Chapter 12. Sample Application: Developing an XML-Based Dynamic Web Page Builder Tool

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During the development cycle, we all like to take advantage of shortcuts here and there. For example, you might have a code library that you reuse between projects, or several snippets of code that you routinely cut and paste into your projects. This chapter discusses another type of shortcut: a code-blower application.

A code-blower is essentially a wizard that you can use to ease development tasks . This wizard interface interrogates a database table and forms some type of user -interface and supporting database access code. This code-blower application enables you to dynamically generate ASP.NET web forms based on an existing database table.

The requirements for such an application are fairly simple: Develop some data about the underlying database table schema and create a user interface based on that schema. Most of the code is fairly static, so you can leverage the use of a template file to ease the amount of code generated.

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