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Design Considerations

When creating the user interface for your client application, note that the toolset representation will not be identical to what you see at runtime. There are minor differences between what you see in different types of client applications: GUI, ASP.NET Web Clients, and Web Generation. Following are some of the differences you should expect, though the following items do not represent a comprehensive list of the differences between GUI, ASP.NET Web Clients, and Web Generation.

• Prompts in list boxes-ASP.Net Web Clients show prompts above the Table while in Web Generation they appear as part of the Table.
• Assembling of images-ASP.NET Web Client includes only images specified in the model. Web Generation includes all the contents of the HTML\images directory including subdirectories.
• Blank line option for dropdown list-ASP.Net Web Clients show blank line option in the Dropdown list while in Web Generation the <NONE> option is shown.

User Interface Refresh-In certain instances, ASP.NET Web Client applications will reflect updates on a page more frequently than GUI applications. For example, if in your application you update an export view and call a MessageBox, you would not see the window updated in GUI until you acknowledge the MessageBox.  In ASP.NET Web Clients, you would see the update as soon as the MessageBox is displayed.