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Application Security — Why One Does Not Simply Protect a Data Store Connection String and Other Login Credentials?

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

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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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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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WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Secure Backend Web API Service (EF Core with OData)

Series Overview As you may recall from an earlier post (Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures), we want to help guide our loyal WinForms/WPF/VCL/.NET MAUI/XAF customers through new/tightened security requirements (and associated complexities...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 July 2024

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Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures

Back in 2002, the world was exciting for Windows desktop application developers: Microsoft released the .NET Framework! With it came the completely new language C# (do you remember it was called Cool prior to the release?) as well as various new subsystems...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

9 February 2024

.NET .net core Architecture Asynchronous Backend Data Access Desktop Frontend Middle Tier REST security webapi windows WinForms WPF