There are a lot of little things one has to do to complete any project. Exporting files, tweaking data, documenting things, coming up with graphics are just some of the skills developers need. Technical books projects are a lot like software projects...

Using XAF recently reminded me of my Smalltalk days in the early ‘90s, more on why that was at the end of the post, but for now let’s talk about pair programming . You know about pair programming right? It’s a practice in eXtreme Programming whereby two...

I was curious and surprised to discover that some employers are literally listing “Developer Express controls experience” as a pre-requisite for some programming employment. For some employers it is not enough to be a good developer, a good ASP.NET programmer...

Here's the Message from the CTO from the fifth DevExpress Newsletter: Being first or being best... It's a problem to be sure. You're working on a software solution for some new problem space. You know your competitors are working on similar...

Every once in a while some confluence of events causes my Developer Express controls to disappear from the Visual Studio toolbox. I am not going to be an apologist for this, but support are having problems reproducing this problem. (If any of you have...

JavaScript is most commonly used for client-side Web programming. You can use JavaScript for other things, for example, it is used with Visual Studio Add-Ins and wizards, but generally we think of JavaScript as a Web technology. JavaScript is syntactically...

CodeRush Xpress is a powerful developer productivity tool from Dev Express. The product is free, licensed by Microsoft on behalf of all developers working in Visual Studio 2008 in all paid-for product skus (e.g., Standard, Professional, Team System)....

So I'm sure you probably noticed more than a few DXers talking about Apples lately, Our CTO Julian just tweeted that his new IPhone 3GS was on it's way to him, and Evangelist Gary just blogged about new features in the latest IPhone 3.0 software...

Recently I had an IM chat with the XAF team that went something like this (I paraphrase of course): Them : Hey Gary we need a new PM app so we’re gonna write one and we want you to blog about it as we go. Me : Cool, no problem. Just let me know what you...

So June 17 finally rolled round and I was able to update my iPhone from 2.X to 3.0, yay! Of course it wasn’t that straight forward, when is it ever, right? I mean the download went smoothly enough, but then I had to wait for the Apple Activation Server...

Ever seen the XAF validation dialog? Yeah of course you have. Ever double clicked on the text in the “Description” column? Nope, me neither until recently, try it now: Whoah, what happened there?! DevExpress secret sauce happened! Well okay, not so secret...

As a man I never read the instructions; it’s baked into our DNA. There were no instruction manuals back when we lived in caves, right? So if we didn’t need them then, we sure as heck don’t need them now. This applies doubly so when I’m working with XAF...

Check out this 10 minute TechEd video interview with Miguel Castro. Miguel is an ASP.NET MVP and the wizard behind the DXAirways real world application videos. At TechEd 2009, Miguel gave a talk called “ASP.NET: Under the covers” and I was lucky to grab...

Check out this in-depth LINQ integration with ASPxGridView video . This video updates an older LINQ video and is probably the best LINQ video evar! Because of your comments (and questions) in the blogs, forums and TV site, the video is now packed with...

Check out this list of new controls and features for ASP.NET editor controls in the DXperience 2009 volume 2 release. First, the common ASP.NET editors like the textbox, combo box and others are finally get their due respect. Yes, these ASP.NET editors...