The September/October 2026 (24.5) issue is included as a part of Omegabundle for Xojo 2026.

xDev Magazine is pleased to announce the release of our newest issue, now available in PDF and print formats! This latest issue of the magazine includes the following regular columns:

Source Code - A Word from the Publisher by Marc Zeedar

Summer is over!

Beginner's Corner by Marc Zeedar

Using the new DesktopGrid control.

Xojo  Talk: Thoughts on Technology by Paul LeFebvre

New Xojo, pragmatic programming.

MBS Spotlight: Learning the MBS Plugins by Stefanie Juchmes

Check out the MBS SQL plugin.

Best of the Web - Programming articles you may have missed by Marc Zeedar

Watermarking AI text, end of Intel on Mac, OpenAI agents hack Hugging Face, software development
with AI.

You can also look forward to the following feature articles in this issue.

TF-Luna LiDAR Range Sensor by Eugene Dakin
You can’t have too many ways to measure things. After demonstrating sonar distance measurement, Eugene shows how to use the TF-Luna LiDAR range sensor with Raspberry Pi and Xojo to do the same thing with LiDAR.

Breaking Bunny by Marc Zeedar
Marc recently discovered anti-bot software called Bunny Shield was stopping his Xojo app, Comic Downloader, from data scraping a comics website. A discussion with ChatGPT led to a simple solution, using an HTMLViewer control instead of URLConnection to download the page’s HTML.

Locked Down: Part 2 by William O'keefe
In part 2 of his new encryption series, “The Right Way to Get It Wrong,“ William shows how Xojo encryption code that seems correct and works doesn’t create truly secure encryption if you aren’t doing everything exactly right. He demonstrates several ways you can get encryption wrong and how to do it the right way.

Plus: Pragmatic programming, DesktopGrid control, MBS SQL, and more!