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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

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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

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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XAF — Entity Framework Core 8 Support and Updated Performance Benchmarks for .NET 8

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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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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XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Year-End Roadmap (v23.2)

UPDATE: What's New in XAF v23.2 and XAF v24.1 Roadmap --------------------------- This blog post outlines some of our XAF-related development plans for the second half of 2023 (v23.2). As you will see below, key focus areas will continue to remain Blazor...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

24 August 2023

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DevExpress v23.1 — What You Can Expect in Our Most Recent Release (Across our .NET/.NET Core/JavaScript Product Line)

As you may already know, we recently released our bi-annual major update across our entire product line - v23.1. As always, the new release strengthens and optimizes our product lines and introduces new controls and capabilities across a variety of platforms....

Ray Navasarkian (DevExpress)

27 June 2023

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