CodeCharge Studio 4.3

Accelerate Web Development with professional Web Application Generator
(create dynamic Websites like this one with minimal coding)

CodeCharge Studio is the leading and most productive solution for visually creating database-driven Web applications with minimal amount of coding. The support for virtually all databases, web servers and web technologies makes CodeCharge Studio one of a kind. It is a complete solution available for Web development.

Whether you are a legacy developer, MS Access programmer or experienced Web engineer, you can use CodeCharge Studio to rapidly develop anything from simple database-driven Web applications to complex e-business solutions.

The included Application Builder instantly converts your database (MS Access, MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.) into a working Web application with login-protected user access to database search, list, view and update functions.

CodeCharge Studio delivers the speed of code generation integrated with a full featured, powerful IDE. You can quickly generate dynamic, bug-free web sites in PHP, ASP, JSP, Perl, ColdFusion, ASP.NET. And then edit and customize your applications using the Studio's powerful code editors.

What's more, you can use any HTML editor to modify the HTML+CSS Website designs created by CodeCharge Studio.

Features

Visual IDE and Code Generator
Rapidly build web applications by generating robust, scalable programming code in ASP.NET (C#), ASP, PHP, Java Servlets, JSP, ColdFusion and Perl.

Database-to-Web Converter
Convert any database into a Web application in just a few minutes.

MS FrontPage® Add-In
Transform Microsoft® FrontPage® into a powerful Web development environment.

Pre-built Solutions
Customize and enhance any of the examples included with CodeCharge:

• Community Portal
• Online Store
• Task Management System
• Employee Directory
• Bug Tracker
• Forum / Message Board

Benefits

Reduce Development Time
Eliminate time-consuming programming tasks and build scalable, robust Web Applications in a fraction of the time.

Minimize Errors
Avoid costly programming errors and misspellings by generating consistent, well-structured code.

Reduce Learning Curve
Analyze and modify generated code to learn web technologies and take on programming projects in any environment.

Sample Applications

CodeCharge Studio Feature List

Application Builder

The Application Builder is perhaps the most advanced web development automation tool available to web developers. With just a few clicks, users can create complex database-enabled Web applications with dozens-or even hundreds-of web pages for data management and administration.

Web Reporting, Report Form and Web Report Builder

Web reporting functionality in CodeCharge Studio provides a great way to present or print data in detailed and grouped formats, with automatically calculated fields.

Web Calendar Builder and Calendar Form

The Calendar component outputs data in monthly calendar format, best suited for presenting date-specific information, such as events, tasks, birthdays, etc.

Ajax Features

Develop Ajax-enabled applications through a set of Ajax features, services and builders.

Web Gallery Builder

Gallery Builder creates a Web based image gallery as part of your application. The resulting gallery displays images in a horizontal grid-like format.

Menu Builder

Menu Builder provides a visual method for designing and including menus within Web pages.

Flash Charts and Flash Chart Builder

Flash Chart Builder provides a visual method for designing and including Flash charts within a Web page. The Flash Chart component retrieves data from the database at run-time and presents it as a visual graph.

Form and Component Builders

Component Builders are key constituents of CodeCharge Studio and help users assemble Web pages from multiple components such as Grid, Editable Grid, Record, Directory, Login, or Search. A Builder is a dynamic wizard that creates the appropriate component on the page by allowing the developer to specify the database table and fields that are used to display, validate or accept information.

CSS Styles and Style Builder

CodeCharge Studio styles are made of cascading style sheet (CSS) definition file (.css) and accompanying graphics. Styles define fonts, colors, buttons, graphics, spacing and other layout formatting attributes. Styles are applied directly to the HTML tags on the page. The Style Builder is a utility included with CodeCharge Studio and used for creating and modifying styles visually.

Visual Query Builder

Developers can easily select tables and stored procedures or custom SQL as the data source for their data-aware forms. A Visual Query Builder is provided for visual creation of SQL statements.

Security Management and Role-based Access Control

CodeCharge Studio goes the extra mile in protecting generated Web applications by implementing additional security features that prevent users from externally modifying forms and submitting invalid data to the server. CodeCharge Studio allows developers to define secure role-based access to each page or form.

Internationalization and Localization of Web Applications

Many Websites need to be adapted to a local or global audience by internationalizing and localizing them. CodeCharge Studio fully supports Website internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N).

Editable Grid

The Editable Grid component enables the editing of multiple records simultaneously. It allows to create order processing, inventory management, shopping cart, or any other ERP-type system whose integral functionality involves the manipulation of multiple records.

Index/Directory

The Directory component facilitates the creation of a Yahoo style Directory or Index. The Directory is made up of a hierarchy of categorized listings which the user can navigate through. This makes the Directory component especially useful when creating Web portals where information is provided taxonomically.

File Upload

The process of transferring files from the end users machine to the server can now be accomplished by using the File Upload component. This component generates the necessary code to enable an end user to select files from their machine and submit the files so that they are uploaded to the server.

Rich Text (WYSIWYG) Editing through FCKeditor component support

Powerful third-party rich text editing (WYSIWYG) support. CCS features the FCKEditor component in the Toolbox and can be used in place of TextArea control.

Multi-Select ListBox

The listbox component has been improved to allow the end user to select multiple values within the listbox, unlike in previous versions where only one value could be selected. The Multi-Select listbox can therefore be used in database tables with one-to-many relationships.

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

CodeCharge Studio combines visual interface design tools with an integrated development environment (IDE) to enable developers to create powerful and sophisticated web applications in record time. CodeCharge Studio features powerful HTML and code editors, an HTML design component, project explorer, property browser, dockable tool windows, and many other features desired by professional developers.

Source Control Integration

Source Control integration is one of the new CodeCharge Studio 3 features making collaborative website development a breeze. Integration with popular Software Configuration Management packages makes CodeCharge Studio 3 professional IDE for teams working on large web systems.

Support for Multiple Programming Languages

CodeCharge Studio can generate programming code in C# and VB. Net (ASP.NET), VBScript (ASP), ColdFusion, Java (Servlets or JSP), PHP, and PERL. Since the project model is stored in XML format, the programming language can be changed at any time and the same project can be regenerated in multiple programming languages.

XHTML and Section 508 Support

Take advantage of Web standards and conform to government requirements by building XHTML and Section 508 compliant Web applications.

Extensibility

CodeCharge Studio has an open architecture and is fully extensible. Most of the functionality is implemented as HTML, JavaScript, XML, and XSL. Users can customize almost any part of the built-in functionality or develop their own components, such as Builders, Components, Actions, and Styles. In the future, users will be able to obtain the CodeCharge SDK and develop their own code generation templates.

Multiple Database Connections

CodeCharge Studio supports multiple database connections to allow Web applications to utilize multiple data sources, for example, to validate user access against an external user database.

'Remember Me' Feature

Enrich user experience by allowing your customers to skip the login screen during subsequent visits. The user information is stored in a secure manner as an encrypted cookie.

Integration with Other Products

Web pages created with CodeCharge Studio can be opened with any web editor, either by opening the HTML files saved by CodeCharge Studio on the disk, or by right-clicking on a page within the CodeCharge Studio IDE and selecting Open Externally. After a page is modified and saved, it is automatically available back within CodeCharge Studio.

Password Encryption

Protect critical user data by storing it in an encrypted format. With the new password encryption feature you'll have less worries when planning and maintaining secure system architecture.

Application Templates (Solutions)

CodeCharge Studio comes with ten templates and examples of pre-built web applications that can serve as starting points for your applications. These applications are ready for customization and adaptation for organizational needs.

Custom Code and Actions

Applications generated with CodeCharge Studio can be easily extended by adding custom code or by using any of the predefined Actions. Actions are user-definable code components that are inserted into events. Many actions are provided with the product, while additional actions can be created by users and shared with others. Internally, actions consist of XML and XSL code that can be easily customized.

Code Generation Engine

CodeCharge Studio users create web applications by connecting to a database and placing data-aware forms and components on a page. During the page design process, the representation of the project and all of its pages is saved in XML format in addition to HTML code that contains the page design.

Sample Databases

Several sample databases and applications are provided with the distribution to help you get started with CodeCharge Studio.

Example Pack

The CodeCharge Studio example pack comes in the form of a CodeCharge Studio project within which there are different sub-projects which implement various programming techniques.

Panel Component

The panel component creates a container for controlling the visibility of one or several components or HTML snippets in an application. A panel component can contain any CodeCharge Studio components of a form that are supported by that form.

Page and Component Caching

Caching methods allow for previously served pages to be stored on the server, for example in the database. This is a powerful feature that can greatly improve your server's performance by storing and reusing the representation of a live page instead of executing the code and SQL statements during each page request.

AutoComplete

The AutoComplete functionality provides quick access to valid member functions or variables, including global variables, by means of the Members list. Selecting a member from the list inserts it into your code.

Server Profiles

CodeCharge Studio 3 can store publishing settings for several servers that are used during web development and for publishing the application. The most common scenario is that you are testing your application locally and after passing the tests the files are uploaded to the production server.

Site Diagram

The site diagram feature enables the developer to produce a visual representation of the pages within the site as well as show how the pages are linked to one another.

Extensive Database Support

CodeCharge Studio supports most existing databases via JET and ODBC to establish the design-time connection. The server-side connection can be made using JET, ODBC, JDBC, ADO, DBI and PHPLib to connect to databases during run-time.

Workspace Management

CodeCharge Studio 3 features workspace slots that allow you to configure your application interface (panel layout within the application) the way you like. You can instantly save save your window (panel) layout, or restore previously saved layouts.