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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 - 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

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 - 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 - Interview with the Team

Many times, customers have asked us how we use XPO – or if we even do it at all. We decided to sit down with developers working on and with XPO and conduct an interview, with the goal of answering the most common questions. The result makes for an interesting read since it addresses many historical, strategical and technical aspects. Enjoy! ...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

30 August 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

XPO - A simple benchmark against EF 6 and EF Core

We recently published a BenchmarkDotNet-based benchmark on GitHub. We used it to test the performance of the following Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) libraries for .NET Framework 4.6.1 and higher...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 June 2018

XPO ORM Library – Available Free-of-Charge in v18.1!

With our most recent release, we’re making XPO (the DevExpress ORM library for .NET) available free-of-charge....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 May 2018