Page Comparison

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For managing such a person object in a web application, uigen.exe generates two types of forms:

• a data entry form for editing a single Person object (an EditPersonForm.aspx)
• a page for listing all Person objects in the database (a SearchResultPersonForm.aspx)

Here are illustrations for each.

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uigen.exe saves you a lot of work, but there is still room for improvement in the generated application. As you can see in the pictures:

• The extra DisplayName must be removed manually
• Lack of features (how to add some of those is explained in the PhoneBook tutorial)
• No globalization – the "_en" are placeholders, because uigen.exe what strings you want for property identifiers like PhoneNumber

uigen.exe is based on templates

re-motion web applications share a lot of code. For this reason, templates are expanded for each file in the resulting web application project (like
PhoneBook.Web). The resulting project is mirrored by the original template project, i.e. a directory tree with one template for each generated target file. The following tech-note is dedicated to the subject of how this mechanism works and how templates are expanded, and the elements of the (home-grown) template language: What uigen.exe does.

See also

• using uigen.exe
• uigen.exe configuration file
• sample uigen.exe configuration file
• trouble-shooting uigen.exe
• what uigen.exe does