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Application Security — Documents Are Untrusted Input

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

.NET .net core Architecture ASP.NET Blazor Office File API Reporting security WinForms WPF XAF

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

.NET .net core Architecture ASP.NET Blazor Dashboard Data Access Office File API Reporting security WinForms WPF XAF

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

.NET .net core ASP.NET Blazor charting Dashboard DevExtreme Featured feedback future globalization JS localization office Reporting Roadmap Survey usability ux VCL WinForms WPF XAF

.NET and .NET Framework — Migration from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json (v24.1)

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

.NET .net 6 .NET 8 .net core ASP.NET ASP.NET Core Blazor C# Dashboards DevExtreme installation installer Maps Reporting Roadmap security Survey v24.1 Web WinForms WPF XAF

Blazor — Hybrid Support (v22.2)

Our most recent release (v22.2) ships with Blazor Hybrid support (Community Tech Preview - CTP). As such, you can now embed DevExpress Blazor components into native MAUI, WinForms, and WPF Blazor applications...

Margarita Loseva (DevExpress)

3 January 2023

ASP.NET Blazor Blazor Hybrid MAUI v22.2 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

.NET .net core ASP.NET Blazor charting Dashboard Featured feedback future globalization localization MAUI office Reporting Roadmap Survey usability ux WinForms WPF XAF xamarin

Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 Support

We have noticed a slight uptick in Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6-related support traffic. In this post, we'll take a closer look at what you can expect from DevExpress in our upcoming release (v21.2). Visual Studio 2022 Support First and foremost...

The DevExpress Team

14 October 2021

.net 6 .net core ASP.NET Blazor DevExtreme Reports v21.2 WinForms WPF XAF XPO