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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

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XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — June 2026 Roadmap (v26.1)

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

.NET .NET 10 .NET 8 .NET 9 .net core 2026 asp.net Core blazor EF Core Entity Framework future important changes roadmap v26.1 web api WinForms XAF

XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Year-End Roadmap (v25.2)

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

.NET .NET 10 .NET 8 .NET 9 .net core 2025 asp.net Core blazor EF Core Entity Framework future important changes roadmap v25.2 web api WinForms XAF

.NET Aspire Support For An XAF Blazor Project — Custom Telemetry, Service Orchestration, Database Dependency

In a recent blog post I described how an XAF Blazor project can be adjusted to support .NET Aspire. With a couple of changes to the startup logic, in both the standard XAF project template and the code added by the Aspire Visual Studio wizard, it became...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

21 April 2025

.NET .NET 8 .net 9 .net core ASP.NET Core Aspire Blazor demo deployment Docker Linux lob non-Windows productivity rad SQL Server v24.2 Web XAF

XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Early Access Preview (v25.1)

This post documents a few XAF -related features we expect to ship in early June and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build. As you will note below, XAF-related focus areas remain Blazor, Entity Framework Core and Security. For additional...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 April 2025

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.NET Aspire Support for an XAF Blazor Project — Introduction

In Microsoft’s words, .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages for building observable, production ready apps. In case you are not familiar with Aspire yet, please read the content of Microsoft’s website to get up to speed with the basic...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

25 March 2025

.NET .NET 8 .net 9 .net core ASP.NET Core Aspire Blazor demo deployment Linux lob non-Windows productivity rad v24.2 Web XAF

XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1)

EDIT : XAF v25.2 Roadmap 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 2025 (v25.1, set for release...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 February 2025

.NET .net 6 .net core 2025 accessibility asp.net Core blazor EF EF Core Entity Framework Fluent Non-Windows OData OpenAPI REST restful roadmap security survey Swagger Usability v25.1 web api XAF XPO

XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Year-End Roadmap (v24.2)

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

.NET .NET 8 .NET 9 .net core 2024 asp.net Core blazor EF Core Entity Framework future OData Performance roadmap security v24.2 web api WinForms XAF XPO

.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

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