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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

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

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

.NET — Automatic Upgrade of .NET and External Dependency Versions, Converting Assembly to Package References and More (v24.2)

Reducing Issues with Target Framework/3rd Party Dependency Upgrades Based on research, a more effective/automated .NET framework and 3rd party dependency upgrade process is high on the priority list for our customers (without appropriate automation, major...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

15 October 2024

.NET .net 6 .Net 7 .NET 8 .net 9 .net core ASP.NET C# Charts Dashboards DevExtreme Featured installation installer NuGet office Reporting Roadmap Survey usability v24.2 Web WinForms WPF XAF

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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.NET — .NET 8 and .NET Framework 4.6.2 Are Minimally Supported Target Frameworks for DevExpress Libraries in v24.2

What Will Change in v24.2 Once we release v24.2 (December 2024) , our libraries will no longer support .NET 6/7 and .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1. The following DevExpress . NET Core and .NET Framework-based products will also – at a minimum – require...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

10 July 2024

.NET .net 6 .Net 7 .NET 8 .net 9 .net core ASP.NET C# Charts Dashboards DevExtreme Featured installation installer NuGet office Reporting Roadmap Survey usability v24.2 Web WinForms WPF XAF

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

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

WinForms — Performance Enhancements in the Microsoft WinForms Designer for .NET 6+ Development

We were in close collaboration with the Microsoft dev team over the last few months, and Microsoft has recently released Visual Studio 2022 version 17.10 Preview 2 , which improves form load performance across a number of .NET Core / .NET usage scenarios...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

17 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 (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

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Web API — New Code Examples on CRUD Operations Using OData Query Options, JWT and OAuth2 Authentication

Last week we received the following feedback for two specific help topics: Consume the Web API from .NET and Create Custom Endpoints : "#1 documentation on OData after Microsoft!" These help topics are also the most popular within the DevExpress Web API...

Dennis Garavsky (DevExpress)

12 July 2023

EF ef core Entity Framework OData OpenAPI REST restful security Survey Swagger usability v23.1 Visual Studio 2022 VS2022 Web API XAF XPO