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Application Security — Why One Does Not Simply Protect a Data Store Connection String and Other Login Credentials?
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
Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures
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 v23.2 EAP — Straightforward non-Windows Deployment, Inplace Grid Actions for Blazor, Endpoints for Business Object Methods in Web API Service
XAF v23.2 EAP — Straightforward non-Windows Deployment, Inplace Grid Actions for Blazor, Endpoints for Business Object Methods in Web API Service
As you may already know, we are a couple of months away from our next major update (v23.2). This post describes 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...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
13 September 2023
.net 6 .NET 7 .NET 8 .net core 2023 asp.net Core blazor eap EF Core entity framework core prerelease roadmap security v23.2 Web WebAPI XAF
XAF v23.1 EAP — Runtime Customization, No Code and Usability Enhancements for Blazor UI
XAF v23.1 EAP — Runtime Customization, No Code and Usability Enhancements for Blazor UI
As you may already know, we are a couple of months away from our next major update (v23.1). This post describes some of the features we expect to ship in early June and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build (for additional information,...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
21 March 2023
.net 6 .NET 7 .net core 2023 asp.net Core blazor EF Core entity framework core prerelease roadmap security v23.1 Web WebAPI XAF
XAF - Role-based Access Control & User Authentication API in .NET Core Apps: Blazor Server, Web API/OData v4 and More (powered by XPO)
XAF - Role-based Access Control & User Authentication API in .NET Core Apps: Blazor Server, Web API/OData v4 and More (powered by XPO)
UPDATED: .NET App Security API (Role-based Access Control) is available free-of-charge (versions 21.2.x and 22.1.x). Our recent enhancements to user authentication and group authorization demos include the following: .NET Core 3.0+ versions of WinForms...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
5 February 2020
.net core access control ASP.NET authentication authorization blazor mobile MVC non-XAF OData permissions RBAC RLS roles security WebAPI XAF XPO
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