New JSON Serialization
In 3.0-preview5, ASP.NET Core MVC adds supports for reading and writing JSON using System.Text.Json. The System.Text.Json serializer can read and write JSON asynchronously, and is optimized for UTF-8 text making it ideal for REST APIs and backend applications.
We received tons of updates from Microsoft all across the board - from new experimental frameworks (Blazor) to quick iterations of the “Core Suite” (.NET, EF, and ASP.NET) and Visual Studio.
Irresponsible ownership of data is the cause of many leaked emails,
data, and other damaging information. Securing a user’s personal
information is the job of software developers. If you, as a developer,
can decrypt the information stored in the database of the system you are
working on, then so can anyone else. In Cryptography in .NET Succinctly,
Dirk Strauss will take readers through generating cryptographic
signatures, hashing and salting passwords, and when and how to use
symmetric vs. asymmetric encryption.
Today, we are glad to release .NET 6 Preview 2. It includes new APIs, runtime performance improvements, and early builds of .NET MAUI. It also includes builds for Apple Silicon, which were missing for Preview 1.
.NEXT (dotNext) is the family of powerful libaries aimed to improve development productivity and extend .NET API with unique features which potentially will be implemented in the next versions of C# compiler or .NET Runtime.
REST and GraphQL are two ways to send data over HTTP. The REST-based approach is the traditional way of doing so and has gained a very high adoption rate in many application stacks in the last years.
GraphQL is often presented as a revolutionary new way to think about APIs.
The State of Developer Ecosystem 2019
In the beginning of 2019, we polled almost 7,000 developers to identify the State of Developer Ecosystem.
Here's what we learned.
