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• Constraints included - considerations on framework structure, architecture and evolution

  Somewhere on a forum, I found people engaged in a discussion about various business application frameworks, and somebody commented (paraphrased): "XAF is probably not the right choice for us, as it seems constrain us too much with regard to applications... Posted Jul 03 2008, 04:22 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• Busy times

  After coming back home from Orlando, I had two events to attend. The first was the brilliant UK NxtGenUG Fest 08 in Reading. This was a day of .NET topics and I presented on F#. I met a few of our customers there who hadn't made it to TechEd the week... Posted Jun 19 2008, 06:52 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: XAF

• No rest for the wicked - video announcements for XAF and XPO

  ... or the non-wicked, depending on your definition of "wicked" :-) In between exhibition hours here at TechEd, Gary and I managed to get Jeff to record an introduction video with the two of us. We talk a bit about the other videos we're... Posted Jun 04 2008, 03:06 AM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: XAF, XPO

• XAF - 10 - Advanced data layer features

  This is post no. 10 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . I've reached the last post in the mini series, and this is going to be about the functionality XAF inherits... Posted May 31 2008, 04:35 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• XAF - 9 - Styling ASP.NET applications - delayed

  This should have been post no. 9 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . Well, it's not. I decided to post this anyway to let those who've been following the series... Posted May 31 2008, 10:57 AM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: XAF, ASP.NET

• XAF - 8 - Add your own UI parts

  This is post no. 8 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . The message I'm trying to convey today is really very simple: if there's something you can't do within... Posted May 29 2008, 04:02 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• XAF - 7 - Take advantage of the UI abstraction

  This is post no. 7 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . As you know if you've had a look at our XAF pages or tried the product yourself, there's a layer in XAF... Posted May 28 2008, 04:51 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• XAF - 6 - XAF Extensibility Points

  This is post no. 6 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . XAF is a highly modularized and extensible platform. This is quite obvious as soon as you start creating your own... Posted May 27 2008, 06:23 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• XAF - 5 - Go do it! Action types and options

  This is post no. 5 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . As soon as you've written some application specific business functionality, the next important step is to make... Posted May 26 2008, 03:52 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• XAF - 4 - General purpose standard modules

  This is post no. 4 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . One of the main ideas behind XAF is to make the framework do lots of the work for you that you would otherwise have... Posted May 23 2008, 03:01 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• XAF - 3 - Validation and what (else) you can do with it

  This is post no. 3 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . The Validation module in XAF is probably one of the most important functional modules we offer, and with its flexibility... Posted May 22 2008, 06:09 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• XAF - 2 - Customizing the default applications

  This is post no. 2 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . In the process of creating applications based on XAF , the next step after the creation of business classes is the... Posted May 21 2008, 04:30 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• Exciting things about XAF not exciting enough?

  I've heard some criticism about the first post in my 10 exciting things to know about XAF series: apparently it's not exciting enough! Well, let me tell you: the day that we don't receive a single support request about the matters I mentioned... Posted May 21 2008, 11:51 AM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• XAF - 1 - Best practices for domain objects

  This is post no. 1 in the mini series "10 exciting things to know about XAF". You can find the announcement of the series here . This post is not so much about ways of creating good domain object hierarchies. Of course this is an important and... Posted May 20 2008, 04:06 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: XAF

• 10 exciting things to know about XAF

  On June 2nd, TechEd in Orlando gets started. Several of us (let's see - Julian, Mark, Ray, Mehul, Gary, Azret, Jeff, me... I'm probably forgetting somebody) are going to be there at the Developer Express booth, and of course we're hoping to... Posted May 19 2008, 04:18 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: XAF