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In this blog post, we’ll review the major features we expect to ship in our next major update (v26.2) in December 2026. These features apply to both DevExtreme JavaScript components (Angular, React, Vue, jQuery) and DevExtreme-based ASP.NET MVC/Core controls. To help us fine tune our release plans, please respond to the survey questions embedded within this post to share feedback...

Thank you for your continued support and for sharing your XAF development requirements with us via product surveys , Support Center tickets, email, and social media engagements. This post outlines features and capabilities we expect to ship in our year...

In this post, I'll summarize our most recent update including: 14 new WinForms skills, a repository-wide review of every skill we've shipped previously, and plugin installation for Codex CLI and Cursor....

First and foremost - thank you for choosing DevExpress and for your on-going support. In this blog post, I'll review the major features we expect to ship in our year-end release (v26.2 - December 2026). As always, you can expect other additions across...

What This Guide Covers I've hand-migrated more legacy codebases than I care to count, back when "modernisation" meant a fortnight of find-and-replace, a wall of compiler errors, and a knot in your stomach every time you hit Build. So when I recently took...

AI Needs More Than Good Prompts If you've paired Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or Cursor with DevExpress, you already know the moment I'm about to describe. It's the same one the team kept running into while building the DevExpress Office & PDF File API...

This release adds support for embedding Mermaid diagrams and beautifully rendered formulas (math, chemistry, physics) into source code comments. This release also adds support for the latest AI models, improves AiGen's ability to work with diagrams and...

As always, we thank you for your continued support and for choosing DevExpress for your software development needs. Below is an important usage survey and we ask that you take a few minutes to submit your feedback to us. Your thoughts/comments will help...

Meet DataWerkes ( an independent software vendor in Alberta, Canada) and Keith Courneyea (a founder), who has been using our Cross-Platform .NET App UI (XAF) since 2019. We recently published a case study about their flagship commercial product (TimeWerkes...

A .docx is a ZIP file Open a .docx file in a hex editor and the first two bytes are PK . Every modern Office format - .docx , .xlsx , .pptx - is a ZIP archive of XML parts and embedded resources. PDF is not a ZIP file, but just like Office formats it...