XPO Team Blog

With v18.2, XPO's Session and other key classes ship with a set of async APIs, including FindObjectAsync, GetObjectByKeyAsync, CommitChangesAsync (which return System.Threading.Tasks.Task object). These Task-based APIs are important for both server and client programming (useful for long and DB-intensive operations like commits, queries, delete operations, etc.) as they improve server scalability and deliver a more resilient user experience, especially on mobile devices....

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!...

With v18.2, XPO includes one additional community-driven feature - FetchOnlyAttribute. Applied to a class property or field, this attribute indicates that you can only read values from a database. XPO will not include these values in INSERT and UPDATE SQL statements....