TIP 245: Developing Data-driven Sites with OmniPilot Lasso

Name: Lasso Studio 8 for GoLive

Developer: OmniPilot Software, Inc.

Source: www.lassostudio.com

Cost: $199 US

Lasso Studio enables Web developers to build visually rich, powerful, data-driven Web applications using the familiar GoLive interface (Figure 245). Solutions built using Lasso Studio can be deployed on any server running Lasso Professional 8 on any platform. Lasso Studio can connect to a variety of databases, including FileMaker Pro, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Frontbase, Sybase, Openbase, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and hundreds more.

Figure 245. Lass Studio adds dozens of new objects to the Objects palette, a Lasso Studio menu, and three new palettes in the Window menu.

Some of the features Lasso Studio adds to GoLive include the following:

• Display database tables and fields right within GoLive.

• Preview data live from your database right within GoLive.

• Syntax coloring for LDML code, including tags, keywords, strings, and expressions.

• Code completion for all LDML tags.

• Quickly build an entire data-driven Web site using the Site Builder wizard.

• Lasso tags are represented as icons to minimize visual disruption of your layout while designing.

• Instantly change the active database via the Database Selector.

• Visual editing environment provides more than 1000 Lasso tags.

• Build and edit robust programming expressions with guided ease.

• Allow workgroup editing on a shared database without requiring direct access to databases.

• Includes single-user version of Lasso Professional 8 server software for development and testing.