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:

• Session Management and Caching
• My persistent classes are real classes – or not?
• Relations and custom collections
• Advanced queries
• XPO is good for distributed applications

I recommend watching at least the XPO related blog if you are interested in this, as I can’t promise I’ll always find the time to notify readers of this blog about posts in the other. The main page of the XPO blog is here, and there are links available for RSS and Atom aggregation.

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?”.

I have just published this: Transactions and Units of Work

The next version of XPO (eXpress Persistent Objects) from Developer Express has finally been released. A list of new features is here. I’m currently working on a number of technical articles that will soon start to appear in the list on this page – look out for that if you’re into XPO. And if you’re not (yet), be sure to download a demo of the complete suite including XPO from here.

Well, if I'm wondering about that every now and then, I'm sure some of the more loyal readers of my blog must be wondering the same thing, given the sparse nature of blog updates in recent months. The answer is, since I've started working for Developer Express, I've been doing that many different things that it's just hard to keep track of them, and I haven't found myself with the free time needed to continually update my blog. But I see that this is a Bad Thing™ and I'll try to do something about it.

So what have I done? Let's see:

• I've worked on concepts, testing, samples and documentation of eXpressApp Framework, which was made available as a CTP on January 12th. Since then we've been getting great feedback from our subscribers (who have access to the CTP) and I've spent a lot of time investigating issues, exchanging posts with customers and coordinating things with our development teams. Obviously development has continued since we released the CTP version, so even more plans to be made...
  
• Since the beta of XPO 2 came out, I've spent a lot of time with customers testing this product, and also with internal discussions about the final feature set, some article writing, sample explaining, .... As with eXpressApp Framework, feedback has been great and we'll be able to make the final product a lot better even than the beta was. Just recently I wrote a DXCore plugin to support XPO 2 in the final release... I hope that feature will actually make it. And no, I'm not telling what it is :-)
  Obviously XPO 2 is an important base of eXpressApp Framework, so we need to be careful to coordinate things between these two projects.
• XtraCharts and the XtraLayout control have also been released into their beta phases and I've done some testing on these releases. Specifically XtraLayout is another important component in the Windows Forms part of eXpressApp Framework.
• I created a DXCore plugin that can store my Window/Tool Window configuration in VS and restore it later - very nice to work with multiple window configurations. For example, on my multi-monitor setup I typically use VS stretched over two of the three screens. But when I just want to edit some XML, I like to have the window on only one screen and get rid of most of the tool windows I normally use.
  I offered making this plugin available in the DXCore plugins newsgroup, but as I got only one reply to that post, I haven't taken the time yet to actually do this. Drop me a mail if you want to vote for having this plugin available as a download :-)
  
• I'm currently working on a DXCore plugin that will let me ink on my VS editor with my Tablet PC.
  

• I'm currently working on an article about DXCore for German dot.net magazin. Not sure when that will be published.
• DevWeek 2006 is here in London Feb 20-24. Looks like I'm going to be there - if you're around, feel free to drop by the Developer Express booth for a chat.
• As far as I know, I'm going to do a talk about CodeRush and Refactor! at the March 14 meeting of The Developers Group in Hammersmith. Their official agenda for that day is not yet up, that's why I'm saying "as far as I know" :-) Should be interesting though - the talk will not be too long and it will provide an overview over functionality offered by these two great products.
  
• Several other things I can't currently tell about ;-)