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Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Authorization Code Flow (Part 4)

This post is the next installment in my series titled Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) . The content relates to my previously published post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

6 March 2025

Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Authenticate Users and Protect Data (Part 3)

This post is the next installment in my series titled Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) . The content relates to my previously published post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

14 October 2024

Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Add Editing Features (Part 2)

I started a short series of posts a little while ago, titled Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) . It relates to my previously published post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures and...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

23 September 2024

Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Architecture and Data Binding (Part 1)

In the post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures I summarized a while ago how the world of application architecture has evolved in the last years. Our WinForms, WPF and .NET MAUI teams published follow-ups with Connect a .NET Desktop Client...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

30 August 2024

Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures

Back in 2002, the world was exciting for Windows desktop application developers: Microsoft released the .NET Framework! With it came the completely new language C# (do you remember it was called Cool prior to the release?) as well as various new subsystems...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

9 February 2024

Web API — New Code Examples on CRUD Operations Using OData Query Options, JWT and OAuth2 Authentication

Last week we received the following feedback for two specific help topics: Consume the Web API from .NET and Create Custom Endpoints : "#1 documentation on OData after Microsoft!" These help topics are also the most popular within the DevExpress Web API...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

12 July 2023

Blazor WebAssembly — Authorize EF Core CRUD Operations and Download Reports with OData Web API

In our previous post we announced a GitHub example that demonstrates how to develop a .NET MAUI mobile app with the DevExpress Web API Service alongside Entity Framework Core (EF Core) for the backend. This example follows a series of video tutorials...

Eugeniy Burmistrov (DevExpress)

1 May 2023

Develop a DevExpress XAF and Web API Solution in Docker

Containers are everywhere — whether your deploy your app to a Kubernetes cluster or even a cloud environment, or you use containers as a local runtime and dev environment, it’s hard to ignore them! I wrote the following detailed description as part of...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

6 April 2023

.NET MAUI — Authorize EF Core CRUD Operations and Download Reports with OData Web API

As you probably know, we published a series of video tutorials demonstrating how you can develop a powerful .NET MAUI mobile app with our Web API Service alongside Entity Framework Core (EF Core) for the backend. If you have not heard of our powerful...

Eugeniy Burmistrov (DevExpress)

29 March 2023

Common Questions about the New DevExpress Web API Service (powered by Entity Framework and XPO ORM)

Though these packages have "XAF" or "ExpressApp" in their names, you do not need to pull XAF WinForms, WebForms and Blazor dependencies in your projects. In other words, if you do not require XAF, you are not forced to use it. ...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 October 2022