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WinForms — June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1)

This blog post outlines new WinForms–related features we expect to ship in our mid–year release (v25.1). You can leave your feedback at the end of the article - Go to the survey now . The information contained within this blog post details our current...

Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)

18 February 2025

WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Middle Tier Security Server (EF Core with WebSockets)

Series Overview This article is the second in a series of posts for teams who wish to build .NET desktop applications that communicate securely with backend services. Table of Contents Intro — Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures Choosing...

Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)

18 September 2024

WinForms — Year-End Roadmap (v24.2)

This blog post outlines some of our WinForms-related development plans for the second half of 2024 (v24.2). As you will read below, key focus areas will be .NET Core UX, AI, and Accessibility. The information contained within this blog post details our...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

23 July 2024

WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Secure Backend Web API Service (EF Core with OData)

Series Overview As you may recall from an earlier post (Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures), we want to help guide our loyal WinForms/WPF/VCL/.NET MAUI/XAF customers through new/tightened security requirements (and associated complexities...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 July 2024

WinForms — Performance Enhancements in the Microsoft WinForms Designer for .NET 6+ Development

We were in close collaboration with the Microsoft dev team over the last few months, and Microsoft has recently released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 2 , which improves form load performance across a number of .NET Core / .NET usage scenarios...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 March 2024