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XAF–Ask the Team Webinar Today!

Yes folks, it’s that time of the month again! The time where all you good XAF programmers out there can role up to our webinar and ask me and the team any question about XAF that’s on your mind. Details of this month’s webinar can be found here , where...

Posted May 05 2011, 11:34 AM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: XAF, Webinar

XAF is on The Move And so am I

But don’t worry because neither of us are going very far. Firstly, and most importantly, where is the XAF content going? Well, as you’ll know by now, we were lucky enough to hire Tolis as a new evangelist on the frameworks team. Obviously he’ll be blogging...

Posted Apr 13 2011, 08:44 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: XAF, Evangelism

XAF–Domain Components How-to Implement an Address in a Business Entity

This post may be outdated. For the latest Domain Components concepts and examples refer to the current online documentation . Addresses are funny things aren’t they? If you own the the Address class, and you are writing it for your own application then...

Posted Mar 28 2011, 04:57 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF, DC, Domain Components

XAF - Domain Components How-to: Implement Notes Functionality in a Business Entity

This post may be outdated. For the latest Domain Components concepts and examples refer to the current online documentation . Notes, every business needs them. Every person in the company who has contact with a customer has to be able to record that fact...

Posted Mar 25 2011, 06:27 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF, DC, Domain Components

XAF – UI Customization Webinar 10:00 PST / 18:00 GMT

Just a reminder that I’ll be delivering a webinar tonight on the subject of UI customizations in XAF , you can register for the webinar here . The webinar will be held at 1000 PST / 1800 GMT so I hope to see all you XAF’ers there. You can get a full listing...

Posted Mar 11 2011, 02:15 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF

XAF – Domain Components How-to: Implement a Default Property for a Business Entity Derived from Multiple Components

This post may be outdated. For the latest Domain Components concepts and examples refer to the current online documentation . In the UI of XAF any object can be represented by a string, called its display name, and you can easily specify any property...

Posted Feb 24 2011, 11:00 AM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF, DC, Domain Components

XAF – Mastering Domain Components, a How-to Series

This post may be outdated. For the latest Domain Components concepts and examples refer to the current online documentation . A while ago I wrote a blog post detailing the state of Domain Component technology in the 10.2 release . In that blog post I...

Posted Feb 24 2011, 10:00 AM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF, DC, Domain Components

XAF Localization – Help from the Community

XAF Localization – A Little Revision Remember a while ago I wrote about localizing applications in 10.2? Well if you don’t, you can refresh your memories by reading these posts: New Localization Tool Module Localizations Stored in Satellite Assemblies...

Posted Feb 07 2011, 03:42 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF

XAF – Web Applications: Lightweight Rendering Mode

Before I disappear for a few days holiday over the Christmas period, I just wanted to leave you with a little “present” from the XAF team. Now, you may have already heard that we have planned a lot of improvements to the XAF Web UI for 2011, including...

Posted Dec 23 2010, 07:28 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF

XAF–The State of Domain Components Technology in V2010 Vol 2

This post may be outdated. For the latest Domain Components concepts and examples refer to the current online documentation . During the 10.2 release cycle, we have been closely working with the XPO team to allow pure XPO to support many popular scenarios...

Posted Dec 01 2010, 06:39 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 16 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF, v2010.2, XCRM, DC

XAF - Dog-Fooding with Conditional Appearance

As many of you might already know, we are successfully using XAF for many our internal applications. For example, our bug and support issues tracking applications (DXSupport, having both Win and Web parts) and applications for maintaining sales (MyDX...

Posted Nov 30 2010, 01:40 AM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF, v2010.2

XAF – Improvements to the Conditional Appearance Module (Coming in V2010 Vol 2)

As you’ll remember, starting from v2010 vol 1.5, XAF shipped with a preview of the Conditional Appearance module . This module allows you to dynamically configure the UI, and is designed to supersede the Conditional Formatting and Conditional Editor State...

Posted Nov 17 2010, 03:20 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF, v2010.2

XAF – How to Create a Custom Translation Provider for the XAF Localization Tool (Coming in V2010 Vol 2)

You’ll recall that I already blogged about the new Localization tool coming in 10.2? By default, this tool utilizes the Microsoft Translator ™ service (originally we used the Google Translate ™ service, but we had to switch for licensing reasons). However...

Posted Nov 15 2010, 05:10 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with no comments

Filed under: XAF, v2010.2

XAF – List Editors, KPI And Dashboard Improvements (Coming in V2010 Vol 2)

In this blog post we’ll take a look at some of the improvements to the Pivot and Chart List Editors , KPI and Dashboard features that I introduced in previous blogs. Runtime Dashboard Creation The first thing we’ve done is to implement the ability to...

Posted Nov 04 2010, 12:27 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 9 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF, v2010.2

XAF – Filtering Improvements (Coming in V2010 Vol 2)

In 10.2 we’ve re-written a lot of the XAF internals and as a result, we now have complete support for function criteria operators in all areas of XAF; for example, when specifying criteria for reports ( FilterString property ), List Views ( SetFilterAction...

Posted Nov 02 2010, 08:22 PM by Gary Short (DevExpress) with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: XAF, v2010.2

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XAF–Ask the Team Webinar Today!

XAF is on The Move And so am I

XAF–Domain Components How-to Implement an Address in a Business Entity

XAF - Domain Components How-to: Implement Notes Functionality in a Business Entity

XAF – UI Customization Webinar 10:00 PST / 18:00 GMT

XAF – Domain Components How-to: Implement a Default Property for a Business Entity Derived from Multiple Components

XAF – Mastering Domain Components, a How-to Series

XAF Localization – Help from the Community

XAF – Web Applications: Lightweight Rendering Mode

XAF–The State of Domain Components Technology in V2010 Vol 2

XAF - Dog-Fooding with Conditional Appearance

XAF – Improvements to the Conditional Appearance Module (Coming in V2010 Vol 2)

XAF – How to Create a Custom Translation Provider for the XAF Localization Tool (Coming in V2010 Vol 2)

XAF – List Editors, KPI And Dashboard Improvements (Coming in V2010 Vol 2)

XAF – Filtering Improvements (Coming in V2010 Vol 2)