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If you ship apps to customers in the EU, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) will require an SBOM as part of your conformity documentation. SBOM generation and CRA compliance are top priorities for DevExpress, and CycloneDX SBOM files for our .NET NuGet packages are now available as a preview...

...And we shall be there! Not in Seattle this year, but, for a change, in San Francisco. To be more accurate, Microsoft Build will be at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA. for two full days, June 2-3. As is usual, sessions will also be broadcast...

In this post, I want to show you how to effectively upgrade vulnerable third-party dependencies in your projects, highlight .NET industry best practices, and also clarify how DevExpress helps you mitigate security-related risks in general. For illustration...

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...

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...

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...

As announced earlier, DevExpress Blazor deprecated support for Bootstrap v4 in v25.1. With v26.1, we're completing this transition by entirely removing Bootstrap v4 support....

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...

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...

CodeRush's AiGen is Faster and Smarter for Everyday Development AI-assisted coding tools live or die by two factors: speed and quality of the code response. If an AI response takes too long, or if it regenerates more code than necessary, developers won...