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If you’ve been following the videos that Oliver and I have been doing you will, by now, have a good introduction to the XAF product. In this video we are going to take things to the next level by showing you the development of a simplistic, but functioning blogging engine. Having done that, Oliver and I will quietly slip away from Developer Express and try to make our fortunes selling our new product to the Silicon Valley VCs; stick around and watch the next video in the series to see how that works out for us. :-)

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Published Jun 26 2008, 05:41 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress)
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Roman Atachiants said:

Excellent one! I think it's very representative of XAF customization & extensibility features :-)

June 26, 2008 4:05 PM
 

Linton said:

Okay...these videos are getting MUCH more interesting...

Errr...Oliver...can you post the specs on your Apple (e.g. Model, are you booting to Windows or using an VM, etc.) I'll be moving from a Lenovo T60p to Apple soon (thanks to Silverlight :-)

June 27, 2008 12:32 AM
 

richard morris said:

good demo.  

I suspect the keystroke weirdness you noticed might be karma striking you down for using a Mac.

June 27, 2008 7:39 AM
 

Tarik Souirji said:

Very interesting, this brings XAF to the top of the list of things I want to investigate on my spare time. I've found this video much more pleasing to follow than the list of articles (10) published right before teched.  Keep them comming as they are very welcome !

Cheers

June 27, 2008 8:37 AM
 

Alexander Koger said:

How about Security? SQL-Injections and so on?

Since buildung WebApplications is made "easy" with the help of XAF, maybe Security could be neglected.

Best Regards,

Alex

June 27, 2008 8:57 AM
 

Rory Becker - DevExpress said:

Nice video. Great to get a view of someone actually using XPO/XAF. Makes the whole thing much clearer.

Keep them coming :)

June 27, 2008 10:57 AM
 

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress) said:

Linton -

It's a boring standard MacBook, the black one. I'm running Windows in VMWare Fusion.

Alexander -

Yeah, it could be. It's not, though.

June 27, 2008 12:26 PM
 

Alfred Ortega said:

I'm new to XPO/XAF and when I saw the XPO demo I was really impressed - it was great.  Especially the creating the db/schema on the fly so the dev doesn't have to worry about that stuff while designing the app.  Well Done!  

I do have a question on the XPO/XAF - specifically regarding web applications although it may apply to winforms as well (not really a winforms guy).  Can XPO be used as a simple object datasource instead of doing all the additional steps you had to do to bind a datalist to the blog object collection?  

-Al

June 27, 2008 2:12 PM
 

drew.. said:

I to appreciate the videos and hope they keep coming. With that said, since this is relatively new to DX, some thoughts: not to offend, but to suggest: don't talk over each other. If you have to, pass a bottle of guiness back and forth and the one without the bottle does the talking.

ps: more standard xaf activities please..

June 29, 2008 2:03 PM
 

Gary Short said:

@Drew, Drink beer? A German and a Scot? Nah, surely not... :-)

June 30, 2008 8:31 AM
 

Mike_Grace said:

Are DevExpress planning a book?

I ask because XAF looks fantastic but very involved and complicated. For example, why did you use a usercontrol for the listView but an .aspx control for the detail page?

June 30, 2008 5:12 PM
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