Web Applications

Version 3.0 IntraWeb Studio will introduce support for Web Applications - aka. Weblications. That feature gives you basically two things:

• An advanced form layout editor - this allows you to develop amazing user interfaces easily
• Code behind - this allows you to write code which will be executed on the server side (client side code is also possible)

In IntraWeb Studio 1.0 there is already a sneak preview included, it demonstrates how the advanced form editor will look like, and it shows you some of the components which will be available for programming.

What are Weblications? 

A Weblication in this context is everything from a simple dynamic page that pulls data from a database, up to multi-page applications that are stateful.

Contact Forms

A contact for that allows your customers to enter questions, which will get forwarded by email to you. They are probably of the most simple Weblication type.

Can IWS 3.0 do that? Yes!

Guest Books

Guest books allow your users to enter comments which will be visible to other visitors of your Web site - either with a previous login or not. This type of application already reads data from a db (or maybe from a file), and writes data back. Thus this is a more (but not really) complex Weblication type.

Can IWS 3.0 do that? Yes!

Data Entry Forms

A lot of internal Web applications are targeted on providing forms to enter some data to a company database, such as a contacts db. In simple cases these applications have just one form with a grid and a few edit and button controls on it. In complex cases there are a dozen or more forms crosslinked.

Can IWS 3.0 do that? Yes!

Flight Booking Systems

A flight booking system can become pretty complex. It will have a database behind where the user can lookup flights from, it should be able to do search on various criterias, such as date/time, price. At a certain point the user needs to login, he should be able to change is profile and much more.

These kinds of B2C systems are of the most complex application type, as a lot of different pages have to be set up and several different information sources have to be made available.

Can IWS 3.0 do that? Yes!

How does that work?

Basically IntraWeb Studio will provide a C# based form editor, which has a design and source view. This will be very similar to what you know from development environments such as Delphi or Visual Studio. In fact IWS 3.0 provides you an all-in-one IDE for developing .NET based web applications. The core technology behind that is based on the well known IntraWeb framework. Virtually all features of IntraWeb for Delphi or Visual Studio will be available in IntraWeb Studio. You don't need a separate development tool.

To get a first idea of what you can expect please see the screenshot below or see this live demo [coming soon].

This is a look at the IWS IDE, with an IntraWeb form open:

This is the source view of the same form:

Note: these ScreenShots are not faked - they are real!