Friday, October 24, 2008
Some Enhancements to the Document Management Components

The upcoming build of Milos has a few small but important enhancements for the digital Document Management components.

http://www.YourDomain.com/Downloads/42f39e5c-a012-4d91-8e78-889f2bdccb4c/MyFile.mp3

A route and handler can be set up for this URL like so:

public static class RoutingSetup?
{
    public static void RegisterRoutes?(RouteCollection? routes)
    {
        routes.Add(new Route("Downloads/{DownloadId}/{FileName}?", new FileAttachmentDownloads?()));
    }
}

public class FileAttachmentsDownloads? : IRouteHandler?
{
    var handler = new EPS.Web.DocumentManagementUI.RequestHandler?();
    Guid downloadId = new Guid(requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("DownloadId?"));
    handler.AttachmentId = downloadId;
    return handler;
}

Other enhancements include more automatically determined content types for web downloads (in particular XAML is of importance) and also a few added icons in the windows file attachment grids (MP3 and XAML in particular).

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Background Style of Office Edit Forms

Milos edit forms in WinForms that use the office style usually render a background pattern similar to Microsoft Word or Excel. Some people ask to turn that off (and how to achieve that). It is quite simple, actually:

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Non-Key Auto-Increment Fields

Here's a small Milos feature addition that could be of interest to some people: We now support auto-increment fields that aren't key fields. In the past, we only supported such fields when they were in fact key fields (and there is quite a bit of functionality Milos has specific to that). In the latest version, such fields can be any field in the database.