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XAF Blazor/WinForms UI — Case Study by DataWerkes: Field Services Management Platform (TimeWerkes)

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

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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

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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

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.NET — About NuGet Package Audit and "False-Positive" Security Warnings

Over the last few years, the commitment to `information security` has evolved in a positive direction - more organizations taking a far more serious posture when it comes to system security and its associated risks. Software development processes are...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 July 2024

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.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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NuGet Stability and Authentication Enhancements, Portable PDB Support for Windows and Linux, .NET Core Desktop Product Installer Is Deprecated (v21.2)

We now support NuGet authentication via a token or an authorization key - especially helpful for GitHub Dependabot, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps. Based on user feedback in our recent survey, we have added Portable PDB Symbols to our v21.2 distribution (official release in November). ...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

28 September 2021

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XAF - Reports and Security System Enhancements (Coming soon in v16.1)

The Blog of the ultimate business application framework for .NET Developers from DevExpress...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

26 May 2016

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