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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

.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

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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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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

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XAF v24.2 EAP — Passwordless Sign-ins and MFA, Calculated Fields and Soft Deletion in EF Core, Tabbed MDI and Performance Enhancements in Blazor

This post documents a few XAF -related features we expect to ship in early December and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build ( for additional information on what you can expect in December, please refer to our Year-End v2024.2 roadmap...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

2 October 2024

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WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Middle Tier Security Server (EF Core with WebSockets)

Series Overview This article is the second in a series of posts for teams who wish to build .NET desktop applications that communicate securely with backend services. Table of Contents Intro — Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures Choosing...

Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)

18 September 2024

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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

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WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Secure Backend Web API Service (EF Core with OData)

Series Overview As you may recall from an earlier post (Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures), we want to help guide our loyal WinForms/WPF/VCL/.NET MAUI/XAF customers through new/tightened security requirements (and associated complexities...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 July 2024

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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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