LassoSoft Technical Article Library
These Articles give practical use advice as well as exploring the fundamentals behind Lasso code and how this interrelates with other system, databases and applications.
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Tour guide: Jolle Carlestam This is a summary of a presentation held at the LDC in Amsterdam 2009. It's a quick tour on what you can, can't, should and shouldn't do with inlines and Lasso...
Updated: Mar 29, 2011 @ 09:53 AM
Taken from the tip of the week for May 30, 2008, this article discusses how an inline processes its parameters and how an array of common parameters can be used to make your code easier to maintain. ...
Updated: Mar 25, 2011 @ 09:37 AM
The text to support the talk at the LDC in Amsterdam 2009 Pier Kuipers, Visual ID, Dublin, Ireland Overview When building web applications with Lasso, there comes a time when you realise that there...
Updated: Mar 25, 2011 @ 09:33 AM
This article describes a method for using lasso to serve and read native files, i.e. native Word, Excel etc files, generated by Lasso. There are many reasons you might want to serve for instance MS W...
Updated: Mar 24, 2011 @ 23:40 PM
This article presents several techniques which use arrays to help simplify your Lasso code. An array is used to help format several fields from a database. An array is used to help simplify a conditio...
Updated: Mar 24, 2011 @ 23:03 PM
The tip of the week for March 21, 2008 explains how Lasso's tag namespaces can be used to more easily call sets of custom tags which you have defined. For example, this allows you to use a differe...
Updated: Mar 24, 2011 @ 22:56 PM
Why doesn't [action_param] always return the value passed in a form or URL? Problem Why doesn't [action_param] always return the value passed in a form or URL? Answer [action_param] is sco...
Updated: Mar 24, 2011 @ 22:34 PM
Explaining Lasso Licensing Lasso 8.6 and 9 introduce the concept of Lasso "Instances", which are similar to Lasso "Sites" in Lasso Professional 8.5 and earlier. The licensing mode...
Updated: Mar 17, 2011 @ 22:02 PM
The tip of the week from March 9, 2007 includes a discussion of how to use fonts when creating PDF files through Lasso. The tip includes information about built-in fonts, True Type fonts, and conversi...
Updated: Mar 16, 2011 @ 21:35 PM
Note: This applies only to Lasso 9.1.3 and earlier. Lasso 9.1.4 and later uses its own customized FastCGI connector for which this is not an issue. On Apache web servers, it's common practic...
Updated: Mar 16, 2011 @ 21:30 PM
