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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

.NET .net 6 .net core 2025 accessibility asp.net Core blazor EF EF Core Entity Framework Fluent Non-Windows OData OpenAPI REST restful roadmap security survey Swagger Usability v25.1 web api XAF XPO

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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XAF v24.1 EAP — Tabbed MDI, Batch Edit, Notifications, Customization Form and Accessibility for Blazor, EF Core 8 and Performance Boost for Middle Tier Server

As you may already know, we are a couple of months away from our next major update (v24.1). This post describes a few XAF -related features we expect to ship in early June and details what’s inside our Early Access Preview build (for additional information...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

18 April 2024

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.NET and .NET Framework — Migration from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json (v24.1)

What Will Change in v24.1 In our v24.1 release cycle (set to ship in June 2024), the following DevExpress products will use Microsoft’s System.Text.Json instead of Newtonsoft.Json for JSON serialization-related tasks in runtime code : Data Access Library...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

1 April 2024

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XAF — World Training Tour by Xari to Master DevExpress .NET Application Framework

Good news for those of you interested in DevExpress XAF training. Microsoft and DevExpress MVPs, Jose Columbie of Xari.io and Joche Ojeda of BitFrameworks.com have organized a world training tour for DevExpress XAF (our Cross-Platform .NET App UI and...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

24 March 2024

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XAF v24.1 — June 2024 Roadmap (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service)

UPDATE: What's New in XAF (v24.1) - please vote in the survey | Year-End Roadmap (v24.2) --------- The following list outlines features/capabilities we expect ship for XAF’s Cross-Platform .NET App UI and the DevExpress .NET App Security & Web API Service...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

6 February 2024

.net 6 .NET 8 .net core 2024 accessibility asp.net Core blazor EF EF Core Entity Framework Non-Windows OData OpenAPI REST restful roadmap security survey Swagger Usability v24.1 web api XAF XPO

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

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Comprehensive Documentation for Blazor Deployments: Linux and Windows, IIS and Nginx, Cloud and On-Premise, SQL Server and PostreSQL

Inner Motivation or Value to Users Problem The Microsoft deployment documentation is a nice start for advanced users, but tend to be quite generic/incomplete for newbies or users without deep knowledge of specific tech like ASP.NET Core Blazor, Azure...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

3 December 2023

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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

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XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) — Year-End Roadmap (v23.2)

UPDATE: What's New in XAF v23.2 and XAF v24.1 Roadmap --------------------------- This blog post outlines some of our XAF-related development plans for the second half of 2023 (v23.2). As you will see below, key focus areas will continue to remain Blazor...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

24 August 2023

.NET .net 6 .NET 7 .net core 2023 asp.net Core blazor EF Core Entity Framework future Non-Windows OData roadmap security v23.2 web api WinForms XAF XPO