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New XAF Case Study
I wanted to draw your attention to a recent case study from Jason Schulz – the M5 project. I loved his perspectives on the power of XAF and the XAF community (including his use of the...
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Business Class Library for Entity Framework (Coming soon in v14.1)
The new DevExpress.Persistent.BaseImpl.EF.v14.1.dlllibrary contains ready-to-use Code-First entities. These include general-purpose entities (like Person, Task, Address, etc.), and entities that are...
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New DataView mode for ListView (Coming soon in v14.1)
The UseServerMode Boolean property of the Options and ListView nodes is now replaced by the DataAccessMode property of the CollectionSourceDataAccessMode enumeration type. This enumeration contains the...
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XAF Solution Wizard for easier getting started (Coming soon in v14.1)
XAF now ships with the wizard which allows you to quickly create a new application in a few simple steps. All you need to do is choose a target platform (desktop, web or both), data model type (Entity...
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Security System Usability Improvements (Coming soon in v14.1)
With the new CheckedListBoxPropertyEditor editor, application administrators can now easily assign member-level permissions:Technically, we have provided two PropertyEditor implementations (one for...
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XAF: Brand New Module & Features for both Windows and the Web (Coming soon in...
End-User Report Designer for ASP.NETWith this release, the Reports V2 module supports the ASP.NET Report Designer out-of-the-box. End-users can create and modify reports directly in a browser!Check it...
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XAF: Enhancements to Existing Features & Performance Tuning (Coming soon in...
Grid Designer for List ViewIn XAF v14.2, responding to customer feedback, we introduce a new easy-to-use way to configure List View columns at design time. Model Editor now includes a designer that...
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XAF: New Web UI Theme, Templates and Optimizations for Desktop and Tablet...
So what do we have planned for XAF in this release? It all starts with the web...As you can tell from the images below, we decided to change direction from our previous Web UI prototypes based on the...
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XAF: Enhancements to existing modules, Entity Framework and performance...
Notifications Module - Officially ShippingThe eXpressApp Framework's Notifications Module (which first shipped as a CTP in v14.2), will officially ship in v15.1 and can now be used in production...
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XAF: Enhancements to App UI Management Settings in the Database (Shipping in...
This feature was first demonstrated in our v14.2 release and based on your feedback, was one of the most popular additions to the eXpressApp Framework. For this release, we have made it even more...
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XAF: A preview of the HTML5/JS Report Document Viewer integration in Web UI...
The new HTML5 / JS Report Document Viewer was introduced in our v15.1 release. This new report viewer is reliant on client-side logic and several enhancements to XAF’s ReportsV2 module were required...
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XAF - Validation Module Enhancements for Windows and the Web (Coming soon in...
In our upcoming release of the eXpressApp Framework, data validation occurs immediately after input focus changes when validation rule evaluation does not require querying additional data from the...
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XAF - Web Map Module (Coming soon in v15.2)
With this release, we're shipping a new Map module for XAF Web apps - allowing you display business objects on different kinds of maps. The module integrates the client-side dxMap and dxVectorMap...
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XAF - Web UX Enhancements (Coming soon in v15.2)
In this release cycle, we've evolved our web page templates and themes optimized for touch devices (released n v15.1). While we still continue to refine things, we believe that this feature is ready to...
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XAF - Enhancements to Core and other modules (Coming soon in v15.2)
Over the last few days, I've described some of the new features we've introduced into the eXpressApp Framework v15.2. In this post, I'll describe enhancements we've made to XAF's core and other...
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XAF – A Simpler Way to Check Database Compatibility (Coming soon in v15.2)
In earlier versions, to check the compatibility of an application and its database, a ModuleInfo table was created in the database. This table stores information on the module versions used in an...
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XAF Goes Mobile: CTP Version Ships with v15.2.9
UPDATE:Refer to the eXpressApp Framework > Getting Started > XAF Mobile (CTP) Tutorial article to learn more on the new Mobile UI, which is technically is a single-page HTML5/JavaScript...
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XAF - Startup Performance, Application Model and Non-Persistent Objects...
In my opinion, XAF's Application Model (defined as a set of application settings or UI skeleton) is the second most important XAF feature (first being automatic database and CRUD forms generation based...
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XAF - Reports and Security System Enhancements (Coming soon in v16.1)
This post is devoted to several improvements for the two key features of any serious line-of-business application - reporting and security. As you might expect from a mature application framework,...
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XAF - UX Improvements for Design Time Templates, Windows and Web UI (Coming...
Design-time enhancementsWith our upcoming release, all XAF templates will be available from the DX Template Gallery (look for the DevExpress v16.1 Template Gallery item in the standard Add New Item......
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