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Upgrading from an earlier version

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of DbNetGrid we recommend that you first make a backup copy of your current installation directory. This will allow you to re-apply any configuration changes that you may have made to the current version. Files that may have been configured include:

• connection.asp (DbNetGrid)
• web.config (DbNetGrid.Net)
• dbnetgrid.xml
• dbnetlang.xml
• desngr.mdb

To upgrade from 3.0 to 3.01 you should download the 3.01 zip archive, remove the web.config file and extract the contents of the zip archive into the current installation folder. Alternatively save the web.config file to another folder and then copy this back into the installation folder after extracting the 3.01 archive.

Whats New in 3.3

• Support for Safari
  Support for Apple's Safari browser has been added
• Support for Progress
  Support for the Progress OpenEdge database has been added
• Support for VistaDB
  Support for the VistaDB database has been added
• Inline HTML Editing
  HTML formatted text can now be edited directly from the Edit dialog
• Spell checking added to edit dialog text fields
  If you have DbNetSpell installed on your web server you can now add spell checking to the text fields in the edit dialog
• Suggest style lookup capability added to Edit dialog
  The ability to implement Google suggest style lookups has been added to the Edit dialog
• Multi-row selection
  Multi-row selection can now be implemented using the multiRowSelect property

• Server-control code generation from Designer
  The Designer now supports the generation of server-side server control code.
• External HTML Editor Integration Support
  Support for integration with TinyMCE, FCKEditor and Cute Editor has been added
• Improved design support in Visual Studio
  Design time support for Visual studio has been enhanced
• Support for PostgreSQL
  Support for the PostgreSQL database has been added

What Was New in 3.1

• User profiles
  User profiles allow a user to save run-time configuration of the grid such as search criteria or sort order to the database as a named profile. This profile can then be selected by the user at a later date to select and restore this configuration.
  
  
• Sub-totals
  Multi-level sub-totaling can now be easily added to any DbNetGrid report.
  
  
• Support for database images (BLOBS)
  You can now display and edit images stored directly in the database as BLOBS.
  
  
• Single-page / WYSIWYG output
  DbNetGrid now includes an option to copy, print or export the current page only. Output is WYSIWYG which means open nested grid content is also included.
  
  
• Encrypted database information
  All database information such as table and columns names can now be encrypted in the client-script to make this information unavailable when viewing the page source code.
  
  
• Edit Lookup text
  The Edit dialog now offer the ability to display a descriptive text value in place of the underlying coded value when used in conjunction with a pop-up lookup.
  
  
• Improved server-control support
  Support for implementaion as a server control has been improved and extended.
  

What Was New in 3.0

In order to add support for the Firefox browser the client-side code for DbNetGrid has been completely re-written and is now implemented as JavaScript object rather than a DHTML behavior. Version 3 also marks the point at which we drop support for the ASP version of DbNetGrid as this allows us to take the product forward by utilising many of the great features available in the .Net Framework but not in ASP.

• Support for the Firefox browser
  DbNetGrid now supports Mozilla Firefox 1+
   
• Improved performance
  The re-writing of the client-side code has allowed us to make significant performance improvements to many areas of DbNetGrid. The following table details the performance improvements recorded in our tests.

  Action	Average Load Time (ms)		Improvement
  	DbNetGrid.Net 2.9	DbNetGrid 3.0
  Grid Load (Customers table)	743	444	40%
  Grid Load with 3 column lookups (Orders table)	1273	552	67%
  Open Edit Dialog (Orders table)	489	367	25%
  Open Edit Dialog (with 3 lookups)	1001	619	38%
  Open Search Dialog (Orders table)	522	381	27%

  Client: IE6 running on Windows XP Pro (2.4GHZ, 512MB RAM)
  Server: Windows 2003, IIS6, Access Northwind Database,

• Improved support for culture
  DbNetGrid will now automatically configure itself for the server-culture so that date and number formats are displayed and validated correctly without any configuration changes.
   
• Improved formatting support
  DbNetGrid now supports a much wider choice of date, number and string formatting options for both display and entry of database values..
   
• Server control functionality
  DbNetGrid can now be added to a page as an ASP.Net server control