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What’s next for System.Text.Json?

.NET 5.0 was released recently and has come with many new features and performance improvements. System.Text.Json is no exception. We have improved performance, reliability, and made it easier to adopt for people who are familiar with Newtonsoft.Json. In this post, we are going to talk about the progress that has been made with System.Text...

PowerShell 7.2 Preview 2 release

Today we are proud to announce the second preview release of PowerShell 7.2. This preview is still based on .NET 5 as we wait for the first preview of .NET 6 which we expect PowerShell 7.2 to be based upon...

gRPC Web with .NET

gRPC-Web allows browser-based applications to call into gRPC services via a special proxy. .NET developers are now able to build and consume services that use gRPC-Web using the Grpc.AspNetCore.Web NuGet package. In this episode, James Newton-King joins Cecil to explain how gRPC-Web works and show us what the code looks like to support this ...

What’s new in Windows Forms runtime in .NET 5.0

Since Windows Forms was open sourced in late 2018, and ported to .NET Core, both the team and our external contributors have been busy fixing old bugs and adding new features. In this post we are going to talk about what’s new in Windows Forms runtime in .NET 5.0...

Improving Debug-time Productivity with Source Link

Learn how you can improve debug-time with Source Link. With Source Link-enabled libraries, the debugger can download the underlying source files as you step in, and you can set breakpoints/tracepoints like you would with any other source. Source Link-enabled debugging makes it easier to understand the full flow of your code from your code down...