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DevExpress Developer Survey — AI Impact, Regulatory Compliance, Upgrade & General Product Experience
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...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
2 June 2026
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...
Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)
29 May 2026
If you ship apps to customers in the EU, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) will require an SBOM as part of your conformity documentation. SBOM generation and CRA compliance are top priorities for DevExpress, and CycloneDX SBOM files for our .NET NuGet packages are now available as a preview...
Alex Chuev (DevExpress)
7 May 2026
...And we shall be there! Not in Seattle this year, but, for a change, in San Francisco. To be more accurate, Microsoft Build will be at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA. for two full days, June 2-3. As is usual, sessions will also be broadcast...
Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)
27 April 2026
In this post, I want to show you how to effectively upgrade vulnerable third-party dependencies in your projects, highlight .NET industry best practices, and also clarify how DevExpress helps you mitigate security-related risks in general. For illustration...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
24 April 2026
Every application that stores passwords makes an implicit bet: that the hashing
algorithm it chose will remain strong enough to resist attacks for as long as
those hashes exist. It’s worth revisiting that bet regularly. This post walks
through the reasoning...
Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)
17 April 2026
A developer asks: “How do I protect my connection string in a desktop
application?” This is one of the most common security questions in .NET development, and it
sounds like it should have a straightforward answer. But there is a fundamental
problem we...
Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)
2 April 2026
As you probably know, Microsoft Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) support ended on October 15, 2025. Since MAT is no longer supported, this post documents localization-related alternatives available to the Microsoft developer community. What MAT Deprecation...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
1 April 2026
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) transforms the way AI assistants interact with external tools and data sources. Developed by Anthropic, MCP is an open standard that allows developers to establish secure, two-way connections between databases, APIs, and...
Dmitry Tokmachev (DevExpress)
16 October 2025
In a recent blog post I described how an XAF Blazor project can be adjusted to support .NET Aspire. With a couple of changes to the startup logic, in both the standard XAF project template and the code added by the Aspire Visual Studio wizard, it became...
Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)
21 April 2025
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