

    - Tinker

  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    12-04-2008, 2:55 PM
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    • jimibt
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    T. R. Tinker:

    Jimi, only the truly paranoid - like me - are ever going to be inconvenienced.  :o)

    - Tinker

     

    aye -  we're all 'after yeh' :)

    take care tinker...


    jimi
  • Re: Announce: Flixon Site Generator V2 now available

    12-04-2008, 4:33 PM
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    • jimibt
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    Ok,

    even tho' i fancied a quiet night tonite, tinker had to come along and spoil it by pointing out an issue when installing onto a drive other than the c:\ drive. anyway, just to keep him happy, i've fixed the issue and the new varsion can be downloaded from here:

    http://www.originaltalent.com/downloads/FlixonV3.06.zip

    jokes aside, thanks for pointing that out tinker!!

    enjoy....

     


    jimi
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