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XAF Blazor & WinForms UI — .NET 8, Built-in Security and Multi-Tenancy Support, Integration of Custom Components, UI Customizations (v23.2)

As you probably know, our WinForms products ship with a custom Outlook-inspired app. You can review this app using the DevExpress Demo Center v23.2 (under the WinForms category), if you download and run our Unified Component Installer ( Trial / Paid ...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

19 January 2024

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 v23.2 EAP — Straightforward non-Windows Deployment, Inplace Grid Actions for Blazor, Endpoints for Business Object Methods in Web API Service

As you may already know, we are a couple of months away from our next major update (v23.2). This post describes a few XAF -related features we expect to ship in early December and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build (for additional information...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

13 September 2023

XAF v23.1 EAP — Runtime Customization, No Code and Usability Enhancements for Blazor UI

As you may already know, we are a couple of months away from our next major update (v23.1). This post describes some of the features we expect to ship in early June and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build (for additional information,...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 March 2023

XAF — Dashboards, RTF Editor, Backend Web API Service for Blazor, Audit & Security for EF Core (EAP v21.2)

As you may already know, we are a couple of months away from our next major update (v21.2). This post describes some of the features we expect to ship in October and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build....

The DevExpress Team

8 September 2021

XAF - Improved .NET 5 Support, EF Core, OAuth2-based Security and Other Solution Wizard Enhancements (v21.1)

As you may already know from our 2021 roadmap , we planned to simplify .NET 5 and Blazor development in v21.1 with XAF, our award-winning cross-platform application UI framework . XAF's Solution Wizard v21.1 enhancements include the following: Notice...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

24 May 2021

XAF - 2021 Roadmap (Cross-Platform .NET App UI and Security API)

UPDATE : Here is our 2022 Roadmap Before we detail XAF’s 2021 Roadmap, our thanks to everyone who shared feedback/thoughts over the last few months. Your contribution is both important and greatly appreciated. The following list outlines the features...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

11 February 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 – Deploy ASP.NET Core Blazor Server Apps to Azure, Linux with Nginx or Windows with IIS or macOS with Electron

As you may already know, XAF's Blazor Server UI can be deployed to Azure. If you are new to Azure, please refer to the following Microsoft deployment topic: Host and deploy ASP.NET Core Blazor Server. Popular Azure deployment options include:...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

19 October 2020

XAF - External Authentication Providers (Microsoft 365, Google, GitHub, etc.) for Blazor UI

DevExpress v20.2 should ship in the next few weeks. Among XAF-related features we expect to ship is support for additional authentication schemes for XAF’s Blazor UI. This capability will allow you to use Windows Active Directory Authentication and popular OAuth providers (such as Google and Facebook) as an alternative to cookie-based forms authentication used by default....

Anatol (DevExpress)

28 September 2020