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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

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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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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