First Dates

A simple TV casting application form with admin system allowing staff to search and track the progress of the applicants, hosted on AWS infrastructure.

a semi-dynamic form builder was used to quickly define forms and render them

As there were a number of forms all slightly different, I developed a semi-dynamic form builder. The form definition was a simple C# class decorated with attributes.

public class CastingForm
{
    [Required]
    [Dropdown()]
    public string Age { get; set; }

    [Required()]
    [Textbox()]
    [Display(Name = "My email address")]
    [IgnorecaseRegularExpression(@"^[^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+$", true, ErrorMessage = "You must enter a valid email address")]
    public string Email { get; set; }

    [IgnorecaseRegularExpression(@"^.*\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$", true, ErrorMessage = "Please make sure your image is either a jpg, gif or png")]
    [Required]
    [MaxFileSizeAttribute(1048576, ErrorMessage = "Please make sure your image is under 1MB")]
    [FileUpload]
    [Display(Name = "Upload a photo. (max 1MB. Jpgs, pngs, and gifs only)")]
    [Ignore]
    public HttpPostedFileBase Photo { get; set; }

    ...
}

The form is then rendered as HTML via a simple, generic piece of Razor:

foreach (var question in Html.GetQuestions(Model))
{
    <div class="question">
        <div class="question-text">
            @Html.RenderQuestion(question)

            @if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(question.SupportingText))
            {
                <div class="supporting-text">@Html.Raw(question.SupportingText)</div>
            }
        </div>
 
        <div class="answer @question.Id">
            @Html.RenderAnswer(question)
        </div>
    </div>
}

I'm working on releasing the form builder as a separate piece of Open Source Software.