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Migrating a legacy real world application

Recently we made the decision to port our Winforms VideoRent real world application into XAF, thus was the XVideoRental app born. With my LEGO designer hat on I will go through all migration steps. The XVideoRental app utilizes XAF recourses –> Native...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

17 March 2013

Dashboards in the real world – A Scotland strike!

Updated 10/06/13 Dashboard web integration module The DevExpress Universal Subscription now includes an interactive data visualization Dashboard for the Windows, Web and Mobile devices. The DevExpress Dashboard delivers solutions that allow any enterprise...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

22 February 2013

Domain Components+ Calculated properties + Application Model

EDIT: Domain Components (DC) is in maintenance mode and we do not recommend its use in new software projects. Even though XAF does not support the idea of Domain Components + Calculated properties + Application Model out-of-the-box, XAF is still designed...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

5 February 2013

Dynamic member aliases from Application Model

Updated: Feb 4 (see end of post) Although I promised to talk about Stephen Manderson ’s Dashboard module I feel that I must discuss dynamic member aliases instead. The reason is that cross data source filtering provided by the Dashboard Suite does not...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

28 January 2013

User friendly way to add permissions

The XAF ’ security system , just like XAF itself is flexible and easily addresses the most complex of scenarios. Depending on the nature of the application at hand, we may wish to modify the default design to make it more user friendly! And that’s exactly...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

24 January 2013

Modifying Business Objects metadata using Attributes

The need to add new members to existing Business Objects that live in assemblies that we don’t own is common. Take the following example in the form of a persistent object- DashboardDefinition . Let's assume we want to create a many to many relation between...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

20 January 2013

How to rule the Pivot

Interface can be used as parameters to configure code. And since XAF is based on interfaces, it features technologies like the Application Model and Domain Components , which in turn offer what no other frameworks do - multiple inheritance, flexible design...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

16 January 2013

Tooltips to the max - expressive UI

As you know, creating a great UI requires consideration of numerous usability  factors, among them effective use of screen real-estate. Because the visible/active region of an application is limited, much of the information within a data driven application...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

7 January 2013

ORM Magic–Importing from any datasource

This post will be on how to use the approach described in Fast prototyping requires an initial data import mechanism with Excel as input source. The technic is based on System.Data.DataSet class and can be applied to any type of input source! Thanks to...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

29 December 2012

XVideoRental real world application (RWA) – The overview

XAF knowledge base is really rich and in our Support Center you can find solutions for all common business problems. Moreover our community project www.expandframework.com has tones of reusable solutions, we collected a few of them and applied them to...

Apostolis Bekiaris (DevExpress)

18 December 2012