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>What rad tool for ASP net did you choose? I'd definitely be interested. Did you test a few of them or determine you liked the first one you found?
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I bought Iron Speed Designer. Having dealt with issues involved in designing, presenting and teaching a RAD tool/framework I looked at it from that perspective. I looked at a number of things that were out there, and this was the only product I saw beside MM .NET ( which I also own ) that would deal with all three tiers. It is a bit further down the road in its development life-cycle that MM as far as I can tell. You can definitely build a full parent-child-grandchild ASP .NET app against a SQLServer back end in either VB .NET or C# in five minutes ! There is a set of "safe classes" generated that will not be overwritten by regenerating code and a whole lot of the design stuff is very customizable. It is an impressive product. For $795 you get the professional version ( enterprise differs only in that it generates stored procs where the prof version writes SPT ) and a year maintenance ( which should cover the new verison for .net 2.0 )

Very good forum ( like VFE's ) on their website for peer to peer support. Very good training stuff. Extremely well documented code.

I like the architecture a lot. They also seem to be pretty robust in adding new features constantly as I am sure it is a very hot market ( god I wish my VFE training stuff had the same potential market - I'd never have to write another line of code :-)

You should definitely DL the full working version ( good for 15 days ) There are a number of videos on the website demonstrating how to use, extend and customize the product. If you check it out, let me know what you think..

http://www.ironspeed.com