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.NET Aspire Support For An XAF Blazor Project — Custom Telemetry, Service Orchestration, Database Dependency

In a recent blog post I described how an XAF Blazor project can be adjusted to support .NET Aspire. With a couple of changes to the startup logic, in both the standard XAF project template and the code added by the Aspire Visual Studio wizard, it became...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

21 April 2025

.NET Aspire Support for an XAF Blazor Project — Introduction

In Microsoft’s words, .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages for building observable, production ready apps. In case you are not familiar with Aspire yet, please read the content of Microsoft’s website to get up to speed with the basic...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

25 March 2025

.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 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 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

DevExpress Drawing Graphics Library — The v23.2 Release Recap

This post includes updated release info on the DevExpress Drawing Graphics Library . As you may know, our Graphics library contains basic cross-platform drawing logic for DevExpress UI components and ships with DevExpress primitives, counterparts to System...

Dmitry Tokmachev (DevExpress)

2 January 2024

Comprehensive Documentation for Blazor Deployments: Linux and Windows, IIS and Nginx, Cloud and On-Premise, SQL Server and PostreSQL

Inner Motivation or Value to Users Problem The Microsoft deployment documentation is a nice start for advanced users, but tend to be quite generic/incomplete for newbies or users without deep knowledge of specific tech like ASP.NET Core Blazor, Azure...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

3 December 2023

.NET Conf 2023 Starts Tomorrow! Nov. 14 - 16

DevExpress is once again sponsoring .NET Conf this year with lots of big prizes and news coming over the next couple days. Celebrate and learn about what you can do with the release of .NET 8. Also, join us for the always exciting virtual attendee CodeParty...

Amanda Lukasik (DevExpress)

13 November 2023

Updates On Microsoft’s BinaryFormatter Obsoletion Strategy

As you may be aware, Microsoft published their paper titled BinaryFormatter Obsoletion Strategy a while ago, detailing exactly how they intend to phase out the BinaryFormatter for .NET 5.0 and later. Quoting directly from the paper: Applications which...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

7 November 2023

.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