Browse by Tags

• .NET
• .net 6
• .NET 8
• 2024
• accessibility
• asp.net Core
• blazor
• eap
• EF
• EF Core
• Entity Framework
• non-Windows
• OData
• OpenAPI
• prerelease
• restful
• roadmap
• security
• survey
• Swagger
• Usability
• Web API
• XAF
• XPO

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

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

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

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 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

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

XAF v24.1 — June 2024 Roadmap (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service)

UPDATE: What's New in XAF (v24.1) - please vote in the survey | Year-End Roadmap (v24.2) --------- The following list outlines features/capabilities we expect ship for XAF’s Cross-Platform .NET App UI and the DevExpress .NET App Security & Web API Service...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

6 February 2024

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

Develop a DevExpress XAF and Web API Solution in Docker

Containers are everywhere — whether your deploy your app to a Kubernetes cluster or even a cloud environment, or you use containers as a local runtime and dev environment, it’s hard to ignore them! I wrote the following detailed description as part of...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

6 April 2023

.NET .net core Containers Docker EF ef core Entity Framework non-Windows OData OpenAPI REST restful Swagger Visual Studio 2022 VS2022 Web API XAF

XAF v23.1 — June 2023 Roadmap (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service)

UPDATE: XAF v23.2 Roadmap The following list outlines features/capabilities we expect ship for both XAF’s Cross-Platform .NET App UI (XAF) and the DevExpress .NET App Security & Web API Service (by June 2023). We will outline plans for our second major...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

8 February 2023

.net 6 .NET 7 .net core 2023 asp.net Core blazor EF EF Core Entity Framework OData OpenAPI REST restful roadmap security survey Swagger Usability v23.1 web api XAF XPO