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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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.NET — Automatic Upgrade of .NET and External Dependency Versions, Converting Assembly to Package References and More (v24.2)

Reducing Issues with Target Framework/3rd Party Dependency Upgrades Based on research, a more effective/automated .NET framework and 3rd party dependency upgrade process is high on the priority list for our customers (without appropriate automation, major...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

15 October 2024

.NET .net 6 .Net 7 .NET 8 .net 9 .net core ASP.NET C# Charts Dashboards DevExtreme Featured installation installer NuGet office Reporting Roadmap Survey usability v24.2 Web WinForms WPF XAF

.NET — .NET 8 and .NET Framework 4.6.2 Are Minimally Supported Target Frameworks for DevExpress Libraries in v24.2

What Will Change in v24.2 Once we release v24.2 (December 2024) , our libraries will no longer support .NET 6/7 and .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1. The following DevExpress . NET Core and .NET Framework-based products will also – at a minimum – require...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

10 July 2024

.NET .net 6 .Net 7 .NET 8 .net 9 .net core ASP.NET C# Charts Dashboards DevExtreme Featured installation installer NuGet office Reporting Roadmap Survey usability v24.2 Web WinForms WPF XAF

WinForms — Performance Enhancements in the Microsoft WinForms Designer for .NET 6+ Development

We were in close collaboration with the Microsoft dev team over the last few months, and Microsoft has recently released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 2 , which improves form load performance across a number of .NET Core / .NET usage scenarios...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 March 2024

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.NET — .NET Standard 2.0 Deprecation, Support for .NET 6 or .NET 8 (LTS) in DevExpress Libraries (v23.2)

UPDATED See also .NET — .NET 8 and .NET Framework 4.6.2 Are Minimally Supported Target Frameworks for DevExpress Libraries in v24.2 What Will Change in v23.2 Once we release v23.2, our libraries will no longer support .NET Standard 2.0. I’ve outlined...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

4 July 2023

.NET .net 6 .Net 7 .NET 8 .net core .NET Standard ASP.NET C# Charts Dashboards Featured installation installer NuGet office Reporting Roadmap Survey usability v23.2 Web WinForms WPF XAF

.NET — Visual Studio 2012 & 2013 Deprecation, Raised C# Version for Product Source and More (v22.2)

First, a quick reminder : This year we intend to deprecate .NET Core support for Visual Studio 2019 for our desktop products (since this IDE version does not support .NET 6 LTS). In our v22.2 release cycle, DevExpress .NET Core-based WinForms and WPF...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

16 August 2022

.NET ASP.NET C# Chartrs Dashboards installation installer office Reporting Roadmap Survey usability v22.2 Web WinForms WPF XAF

Localizing Your DevExpress-powered .NET App – Complete the Survey to Help Shape Our Development Strategy

As you may recall from my recent blog post , our Unified Component Installer will soon include an option to install localized resources for certain languages (DE, ES, JA, RU). We will not install these resources by default – you can install them at your...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

27 January 2022

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XAF - Improved .NET 5 Support, EF Core, OAuth2-based Security and Other Solution Wizard Enhancements (v21.1)

As you may already know from our 2021 roadmap , we planned to simplify .NET 5 and Blazor development in v21.1 with XAF, our award-winning cross-platform application UI framework . XAF's Solution Wizard v21.1 enhancements include the following: Notice...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

24 May 2021

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DevExpress Template Gallery Changes (v21.1.3)

With v21.1.3 (RTM) just around the corner, I wanted to describe a couple of changes to the DevExpress Template Gallery - all driven by user feedback and .NET Core/.NET 5 development: The DevExpress Template Gallery now includes WinForms and WPF project...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 May 2021

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Important Changes to NuGet Packages and the Unified Component / .NET Core Desktop Product Installers (v21.1)

With our v21.1+ release, desktop NuGet packages will include both .NET Core Desktop and .NET Framework assemblies. DevExpress.WindowsDesktop.* NuGet packages will not be available for v21.1+ as in earlier versions....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

15 April 2021

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