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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

.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

CodeRush - Visual Studio Productivity Tools Are Available Free-of-Charge in v22.1!

Available Free-of-Charge to Everyone With our most recent release ( v22.1 ), we’re making CodeRush available free-of-charge. If you’re not familiar with CodeRush, you can learn more about its feature set here and download your copy today at https://devexpress...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

20 June 2022

A 1-Click Solution for CRUD Web API Services with Role-based Access Control via EF Core & XPO (FREE)

In XPO blog post in November 2021 , I grumbled about how difficult it was to develop a robust and flexible app security system from scratch with any .NET ORM, including Entity Framework (by security, I’m referring to user authentication and role-based...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

20 June 2022

DevExpress Cross-Platform Products — Getting Ready for .NET 7

This blog post details our solution for the System.Drawing.Common-related breaking change in our cross-platform products. Because the number of apps deployed on non-Windows machines continues to increase, this task is a high priority for multiple development teams at DevExpress. As you might expect, we must refactor and modify significant portions of our code for .NET 7. This is not a trivial undertaking and your feedback on this matter is very important....

The DevExpress Team

23 February 2022

CodeRush Roadmap – Complete the Survey to Help Shape Our Development Strategy

We want to accelerate frequently-performed DevExpress component tasks across a number of UI platforms and also reduce maintenance costs by automatically guiding developers toward best-practice usage scenarios with the DevExpress API. This is our #1 goal and where the CodeRush team will allocate most of its resources in 2022. For more information, see "DevExpress Customer Needs Validation Survey" (below) and complete the survey so we can allocate resources to better meet your needs....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

10 February 2022