Recently we made the decision to clone our Winforms VideoRent real world application and create a new XAF application – the XVideoRental. Wearing my LEGO designer hat I will go through all migration steps as if I were in your shoes. XVideoRental uses only a small part of XAF tooling –>Native modules + Code Central examples + open sourced ...

To configure our code we can simply use interfaces as parameters. XAF design is based on interfacesrefore it features amazing technologies like the Application Model and Domain Components which make available what no other framework offers (eg multiple inheritance, flexible design, no match in reusability, etc.). The Application Model for example ...

UI simply depends on the smartness of our components. However the visible UI space is limited and most of the information is hidden behind components (tabs, popup forms etc). Therefore to display this hidden info user interaction is required. Tooltips however do not require any user interaction and our Suite supports tooltips with html formatting ...

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 your reports and of course Slava’s help (XPO guru), XVideoRental importing mechanism has been ...

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 the video rent business. The demo is available with 12.2.4 version of our Suite and can be found ...

Classes are in a sense behavior libraries. To initialize or configure them, we can use their properties. Serialization is a technic that helps distribute the state of our classes. In this post we will discuss how to serialize any class in the multi-layer XAF model! Then we finish with the model synchronizers which will control the class. Having a ...