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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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Microsoft Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) Has Been Deprecated: What’s Next for DevExpress-Powered App Localization?

As you probably know, Microsoft Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) support ended on October 15, 2025. Since MAT is no longer supported, this post documents localization-related alternatives available to the Microsoft developer community. What MAT Deprecation...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

1 April 2026

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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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DevExpress v23.1 — What You Can Expect in Our Most Recent Release (Across our .NET/.NET Core/JavaScript Product Line)

As you may already know, we recently released our bi-annual major update across our entire product line - v23.1. As always, the new release strengthens and optimizes our product lines and introduces new controls and capabilities across a variety of platforms....

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

27 June 2023

.NET .net core ASP.NET Blazor Dashboard Featured Office File API Reporting v23.1 WinForms XAF

BI Dashboard — Create Dashboards in Visual Studio Desktop .NET Apps (v22.1)

You can now create, design, and display dashboards in a single .NET WPF or WinForms Dashboard Viewer application for .NET 5+ with ease....

Dmitry Tokmachev (DevExpress)

21 June 2022

.NET 6 BI Dashboard Dashboard v22.1 WinForms WPF

Localizing Your DevExpress-powered .NET App – Complete the Survey to Help Shape Our Development Strategy

As you may recall from my recent blog post , our Unified Component Installer will soon include an option to install localized resources for certain languages (DE, ES, JA, RU). We will not install these resources by default – you can install them at your...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

27 January 2022

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WinForms Dashboard - Custom item Extensions

In our most recent release (v21.1), we published a public API that allows you to embed any WinForms control into the DevExpress Dashboard. The primary advantage of this API and our Custom Dashboard Items, is the ability to leverage the functionality available for built-in dashboard items. Based on previous survey results, we recently created a set of highly requested custom DevExpress Dashboard items....

Margarita (DevExpress)

15 September 2021

Dashboard v21.1 WinForms

DevExpress Template Gallery Changes (v21.1.3)

With v21.1.3 (RTM) just around the corner, I wanted to describe a couple of changes to the DevExpress Template Gallery - all driven by user feedback and .NET Core/.NET 5 development: The DevExpress Template Gallery now includes WinForms and WPF project...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 May 2021

.net 5 .net core ASP.NET Dashboard Template Gallery usability v21.1 WinForms WPF XAF

XAF - Vanguard AI and its Trading Platform (Cross-Platform .NET App UI)

Meet Greffith Ponce of Vanguard AI (an IT company in the Philippines) who has been using the DevExpress eXpressApp Framework (XAF) since 2008. We recently published a case study about their trading platform powered by XAF and DevExpress WinForms components...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

28 April 2021

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WinForms Dashboard - Custom Items

Hope you’re doing well. As you may know, a couple of years ago we introduced custom item support for DevExpress Web Dashboards (v17.1). Many of you have asked us to add this capability to our WinForms Dashboard . The good news is that in our next major...

Margarita (DevExpress)

18 April 2021

2021 Dashboard v21.1 WinForms