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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

DevExpress.Drawing Graphics Library — v22.2.4 Update — Package Dependencies and Font Libraries

We made a series of enhancements to the DevExpress.Drawing graphics library recently (v22.2.4). This blog post summarizes what we delivered to date and what we are working on at present....

Poline Fedorova (DevExpress)

15 February 2023

DevExpress.Drawing Graphics Library — v22.2 Update — SkiaSharp for .NET 6/7 and Linux Support (CTP)

This blog post documents changes, enhancements, and breaking changes related to the System.Drawing.Common library usage in our cross-platform products (v22.2 release cycle). ...

Dmitry Tokmachev (DevExpress)

11 December 2022

ASP.NET Core Controls — .NET 6 Is the New Minimum Supported Framework Version in v22.2

With the end of support for previous .NET versions, we raise the minimum supported framework version to .NET 6 for our ASP.NET Core Controls in the upcoming major release (v22.2)...

Polina Tyureva (DevExpress)

7 November 2022

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

.NET — Visual Studio 2012 & 2013 Deprecation, Raised C# Version for Product Source and More (v22.2)

First, a quick reminder : This year we intend to deprecate .NET Core support for Visual Studio 2019 for our desktop products (since this IDE version does not support .NET 6 LTS). In our v22.2 release cycle, DevExpress .NET Core-based WinForms and WPF...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

16 August 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