COM Express 2.0

COM Express is the ultimate VB database tool, which builds N(3)-Tier application(with unlimited hierarchical support, COM+ and GUI) in minutes.The product is quite remarkable and easy to learn and use whether you are a new programmer or a veteran.
 
1) General  
Generate ready-to-run N(3)-tier VB COM Objects, windows and ASP GUI applications (UI layer).
Generate ready-to-run VB.Net windows and ASP.NET applications
Full supports for COM/COM+
Full supports for MS SOAP Toolkit 2.0
Full support for Microsoft SQL-Server, Jet and Oracle database
Supports for MS SQL Server XML Feature
Wizard powered, Drag and drop, point and click User Interface, Context-sentive help
 

2) Customization  
100% templates driven:
Code generation is 100% customizable with VBScript-powered templates (you can build new templates from scratch or use your own coding style). Template scripting is set in a way very identical to ASP coding. This is to cut the learning curve for the end user.
Provides a professional template editor to facilitate the templates building and editing. Introduce a COM-based Project Object Model (POM) to let you customize templates. POM is also the foundation of our template-driven mechanism and has very rich interfaces which covers all database and user-defined information for object building.
A template-scripting manual( chm file format) is provided.
 
Visual Basic 6 templates :
2 Object Templates: 3-tier template and N-tier template (builds Data-Centric objects and UI-Centric objects).
6 UI Templates: allows you to choose building sophisticated Windows and ASP GUI application.
 
Supported Third Party Controls For VB 6:
Grid controls: TrueDBGrid 7/8, JanusGridEX 2000, Infragistics Ultragrid 2, XpressQuantumGrid, MSDataGrid, FlexGrid 7.0
Toolbar controls: VB Toolbar, Infragistics UltraToolbarPlus, Datadynamics ActiveBar 2, SmartUI 1.0, Sax SmartUI 2.0
Switchboard controls: COMExpress default, Infragistics Listbar, Janus Buttonbar, Datadynamics ActiveBar 2, SmartUI 1.0, Sax SmartUI 2.0, VS Style ToolBox bar
Tab controls: MS TabStrip, VS Style Tab Control
Report controls: Datadynamics activereport
 
Supported Third Party Controls For VB.Net:
Grid controls: Janus Grid for .Net,Infragistics Ultragrid for VS.Net, MSDataGrid
Switchboard controls: COMExpress default, Infragistics Listbar for VS.Net, Janus Buttonbar for VS.Net, Janus ExplorerBar for VS.Net
 
Visual Basic.Net templates: includes 1 Object template and 1 windows UI template and 1 ASP.Net template.
 
Control Library: The new control library makes it possible for you to use literally any third-party edit controls. In most cases, all you need to do for adding a new custom edit control is incredibly easy: just add a new entry and fill in a few settings and COM Express will handle the rest of it. Of course if you add a control which needs to be initialized in some way, you might need to do some extra coding manually.  

3) Features for Generated VB 6 Application  
N-level Hierarchical Support :Full support for relational hierarchies to n-level (add as many children/grandchildren as you like, no limits at all). This promises applies to business objects generated by COM Express as well as GUI applications generated. You can do one method call to your component to load a object with hierarchical data. Ensure hierarchical data transfer in one round trip for COM+ components. That is, if you loads a order(include order header info and a number of order lineitems) from a remote database server via COM+ components generated by COM Express, you only need to do one method call and the data transfer occurs once to minimize the network traffic and boost performances. GUI application handles Master/Child forms gracefully. It handles automatic drill-down to a unlimited level. Even if a master has more than one child, it handle the situation with no problem.  
Auto generate form controls: COM Express automatically generate VB controls( Edit box, Combo Box(Dropdown), DateTime Picker, ListBox, Check box or Edit Mask Box……) for your forms. You can also let COM Express to generate any other third-party controls for your application by using control library. A built-in VB Form designer is included to help you change the form control layouts on the fly.
 
User Security: COM Express can generate business objects which implements role-based user securities. There is a universal user security manager provided to edit security and user settings. You can define insert/read/write/delete privileges for each property and object for each user.
 
Validation Rules: COM Express generates business object which supports embedded script-based validation rules. Validation rules are saved into a binary file(.rul) outside your dll which can be later recreated without recompilation of the binary. You can edit it using COM Express project manager.
 
MS Access style Advanced Search Screen:COM Express generates a "Find" command for your windows GUI applications. This is a very powerful search feature. This is created by COM Express automatically and you don't have to do anything in the project manager.  

4) Features for Generated VB.Net Application  
MS Access style Advanced Search Screen: COM Express generates a "Find" command for your windows GUI applications. This is a very powerful search feature. This is created by COM Express automatically and you don't have to do anything in the project manager.  
ASP.Net support: The generated ASP.NET application uses the greate datagrid control. It supports on-line editing and provides nice visual styles.  
N-level Hierarchical Support : Full support for relational hierarchies to n-level (add as many children/grandchildren as you like, no limits at all). This promises applies to business objects generated by COM Express as well as GUI applications generated. You can do one method call to your component to load a object with hierarchical data. Ensure hierarchical data transfer in one round trip for COM+ components. That is, if you loads a order(include order header info and a number of order lineitems) from a remote database server via COM+ components generated by COM Express, you only need to do one method call and the data transfer occurs once to minimize the network traffic and boost performances. GUI application handles Master/Child forms gracefully. It handles automatic drill-down to a unlimited level. Even if a master has more than one child, it handle the situation with no problem.  
Auto generate form controls: COM Express automatically generate VB controls( Edit box, Combo Box(Dropdown), DateTime Picker, ListBox, Check box or Edit Mask Box……) for your forms. You can also let COM Express to generate any other third-party controls for your application by using control library. A built-in VB Form designer is included to help you change the form control layouts on the fly.

5) Samples  
COM Express generated VB6 applications sample sources
Windows: Northwind Trader( user security enforced)
Windows: Time Billing System
 
COM Express generated VB.Net applications sample sources
Windows: Northwind Trader
ASP.Net: Northwind Trader