XAFers Community Standup. Let’s get back to basics – XAF 101 | Jose Javier Columbie

Date and Time: October 14th 2021 10:00 am (GMT -7) Arizona Time

Tentative Agenda:

Introductions
Announcements
Development of LOB
What is XAF?
What is XAF Audience?
Architecture
Concepts
Security
XAF Advantages (most rated features)
UI Customization
Why XAF? (in 60 seconds)
Case Studies – Testimonials
Demos
Getting Started – Awesome XAF
Demo
Scheduler Demo
Blazor – Roadmap 2021 –Demo
Support
Community
EF Core Sync Framework
Questions

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Questions to Discuss

I have an XAF WinForms and WebForms apps that use the same application database and security user and role data. We also need to develop a non-XAF Console and ASP.NET Core service apps that would leverage the same XAF’s security system permissions and API. Is it possible with the maximum reuse of existing code and data?

Sure, it is possible to use XAF’s security system in non-XAF apps. Check out our new landing page and examples for different .NET UI platforms devoted to this topic:

https://www.devexpress.com/products/net/application_framework/security.xml

Entity Framework Core 3 is also supported for these security scenarios.

Is Entity Framework Core preferred over XPO in XAF?

No, absolutely now. It is just another ORM data access layer for new XAF users. Note that ORM choice is typically made once in a life and there are users with previous experience who may also want to use XAF’s UI and non-visual features like security system.
We are proud of XPO and keep maintaining and evolving it (expected new cool features in v20.2). You also do not need to migrate from XPO to EF Core just because we support new features for it in XAF😊

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