What You Can Do With the Animit Data Shortcut

You are only limited by your imagination. Like Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, the shortcut gets you started quickly, but does not confine your application to any particular form. The original Animit Data Shortcut can handle any type of data you may want. It can look however you want. It can be organized however you want.



What does it make?


The original shortcut makes a scaffolded web application, which reads and writes data in a straight-forward way. The output from your server will be HTML with some JavaScript... a web site. You can add a template to change the look. The best part is you can modify anything it as long as you know the technologies listed above!

The shortcut itself is mainly a set of extensions and features added to Microsoft's Dynamic Data. It adds many features, which you will likely need to make a real data-driven application. For instance:

• Security (with very powerful options)
• Web services (for interacting with other applications of any type)
• Automatically calculated data
• Virtual data (calculated but not found in data source)
• Automated responses to data changes
• Default values (enhanced from Microsoft's implementation)
• Uploaded images and other files
• Filtering options (enhanced)
• Advanced and complex sorting

... just to name a few.

What if you don't need a web application made of HTML and JavaScript? I'm planning to adapt the shortcut to additional types including desktop applications and other types of web applications. One of the great things about this shortcut's future is that it's pretty well abstracted from the UI. That means I can use the same binaries (more or less) to build the other types of shortcuts for other types of applications. Look for them in the future!