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SOURCE CUTTER DEMO

Source Cutter Northwind Demo Overview
The Northwind database is an industry standard database that is used as both a teaching database and a solid, practical database sample for building an application. The Source Cutter Demo, built upon the Northwind database, is used to show how a fully functional web application can be built in minutes using Source Cutter. You may view and use any of the functionality by navigating with the menus on the left. The majority of this demo was developed in less than 10 minutes using Source Cutter.

The following tables highlight each area of functionality, and may be referenced when browsing the demo application. Througout the application you can click on any of the list page headers to sort information in ascending or descending order.

NOTE: The demo application will open in a separate browser to show the default generated look and feel and navigation menus. The look and feel of the web application is completely customizable, in fact RazorSource.com uses the same framework with a customized look and feel.

Functionality Generated & Time

Functionality	Time to Generate Using Source Cutter	Add	Edit	Delete	View	List	Search	Paging	Data Access	Model	Strong Typed Collections
Categories	< 1 minute	X	X	X		X			X	X
Customers	< 1 minute	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Employees	< 1 minute	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Orders	< 2 minutes	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Products	< 1 minute	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Shippers	< 1 minute				X	X		X	X	X	X
Suppliers	< 1 minute	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
Total Time	< 8 minutes

Functionality Notes

Functionality	Notes
Categories	Reference table with Autogenerated primary keys.
Customers	Users may enter and update primary keys (Customer ID).
Employees	Autogenerated primary keys. Validation on date field entry.
Orders	Paging functionality with a relatively larger set of data. Delete functionality omitted. Three lookup fields are included: Customer, Employee, and Ship Via. Lookups provide drop down lists on add and edit pages, and display selected value on list and view pages.
Products	Autogenerated keys that are never visible. Two lookup fields are included: Supplier and Category. Lookups provide drop down lists on add and edit pages, and display selected value on list and view pages.
Shippers	Read only display of data.
Suppliers	Reference table with Autogenerated primary keys.

Other Tasks

Task	Time
Setup Visual Studio Project	N/A Source Cutter Creates a complete Visual Studio project.
Setup Source Cutter Project	< 2 minutes
Import Code into Visual Studio	N/A Source Cutter automatically adds files to Visual Studio.
Add Razor Source Library References	N/A Source Cutter Creates a complete Visual Studio project.
Configure Web.config	N/A Source Cutter automatically configures the web.config file.
Total	< 2 minutes

Summary
The majority of the Source Cutter Northwind Demo Application was created and running in less than 10 minutes*. For comparative reference, to have a competent .Net Software Developer hand code and test the same application would take an estimated 25 days (200 hours).

Also note that updating one template file in the Source Cutter framework can update the entire site's look and feel to accomodate your web site look and feel or branding needs.

Demo Technology
The Source Cutter Northwind Demo was generated in C# with a SQL Server backend database. Sites can also be generated in VB.Net or Java and JSP in similar times with any major database backend.

*The 10 minutes does not include the time to create the overview page you are currently reading.

NOTE: Please note that the demo is fully functional and interactive in order to allow you actually use an application generated by Source Cutter. So please be responsible with any information you place in the demo. The data is periodically refreshed to a baseline set of data. Also note that foreign keys are not checked on delete commands in the demo. So you will receive an exception message if an item constrained by a foreign key reference is deleted.

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