What’s New

• SmartDBView's Create All Buttons smart tag command was renamed to Create Command Buttons. The command now asks the user which buttons to create and how to render them.
• A new command button Clone is now available. It is Similar to New command button and allows to create a copy of the currently selected data row.
• Improved popup calendar usability. Now the arrow buttons scroll years by page instead by row. The today year, month and date are highlighted in bold.
• smartDBforms.NET was successfully tested with Firefox 3.
• Fixed popup calendar layout problem in Firefox 2.0.0.14
• Fixed popup calendar display of initial empty date. The calendar was positioning on the previous month instead on the current.
• Fixed SmartDBView design time resizing. Resizing handlers were missing in Visual Studio 2008 and VWD Express 2008 

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 compatibility. Now smartDBforms.NET integrates with Visual Studio 2008.
• Windows Vista compatability.
• Now SmartDBView can render different user interface in Edit, Insert and ReadOnly mode. Three new properties were added to SmartDBView, which will hold the corresponding user interface - ContentEdit, ContentInsert, ContentReadOnly.
• A new method DataBindItem.CreateDbConnection now allows the custom templates to make additional queries against the database used by the the parent SmartDBView.
• Improved SmartDBView design time. Enhanced the handling of database schema refreshing.

• Lazy loading of foreign key parent tables data. The records of the foreign key tables are loaded only if required by the database form.
• Unlimited named Adhoc properties can now be used in order to cusomize the database user interface templates. A new collection AdHocProperties was added to SmartDBControl.
• A new property DataKeyNames added to the SmartDataSource control. The property allows to explicitly set the primary key columns.
• Improved SmartDBControl label, now the description tooltip disappears when you click on it.
• TemplatesControlCenter new smart-tag property for modifying the localization configuration.
• SmartDBControl new properties - ForceReadonlyInEdit and ForceReadonlyInInsert.
• Now MoneyTemplate can be configured to use a custom currency symbol.
• Fixed a minor issue in SmartCssLink design time.
• Fixed the search and index tabs in the CHM documentation file.

• New template for editing dates. Now instead of the standard ASP.NET Calendar control a javascript popup calendar is used.
• Design time improvements for SmartDBView and SmartDataSource.
• New SmartDBControl.ForceRequired property - Forces the user interface template to always require user input.

• New web server control SmartJSLink - automatically references the used javascript files.
• EmailTemplate was added. Displays the value as mailto hyperlink and checks the user input to be a valid email address.
• A new DateTime template. Displays and allows the user to edit the date and the time.

• New SmartDataSource design time commands for quick creations of search panels - "Create Select Search Panel" and "Create Filter Search Panel" 
• Added new Filter tab to the SmartDataSource configuration dialog. Allows editing the FilterExpression and FilterParameters properties.
• New web server control OperationStatus - displays success and error messages.
• New SmartDataSource.MonitorParameters propety - automatically triggers data rebinding if some of the Select or Filter parameters changes
• Added two new properties to SmartDBView - OnEmptyData and EmptyDataTemplate. Now SmartDBView can handle empty data in three ways - switch to Insert mode, hide SmartDBView, show the EmptyDataTemplate.
• Fixed problem when SelectParameters collection contains parameters of type Decimal and OLE DB provider is used.
• Fixed design-time problem when Select command contains parameters which are used as MS SQL Server money type.
• Fixed configuration problem when running in ASP.NET Medium trust.

• MS Access databases are now supported. smartDBforms.NET now works with MS Access 2000, MS Access 2002, MS Access 2003 databases or later.
• Enhanced smartDBtemplates template set. Improved handling of number and currency values.
• A new template for handling Guid data type(uniqueidentifier in SQL Server, Replication ID in MS Access) was added to smartDBtemplates template set
• LargeTextTemplate now validates the length of entered text
• SQL Server 2005 schemas are now supported
• SmartDataSource - a new property ExtractFKRelations was added
• Fixed a problem when using MS SQL Server database with OLEDB or ODBC data provider

• A new paging Web Server Control available. SmartPager allows users to navigate through the records displayed by SmartDBView.
• Enhanced TemplateHolder. Introduced a new property PrimaryKeysReadonlyWhenUpdating. Now one TemplateHolder is able to handle both - primary and non-primary key data fields.
• Optimized smartDBtemplates template set. Decreased the number of templates from 20 to 13.
• Enhanced SmartDBView designer. Now the generated delete buttons use Javascript confirmation dialog box.
• Support for Microsoft Expression Web.
• A new Visual Studio "Add New Item" template for creating initial database web forms.
• Fixed SmartDBView designer's "Create Missing Fields" smart-tag command.
• Fixed problems with non-regular table column names( containing spaces or other non-alphanumeric symbols ).
• Adillis.SmartDBForms.dll is now strong-named and can be installed in GAC.

• Support for ASP.NET AJAX. Documentation and demo site updated accordingly.
• SmartDBView design-time now prevents creating of controls with duplicate IDs.
• Improved Setup Wizard. Visual Studio Project and Item templates are now installed directly, without using Visual Studio Content Installer. Visual Studio toolbox items are installed directly, without automation.