ASP.NET Maker 2021 is a major upgrade from v2020 and is loaded with a bunch of new features, including many frequently requested ones. ASP.NET Maker is probably the most powerful and flexible product of its kind, and yet still easy-to-use as always.

 

.NET 5

Use .NET 5 and net5.0 Target Framework Moniker (TFM)

 

Enhanced Validation

• Validate all fields before submit
• Show invalid feedback below the fields
• Focus the first invalid field
• Work with server side validation

 

Field Input Help Text (Custom Message)

• Set up in Edit Tag panel (support Multi-Language), or
• Set up by server event as CustomMsg property of field objects

 

Enhanced Charts

• Up to 4 trend lines
• chartjs-plugin-annotation.js
• chartjs-plugin-datalabels

 

 

Remote Connection to MySQL/PostgreSQL via PHP script

 

Encrypted Connection with MySQL/PostgreSQL

 

Sharing Project with Other Users

• Support GitHub (with encryption of GitHub URL, username and password)
• Git Fetch/Pull/Push/Sync
• Auto fetch
• Show changes in status bar
• Commit changes with message

 

Improved Custom Template

• Faster rendering of Custom Template
• Code Repository supports scripting for fast and complex Custom Template generation
  

 

Improved Select Tag

• Replace HTML Select Element by Select2
• Bootstrap 4 theme for Select2
• Tagging with multiple selection
  
• Option to require search
  
• Search box for large result sets
  

 

Improved Dropdown for Radio/Checkbox Tag

 

Improved Toasts

AdminLTE Toasts Plugin (activated as a jQuery plugin) with different options and events.

 

Improved Alerts

• Replace Bootstrap Modal alerts by SweetAlert2
• Bootstrap 4 theme for SweetAlert2
• Alert for export
  
• Alert for session timout
  

 

Swagger UI for REST API

 

New Advanced Settings

• Log SQL
• Log error to file
• Environment
• Generate production appsettings.json
• Add novalidate attribute to form
• Connection info of production server (JSON)
• Sort option - Toggle or Tristate
• Invalid user name characters
• Invalid password characters
• Use Bootstrap switch for boolean fields
• Use OverlayScrollbars
• Form value count limit
• Use SignalR (for user's own usage only)
• Access-Control-Allow-Headers
  
• API Access-Control-Allow-Headers
• Use Swagger UI for API
• Chart scale begin with zero
• Chart scale minimum value
• Chart scale maximum value
• Git repo URL
• Git user name
• Git password
• Git auto fetch
• Git auto fetch period (seconds)
• Prompt for Git commit message

 

New Server Events

• Route_Action - For adding user defined routes
• Api_Action - For adding user defined API actions
• Container_Build - For adding user defined services
• Service_Add - For adding services
  

 

More

• New Html2OpenXml extension for exporting to Word document (.docx) (for registered users)
• Query builder for building SQL by code easily
• User Level Security supports multiple user levels for each user
• Save locale settings in project
• New URL connection script to simulate direct connection
• Handle SQLite INTEGER field with CHECKBOX Edit Tag as boolean field
• Fixed header table extension supports user permission setup page
• CAPTCHA extensions supports two CAPTCHAs (one in page, the other in modal dialog)
• Allow user defined string functions for selecting in View Tag
• Support accept and capture attributes for file upload fields
• Clear sorting in List pages by shift-clicking table column header
• Save state of AdminLTE Sidebar
• Show version in project history
• Searchbox for table (Database pane)
• Searchbox for output files (Generate form)
• Add user DLL to project
• Allow unloading loaded table (for "Load tables dynamically")
• JavaScript compressor with ES6+ support
• Moment, jQuery File Upload, TimePicker, dompdf, CKEditor, JsRender, OverlayScrollbars and tinyMCE updated
• Many other minor improvements