Business Model Design

• May 15, 2019
• 2 minutes to read

Creating a business model is one of the most important steps in building a business application. Before you get started, choose the data access technology and modeling approach to use. The Business Model Design Basics topic will help you to make a choice. To learn about the business model design, please refer to the following documentation sections:

• Business Model Design Basics
• Built-in Business Classes for Most Popular Scenarios

• Business Model Design with Entity Framework

  • Use the Entity Framework Data Model
  • Relationships Between Entities in Code and UI
  • Use Entity Framework with an Existing Database

• Business Model Design with XPO

  • Business Classes vs Database Tables
  • Ways to Add a Business Class
  • Base Persistent Classes
  • Relationships Between Persistent Objects in Code and UI
  • Optimistic Concurrency Control
• Non-Persistent Objects

• Data Types Supported by built-in Editors

  • Key Properties
  • String Properties
  • Numeric Properties
  • Date and Time Properties
  • Boolean Properties
  • BLOB Image Properties
  • Collection Properties
  • Reference (Foreign Key, Complex Type) Properties
  • File Attachment Properties
  • Enumeration Properties
  • Type Properties
  • Criteria Properties
  • Color Properties
  • Miscellaneous Property Types
• Mapping Complex Types to the Database

• Types Info Subsystem

  • Access Business Object Metadata
  • Use Metadata to Customize Business Classes Dynamically
• Connect an XAF Application to a Database Provider
• Data Annotations in Data Model
• Create and Update the Application’s Database