Expression Editor had a lot of improvements in Service Studio 5.0. You’ve probably already found most of them, but just in case you haven’t, here’s a list of some of them: - The window is no longer modal so you can open several of them for comparison and copy/paste. - Besides dragging from the scope tree, you can now also drag variables & actions set as functions from the eSpace tree. - As you’re typing, the border of the text editor turns red when the expression is invalid, giving you immediate fe[...]

A little more than two years ago, shortly after the Agile Platform version 4.1 was released, the engineering team at OutSystems joined together and did a self review on what we could do to improve our ability to deliver faster and with better quality. We already knew that the developers that used the OutSystems Platform were much more productive than the ones using .NET or J2EE, but we wanted to raise the bar even higher, taking their productivity to the next level. The current version of Service Stud[...]

I stumbled across a collection type the other day that was implemented with .NET 2.0. This, like many other things in 2.0 slipped past me completely until now. This collection type offers a solution to a common problem; How do you expose the collections in your class but prevent the consumer from modifying them? This is a "problem" with all reference types really, but often it is desirable to expose your collections to consumers. To illustrate this problem consider the following class:   public class [...]