Let me describe for a moment how we at DX work. We build and sell software which means that we only sell and provide support for products that have been built and tested by us! However I am here as a framework evangelist and huge XAF fan. This makes it my duty to spread the word as much as I can and make XAF even bigger. To this end through ...

For this question don’t we all of us spend a lot of time ? But I think it is allowed to use a trick to spend our selves that time. Add to your model to attributes NotifyIcon, MinimizeOnClose. Since I am using Xaf I am going to present that with it but the code should be very similar to any other windows application so here are our attributes ...

Yesterday i was speaking with my friend John Pouliezos and he asked me how to the implement the following  scenario. John has managed to create a SharePoint feature and now he can have Xaf views as SharePoint lists. Cool eh? What he wanted is the following: for specific User roles to be able to filter a specific web listview by parsing the ...

Latest version of eXpand is out and recompiled with Xaf 9.2.4 version New Module Additions AdditionalViewControlsProvider Validation ModelArtifactState WizardUI see (Bend Xaf Applications with Model Artifact State Module) Fixes enhancements via Google issues here Get latest version of expand here ...

Since I got many complaints about the low resolution of my videos I am on a search for a better video hosting service than YouTube. Robert suggested to use Silverlight service at Blogger Video embedding resolved but this one looks the same as YouToube. After spending some more time on researching on this I came across http://blip.tv/ excellent ...

How many times have you said “What a great pattern MVP is!!!” Look for example how is implement the hint engine of main Xaf demo. I will try to explain that implementation. Controllers There is a windowcontroller called AdditionalInfoController and from it 2 controllers derive WebShowAdditionalInfoController and ...

  eXpand already has this scenario enabled for windows forms applications. What you have to do is set 2 attributes and you are done!!! You have force your grid to display a child grid view eXpand is hosted at http://code.google.com/p/expandframework/ Technorati Tags: expand,DevExpress,Xaf

I am releasing a new version of expand this time using continuous integration provided by TeamCilty DictionaryDifferenceStore has now be able to work at all Security Scenarios (Complex or simple). There is one catch though if you want to use your own custom User or Role objects and you cannot modify any of the nested Role/User List view of the ...

First of all thank you very much for your good words in eXpand . I am going to continue releasing modules and the next one will be a big one so please bear with me. But since I am relasing a lot of code and some other developers contact me that they want to contribute also. I think its time to to move on to apply a more continous integration to ...

This one is hard to explain so I would start with one scenario that can be implemented with ease. You have a request to create a windows form application that the data should be filtered according to the active skin, also the request says that Customers should be shared through skins. Another request for the same project is application data to ...

I am realizing a new version of eXpand (0.0.0.7) that will contain a configurable low level datastore filtering provider module and I am going to merge Coderush plugins into it as well. You have to download latest version of eXpand from http://code.google.com/p/expandframework/downloads/list and add only the following assemblies into your ...

I am going to demonstrate one more application scenario using eXpand and DictionaryDifferenceStore module. We are going to create to roles (hrempolyers , courierempoyers) and we are going to assign a difference Cutomer listview to each one of them Listview for HR people will see customers grouped by their birthday and listview for courier grouped ...

  Today I am going to saw you how easy is the Generation of runtime members. eXpand provides a controller that extends model schema and allow runtime generation of members without writing even 1 line of code (Xaf power to the people!!!) For doing this You have to use a combination of features from eXpand.DictionaryDifference.dll && ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...