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XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Year-End Roadmap (v26.2)

Thank you for your continued support and for sharing your XAF development requirements with us via product surveys , Support Center tickets, email, and social media engagements. This post outlines features and capabilities we expect to ship in our year...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

24 August 2026

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DevExpress Agent Skills — Recent Updates

In this post, I'll summarize our most recent update including: 14 new WinForms skills, a repository-wide review of every skill we've shipped previously, and plugin installation for Codex CLI and Cursor....

Dmitry Tokmachev (DevExpress)

24 August 2026

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WinForms — Year-End Roadmap (v26.2)

First and foremost - thank you for choosing DevExpress and for your on-going support. In this blog post, I'll review the major features we expect to ship in our year-end release (v26.2 - December 2026). As always, you can expect other additions across...

Alexander Russkov (DevExpress)

20 August 2026

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Migrating WinForms & WPF from .NET Framework to .NET 10

What This Guide Covers I've hand-migrated more legacy codebases than I care to count, back when "modernisation" meant a fortnight of find-and-replace, a wall of compiler errors, and a knot in your stomach every time you hit Build. So when I recently took...

Paul Usher (DevExpress)

12 July 2026

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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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Application Security — Why One Does Not Simply Protect a Data Store Connection String and Other Login Credentials?

A developer asks: “How do I protect my connection string in a desktop application?” This is one of the most common security questions in .NET development, and it sounds like it should have a straightforward answer. But there is a fundamental problem we...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

2 April 2026

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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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WinForms — Generate Custom SVG Skin Palettes with AI (v25.2)

In our v25.2 release , we introduced a preview of our AI-powered custom SVG skin palette feature . This feature transforms how you design application color schemes. It leverages generative AI to interpret natural language instructions and create cohesive...

Dmitry Tokmachev (DevExpress)

17 March 2026

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