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XAF (Blazor UI) 2023 Highlights — 5 Unique Web Features Designed to Rival Windows Desktop Solutions

In this last post of 2023, I want to highlight a few Cross-Platform .NET App UI (XAF)-related features we added or improved in 2023. When new users view screenshots of these unique XAF Blazor features or try them live in our XAF Blazor demo , they often...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

27 December 2023

XAF - .NET App Security & Web API Service Benchmark for EF Core and XPO ORM

Hope you are all doing well. We created this GitHub project to test the performance of XAF's Security System for the two Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) libraries. We tested these libraries with BenchmarkDotNet : Microsoft Entity Framework Core (EF Core...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

23 March 2021

XAF – WinForms and ASP.NET UI Case Study by UKIGMO (Cross-Platform .NET App UI)

UKIGMO primarily utilizes Microsoft technologies/platforms such as .NET, Azure, SQL Server, etc. to develop business applications for small and medium-sized enterprises. UKIGMO's founder has more than 20 years of development experience and more than 10 years of experience with DevExpress tools....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

23 October 2020

XAF - Role-based Access Control & User Authentication API in .NET Core Apps: Blazor Server, Web API/OData v4 and More (powered by XPO)

UPDATED: .NET App Security API (Role-based Access Control) is available free-of-charge (versions 21.2.x and 22.1.x). Our recent enhancements to user authentication and group authorization demos include the following: .NET Core 3.0+ versions of WinForms...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

5 February 2020

XAF - Role-based Access Control & User Authentication API in ASP.NET Core MVC Apps (powered by XPO)

UPDATED: .NET App Security API (Role-based Access Control) is available free-of-charge (versions 21.2.x and 22.1.x). Here is our ASP.NET Core MVC demo and step-by-step tutorial for XAF’s user authentication and group authorization API. Many of you asked...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

18 November 2019

XAF - Role-based Access Control & User Authentication API in ASP.NET WebForms Apps (powered by XPO)

UPDATED: .NET App Security API (Role-based Access Control) is available free-of-charge (versions 21.2.x and 22.1.x). I realize you are all busy, but if you have a moment, I’d love your feedback on our new ASP.NET WebForms CRUD demo and its step-by-step...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

9 October 2019

eXpressApp Framework - Early Access Preview (v19.2)

We are two months away from our next major update (v19.2). The purpose of this post is to share our progress and give XAF users the opportunity to test new functionality before we wrap up our current dev cycle. XAF is part of the Universal Subscription...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

20 August 2019

XAF - Role-based Access Control & User Authentication API in DevExtreme Apps with ASP.NET Web API/OData v4 (powered by XPO)

Our new example consists of an ASP.NET Core Web API/OData v4 service on the server and the DevExtreme Data Grid UI on the client. The app starts with a login form and then displays a data grid with “protected” records for the logged user....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

2 August 2019

XAF - Role-based Access Control & User Authentication API for .NET Apps Powered by the XPO and EF Core ORM

UPDATED: .NET App Security API (Role-based Access Control) is available free-of-charge (versions 21.2.x and 22.1.x). We recently began a series of posts designed to explain XAF’s security system and how it can be used in non-XAF .NET apps powered by DevExpress...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 July 2019

eXpressApp Framework - Early Access Preview (v19.1)

We are two months away from our next major update (v19.1). The purpose of this post is to share details and give users the opportunity to test new functionality before we wrap up our current dev cycle. If you own an active Universal subscription, you...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

14 March 2019