Thursday 1 July 2010

Formsy

Over the last few months I have been working on an open source forms engine I call Formsy.

"Formsy is an XML driven forms engine built with ASP.Net 3.5. Formsy is super easy to use, is completely extensible and generates clean markup for easy styling."

Today I finally launched it on Codeplex.

Formsy came about after my experiences with Umbraco Contour. I had to do some crazy code to get Contour to do things it was really not meant for. It was a real nightmare. Getting Contour to regionalize form labels, validation messages, and validation regular expressions was the least crazy thing we needed to do.

After the Contour experience I realized that I needed some practice with composite controls. So I started to make a little forms engine. Before long, I had all the extra functionality that we required in Contour (eg. custom data storage, custom emails to name just two). At that point I realized that Formsy might be useful to other people. So I set out to add even more functionality.

So here I am 3 days away from my flight overseas launching my Codess-Opess.

I think it's pretty rad.




1 comment:

  1. congratulations anthony.
    Happened to be browsing Codeplex, meanwhile googled your blogpost as well.
    Contacted you via codeplex on help installing formsy as a visual studio express project.
    Love the name formsy too.
    :)

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