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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
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
In our previous post we announced a GitHub example that demonstrates how to develop a .NET MAUI mobile app with the DevExpress Web API Service alongside Entity Framework Core (EF Core) for the backend. This example follows a series of video tutorials...
Eugeniy Burmistrov (DevExpress)
1 May 2023
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
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