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XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Year-End Roadmap (v25.2)

This blog post outlines some of our XAF-related development plans for the second half of 2025 ( v25.2 ) and beyond. The announcement within this post is important and I don't wish to minimize its impact. My goal is to give everyone as much advance notice...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

15 August 2025

.NET .NET 10 .NET 8 .NET 9 .net core 2025 asp.net Core blazor EF Core Entity Framework future important changes roadmap v25.2 web api WinForms XAF

.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

.NET .NET 8 .net 9 .net core ASP.NET Core Aspire Blazor demo deployment Docker Linux lob non-Windows productivity rad SQL Server v24.2 Web XAF

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

.NET .net core 2025 accessibility asp.net Core blazor eap EF EF Core Entity Framework Non-Windows OData OpenAPI prerelease REST restful roadmap security survey Swagger Usability v25.1 web api XAF XPO

What's coming in v25.1

As we look ahead to the DevExpress v25.1 release anticipated early June, there is a lot to get excited about across our product line-up. From UI enhancements and performance boosts to serious AI integration and accessibility upgrades, the focus this cycle...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

13 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

.NET .NET 8 .net 9 .net core ASP.NET Core Aspire Blazor demo deployment Linux lob non-Windows productivity rad v24.2 Web XAF

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

EDIT : XAF v25.2 Roadmap 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...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 February 2025

.NET .net 6 .net core 2025 accessibility asp.net Core blazor EF EF Core Entity Framework Fluent Non-Windows OData OpenAPI REST restful roadmap security survey Swagger Usability v25.1 web api XAF XPO

XAF v24.2 EAP — Passwordless Sign-ins and MFA, Calculated Fields and Soft Deletion in EF Core, Tabbed MDI and Performance Enhancements in Blazor

This post documents a few XAF -related features we expect to ship in early December and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build ( for additional information on what you can expect in December, please refer to our Year-End v2024.2 roadmap...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

2 October 2024

.net 6 .NET 8 .net core 2024 accessibility asp.net Core blazor eap EF EF Core Entity Framework Non-Windows OData OpenAPI prerelease REST restful roadmap security survey Swagger Usability v24.2 web api XAF XPO

XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Year-End Roadmap (v24.2)

UPDATE: What's New in XAF (v24.2) | June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1) As always, thank you for choosing XAF . We appreciate your support. This blog post outlines some of our XAF-related development plans for the second half of 2024 (v24.2). Strategically, our...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 July 2024

.NET .NET 8 .NET 9 .net core 2024 asp.net Core blazor EF Core Entity Framework future OData Performance roadmap security v24.2 web api WinForms XAF XPO

XAF v24.1 EAP — Tabbed MDI, Batch Edit, Notifications, Customization Form and Accessibility for Blazor, EF Core 8 and Performance Boost for Middle Tier Server

As you may already know, we are a couple of months away from our next major update (v24.1). This post describes a few XAF -related features we expect to ship in early June and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build (for additional information...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

18 April 2024

.net 6 .NET 8 .net core 2024 accessibility asp.net Core blazor eap EF EF Core Entity Framework Non-Windows OData OpenAPI prerelease REST restful roadmap security survey Swagger Usability v24.1 web api XAF XPO

.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