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XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Year-End Roadmap (v24.2)

UPDATE: What's New in XAF (v24.2) | June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1) As always, thank you for choosing XAF . We appreciate your support. This blog post outlines some of our XAF-related development plans for the second half of 2024 (v24.2). Strategically, our...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 July 2024

XAF — Entity Framework Core 8 Support and Updated Performance Benchmarks for .NET 8

Great news for customers using Entity Framework Core (EF Core): XAF v23.2.4+ and associated Backend Web API Service include preview (CTP) support of EF Core 8. We intentionally added support for EF Core 8 in v23.2.4+ to solicit feedback before official...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

2 February 2024

eXpressApp Framework - Early Access Preview (v20.1)

We are two months away from our next major update (v20.1). 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...

Anatol (DevExpress)

5 March 2020

XAF - Blazor Demo Update with New Themes, Editors and Other Enhancements

EDIT : The latest XAF demo sources are always installed by our Unified Component Installer at c:\Users\Public\Documents\DevExpress Demos XX.X\Components\XAF. See also XAF Blazor Getting Started and FAQ . ------------------- After the release of DevExpress...

Anatol (DevExpress)

17 February 2020

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 - Usability and Performance Enhancements, Breaking Changes, Noteworthy Support Center Tickets and Tricks

To save time with functional XAF testing, check our Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code extensions for EasyTest files (*.etc, *.inc): syntax highlighting, collapsible regions, code snippets and more. In our opinion, functional and unit tests are a must for teams creating complex apps. We would appreciate your feedback here or in comments to this KB article....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

3 July 2019

XAF - Enhanced Office Module, Updated Learning Materials and More (v18.1.5)

Great news! XAF’s most recent maintenance release (v18.1.5) includes new features and updated learning materials (and of course, a few bug fixes)....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

3 August 2018

XAF Security - Permission optimizations (Coming soon in v17.2)

We have reworked XAF’s permission processing algorithm. It is now faster and ships with improved ways to extend existing permission functionality (thus simplifying code maintenance). Find more technical details at https://www.devexpress.com/go/XAF_Try_Security_Optimizations_v17...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

4 October 2017

XAF - Application Performance and Improved Usability (Coming soon in v17.1)

In this post, I'd like to highlight a few of the more interesting enhancements (Platform Agnostic Notifications, Optimized controller creation in ListPropertyEditor for detail collections, High DPI improvements, etc.) we've made to XAF in this release cycle. ...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

8 May 2017

XAF - Additional Enhancements for Windows & Web Platforms, Core and Model Editor (Shipping now in v16.2)

Happy New Year Everyone! Late last year, I described some of the new features we shipped as part of XAF v16.2. In this post, I'll discuss a few other enhancements we incorporated in v16.2....

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

22 December 2016