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Meet DataWerkes ( an independent software vendor in Alberta, Canada) and Keith Courneyea (a founder), who has been using our Cross-Platform .NET App UI (XAF) since 2019. We recently published a case study about their flagship commercial product (TimeWerkes...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
1 June 2026
A .docx is a ZIP file Open a .docx file in a hex editor and the first two bytes are PK . Every
modern Office format - .docx , .xlsx , .pptx - is a ZIP archive of XML parts
and embedded resources. PDF is not a ZIP file, but just like Office formats it...
Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)
29 May 2026
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
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
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 2026 (v26.1, set for release in June 2026). First, if...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
3 March 2026
EDIT : XAF v26.1 Roadmap 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...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
15 August 2025
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
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
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
Great news for customers using Entity Framework Core (EF Core): XAF v23.2.4+ and associated Backend Web API Service include preview (CTP) support of EF Core 8. We intentionally added support for EF Core 8 in v23.2.4+ to solicit feedback before official...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
2 February 2024
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