What's New in XAF Help 17.1.3 and 17.1.4

In this post, I would like to provide an overview of the most important additions to XAF documentation introduced after the 17.1 release.

XAF Mobile

Using Maps in a Mobile Application

This new lesson of the XAF Mobile tutorial describes how to add the Maps Module for your mobile application using the Application Designer and display business objects on a map.

How to: Show a Current Location on a Map

This topic describes how to show a current position on a map in an XAF Mobile application by accessing the dxMap widget in JavaScript.

Related API:

MobileMapsPropertyEditor Class
MobileMapsListEditor Class
MapsMobileModule Class
IModelViewMobile Interface
IModelViewItemMobile Interface
IModelMobileMapSettings Interface
IModelListViewMobile Interface
IModelCommonMemberViewItemMobile Interface
IModelCommonMemberViewItemMobile Interface

Dashboards Module

How to: Open a Detail View When the Grid Row is Clicked in the Dashboard

This topic describes how to invoke a Detail View when a user clicks a row in the GridDashboardItem created using the Dashboards Module. In the invoked Detail View, a user can view or edit a business object corresponding to the clicked row.

How to: Show a Custom Form with the WinForms Dashboard Designer

This topic describes how to show a custom form as the WinForms Dashboard Designer used to create and modify dashboards in WinForms XAF applications. For instance, it can be required for customizing the menu (adding custom bar items or removing certain default bar items).

Related API:
DashboardDesignerManager Class
DashboardDesignerShownEventArgs Class
CreateCustomFormEventArgs Class

Notifications Module

How to: Show Various Notifications for Multiple Users

When you implement notifications in your application, one the same notification is created and displayed to each user by default. In the case that one user modifies this notification, for example using the Snooze or Dismiss Action, this notification is modified for all users. Create various notifications to multiple users as described in this topic to allow users use these Actions without collisions.

NotificationsController.CustomProcessNotifications Event

This event allows applying custom processing to the notification list received from the Notifications Service.

Security System

Passwords in the Security System

The Access Passwords in Code section of this topic now describes new options for those who need to deploy apps to production environments with FIPS policy enforcement (government desktop computers or highly secured web servers).

How to: Assign the Same Permissions for All Users of an Active Directory Group

This topic demonstrates how to map XAF security roles to Active Directory Security Groups.

How to: Call Direct SQL Queries in Integrated Mode or through the Middle Tier Application Server

By default, the "Transferring requests via ICommandChannel is prohibited within the security engine" exception occurs when you call direct SQL queries in Integrated Mode or through the Middle Tier Application Server. This topic describes how to override the restriction.

Application Model

How to: Apply Application Model Changes to the Current View Immediately

This topic describes how to implement Actions that make changes in the Application Model and then apply these changes to a current View without recreating it.

XAF UI

Text Notifications

Text notifications allow you to display a message box with a detailed notification text in a platform-independent manner.

Related API:

ShowViewStrategyBase.ShowMessage Method
MessageOptions Class
WinMessageOptions Class
WebMessageOptions Class

How to: Show a Custom Confirmation Window

This topic describes approaches to creating and showing confirmation dialogs.

How to: Show a Custom Windows Form
This topic demonstrates how to initialize and show a custom Form when an XAF action is clicked.

XAF Core

How to: Customize the New Action's Items List

This topic demonstrates the updated approach to accessing the list of business classes added to the NewObjectViewController.NewObjectAction items list.

Related API:

NewObjectViewController.NewObjectActionItemListMode Property

NewObjectActionItemListMode Enumeration

List View Data Access Modes Overview

This documentation section now contains separate topics for various modes:

Client Mode

Server and InstantFeedback Modes

DataView Mode

XafApplication.OptimizedControllersCreation Property

This property disables the instantiation of Controllers that will never be activated in nested List Views, which speeds up applications with numerous Controllers associated with detail collections.