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XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Early Access Preview (v25.1)

This post documents a few XAF -related features we expect to ship in early June and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build. As you will note below, XAF-related focus areas remain Blazor, Entity Framework Core and Security. For additional...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

21 April 2025

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Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Authorization Code Flow (Part 4)

This post is the next installment in my series titled Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) . The content relates to my previously published post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

6 March 2025

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XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — June 2025 Roadmap (v25.1)

Thank you for choosing XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) for your software development needs. This blog post outlines some of our XAF-related development plans for the first half of 2025 (v25.1, set for release in June 2025). First, if...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 February 2025

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Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Authenticate Users and Protect Data (Part 3)

This post is the next installment in my series titled Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) . The content relates to my previously published post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

14 October 2024

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XAF v24.2 EAP — Passwordless Sign-ins and MFA, Calculated Fields and Soft Deletion in EF Core, Tabbed MDI and Performance Enhancements in Blazor

This post documents 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 on what you can expect in December, please refer to our Year-End v2024.2 roadmap...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

2 October 2024

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Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Add Editing Features (Part 2)

I started a short series of posts a little while ago, titled Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) . It relates to my previously published post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures and...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

23 September 2024

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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

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Connect a .NET Desktop Client to a Custom ASP.NET Core Service (EF Core with pure Web API) — Architecture and Data Binding (Part 1)

In the post Modern Desktop Apps And Their Complex Architectures I summarized a while ago how the world of application architecture has evolved in the last years. Our WinForms, WPF and .NET MAUI teams published follow-ups with Connect a .NET Desktop Client...

Oliver Sturm (DevExpress)

30 August 2024

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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

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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

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