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From YouTube: XAFers Community Standup - XAF Roadmap 2023 with Dennis Garavsky

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So we're gonna give a couple more seconds, but we are live and really excited about this Meetup and thank you. Everyone for joining on to another surface community stand up today is a great one, we're going to be talking about the saffron mod 2023, but it will be from the point of going through the actual plan that already Deb Express released it on their blog post last meet up.

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We were talking about the the witches that we want the paintings that we are still working through, but this time is the actual implementation that are going to be coming into really excited to have Dennis here, then, it will be presenting a couple, exciting features that are coming and also discussing. What is the plan for this year as always feel free to ask questions? To put your experience, your pain points on the chat.

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I will do the regular round with Hotel day from Ben, is introduced himself and then I will jump straight to give Dennis the the screen the scenario. So he can jump to this Meetup and I'm planning on stopping the recording as soon as he finish so we'll get it condensed, 30 minutes with everything every goodness that are coming in 2023., okay, thanks again for coming, and thanks for watching Dennis. Whoever want to take the the work for just a second.

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And we go for that, I'll start so well. My name is ochovela I work for sari and forbid Frameworks I'm. uh The express MVP and South is one of my passions at work. So if you have a doubt, just send us an email to the office and we will try to help you.

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Well, the next day from Lama chant technology uh using XF since 2007 2008, and it's initially released- uh we still Focus very heavily on xaf apps uh training and development. So if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us as well uh and I'm excited to see what happens today. I'll pass over to Dennis.

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uh Thank you. My name is Denis I'm, a product manager at Dell, Express and he's my son I hope he will not interrupt us. Congratulations.

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Now that that's actually that's really awesome, like my daughter, is focusing on my meetings with all my clients, with all other students in our training in our projects. So he knows more about our project. Myself, he's always pointing out to the developers working with me saying what are he doing what's his name? What what is this about and I try to explain him deeply so I'm hoping to get the the Next Generation ready for when we come for that? Okay, Dennis I'm, not gonna, be late!

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This morning, I'm gonna pass the control completely to you this week. I was really excited to have you here. So thank you for joining in and let's see what we have on the story for 2023 after your presentation, I will show the same time map that we presented last meet up and you will see that almost everything that we put in there is actually covering what's coming in this homework. So thank you.

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Okay, can you see my screen now? Yes, yes, okay, perfect, uh let's uh start from the roadmapers point uh before I start um I just wanted to thank you, everybody for being with us being with XF for your great feedback. It's very helpful and I hope. Our brothers will continue to help your business too.

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So uh we have this week we have published our roadmap for the first uh have of 2023, um as always a small disclaimer that everything we published here is just our best forecast and, as you know, we are all developers, things change some sometimes so we have to adapt. So it's not final. At least some things can can be added. Some things can be changed, Etc, so uh Su, my own might understand.

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uh Our main focus continues to be on Blazer I hope you uh enjoyed uh you liked our latest major release uh where we ate edit um many many uh issues to the grid control to the edge Turtles and uh this year we will certainly continue to improve on this side. One of the most popular requests for right right now for Excel, Voice or UI is scheduled. Integration.

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Before uh our customers could integrate, um for example, gel stream controls or Blazers uh Blazer schedule, control manual- or many of you might remember nice examples from Jose and hocher and videos they built. So thank you for this. You I think you saved many hours to uh to us to customers, and uh this year we hope to make the scheduler control integration by default.

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So we basically we will take the Blazer control, then test each additionally tested in all important scenarios, for example with exp HBO orm with Entity framework or them, because there are some a little important changes to be done for performance for usability and besides that, we will integrate a schedule uh we'll nicely integrate it within XF infrastructure.

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I mean all controllers property editors Etc in this in the first, uh in the first version, we uh we don't uh until we don't anticipate to support multiple resources or so-called charity sources, but uh we already provided feedback to our to the team. That builds both components and they will take take it into account for the future for the future Improvement of this control.

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So far we have built our first spec solution and it looked good. So uh continue, uh the next popular request among our customers is uh feature control, integration, SEO may remember. We have it in winforms and web forms UI, and it helps a lot when it comes to filtering a large data grid or, for example, when you set up security permissions, and at this stage we don't have a filter editor in our Blazer component line.

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So we consider these requirement of excel customers important and we decided to reuse the filter editor, which is already available in our JavaScript product lines. You may all remember this from, for example, from dashboard designer or from reproc designer, so we cooperated with the uh these teams and we just uh we used this JavaScript control in Excel.

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Of course, this just grid control uh it had technically technically it has no knowledge of Xperia or Excel. So not all Advanced features uh will be available, for example, XPO, free joints or some expert specific extensions of our criteria, language, but anyway the functionality that's already available by by default and this control it's a pretty solid, and it covers the majority of scenarios we are aware of, um but next uh of course, for any business application. Data grid is one of the most important controls and we continue to improve usability in this regard.

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For example, uh you we will uh naturally support many many options from the modular model. Editor I mean absorptions that you can see in list view. Node, for example, uh show find panel preview code showing footer Etc, and uh you may remember that you already can configure those options in a platform agnostic module, and so we will make it possible to reduce those settings in browser project uh as well.

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uh What else? What else, as part of our scheduler integration, video at additional property editors, for example? You may remember when you, when you create a new appointment, you may need to specify some priorities: some states, and typically here you can use a mediter like this, with some items with some with some images and as part of this, we'll improve our enumeration property editor uh by supporting images so that their items are easier to distinguish binders and also we support a built-in car property editor, which is helpful as a set for for resources.

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The next interesting Improvement is about many.

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Toolbar and here I'm talking about the additional actions or new comments that were highly requested by our customers, for example, it's uh very common to just browse your data, so you go to list view. You click to open and detail you and you just want to check items and reference one by one, and here, for example, next in previous sections are essential and in the in the past we have them disabled, and so now we are now supporting them for the next major release.

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Also, we wanted to improve visibility of detail, forms trying to remove unnecessary actions that occupy place and also provide, um highlight and better place comments that are most used, for example, safe and close safe, and you know- and here you can see, moved those sections to the right and also edit a safe and un7 goals, similar to what it was available.

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Humans in a few minutes live, so we can see it.

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Still, you may remember our service about images and when standard images are important, and this cannot be compromised in favor of some designer Innovation like it was, for example, in the old web forms UI, you remember that there I will try to make our forms more to add more air to them to to add a bigger, buddings Etc, and we are now. We have now considered this based on user feedback and images. The start of this.

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Part of this remake.

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Feature it's uh again about Blazer detail forms and it's uh mainly about ease of customization. The main motivation for us for this feature to bring this originally performance feature to the web is to save China, to accept Developers.

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The issue is that developers often uh not often right now, always for when they build web applications, they have to configure uh form layouts themselves for their clients, and they don't have this opportunity to uh pass this responsibility to their clients, for example, to application, administrators or buyer users, uh and uh if there were there was a designer of the web. We believe the lives of excited about those could be a much easier I. Remember myself.

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I I was visiting a client in in Finland, and we were in some organization where a regular and users they were allowed to customize the application. Ui I mean, for example, to move some fields up and down because their domain expires in their area and they feel comfortable to customize forms as they need them, and this feature again it's safe. So a lot of time I will demo it in a few minutes as well any questions before I move forward. We audience.

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Yeah there are globals on the chat. Let me just go through them.

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The first one is a from Jam Power he's asking phone support, a support from for phone awesome, icon.

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um Can I say it again support for the.

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Phone awesome, icons.

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ah I understand font awesome um right now for this release, the focus was focus is to provide our own images. I mean colored images. uh There is uh still the capability to use. Any third party images and I can say that we checked uh that we have automated tests for all Supply providers, but I can confirm that many many of our clients are using our own images or ordering them from the clutches, like don't also.

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Yeah and we have featured in other projects, uh Dave is showing a picture of their integration with the customizer. So basically you can always copy it to your project or point to the CDN like link to it, and then you think so.

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There is also a few comments about moving the delete action app as well with the new uh Alan was mentioned in some time the customer go to the next. At least you select the item but then delete the interview and John Paul is saying that sometimes it would be good to have the delete with a pop-up showing like a asset and cancel and then.

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Prevent any type of way not decide the reasons.

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Yeah, it makes it makes sense and uh I want to say that we are on a stereo resorption, uh our yes and designers, how to approach it best, because you know we are in a difficult situation. You know as framework builders that we have to satisfy the majority of customers and everyone has its own preferences and we are trying to find some at the middle and ground here and here's the ticket link where I encourage everyone to share your thoughts on on these and I can say that feedback. This feedback already.

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Affected or changed our our plans, and we will continue to look for more common comments. Just true come up with a final decision. For example, I can say that we will unlikely to include this quick, create action. It's shown here, because it was not over accepted, but uh we are likely to remove, for example, the new action from from the menu by default. We also likely hide captions for certain menu items like refresh and some others just to save a place for as a comments. So please share your feedback. Your consider it.

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Yeah that I think that that's it there was no another question just that description about the delete and the phone doesn't like: okay, okay,.

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um Continue uh the next uh enhancements uh we hope to implement it's uh again about uh detail from form layouts, but this time it's uh about uh code based customization, for example. uh You might remember our winforms and platforms. Examples where we demonstrated how to, for example, access the some layout groups, some tab groups and to change their properties to add some additional Logic.

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For example, when a tab is clicked Etc and um for Blazer, the current API is not very flexible and we basically, we want to extend uh Blazer, Blazer layout manager with similar events.

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Like item item created that will allow users to identify a layout item access its control and to do whatever magic they want to do, and uh we hope that it will help for advanced scenarios. At least we have received a lot of requests to justify its implementation.

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Next item is interesting: maybe a the name is not 100. Correct, I would Now call it SAS already, because SAS usually means that you host uh some service and serve some multiple clients here, I'm talking about a module, basically a built-in module that will simplify.

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Such scenarios for excessive Developers, for example, when we talk about multi-tenant, support immediately the following questions arise. For example: uh should it be a single database, or should it be multiple databases if it's a single database should should data of different tenants will be placed in the same the same schema or in different schemas?

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When we talk about multiple databases again, we should plan whether to create this database by default, to do it automatically or to do it manually.

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uh Also, the questions about data storage occur uh questions about performance, about authentication, about Licensing in advance scenario, for example, when you build some command or client specific modules, and you want to Grant different access rights to different clients. So, for example, you have like a license plug or and features link to this license plug uh as well uh Insurance. There are many many questions and we hope to at least address some of them and for this to better understand requirements or the majority of our customers. We published this story. I hope you will.

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Provide some information with this topic is uh interesting for you and based on this, uh we improve our built-in module accordingly, at this stage, we, of course before publishing this, we have analyzed uh requests that we had from the supper center from email and other sources previous service, and we already started to build.

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uh We started to build um the first example. The first demo.

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Currently, this demo makes it easier to implement the folds as falling snails. You might remember this exam example about runtime database changes when you specify some company or database and then based on this Excel creates database automatically this one scenario, and naturally enough scenario, is about.

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uh Controlling access to data of different tenants- and here our security system comes into play and we have just simply feed simplified uh those two examples to four code lines: at least how I saw it yesterday, so it's uh it should be much simpler, at least for these popular scenarios, and we are looking for additional feedback from our customers.

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The next topic: it's about Entity framework support. As you remember, we have supported ngd framework core 6 and we plan to surprise the latest version 7th and we hope to overcome some breaking changes that this version has, and we also hope to provide the team middle tier security so support this middle chair security is important for large Enterprise customers, because I think middle tier is the only options.

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You have very, very strict security requirements, so I mean when you have to make sure that your application is connected not directly to database, but through some middleware and by default. As you know, we have a mode that connects to database by default and to make ensure has huge possible. You have to form additional actions at your database side and also uh it's application site, for example, to not to expose International thing and to protect code. Etc and middle tier security simplifies those things for scenarios.

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Another interesting enhancements uh it's about.

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About asp.net core about modern approaches and about dependence injection, we have received many requests from our customers when they hope to get the same for they have in when they develop isp.net, core IP controllers or asp.net MVC applications. For example, in such a non-exelf applications, you can just pass required dependencies. For example, some Services you can pass such dependencies as Constructor parameters or properties, and currently it's not possible to implement easily with Excel friend.

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We want to resolve this. The next version here you can see that the same approach is used is xcf view control in this case, so we just provide a custom, Constructor use some Microsoft attribute and that's it. So you can get your dependencies with less code.

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Continue on this topic on my spiritual core I want to mention that we will. We will further improve our web API service that we released last year.

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Our main focus for this release is developer, usability, documentation and also some features for documentation. For example, we will continue our reduce here, our video series and publish uh popular.net, Maui and where's the assembly examples on GitHub so that our customers could get started faster with those platforms also, we hope to improve how developers consume our web service. Currently, there are some issues when you use external tools that require Swagger's schema support and we'll improve. This part I mean so that um Excel developers don't need to write additional code.

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Also one of the popular requests about Bachelor update, which is a part of data specification, well I, think it's uh that's it and it's time for a demo, because I don't want it to be boring so uh Jose. Can you check some questions before I dive into Visual, Studio yeah.

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I, don't see any questions any, but I just want to mention the the penis injection that looks awesome. I know like right now we only have to call the service provider, but the ability to have a Friday or construction of controller that will place a lot of developers and especially a new developers coming into the work staff and also the multi-denon parrot. Well, that looks really good.

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I know that that has a lot of consideration I'll be sharing a table against all the other clients that we're sharing are going to be Global products or products that are going to be terabyte by any type of division or any type. So there is a lot of considerations there, so I'm really appreciated that we are going to have something out of the box to make all of those like a more easier for the developer to starting out I thought with everyone.

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We welcome to uh put questions and comments on the chat and we're excited to see the demo.

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Yeah yeah, uh just uh I forgot a quick note about dependency injection. um You know uh we also made already made it possible to use the same techniques in winforms applications, because we want to make sure that developers are not limited to boys. I mean with all those nice, modern technology and uh I hope. It will save time, because you know my own almost cried when I saw how certain customers simply implemented.

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This mainly I mean, for example, these task requires building a custom, contourious manager. So it's very uh deep deep inside itself.

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Okay, let's go to Visual Studio by the way uh since I opened. uh This is demolition.

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I want to address that. Our main drama now contains uh unit tests infrastructure.

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It was asked for some Advanced Excel developers in the past, and we started moving in this direction and last year we have added a functional rotation infrastructure that allows you to write end-to-end tests with c-sharp. It's very helpful for testing Blazer applications. We use it a lot in Germany.

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These tests are based on ceiling, selenium driver driver and it helps you Ensure a great quality of your applications and have less headache then, and uh in the last release we have added unit tests for web app service, and here you can see, for example, tests for create, read, update, delete operations and.

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We already received back that this test and also the documentation we provided with specific apicos already saved time. For example, when we built a DOT net Maui application that was talking to our web accessories, we basically have to write those HTTP client call calls you have to provide authentication tokens. You have to provide some data query options, so we hope to you will find this example called helpful for your future products.

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Okay, that's the end of my adverse advertisement. Let's go to uh the demo part I open the model. Editor and um I want to show you that.

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When I came, visitor, Studio, yeah, I.

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Think I think we're paused on the screen or something.

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uh Can you see my visual studio.

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And I pressed something.

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Yeah did you pause the screen share and zoom Maybe.

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Yeah I'm trying to yeah it's.

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Yeah, so uh I want to give you a quick demo of runtime layout customization in Blazer applications, just a disclaimer that is uh very early and not uh just uh house Spike. So there are some problems, no issues and I. My goal is to just show you the main concept and don't pay attention intention that it's not very polished from the Europe UI side so for uh Royal customization. We first have to allowed because not everybody wants to, and for this we have an option in the model.

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Editor are you in set it to True, customization, enabled and then just hit.

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Now hopefully, the Visual Studio shows me nothing something, and it really does.

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Debugging debugging.

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I think I did not pay to demo gas before the meeting because it started instantly.

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Watching starch.

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Yeah, it's very unusual. Would you lay let me stop it and try again, because something is wrong.

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Yeah, it happens.

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Because you can you check some questions before.

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Yeah, only two comments are looking forward to the appendix injection in the business object level and the second one a Blazer version of the modulator. Those are the two comments in the chat.

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Yeah, let's have a dream.

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Yeah layout customization is the first step in this direction. Oh thank you. Visual Studio, um but realistically I. Don't expect a full version of model editor on the web, because it's hard to say it's true, complex to implement in the first place, to costly and for end users, I think I would I would not make it this way. I mean the same way it's available in winform, because it's too complicated anyway.

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Here it starts. Let's go into employee detail, for example, here something wrong with my computer. Obviously, uh here I have a it has built that invokes the layout customization form by default, just to make it easy to test not to work with every time.

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So it started automatically and I remind you that it's just an early, Spike and I just want to show you the main concept um here you can see a tree that contains layout items or the structure of layout on the screen, and it's pretty similar to what you used to in win forms. For example, you can see at the top using visible items and at the bottom you see hidden items and imagine I want to add a hidden item. Location uh beneath this group.

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So I can select, I can right click as I showed and select an item, and here it goes yeah I hope you can see it.

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Of course, uh layout changes. They must be remembered when you leave The View when you say the changes and when I reopen this view. Let me put it aside: it stays where I edit it now. What if I am still unhappy with this layout and I want to move and uh I can just SNB forms? I can try to find a better location for this item.

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So the page rewards- and here it comes- and uh here you can also.

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Of course you can in this tree, you can see additional comments, for example, like add a new layout group and new tab. You also must be able to change properties of layout items, for example, change captions to hide some items, and this is pretty similar to what we are used in uniforms. For example, right now, I just hit the top layout Loop and uh we have determined a subset of the most popular tasks for layout customization and we hope to implement them in 23.1 the amount among the most popular options.

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uh It's uh rename resizing moving changing positions hiding showing agent a new layout group hygiene items, removing layout groups and, as you may understand, we don't expect the same bunch of functions available in winforms, because the web is a diff different platform and and it's uh an implementation, small costly when it compares to win forms at least from outside, and the framework Builder.

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um Sets that speed- maybe you have some questions, some suggestions about, whether you you use it in your application, so share your experience from being forms. How often you you allow your clients to customize the layout by default. That will be helpful to hear.

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I I have a quick question: Dennis, it's Robert Anderson here, we've uh We've Spoken many times over the years, but this is the first time I actually see you um hi good to see you um Can. Is this being persisted to the model or is it being persisted to the database and uh in this example,.

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The changes uh yeah yeah I understand um it depends on how you configured your applications. Applications we have. As you know, we have a database model storage, we have a file model storage and uh by default, the Excel solution. Wizard creates a database storage, but it's optional. You can just disable it it's up to you up to you, so it's pretty similar to what you haven't been from. So it's absolutely the same, and it's the same uh for, for example, for listview.

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When you move columns, it also saves either in other file, storage or in database storage.

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We also for this particular applications. We uh we are using browser. Local storage I mean just because we need to test it. A change changes open, so I can just we made an option to just hit. F5 and layout goes through the original state, so you can Implement additional storages as well. So it's fully optional.

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You can see that reversed to the original version.

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The next thing I wanted to show you I, want you to show you.

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Is the next previous actions.

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Scenario that I've briefly described is described when you just need to navigate through items to just read data and easy to do without reopening every time. Also, at the same time, I want to show you the save and new and same and closed sections. uh Here we made it in them in one container and it remembers your last choice.

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For example, if I hit, save and and close, it stays as a current option. Example when you need to create a lot of items, save and create, create and can be useful to remember this.

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um Any questions so far.

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Yeah one was a maintenance here and so that we said a bottom for the layout, but I thought that you explained that with A5 you can do any kind of customization that you want and then go back to your Arena layouts made. It I think that that looks pretty really promising and they save a new pack. We actually had a a client who was requesting that on the pop-ups, so they can have a pop-up and take a nuclear another one second nuclear another one we're having two three open. So that's nice, yeah.

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uh About uh reverting changes um here, I want to emphasize that it's an early Spike, and here we intentionally built it to use F5, but in production uh we will build a normal result, changes or something exactly as it is as if it's available in uniforms, and there also, we hope- to make a redo and Drew functionality. So you can result. I need to stay step by step.

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Jose I think uh that's it for the demo and I. If I I have time, I can return to my presentation because I have more items to show. If I can.

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Yes, absolutely, please do.

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Have a couple of slides and I just wanted to share some tips and tricks some uh notice about known issues, for example.

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The first item is about performance browser application performance, in particular, I mean scalability, because when we talk about SAS scenarios, it's getting more important and um I'm, not sure that many of you have noticed this. Maybe we should promote it better, but the latest version.

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22.2.4 has some important performance enhancements that are not noticeable, and we have confirmed it internally in our internal tests and also some of our customers confirmed as well.

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You may uh not just that, for example, this 50 concurrent users, uh the the speed of opening detail forms, can be up to three times better and the core of this enhancement is to uh was it was the application model optimization? You know we have changed the way we access.

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Application model nodes internally I mean we previously as well. There was a walk because we wanted to avoid changes to application model at the same time and we have alter this implementation for the web, because it's uh much less critical for web users, because you uh mostly uh read your data.

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Your array link has extensive application model customization and, of course, removing the log greatly improves the performance, and uh this time we have done it um an application model level and we also see a room for it's also Improvement and other layers like type info system and other subsystems, so check it out. I. Remember: we published an example about using Excel Blazer applications with kubernetes and that time listen I'm mistaken we had like 300 users or so I. Also remember: hotshare uh did a nice video and uh test um this 100 users.

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So in these scenarios you will notice better performance.

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What next uh I want you to again promote our code Diagnostics in Visual Studio, uh because just because it saves your time, I mean your time. It prevents um popular mistakes that you might have when designing your controllers. When designing your data models. Recently, I posted in our Facebook group with.

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Example of such a mistake, for example, you may have some old code that that is not using the modern name of statements and has all profit names hard-coded. Why? Why can this example- and here you can support uh a mistake- that you have a property name, but internally you have age, maybe do some refactoring I, don't know, and how diagnostic automatically detects this mistake and you can fix it and.

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Basically, like 30 at this time, Diagnostics they're different for for XPO, for entity from work for controllers and I hope when they will save your time. Just try it and please.

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Tell us how it works for you. Well, I, already showed you the unit and functional tests, and also I just wanted to promote announcer to this very popular question among among customers.

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What to do to upgrade your XF application, where to look for migration instructions and I just wanted to promote this page, and it's called.

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Current version build, and it's also available when you just enter galaxy.com.

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This page is available from the bottom. Let me show version history.

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If you forget the URL here, you can just see all the product lines we have and you can navigate to specific versions to see which IG versions has approached which Frameworks has approached and also you can navigate to the changes for each version. For example, you can see this here. You can see the list of major advancements.

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What was new and more important for our original question is how to update your applications, and here we have a tool that allows you to, for example, specify a version from which upgrading, for example, let's say our application is on 22.1 and I can specify the the next uh the target version- and these two automatically shows me the list of uh all uh all uh making changes and uh no issues and I can, of course, I can filter it to to the products I use.

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For example, I don't need office file, API I'm, going to need reporting, I, don't need win. Ui UV, and uh here you can see that the list is filtered. You can see the list of fix it bugs you can see the list of.

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um Breaking changes, let me also filter for this.

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And here you can see all the documentation our team has prepared, because we pay a lot of attention to uh documented breaking changes and we often provide some uh migration tools. For example, if we talk about Entity framework core in 22.2, the viewer, some major changes due to changes in EF core 6, and we haven't even provided some automatic conversion tools to to update your database, and there are other items with helpful information.

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And um before I finish, I want to share information about a couple of known issues in the latest excess version. Just to save your time, because you may hit them and have questions and the first issue. It's uh about code called Diagnostics. We we found some specific situation and um I think like five customers are heated and we already fixed it, but the issued.

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That uh your Visual Studio compilation can sometimes take a while and uh you can work around it by disabling automatic code, analysis and visual studio settings and that's the first issue. The second issue is um about application performance. It's about.

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Application startup, you know we are recently. We are updating our code for uh to be more secure. So we are rear item certain things like how we load assemblies, how we load types and we are preventing any sort of uh sorts of attacks so to save our customers- and this easier is a consequence of one of our recent fixes.

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uh This one has not yet been fixed, but we are working on it and basically, you can notice in that. Your application, startup, might be a bit slower. Your CPU usage may be high, but again it's not affecting all all the applications for the scenarios.

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Well, that's basically think awesome.

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Hey thanks a lot for a wonderful presentation. There was a lot of information covered. There. I really enjoy all the school analysis that we have integrated now, because it really changed any new developer to to actually avoid common mistake and the LA the latest one about when we rename the property and in the set property value, we have a silver spring and that's a really good one, because before we I'm pretty sure that a lot of people have run through into that one right at some point in the future. Yeah.

D

I have to confess, actually we even we found mistakes now in general code right now, the demos when we enabled those diagnostic packages by default, so we uh dog food in our products. So we have now enabled those packages in all the internal applications and also in public demos as well. So.

A

uh So if anyone else have a question for any uh now is the moment so or any comment about what is coming. I think that we have a lot of great things coming up. I think that 2023 will be the year of Staff with all the Blazer layout that multi-tenancy they they speed improvement with the model, with the lock on the little views with the scheduler. The filter editor I, think that is a green control, so uh anyways, who have any comment for him.

A

I want to really appreciate Dennis for joining us here and showing us everything that is in the world and and if not, I'm, gonna, stop the recording for just a second, because I definitely want to keep this through map video to the point, and then it gives us a lot to think about, and then we can just talk a little bit about projector.

D

I just wanted to quickly add that we have now power published I, think except for map. We have published winform sort of map and we'll continue publishing roadmaps for uh other products as well. So please uh stay tuned uh watch our community side, I mean the Box, and hopefully we will enjoy what we're seeing, for example, our Blazer component team. It's a separate team from XF and Dev Express, it's uh working on improv, improving the great control and uh the last time I saw that they implemented uh koam header filters.

D

It also was one of the popular requests from Excel producers, so you know benefit from this automatically and uh of course, there are many other enhancements come true. Can you informs and report and whatever.

A

Nate yeah, actually I was waiting for the wrong map. As soon as I saw, the Vlog was released I by the way it gets in the mirror, because I really want to have an exclusion about this. But uh it was even better having you here and going and walking up to anything that we want and actually I will show. But you said just one minute before we foreign.

A

All right Dave, thank you for joining in I'm gonna quickly, stop the recording, and then we can jump to okay, all right, so I thought we use this uh times. Those made up these meetings to catch up on everything that we have done, or any questions that we have seen in the community, so any small demo or just discuss a little bit today. We have a a lot to think about, but I want to show one of our students ask us to show how to create a landing page for a staff product.

A

So basically we're gonna talk about having a some type of application that you have. It goes to completely custom landing page and from there they will click login to go to the login screen and stuff and start the regular application or they can register, or things like that and I think that it was a really a nice example and pretty easy to build. So let's show it real, quick, let's hear a second, you will be. You will be amazed. How is we can create this type of customizations? Now.

D

I think you did not pray to the glass as well.

A

Yeah, that's what we're having let's see.

A

Okay right here, so we have a landing page. It doesn't matter. This is just a regular radio page that it adapt to the screen size. This is the regular HTML template and basically, if we go to the register and give us a pop-up and that we can create our information if we click login, it changes to the login page software.

A

We have just one application that you can have a public patients that give you all the marketing or everything you need from your company and then you click login and you get into the actual Erp line of friends that have that you need. So, if you think about this is like I go, somebody is going to realize how simple to build this is so basically we're gonna, create, of course, a new Facebook page and we're going to add the directory. So this is the the start, temperature for application.

A

We have to go to our host page and remove that from here and after that we are going to make sure that our landing page and right here we are just basically adding a component and if you guys have a use, a blazer with MBC. You know that this is the type of like markup you put component. What is the type of the component and you let them know where to look for it, and this component only have two buttons and the logging and they show the model they're register.

A

But if you go to the Loading part, the only thing that we're going to do here is navigate to our login page, so it will pass from a login page. I didn't know that is in your startup, so the same one here. So if you customize the login page and you change it somehow just make sure that you put the same one. But with that one.

A

You have a landing page that you created like a regular HTML, and then you put anything you need here and you have then your a navigation that takes you to the login page turns up.

A

Just to get to your line of business Hub and then you can have your marketing completely go crazy and make all the features of your company, so I'm, actually thinking of doing something like that with the study website and they have to log into a song like I, don't know customer portal thing for tickets so for things like that, I think that this will integrate really well and also is what we do 24 7, so it makes sense that we do it this way. Thank you all right. So this was the first one.

A

This was a simple one, but I think that it shows a lot of, of course, I think that this is already by default, because if you see this is the old version, this is still when we have module modulation, module wing and so on. But uh the other thing that you all always have to think about is the routing so make sure that you have in your router component that takes this assembly that you need. So you know, but that's it now. This is the first one.

A

The second one I just want to mention this and I'm gonna. It's really congratulations. Then it is here just for this small change. It's really simple. Everyone like I know that we have talked about this in the past, but uh if you are only doing pleasure like especially for new people, that they are only familiar with place or only familiar with, they are not doing Wing forms. They are just having a Blazer toys. You can delete the module completely, you can completely delete the module and then you can use everything you see.

A

We created a business object. Folder, you can put your business object there, your controller everything will be one project so that a one project sometime for new developers and even for yourself, it will be like, like everything is just in one project like if you see my always go into single project. Everything is just this type of so we can do that this year and like I, I create this.

A

If this is say, stuff delete- and we put a domain object to here and then we insert it and then the menu object to- and this is working perfectly, but you can delete completely Reserve mode and we will like going a little bit uh crazy. We were trying to trick the HBO gig type so because we have a whole Legacy application and then we created a a new blazer application that connects to that Legacy, but that Legacy still had the security, all security system. All reports all crazy things, so we work really with the Blazer.

A

Application, cannot touch the database or anything in the other side. So we were there in database making like that. One was modul info for compatibility, and this one we put a data is a schema. We make sure that we don't allow the updated to run. We disable everything, but the HP object type. They give us a little bit of easy. So we came here to the assembly line of this module and we like put the same name of the other application, and then we try to trick The Experience type of thing.

A

That is the same, and it works really good. So uh that's why I remember I think that a lot of people are still creating new projects, but they don't know that if they don't need the module just feel free to delete it, and you will be good to go. There is nothing that prevents you to do that. Yeah.

D

Yeah, um thank you for highlighting this uh small enhancement and it really was inspired by jorfenberg in the past and all.

B

Other customers.

D

Mentioned and I'm thinking about an option in our visa to make it configurable so that people can selected by by default result in additional steps. Because lately.

D

Web development.

D

Winds or wind from zero development, and not all our creation, mean from sport project at the same time a motor project. It's it's helpful, just just for separation, I mean if you build complex applications. If you have a mobile application, you will share your at least your data model, but for simple applications for sure it's best to have a small project.

A

I I have to mention we have like several clients. Now they are only going places. They don't I'm, not interested in Windows, they say later Blazer. We don't want anything else for those projects.

A

We can definitely just use the the project that the application project and forget about the nursing one and I think that that's a really really good possibility to have- and they considered done I definitely would create a demo with a complete from file new project when people get this complete landing page demo in place, so I have to understand that I think that it will uh useful and it opens it all to a lot of like custom applications. Absolutely.

C

So so many times we've done a separate uh I hate to say we use WordPress for uh a marketing page, and then we use XLF in the back end for the logins and to have it cohesive in one would be uh really really nice. So.

A

No I I completely agree, and one thing that I just want to mention anything that I have here is: if you create your own login page like completely uh done for you and you want a like a custom public page, but then you have you want to make sure that the user is authenticated before there was an identity, authentication Service, but this is deprecated the one that you have to use right now. The principle provider just said word of cousins there, because we have to update an app and we have to remove that okay.

A

So this is another one thing that I want to mention, because we are really really excited about the things that Blazer allows to do right here we can, we have all the documentation to create a new thing and we have a few customers that I, like I, just want to change like most of the clients. They are not looking for a complete uh thing from beginning to class. They just want to change the primary colors. They just want to change, maybe the font and like three four things and that's it.

A

So we look into that and of course, I'm not gonna, go through all the steps here, because you have to like make sure that you have node and npm. Then you have to initialize it. You have to build it. You have to take that one. But basically, if you follow these steps, you create that uh that basically it will create your new CSS system and then you're going to have a place where you're going to be able and try here to customize anything.

A

You want just the variable that you want to change based on a theme like you're gonna, say: okay, this is my base theme I'm, gonna customize these three for variables. Then you build it and it will create it for something and then you copy that or as we did, we just put directly the path to that one.

A

If you uh do all those steps you will have to think like we have a green team here that the only thing that we changed was the the primary color, but basically was following all these steps here and I think that we have not got more in depth, but I'm really excited what we can do, because we have a lot of great teams, but it's also uh really nice to be able that if your client has a green marketing like color palette, let's try to accommodate them as much as we can.

A

So we can look it exactly as they were. uh If you, this is based on the color uh White on the regular, like the the power thing from on the express, but you can see real results are very changing. Everything like the even the the splash is saying everything is going to be green here and the same thing on the interview and everything that I want to create a tutorial for begin to end.

A

I have to be honest, every time that I see something like MPA notes, it's just like, but like sometimes we have years ago.

A

All right like if we click on and open it, you will see that primary color everywhere you have time to be, and this is basically- and this is what I really like like. There is a lot of more customization that we can do now with later, with a dependency injection for those services with customization with the UI. So we are we're really excited about everything that is happening and everything that we're gonna achieve so uh I have a couple extra demos for hiding the navigation.

A

If you are in a specific a resolution, I extend the navigation on the on the on the navigation and so on, but I think that we have a love to cover with everything that is provided so I'm gonna keep it short today and for the next one we can do a more tip and clicks number two I think and go to all a lot of cool demos. A lot of cool things. I would love again. Anyone who want to share their experience. I know uh they.

A

It's gonna, be released in the Yama logo beta or Alpha the next month, a couple months. So that's another thing to keep uh stay tuned to, and thanks always for being here, coach uh always win us for the picture and benefits.

D

Yeah I forgot, since we talked about uh informs developers, I forgot about them and wanted to show some yeah in future to keep them happy, because you know, as I, see from personal experience talking to people and also from starts. There are still many many I've been from developers and they will continue to create new uniforms projects for another five or ten years and as I see it greatly depends on the country example.

D

I I was last month in in Sweden or and visited some except customers. They haven't have not created desktop applications, I think for three years or more, but there are country countries like Germany Austria, where many people still do this. Okay, let me uh take your screen quickly.

D

This feature is about template customization. You know it's pretty similar to what you show damage for Blazer and uh you know, informs you have the same capability to customize your main page, to provide additional forms and previously.

D

D

22.25 we had issues with dotnet uh core winfront designer and we have others others those issues. Basically, the change is uh about aging and you uh specific package for design for design time to operate correctly. You may remember, if you are fluent in the informed development you are already familiar with this device: dot win dot, design package that basically provides the um we informed designer with options to work with geospace controls. It's required because Microsoft has changed the way designers operate, in.net core.

D

So there is some clean server um application internally and like a client and servers, they talk to each other when you customize things in your form designer and basically, we provided a similar package with required infrastructure for xaf, and you can now customize forms visually.

D

In again in 22.2.5, so I hope you will like it.

D

That's it just a quick demo that we don't forget to France yeah.

A

But it's very nice and we won't forget it. Every like wind point is still the more stable, more productive, more faster way to do things, and it's what we know: hey without clothes, so get ready already. Everyone today for the picture uh really happy with this uh Meetup. Today we cover a lot of things. This has been brilliant it to the point that I felt silly to keep showing a small demos when we have so much information to go.

D

Yeah, thank you very much for question uh this event. It's a very helpful for the community and I believe people learn new things every Mission and let's continue and let's exchange information and for outside, we will continue to share and use in our Facebook group and post them on Twitter, because we have a lot of things happening internally.

D

A lot of documentation is being created in general enhancements and, as always, we look forward to your feedback in the supper Center or in person in email, by the way, I will be flying to uh Poland to Basel tomorrow. So if there are any customers component available for meeting tomorrow, I will be ready to talk about anything since I have a very long connection for it.

A

Basically, let's see if at one point we're lucky to to have you and this side of the world.

E

D

Yeah it's my to-do list.

B

So ready it's time for the picture, get ready all the cameras on this way for more people to I guess we are done so one two three and just in case another one, one, two, three thanks. You will see it in the group all.

A

Right thanks. Everyone, uh as Danny was saying like uh there is a lot of a thing coming from 2023 I. Definitely, I strongly believe that you cannot be successful on your own. You need the community. You need to grow. You need like everyone like sharing their experience and like using the tool and giving us feedback. So thanks a lot for that and talk see you guys next time next month for the next mirror, thanks again for joining everyone.