Charles,

Iron Speed is sort of its own development platform that sits on top of .NET. You give it a normalized database and it generates all of the standard add/edit/delete pages.

Its advantages are:

1. Don't have to write any code to have a working application.
2. It has a built-in set of XML attribute tags that you can use to customize the generated application.

Disadvantages:

1. Doesn't generate source code unless you buy the expensive version.
2. Creates only 2-tiered applications (IIS <-> Database Server).
3. No matter which theme you choose, the generated application looks like a generated application.
4. Once you start an application with Iron Speed, you are stuck using it for all of the web forms in the application. If you have a web form that you want to create by hand, you have to use the XML attribute tags to coerce Iron Speed into generating approximately what you want.

For me, Iron Speed is a good tool for prototyping evaluation models that my clients can play with. I don't use it to build production applications, however.

>I've just downloaded the evaluation version of Iron Speed Designer 1.7. Does anyone have experience with it or observations and opinions?
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>Comments appreciated. Thanks.