Just a short notice, the official announcement will go out soon: Have a look at this page, the new CTP 2 of eXpressApp Framework is available right now. There are a number of interesting changes in it — the most interesting being, for many people, that it’s now available to everybody (download directly from that page linked above), not just to DX subscribers.
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I’m currently at the SDC in the Netherlands and I’m having a pretty good time demonstrating our tools and components to everybody. CodeRush and Refactor! are of course always popular, but I’ve also talked to people about (and actually demonstrated!) XPO, the eXpressApp Framework and any number of isolated problems with our various products. Mainly there’s a lot of praise, and somebody actually shook my hand in passing, saying “thank you for bringing Developer Express here”.
There are many peop …
Today I attended an event here in London, organized by Microsoft and Computer Arts, titled Designing Next Generation User Experiences. It was a mixed experience, probably due to the fact that the attendees were very diverse in their backgrounds. In the end it provided good insight into the new Microsoft Expression tools and their role in next generation WPF applications. Most of these tools I had known already because their CTPs have been available for a while, but this was the first time I s …
I actually forgot to mention this so far: my session Designing a model based application architecture has been accepted for DDD day 3. I’m not sure what the status of public announcements is for the guys organizing everything around DDD (and I can’t look right now because my internet provider has a few problems this morning), so I’m just going to point you to my own earlier post for the session description.
Yesterday I did a session on Refactor! at the London .NET User Group, the same talk I submitted for DDD day 3. Everything went well and I think people really liked the product. I’d like to thank the group for having me as a speaker, even though my presentation was mostly focused on a specific product. Ian asked me to definitely come back and do another talk sometime, so I guess it’s going to happen. Were you there? Did you like it? Did you think it was horrible? Please feel free to leave comme …
I have recently published a few more XPO related posts on the new Developer Express community site. Previously I have sometimes posted XPO stuff on this blog, and these posts are now all eaten up by the DX site — so I thought I’d let you know if you’re watching this space and not the DX community site. Here are the posts I wrote:
This has been announced today: There’s a Developer Express site now for blogs written by people working for the company. This is it: community.devexpress.com I have published two posts there so far, related to the newest major release of XPO (6.1): “Session Management and Caching” and “My persistent classes are real classes — or not?”. …