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• XPOlympics – Serialising RSS Feeds Using XPO

  Although the UK is a crowded island sitting on the border of the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, comfortably far from mainland Europe, its population is relatively small; in fact when compared to the those of China or India it is, in fact, tiny (estimated... Posted Aug 20 2008, 01:19 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: XPO

• XPO Will Benefit from the Entity Framework

  Yesterday, as I was pondering the internals of the XAF model for my ongoing localization project , I received an email from the Microsoft Community Leaders mailing list informing me that the Entity Framework will ship as part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1... Posted Aug 01 2008, 11:28 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 25 comment(s) Filed under: XPO

• XPO Demonstration Part 2

  If you watched the first part of this demonstration you’ll obviously be interested in how our plan, to have an army of “Garys” do our work for us, is coming along. If so, check out the latest video here . Um, I suppose there’s also a chance that you are... Posted Jun 24 2008, 09:35 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: XPO, Videos

• XPO Demonstration Part 1

  Continuing our series of videos on XPO and XAF, Oliver and I look at how to persist a class to the database and how to read it back, and just in case that’s not exciting enough for you, we also hatch a plan to populate the world with “Gary” clones that... Posted Jun 24 2008, 07:26 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: XPO, Videos

• XPO the Philosophy

  Currently Oliver and I are across in the Glendale office working with our videographer Jeff (hey how come Jeff doesn’t have a blog?!) creating some videos around XPO and XAF. In the first of the videos we’ve produced, I’m chatting to Oliver about the... Posted Jun 24 2008, 03:07 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: XPO, Videos

• Application Scalability Using XPO #2

  In my previous post I introduced the topic of database scalability using XPO. In that post we looked at a simple method of partitioning customers between two database servers, one covering customers in the north and the other covering customers in the... Posted Jun 19 2008, 03:17 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: XPO, Scalability

• Application Scalability Using XPO

  Let’s say we have an application with the following (highly simplified) object model:- As you can see we have a Customer and a Customer’s Orders which we wish to persist to the database using XPO. This will work perfectly with 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 orders... Posted Jun 11 2008, 04:09 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: XPO, Scalability

• Groking XAF and XPO #4

  In my previous post we did a little refactoring of our class hierarchy and added the required behaviours to our business objects. In this post we will go ahead and hook up a UI to our hierarchy. In this case we will create a windows forms application... Posted May 30 2008, 11:51 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: XPO, XAF

• Groking XAF and XPO #3

  In my previous post in this series we covered creating a hierarchy of business objects, persisting them using XPO and then creating a test to ensure that we had wired up the persistence mechanism properly. In this post we will take our object hierarchy... Posted May 23 2008, 08:50 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: XPO

• Groking XAF and XPO #2

  Well as you can see I’m not highly imaginative when it comes to blog post titles but I thought I’d continue with the Stranger in a Strange Land theme. If you’ve read my last blog posting on the subject you’ll know I’m busy learning about XAF and XPO for... Posted May 19 2008, 06:55 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: XPO