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"Solid asp.net application generator, saves time!"
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.2
Pros
I love the way it is taking our whole database design and generates all the OO classes and maintenance pages and it can detect database changes along our development cycle and update base classes accordingly. Godsend for small teams.
Cons
It could be a little involved at the beginning but it does not take too much time getting used to. Fellow users want to put together a good database design first because this tool is database driven (not really a Con, actually a good requirement.)
Summary
Product pays for itself in one single project; saves a lot of my time putting together prototypes as well.
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"Awesome"
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.1
Pros
I have used this product for the last 5 years since version 1.6 came out. Fast, efficient and bulletproof. Can reduce development cost by 90%, and replace a full 20 man development team with a DBA and a programmer. Excellent tool for teaching C#, structured programming, web apps, javascript, html, database design besides producing demonstratable code with minimal effort.
Numerous customizations are included with the product, and it integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio and a number of 3rd part component developers.
Documentation is very good, and the self documenting feature leaves you with code that can be maintained across the lifecycle.
The push button installatoni of completed packages, makes setting up production systems a breeze.
Get the Enterprise version if you can afford it. the ability to span databases comes in handy.
Lastly, I have never had an issue with the IronSpeed people regarding licensing, though I regularly audit my programmer's work.
Cons
You still will want Visual Studio for the most complex customizations and debugging of same. You can do it in Ironspeed, but the ability to step line by line through a program is hard to beat.
Takes time to master, but no time wasted butting your head against the wall. It's all there, all you have to do is dig in.
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"Create Enterprise Apps FAST"
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.1
Pros
I can create and deploy a complete .NET web app in a single work day!
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"A standard unto itself"
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.1
Pros
In addition to it's now all-encompassing IDE, as an enterprise information architect one can most appreciate it's enforcement of standards across the enterprise regardless teh number of developers involved. I can't imagine doing Web application development any other way.
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"One of a kind"
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.1
Pros
Time & time again coding proved to be a lot easier with Iron Speed Designer, because the majority of the application "plumbing" is generated for you saving you from starting from scratch. It just works every time and builds confidence in the system reliability. Without Iron Speed Designer, another developer or two would have been needed to complete the projects. It is so reliable that testing almost becomes fun (but not quite :)
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"ROI - this is the real story here"
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.1
Pros
Iron Speed Designer is my secret developers team enabling me to complete large projects of ~500000 lines of code in less than third the time it would take standard development , with me being the only human developer on the project.
Show me another tool that can do that ...
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"Iron Speed 5.1 is fantastic"
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.1
Pros
Five years ago I was on the sidelines, watching others build great software. I couldn't imagine writing amazing web applications or great web sites. No way! The learning curve was just too long. Then came along Iron Speed Designer, and now I write web apps for a living, using both Iron Speed Designer and Visual Studio for a 1-2 knockout punch. Since then I have mastered .NET, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Thanks Iron Speed!
Cons
Nothing.
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"By far the best .net application generator"
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.1
Pros
I've been in application development for over 10 years, testing out different tools and softwares; and IronSpeed is by far the best .NET code generator out there. As a matter of fact, we did try to build a framework like this before in my ex-job. So, by comparison (and difficulties I faced before), I know how good this product is. I like the way it is taking our whole database design and generates all the OO classes and maintenance pages and it can detect database changes along our development cycle and update base classes accordingly.
Every application would have admin interface, the basic CRUD screens and this tool takes care of that beautifully; my focus is now always on customized business logic - the FUN stuff!
The other very important aspect is that this company keeps rolling out newer updates constantly to keep up with Microsoft VS2008, ajax, vista, etc; this takes away my concern about my application not being supported or getting stuck in old framework/version.
Cons
It could be a little intimidating at the very beginning but it does not take too much time getting used to. Fellow users want to put together a good database design first because this tool is database driven (not really a Con, it's actually a good requirement.) Like what others have mentioned, upfront cost becomes nothing once you see >1 months of work being saved.
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"Saves a months of laborous work."
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.1
Pros
Man, this tool removes the mundane coding of building a system. Object Oriented model makes it so clean and easy to isolate my business logic from the infrastructure of the app. It is easy to Override the existing generated functions, making application customization clean. The overriding concept means that my custom code is not touched each time I use Iron Speed Designer. The Rich object model turns many common tasks into simple configuration options or 'one line of code' tasks.
I especially like the database transactional support. No need to start and end transactions for common tasks - the built in infrastructure handles that for us. If there is a problem, I simply throw and exception and the built-in infrastructure rolls back the transaction (undoing the data changes), prevents 'next page' navigation, and automatically pops up a clean javascript error on the users browser! No more ugly .NET expection pages from a missed exception handler! I used to have to manually write all of that code, now it is built in for every screen generated. And when I have special needs where I want to handle the transaction differently (say, I want to add a database log entry of the error and I DO NOT want that undone), I can change the behavior as necessary by overriding existing routines.
Now I'm no longer in the business of writing boring infrastructure 'frameworks'. Rather, I can leverage the existing framework and focus on the fun part of programming.
I own the Enterprise edition which has all of the time-saving bells and whistles. If you are a serious developer, don't even bother with Pro - you'll just end up loving it so much that you upgrade to Enterprise anyway to get the extra features.
Cons
Can be a bit pricey upfront, however when figuring in the saved money in overall development costs and the shortened development cycle, it more than pays for itself on the 1st project.
The code model can be large and intimidating, however that just means that there is a LOT of included already-written routines to handle common tasks. So it is worth the time to understand as much of the model as possible.
Developers must either already have an existing database created, or they must know how to create one. If a database is designed poorly then the developer will need to do a little extra work to finish the site; most of this work being easy non-code configuration - but it is still huge savings compared to not using Designer. On any 'normal' database, Iron Speed Designer is smart enough to follow the foreign key relationships to render pages the way we would expect - out of the box.
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"Buyer Beware"
Version: Iron Speed Designer 5.1
Cons
Beware of their licensing policy. Iron Speed 'froze' my paid-for-license and won't unlock it until I buy a second license because I unknowningly breached their licensing. The license was only activated on one machine and only one user was using it at a time but since I am the 'licensed user' (although I don't develop with it) but someone else at my company does (who isn't the 'named user') and since I logged on to audit his work they are trying to soak me for more money. This has been the worst customer service experience I have ever had...bar none.
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