What’s New in Xafari 15.1.308.217

Xafari Services is a program component to implement business functions for an application entire. XS has a global character, it is an advantage of the system as a whole rather than specific business entities.
XAF developer is convenient to apply Xafari Services in the following situations:
1. Implemented functionality are intended for the whole application.
2. The result of the function must be isolated from other users, until the executor does not confirm changes.
3. The result of the function can be canceled without affecting other users.
4. The function uses its own global settings and parameters that can affect the work of other users.
5. The function is used for batch processing.

It allows to assign a number to referenced objects taking into account the context of the object owner.In contrast to the existing Business Numerators mechanism, the number in Index Numerators is presented just by digits. It provides a series of specific features:
1. To numerate hierarchical objects depending on the level.
2. To insert into the collection and recalculate index.
3. To remove from the collection and recalculate index.
4. To work in Updater.
5. To move the object to the top of the collection and recalculate index.
6. To move the object to the end of the collection and recalculate index.
7. To recalculate index when change the object number.
8. To support work with DB using direct requests.

Xafari Reports system provides feature to design Design XtraReports template via the Visual Studio. It uses the DevExpress designer (https://documentation.devexpress.com/#eXpressAppFramework/CustomDocument112734). The data source must be a XafariReportDataSource, it available in the toolbar.
This possibility is represented in Xafari x08 in CTP status (Community Technology Preview).

Application Settings now uses Xafari Service mechanism. This required significant modifications of the Application Settings core code.

Persistent Entity now can be extended with non-persistent Extension

DomainLogicBase2 is a new base class for the Domain Logic. It exposes AfterChange and BeforeChange methods to implement event handlers.

GuidWeakReference support clases with Guid key.

Now user can invoke any Dock Panel and customise displayed View. All customisation will be stored in Application Model correctly.

Now user can edit GeoPoint Container Detail View (in Web aoolication).

UnusableNodes has been removed

Fixed

Method was optimized.

Functionality is implemented by XafariTemplateContentFactory

New XFCloner class provides cloning for Entities and Extensions. To clone extended objects in custom code it is also necessary to use XFCloner.

var cloner = new Xafari.XF.XFCloner();
var clonedEntity = cloner.CloneTo(entity, entity.GetType());

Where ‘entity’ is extended Entity, clonedEntity is cloned Entity

Fixed

Now, by default, generated assembly is located in ‘C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp\Xafari’ folder.
To modify default settings, add GetDcAssemblyFilePath method to WebApplication class.

protected override string GetDcAssemblyFilePath()
{
 return Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.DynamicDirectory, "Xafari", this.ApplicationName, Path.GetRandomFileName());
}

or

protected override string GetDcAssemblyFilePath()
{
 return Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "GeneratedAssembly", XafApplication.DcAssemblyFileName);
}

If you use impersonate=true you have to create windows user group with modify permission on GeneratedAssembly folder and have to add all users (so IUSR) in this group.
If you use impersonate=false you have to set modify permission on GeneratedAssembly folder for user which used in AppPool

Fixed. Correct ToolboxTabNames are:
XafariSecurityModule
XafariAuthentication
XafariSecurityStrategy
XafariBCBranchesModule
XafariBCBranchesDCModule
XafariBCBranchesWinModule
XafariBCBranchesXpoModule
XafariBCDCModule

Fixed. Now it is possible.

Fixed.

Fixed.