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Welcome back to another Xafers Weekly and another roundup of XAF content.

Please keep the content coming and feel free to reach out to us if you have any articles you want to see posted.

A new release of eXpandFramework and wait for it ... Brevitas is finally out.

Brevitas is an application framework for Xamarin Forms that you can use to develop L.O.B (Line of Business) Applications. It comes with data access for XPO, Entity Framework and Cosmo Db.

Well, that is all for now.

Have a great week everyone!

Getting Started

Brevitas Application Framework

Brevitas is an application framework for Xamarin Forms that you can use to develop L.O.B (Line of Business) Applications.

XAF

Old WinForms templates can be mixed up with the recommended templates

With #XAF v19.1.5, deprecated Item Templates are moved into a section at the bottom - this way they cannot be accidentally selected by users. Recommended templates are placed at the top and are sorted by popularity.

Releases · eXpandFramework/eXpand

This release is compiled against DevExpress.XAF v19.1.4.

443 Migrate projects to SDK format

430 Upgrade scripts to powershell core

425 ProgressBarViewItem integration

422 VSIX migrate to asynch VS2019

XAF Windows

The save confirmation dialog is not shown when closing DetailView for a new unmodified object (in v19.2 only!) | Developer Express Inc.

In versions prior to v19.2, the save confirmation dialog is shown each time you close DetailView even if you don't make any changes. This might confuse end users, because no user data needed to be saved in this case.

XAF Web

ASP.NET Bootstrap - Responsive Project Template (v19.1)

Highly popular responsive project template for ASP.NET WebForms controls and MVC Extensions.

XAF Blazor

Blazor Roadmap – What You Can Expect in the Next Few Months from DevExpress

If you’re targeting Blazor for an upcoming project and would like to participate in our beta (August, 2019), please send an email to support@devexpress.com.

Performance

Actions with TargetObjectsCriteria may cause performance issues in certain scenarios

With XAF v19.1.4, The TargetObjectsCriteria value for disabled or inactive actions is not checked.

CodeRush

Using nameof instead of hardcoded property name in XPO/XAF business objects

Did you know that #CodeRush's Code Cleanup feature can automatically replace hardcoded property names in #XPO #XAF business objects with nameof?

CodeRush FotW: String Format Assistant

This week Mark and Rory show how easy it is to format data in formatted strings using the String Format Assistant.