Xomega Video Tutorials

Note: new versions of Xomega.Net have been released since these tutorials had been published. The new versions support also ASP.NET and automate many of the manual tasks that are shown in these tutorials.

This series of short video tutorials is one of the fastest way to learn Xomega.

You can either view them in order to see how to build end-to-end .Net applications step-by-step, or jump right to the topic that is most interesting to you and then catch up on the rest of the videos.

Don't worry if English is not your native language, as they all have English subtitles.

1. Getting Started

Duration: 6:49 min.

Introduction to Xomega.

View this video to learn how to:

• Build and work with Xomega object models within Visual Studio.
• Generate database structure from the model.

2. Building Business Layer

Duration: 8:16 min.

View this video to learn how to:

• Import a Xomega object model from an existing database.
• Enrich the object model with logical types and enumerations.
• Generate an Entity Data Model for the business layer.
• Generate an incremental database update script.

3. Building WCF Service Layer

Duration: 9:10 min.

View this video to learn how to:

• Define service layer operations by adding CRUD operations.
• Generate WCF service contracts from the model.
• Customize service operations with any WCF attributes.
• Add model global configuration and generate endpoint configurations.

4. Building WPF Forms

Duration: 13:05 min.

View this video to learn how to:

• Generate a WPF search form based on a "read list" operation.
• Generate supporting files from the model enumerations.
• Build a rich and powerful search form.
• Implement the ReadList service method using LINQ to Entities.
  (Note: there is a generator for that in the latest version.)

5. Building WPF Details Forms

Duration: 10:25 min.

View this video to learn how to:

• Generate a WPF details form based on CRUD operations.
• Generate Xomega Framework data objects for the form's data model.
• Implement Create, Read, Update and Delete service methods.
  (Note: there is a generator for that in the latest version.)
• Explore Xomega Framework features.

6. Building Silverlight Pages

Duration: 10:47 min.

View this video to learn how to:

• Generate the same Silverlight search and details pages from Xomega model.
• Host and use WCF Services with Silverlight 3.
• Reuse the generated data object and other files with Silverlight.