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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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WinForms — How to Integrate Semantic Similarity Search in the Grid Control (Powered by Embedding Models)

I am sure many of you remember Introducing .NET Smart Components – AI-powered UI controls by Daniel Roth and Steve Sanderson (both from Microsoft) and the excitement this article generated within the community. While this is still an ongoing experiment...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

4 June 2024

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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

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XAF Blazor & WinForms UI — .NET 8, Built-in Security and Multi-Tenancy Support, Integration of Custom Components, UI Customizations (v23.2)

As you probably know, our WinForms products ship with a custom Outlook-inspired app. You can review this app using the DevExpress Demo Center v23.2 (under the WinForms category), if you download and run our Unified Component Installer ( Trial / Paid ...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

19 January 2024

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Comprehensive Documentation for Blazor Deployments: Linux and Windows, IIS and Nginx, Cloud and On-Premise, SQL Server and PostreSQL

Inner Motivation or Value to Users Problem The Microsoft deployment documentation is a nice start for advanced users, but tend to be quite generic/incomplete for newbies or users without deep knowledge of specific tech like ASP.NET Core Blazor, Azure...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

3 December 2023

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DevExpress Multi-Platform App UI Controls Support .NET MAUI GA Release (v22.1)

As you probably know, Microsoft released .NET MAUI to production recently. Our free .NET MAUI product line for mobile development (with Android and iOS) is compatible with this .NET MAUI release. To see what is new in v22.1, please follow this link. If you are migrating from Xamarin, please check out Microsoft migration guidelines and also our article on navigation control changes....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

15 June 2022

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XAF - Improved .NET 5 Support, EF Core, OAuth2-based Security and Other Solution Wizard Enhancements (v21.1)

As you may already know from our 2021 roadmap , we planned to simplify .NET 5 and Blazor development in v21.1 with XAF, our award-winning cross-platform application UI framework . XAF's Solution Wizard v21.1 enhancements include the following: Notice...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

24 May 2021

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XAF - WinForms UI Case Study by PraKom Software GmbH

VenDoc currently addresses the needs of over 750 companies in both the DACH and South Tyrol regions of Europe....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

3 June 2019

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XAF - WinForms UI Case Study by CTL Computertechnik Lang

Read the full article to learn how Michael and Rina came to choose the DevExpress eXpressApp Framework (XAF) and eXpress Persistent Objects (XPO) for their WinForms project development, what they struggled with, and what they liked about our tools:...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

30 May 2019

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.NET Core: where we are and where we'll be

Last week was the premier event for developers targeting the Microsoft space: Microsoft Build. DevExpress was there, of course, with a full complement of staff at our booth, including myself....

Julian Bucknall (DevExpress)

16 May 2019

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