BLOG by Dennis Garavsky: Looking for practical experiences with both...
You know that XAF supports both ORM libraries to almost the same extent, so there is no noticeable difference at the framework level that should affect your choice in favor of a certain data access...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: XAF 14.2 webinar recording and other interesting videos
I am late with this announcement, but still want to share a link to the webinar we made in early December where Seth demonstrated certain XAF 14.2 features live and talked about XAF application...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: An Entity Framework version of our XCRM demo
You might have noticed that starting with v14.2 we made an EF-based version of our popular XCRM show-case demo. It is installed at %PUBLIC%\Documents\DevExpress Demos 14.2\Components\eXpressApp...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: A sporadic Visual Studio issue with the incorrect...
Have you ever seen a situation when your Actions defined in the Controller designer worked well, but one day they disappeared from the application UI and were no event present in the Application Model?...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: About XAF Types Info Subsystem...
I have just closed the DC - Provide support for dynamic members in domain components ticket with two possible solutions (there were some specifics with regard to the late generation of real XPO classes...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: Model.XAFML and storing XAF application UI settings...
As we are improving our newest "Persisting UI settings in the database" feature (quickly learn more about it from this video or blog), I wanted to pay your attention to the ModelDifferenceDbStore -...
View ArticleBLOG by Robert Anderson: DevExpress 14.2 review
This post is an overview of the brand new version XAF 14.2. The truly outstanding new feature is the ASP.NET report writer which is now available in all XAF applications.A few months ago, we lost a...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: Beware of Windows update KB3025390 as it breaks...
We were lucky enough to come across this issue when one day, almost all our internal functional tests (we use our in-house EasyTest engine) for XAF Web UI failed due to the following...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: Simplifying integration of custom controls bound to...
ScenarioWe are researching options to make it easier for our users to achieve the subject in the next version. One of the popular scenarios we were aware of from our users was integration of custom...
View ArticleNEW COMMIT by apobekiaris:EasyTests for State Machine Admin Roles
https://github.com/expand/eXpand/commit/13b9ed09fc2260e3140415b072fbf4191edac965
View ArticleNEW COMMIT by apobekiaris:ACCORDION EXPANDABLE LAYOUTGROUPS
https://github.com/expand/eXpand/commit/acece4003e194ab6691649ca1ef6880276685b31
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: Storing security settings (users, roles,...
I wanted to inform the community of a solution we have just finished testing for the next XAF version in response to the following customer's business scenario:"We have 2 content databases and we will...
View ArticleNEW COMMIT by apobekiaris:EasyTests for scheduler PopupMenu configuration...
https://github.com/expand/eXpand/commit/e539c5bd2850d0fbc56f48be12a04bf8702da2b0
View ArticleNEW COMMIT by apobekiaris:EasyTests For LayoutStyle
https://github.com/expand/eXpand/commit/3ac3ed455cb3740a0a1778a6ce42ed3a91301826
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: Starting with v15.1, XAF Web pages will be rendered...
We primarily needed this for better operation of the ASP.NET end-user report designer we integrated in XAF v14.2 + some other great stuff we are currently working on for the next major...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: Check out an example demonstrating a possible way of...
The example integration shows how to store DevExpress Snap reports layout in business objects and show a list of these objects, as this is done in the built-in Reports module. The main tool for working...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: How to implement and where to put business logic in...
We have recently rolled out another update of our online documentation where we isolated and detailed one of the most common questions beginners have. Actually, the answer was already present in the...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: Simplifying declaration of calculated properties in...
Starting with v14.2.4 (and even 14.1.9) you can use the DevExpress.ExpressApp.DC.CalculatedAttribute to specify an expression used to calculate a property value of an Entity Framework class in Data...
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: Usability improvements for new XAF apps using XPO...
I would like to inform you that the next v14.2.6 update of XAF will contain two minor improvements that will help you accomplish two common tasks more easily or help you have less problems with them....
View ArticleBLOG by Dennis Garavsky: JFYI for creators of custom PropertyEditors for...
This is just a quick note for advanced XAFers creating complex PropertyEditors in WinForms.If your custom PropertyEditor is intended for complex ListView in-place editing scenarios (e.g., drop-down...
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