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XPO - Updated .NET Core Examples, Performance Benchmarks for EF Core 5.0 and More (v20.1)

The release of XPO v20.1 gave us an opportunity to update our benchmarks for XPO and Entity Framework Core: https://github.com/DevExpress/XPO/tree/master/Benchmarks . We were primarily interested in EF Core 3.1.3 vs EF Core 5.0......

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

4 June 2020

XPO - How to Share Class Libraries with the DevExpress Data or XPO Dependencies for Different Target Frameworks

UPDATED on March 13th 2020: The former core DevExpress.Data and DevExpress.Xpo assemblies for .NET Core 3 (WinForms & WPF) and .NET Framework apps have been changed in v20.1. Their functionality now resides in the following assemblies: DevExpress.Data...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

7 November 2019

XPO - VistaDB 6, PostgreSQL 12 Support & More (v19.2)

As you may already know, we released v19.2 last week. In this post, I want to highlight a couple of small, but important additions to our ORM . VistaDB 6 Support XPO v19.2.3 supports the latest version of VistaDB 6 with VistaDb6ConnectionProvider. Related...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

1 November 2019

XPO - Updated Performance Benchmarks for .NET Core 3.0 (v19.2)

The release of .NET Core 3 and XPO v19.2.3 gave us the opportunity to update benchmarks for XPO and Entity Framework. If you’re interested in learning more and executing the tests yourself, please point your browser to the following repository: https...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

30 October 2019

eXpress Persistent Objects - Early Access Preview (v19.2)

As you probably know by now, we expect to release v19.2 within the next few months. The goal of this blog post is to share our newest XPO-specific features and give you the opportunity to test new functionality before we wrap up our current dev cycle...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

19 August 2019

XPO - .NET Core 3.0 Desktop SDK Support for WinForms and WPF Apps

In late 2018, we announced .NET Core 3.0 support for WinForms and WPF apps with the new desktop SDK (Microsoft.NET.Sdk.WindowsDesktop). As of July 2019, we have completed all unit tests for XPO v19.2 for both WinForms and WPF .NET Core 3.0 apps....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

30 July 2019

XPO - MySQL 8.0, PostgreSQL 11, IMB DB2 for .NET Core Support and More (v18.2)

Thanks to great user feedback, we had a successful release with several major new features. In this post, I will highlight a number of smaller, but useful additions to our ORM and its associated learning materials....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

4 December 2018

XPO - Updated performance benchmarks (v18.2)

Based on user feedback, we’ve updated our XPO v18.2.3 benchmarks against Entity Framework 6.2 and EF Core 2.1.4. Each benchmark now also compares ORMs with direct SQL queries to show ORM overhead. We also contributed to the Dapper performance benchmarks, so you can compare XPO with other micro and macro ORMs....

The DevExpress Team

21 November 2018

XPO - v18.2 and What You Can Expect in mid-November

As part of our ongoing commitment to support the needs of our XPO customers, the upcoming v18.2 release will ship with several major features. Many of them are inspired directly by customer feedback!...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

13 September 2018

XPO - A simple benchmark against EF 6 and EF Core (UPDATE)

We have received many comments and questions on our previous blog post. Thank you all for that! In this post, I will describe our updated benchmark based on your feedback:...

XPO Team (DevExpress)

17 July 2018