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• XAF Cookbook #7 – Add Scrollbars to a TextBox in DetailsView

  Problem You add a text property to a BO, but you require the user to input a number of lines of text, for example in a description field. By default the DetailsView provides a Textbox showing one line of text entry, you wish to show a number of lines... Posted Sep 11 2008, 02:38 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: XAF Cookbook

• XAF Cookbook #6 – Programmatically Add a New BO

  Problem You have defined a business object and XAF has generated the necessary UI to enable you to carry out CRUD functionality; however, you now wish to be able to add a new instance of the business object programmatically. Solution In your chosen module... Posted Sep 09 2008, 12:51 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: XAF, XAF Cookbook

• XAF Cookbook #5 – Customise Your Default BO Images

  Problem You wish to substitute the default image, for a business object, with a custom one of your own. Solution Create two images one 16X16, the other 32X32, name the smaller one with the name of your business object and the larger one with the name... Posted Sep 08 2008, 04:41 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: XAF Cookbook

• XAF Cookbook #4 – Customise the Default Detail View for Your BO

  Problem You have created you own custom business object but you do not like the default layout of the details view. Solution Use the Model Editor (either at design time or runtime) or access the Layout Control in code to affect the required changes. Discussion... Posted Sep 04 2008, 03:54 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: XAF, XAF Cookbook

• XAF Cookbook #3 – Manage Your Custom Business Objects

  Problem You wish to create a win form and web form application to manage CRUD operations for your custom business objects. Solution Create an application, add a DomainObject, define your object’s properties and XAF will, by default, create a web form... Posted Sep 03 2008, 11:53 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: XAF Cookbook

• XAF Cookbook #2 – Change the Default Layout Position of a New Property

  Problem You inherit from an XAF business object and add the new properties your require, however you don’t like the default placement of the property elements on the UI Solution Use the Model Editor to change the default position of the of the UI elements... Posted Sep 02 2008, 05:10 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: XAF, XAF Cookbook

• XAF Cookbook #1 – Quickly Create a Contact Management Application

  Problem You need to quickly create an application to manage Contacts. You want both win form and web form applications. Solution Use XAF to create the win form and web form solutions and sub class the built in Person class to create the Contact class... Posted Aug 29 2008, 03:21 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: XAF, XAF Cookbook