Refactoring was too time consuming cause I had to work with all modules together and they are almost 40 of them. Because I want to focus only at the modules that we are going to release at first alpha version I am going to talk only about those. eXpand as I already said has almost the same architecture as Xaf .The number of project we are going ...

NDepend is the most wonderful analysis tool I have ever found . It can help you by providing metrics of your code or anyone else  code, specify code constrains, analyze code, diff between versions of your code.  It also has an open source license to anyone interested.  I am going to apply the some metrics like the ones Patrick ...

Yes I know that is not the best practice. When using Xaf or Xpo you should first design your objects and let the framework create the database schema based on objects metadata (attributes). But there are many cases that the database is already design and you can not change it. What about those projects? Are you going to say to your customer ...

If you do not know about TypeMock see some cool video tutorials here. TDD is an software design approach that states: In order to design your software from the correct angle and don’t get lost in the info you have first write down a test that describes a behavior and then by using tools like ReSharper to actually create the “at most as code ...

Thnks to my friend Aristeidis I have in my hands a WebPropertyEditors that contains an AspxTreeList implementation and I can share it with the community. Since I didn’t write the code I cannot answer to many questions but from a first look I an IWebTreeNode interface that should be implemented by your persistent object along with ITreeNode. ...

The last few months me and my friend John have been working on a framework build using Xaf. It is called XafPoint and has almost 40 generic modules!!! What is it? What it does ? It is build using the same architecture as Xaf and contains abstract modules like the Xaf one’s so we can build our every day scenario. How it was build ? Since I ...

  if you do not know about ITreenode’s purpose read this The problem I just came back from my friend Aristeidis home . Aris told me that he want me to have a look a his brand new AspxTreelistEditor and have also some cold beers we can drink . After some beers Aris ask was telling me how he solved the circularReferences between parent ...

Xaf has its own tracking system enabled by default . What it does? It tracks almost every from exception to button clicks and object states!! What I want to saw you is how easy we can create a CodeRush addin that every time an exception occurs we could navigate through all the stack trace We will accomplish that using Resharper’s ...

Download sources (10/6/09) (see Xaf Exception Stack Explorer) ProjectConverter Browsing and downloading from Devexpress support center often I find old projects with broken references Old days when i see broken references at my solution due to version changes I had to go to my C:\Program files\pathToYourProjectConverter executable. Open ...

Today i stump again upon the same problem . I wanted to throw a validation exception only if both of my properties do not have value. So lets create a validation rule for this one. More info on how we create custom validation rules can be found here Validation Module Since we are talking about multiple property values i think we should go with an ...

  The problem Xpo in order to support transactions implements some special kind of property setters like private string lastName; public string LastName { get { return lastName; } set { string oldValue = lastName; if (oldValue == value) return; lastName = value; ...