{"id":4971,"date":"2015-12-08T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/2015\/12\/08\/the-week-in-net-12082015\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T21:00:26","slug":"the-week-in-net-12082015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/the-week-in-net-12082015\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in .NET – 12\/08\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the second “The Week in .NET” post. It was great to see how well the first post<\/a> was received. Thanks to all who sent messages of encouragement and contributions to this week’s post. If you would like to participate too, if you wrote a great blog post, or just read one, if you want to show an amazing new contribution, if you’ve written a useful library, we’d love to hear from you, and feature it on future posts. You can send me an email to beleroy at Microsoft, or you can comment on this gist<\/a> with new links, or you can simply leave us a pointer in the comment section below.<\/p>\n

Package of the week #0: AngleSharp<\/h2>\n

Let’s start by talking a little bit about the section in last week’s post that generated the most comments: the package of the week. Last week, I chose HtmlAgilityPack<\/code> because it’s a package that I’ve used a lot in the past, and that is one of the most downloaded on NuGet. Several of you mentioned that they were using AngleSharp<\/a> in lieu of HtmlAgilityPack<\/code>, specifically for its more modern approach, and because it’s being more actively maintained. Indeed, it uses CSS queries instead of XPath, and is a joy to use.<\/p>\n

Here’s last week’s sample code, but using AngleSharp<\/code> instead of HtmlAgilityPack<\/code>:<\/p>\n