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Application Security — Stronger Hashes and Safer Passwords

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

.NET .net core Architecture ASP.NET Blazor Dashboard Data Access Office File API Reporting security WinForms WPF XAF

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

.NET access control ASP.NET authentication authorization EF EFCore Entity Framework grid rbac security web api webapi WinForms XAF

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

.NET access control ASP.NET authentication authorization EF EFCore Entity Framework odata rbac security web api webapi WinForms XAF

.NET — About NuGet Package Audit and "False-Positive" Security Warnings

Over the last few years, the commitment to `information security` has evolved in a positive direction - more organizations taking a far more serious posture when it comes to system security and its associated risks. Software development processes are...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 July 2024

.NET .net core .NET MAUI ASP.NET Dashboards NuGet Reporting security WinForms WPF XAF

.NET and .NET Framework — Migration from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json (v24.1)

What Will Change in v24.1 In our v24.1 release cycle (set to ship in June 2024), the following DevExpress products will use Microsoft’s System.Text.Json instead of Newtonsoft.Json for JSON serialization-related tasks in runtime code : Data Access Library...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

1 April 2024

.NET .net 6 .NET 8 .net core ASP.NET ASP.NET Core Blazor C# Dashboards DevExtreme installation installer Maps Reporting Roadmap security Survey v24.1 Web WinForms WPF XAF

JavaScript — Consume the DevExpress Backend Web API with Svelte (Part 7. Mail Merge)

In the first part of this post series , I described how to set up a Svelte Kit project to load data from the DevExpress Web API service . The second part described how I queried metadata from the service, in order to display captions customized in the...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

22 December 2023

.NET6 .NET7 access control ASP.NET aspnetcore authentication authorization EF EFCore Entity Framework filtering JavaScript JS mail merge OData OpenAPI rbac Reports security sorting Svelte Web API webapi XAF

JavaScript — Consume the DevExpress Backend Web API with Svelte (Part 6. Preview and Download Reports)

In the first part of this post series , I described how to set up a Svelte Kit project to load data from the DevExpress Web API service . The second part described how I queried metadata from the service, in order to display captions customized in the...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

17 October 2023

.NET6 .NET7 access control ASP.NET aspnetcore authentication authorization EF EFCore Entity Framework filtering JavaScript JS OData OpenAPI rbac Reports security sorting Svelte Web API webapi XAF

JavaScript — Consume the DevExpress Backend Web API with Svelte (Part 5. Authenticate Users and Protect Data)

In the first part of this post series , I described how to set up a Svelte Kit project to load data from the DevExpress Web API service . The second part described how I queried metadata from the service, in order to display captions customized in the...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

23 May 2023

.NET6 .NET7 access control ASP.NET aspnetcore authentication authorization EF EFCore Entity Framework filtering JavaScript JS OData OpenAPI rbac security sorting Svelte Web API XAF

Blazor WebAssembly — Authorize EF Core CRUD Operations and Download Reports with OData Web API

In our previous post we announced a GitHub example that demonstrates how to develop a .NET MAUI mobile app with the DevExpress Web API Service alongside Entity Framework Core (EF Core) for the backend. This example follows a series of video tutorials...

Eugeniy Burmistrov (DevExpress)

1 May 2023

ASP.NET Blazor EF ef core Entity Framework Featured mobile OData OpenAPI REST restful Roadmap security Swagger usability v22.1 v22.2 Visual Studio 2022 VS2022 Web API WebAssembly XAF XPO

XAF - .NET App Security & Web API Service Benchmark for EF Core and XPO ORM

Hope you are all doing well. We created this GitHub project to test the performance of XAF's Security System for the two Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) libraries. We tested these libraries with BenchmarkDotNet : Microsoft Entity Framework Core (EF Core...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

23 March 2021

access control ASP.NET authentication authorization EF EF Core Entity Framework non-XAF permissions RBAC RLS roles security WinForms WPF XAF XPO