Starting with .NET 9, we no longer include an implementation of BinaryFormatter in the runtime. This post covers what options you have to move forward.

November 2023 Security and Quality Rollup Updates for .NET Framework

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Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I'm going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I'll also cover the cases where you still need .NET Standard.

It's about two years ago that I announced .NET Standard 2.0. Since then we've been working hard to increase the set of .NET Standard-based libraries for .NET. This includes many of the BCL components, such as the Windows Compatibility Pack, but also other popular libraries, such as the JSON.NET, the Azure SDK, or the AWS SDK. In this blog post, I'...

For .NET Core 3.0, we're shipping a brand new namespace called System.Text.Json with support for a reader/writer, a document object model (DOM), and a serializer. In this blog post, I'm telling you why we built it, how it works, and how you can try it. We also have a video: Getting the new JSON library The future of JSON in...

Since we shipped .NET Standard 2.0 about a year ago, we've shipped two updates to .NET Core 2.1 and are about to release .NET Core 2.2. It's time to update the standard to include some of the new concepts as well as a number of small improvements that make your life easier across the various implementations of .NET. Keep reading to learn more ...

Porting existing code to .NET Core used to be quite hard because the available API set was very small. In .NET Core 2.0, we already made this much easier, thanks to .NET Standard 2.0. Today, we're happy to announce that we made it even easier with the Windows Compatibility Pack, which provides access to an additional 20,000 APIs via a single ...

This post was written by Olia Gavrysh. Have you ever wondered which APIs are deprecated and which should you use instead? Or have you ever used an API and then found out it didn't work on Mac or Linux? Have that ever happened to you too late when a major part of your code is already implemented and refactoring is way too hard? Both of these ...

This post was mostly written by Rich Lander with contributions from Immo Landwerth. Today, we are releasing huge updates to UWP for .NET developers. The really big improvement is adding support for .NET Standard 2.0. UWP developers now have access to ~ 20k more APIs. This release brings UWP to partity with the other .NET implementations that ...