Issue 33

JOSE JAVIER COLUMBIE

Hello XAFers,

Who is ready for 20.2? I know I am. 20.2 will ship with an End-User Report Designer and will allow you to enable high-density (compact) or low-density (large) layouts within its #Blazor powered web #UI. How cool is that?

Our next community standup is happening this Thursday October 8th 10:00 am (GMT -7). Complete session just for QnA. Dennis will be joining us and answering questions on the chat and I already made the official commitment we will answer each and every questions, so get ready, beers on the fridge and I personally can't wait.

Lastly, I have said it before but I want to thanks again to all the community for the amazing support, for the collaboration and for the passion, we are growing by day and we are just starting.

See you guys on Thursday, XAF out!

Getting Started

XAFers Community Standup. LIVE QNA | Meetup

We are less than a week away from our next XAFers Community Standup. October 8th 10:00 am (GMT -7) This one will be a complete session for just questions and answers. Get your questions ready as we will answer all questions we receive. You hear that right, all of them:)

XAF's PM will answer audience questions so don't miss this opportunity.

XAF

XAF - Watch the Last Webinar Recording with a QA, Blazor and XPO Teasers, Best Practices and More

In case you missed our last StandUp. It was awesome by the way. See you in the next one???

XAF - External Authentication Providers (Google, GitHub, etc.) for Blazor UI

No comments needed here but I will add one either way. This is awesome, I was redoing my social login demo for XAF Blazor and DevExpress actually almost did it completely for me (for us).

XAF Blazor

DevExpress Dashboards for Blazor Server Side | Jose Javier Columbie | Blog

DevExpress posted a nice article about how to use their Dashboard Controls for Blazor WebAssembly apps back in February. Following that post let’s do the same for Blazor Server Side Apps.

Created PDF by blazor report does not take word wrap into account | DevExpress Support

This is the line I loved from this ticket: The app is hosted in a Docker container on Ubuntu server

Could not load type 'DevExpress.Blazor.Base.DxTextBoxBase' from assembly 'DevExpress.Blazor | DevExpress Support

Have you run into this issue? I definitely did. Well the cause is that XAF v20.1.7 uses Blazor Components v20.1.5.

XPO

How to migrate Domain Components (DC) interfaces to pure XPO classes | DevExpress Support

If you are using DC in your apps and want to move to XAF Blazor here are some guidelines.

Performance

Fixing an N+1 performance problem in XAF/XPO with totally undocumented APIs | Manuel Grundner - code & consult

Is your application too slow? Maybe you are running into the famous N+1 problem. Here, Manuel show us several ways to solved it. Kudos to Manuel for the research and the great article.

Preparing a contabo server for a load test with XAF Blazor - YouTube

We are currently working on some load tests to push XAF Blazor to its limits. Here there is a video of the server preparation involved for Linux environments.

Modules

𝗫𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱.𝗫𝗔𝗙.𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀.𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲.𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿

Need to re-brand the styles for a large number of RTF documents? Check the 𝗫𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱.𝗫𝗔𝗙.𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀.𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲.𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿

𝗫𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱.𝗫𝗔𝗙.𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀.𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲.𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱.𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲.𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿

Integrate with the 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 services using the 𝗫𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱.𝗫𝗔𝗙.𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀.𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲.𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱.𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲.𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 nuget package.

𝗫𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱.𝗫𝗔𝗙.𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀.𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗜𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

Do you want to 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 the default Model 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 without coding, using the XAF 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿? The 𝗫𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱.𝗫𝗔𝗙.𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀.𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗜𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 module reprograms the default design-time model view generation to respect existing view model differences

Tips And Tricks

Code snippets - Visual Studio and CodeRush - YouTube

Quick comparison: How to create Code snippets in Visual Studio and with CodeRush. Spoiler alert: CodeRush wins!!!

How to disable spell checker in a specific control in the XAF application?

I actually had this exact request from one of our customer. The support center is a gold mine of great samples and awesome explanations.

Net Core

How to monitor your aspnet core application on Ubuntu Linux | Joche Ojeda

How to create a service to monitor your new shiny aspnet core app on Linux in this case in Ubuntu 18.04? Find out here.

Spanish

Javascript Interop en Blazor - Martes de Código Ms para la Web

Invocando métodos de .NET desde Javascript. Invocando métodos de Javascript desde .NET. No hay implementación que el duo C# y JS no puedan solucionar en Blazor. Veamos como lo logran.

El mundo javascript en la palma de su mano con Microsoft.JSInterop | Meetup

Con el lanzamiento de Blazor, el mundo de los componentes web HTML5 ahora está abierto para los desarrolladores de DotNet. Descubramos cómo Microsoft "IJSRuntime" puede ayudarlo a acceder al modelo de objetos de documento (DOM) y cómo interactuar con los componentes html5 de DotNet para reducir la necesidad de crear nuevos componentes desde cero.

En esta sesión nuestro amigo Jose Manuel Ojeda nos hablará sobre el Microsoft.JSInterop.

Social Media

XAFers Arizona User Group | Meetup

Next event is October 8th 10:00 am (GMT -7) Our XAFers Community Standup takes place the second Thursday of every month. There is no agenda, no formality, no dress code required, and a beer or a coffee is highly encouraged. Let's just talk about what we love and share our experiences regarding XAF, XPO, Blazor and more.

The group goal is to meet and help others developer using DevExpress Express App Framework. All skill levels are welcome, we will cover topics from getting started to really complex and advanced scenarios.

XAF, XPO, Blazor And Xamarin | Facebook Group

Feel free to join our Facebook group to discuss about Xamarin, Blazor, XPO and XAF related topics and post your doubts to get assistance with other members.

XAF-Community/community - Gitter

Manuel Grundner, a DevExpress MVP created an XAF chat at https://gitter.im/XAF-Community/community. If XAFers want to discuss development questions here is another place for it.

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