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.NET Aspire Support For An XAF Blazor Project — Custom Telemetry, Service Orchestration, Database Dependency

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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XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Early Access Preview (v25.1)

This post documents a few XAF -related features we expect to ship in early June and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build. As you will note below, XAF-related focus areas remain Blazor, Entity Framework Core and Security. For additional...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 April 2025

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.NET Aspire Support for an XAF Blazor Project — Introduction

In Microsoft’s words, .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages for building observable, production ready apps. In case you are not familiar with Aspire yet, please read the content of Microsoft’s website to get up to speed with the basic...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

25 March 2025

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Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Authorization Code Flow (Part 4)

This post is the next installment in my series titled Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) . The content relates to my previously published post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

6 March 2025

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WinForms — June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1)

This blog post outlines new WinForms–related features we expect to ship in our mid–year release (v25.1). You can leave your feedback at the end of the article - Go to the survey now . The information contained within this blog post details our current...

Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)

18 February 2025

.NET .net 8 .NET 9 .NET Core 2025 accessibility roadmap v25.1 WinForms

XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1)

Thank you for choosing XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) for your software development needs. This blog post outlines some of our XAF-related development plans for the first half of 2025 (v25.1, set for release in June 2025). First, if...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 February 2025

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v24.2 is Here

As you may already know, we recently released DevExpress v24.2 - our second major update of 2024. v24.2 includes a variety of enhancements/updates across our entire .NET, JavaScript, and VCL product portfolio....

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

27 December 2024

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.NET — Automatic Upgrade of .NET and External Dependency Versions, Converting Assembly to Package References and More (v24.2)

Reducing Issues with Target Framework/3rd Party Dependency Upgrades Based on research, a more effective/automated .NET framework and 3rd party dependency upgrade process is high on the priority list for our customers (without appropriate automation, major...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

15 October 2024

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Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Authenticate Users and Protect Data (Part 3)

This post is the next installment in my series titled Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) . The content relates to my previously published post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

14 October 2024

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WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Middle Tier Security Server (EF Core with WebSockets)

Series Overview This article is the second in a series of posts for teams who wish to build .NET desktop applications that communicate securely with backend services. Table of Contents Intro — Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures Choosing...

Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)

18 September 2024

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