One of SmartClient’s most powerful and popular features is built-in support for dragging between grids and trees that you can simply enable with property settings. That’s pretty easily understood and has been a part of SmartClient since 2001. What’s new and more interesting is what should happen when you have a databound grid connected to data from web services, SQL...

At long last, the fabled 7.0 is available for everyone to try out. Use the download links below. http://smartclient.com/releases/SmartClient_70beta_LGPL.zip http://smartclient.com/releases/SmartClient_70beta_Evaluation.zip (30 day eval) Please post any issues with 7.0 in the SmartClient Forums as usual, but please be very sure to mention that you are reporting an issue with 7.0 beta (ideally, put it in the subject line). The list...

As the first of more to come, we’ve created a video tour of the SmartClient Visual Builder tool. The video shows you how to use Visual Builder to create a web application without writing any code. The tool can be used by business analysts and semi-technical folks to create working prototypes or by developers just learning SmartClient to create simple...

Just came across this great blog post from SmartClient user David Johnson about a technique for loading required DataSources dynamically as part of a view. “So how do we provide DataSources customized for the user? Well, we could easily pull the metadata from the database, merge in the user’s security and then write the DataSources into the web page (we...