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WinForms — June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1)
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). The information contained within this blog post details our current/projected development plans. Please note that this information is being shared...
Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)
18 February 2025
WinForms roadmap .NET Core accessibility .net 8 .NET .NET 9 v25.1 2025
WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Middle Tier Security Server (EF Core with WebSockets)
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 ASP.NET .NET EFCore rbac security webapi Entity Framework XAF EF authentication access control authorization web api grid
WinForms — Early Access Preview (v24.2)
WinForms — Early Access Preview (v24.2)
Our next major update (v24.2) is a couple of months away. As such, we wanted to preview the features we expect to ship this winter and invite all active DevExpress Universal or DXperience subscriber to download and install our Early Access Preview (EAP...
Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)
18 September 2024
WinForms roadmap prerelease Grid Control eap 2024 ai v24.2
WinForms — Year-End Roadmap (v24.2)
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 roadmap .NET Core accessibility localization .net 8 .NET 2024 .NET 9
WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Secure Backend Web API Service (EF Core with OData)
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)
18 July 2024
WinForms ASP.NET .NET EFCore rbac security webapi Entity Framework XAF EF authentication odata access control authorization web api
WinForms — How to Integrate Semantic Similarity Search in the Grid Control (Powered by Embedding Models)
WinForms — How to Integrate Semantic Similarity Search in the Grid Control (Powered by Embedding Models)
I am sure many of you remember Introducing .NET Smart Components – AI-powered UI controls by Daniel Roth and Steve Sanderson (both from Microsoft) and the excitement this article generated within the community. While this is still an ongoing experiment...
Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
4 June 2024
WinForms featured netcore net OpenAI smartcomponents ai ML windows ONNX
WinForms HTML & CSS Support: Best Practices
WinForms HTML & CSS Support: Best Practices
In this post, we outlined important Do's and Don'ts when using the DevExpress WinForms HTML/CSS engine/templates....
Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)
30 April 2024
WinForms featured templates html-css v23.2 v24.1 design
WinForms — Early Access Preview (v24.1)
WinForms — Early Access Preview (v24.1)
Our next major update (v24.1) is a couple of months away. As such, we wanted to preview the features we expect to ship this spring and invite all active DevExpress Universal or DXperience subscriber to download and install our Early Access Preview (EAP...
Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)
26 March 2024
WinForms Ribbon roadmap prerelease Grid Control eap html-css v24.1 2024
Integrate the DevExtreme JavaScript HTML Editor into a WinForms Application
Integrate the DevExtreme JavaScript HTML Editor into a WinForms Application
In this blog post, I’ll demonstrate a hybrid implementation: integrating the DevExtreme JavaScript WYSIWYG HTML Editor within a Windows Forms application....
Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)
18 March 2024
WinForms JavaScript DevExtreme HTML Editor
WinForms — Performance Enhancements in the Microsoft WinForms Designer for .NET 6+ Development
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)
18 March 2024
WinForms Performance .NET Core .NET 7 .net 8 usability .NET 6 designers design .NET
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WinForms — June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1)
Feb 18, 2025 by Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)
WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Middle Tier Security Server (EF Core with WebSockets)
Sep 18, 2024 by Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)
WinForms — Early Access Preview (v24.2)
Sep 18, 2024 by Bogdan Kharchenko (DevExpress)
WinForms — Year-End Roadmap (v24.2)
Jul 23, 2024 by Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)
WinForms — Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Secure Backend Web API Service (EF Core with OData)
Jul 18, 2024 by Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)