In this post, I will introduce a new library, called System.Net.Http.Json, which has been added to .NET in the last few days. We’ll look at the problem which this library helps to solve. We’ll then explore some examples of how to use it in your code today. WARNING: This library is currently available as a pre-release […]
Category: .NET Core
What Are .NET Worker Services?
With the release of .NET Core 3.0, the ASP.NET team introduced a new “Worker Service” project template, which is available as part of the SDK. In this post, I’ll introduce the new template, along with some practical examples of the kinds of services which I develop using it. If you find the information in this […]
Using HttpCompletionOption to Improve HttpClient Performance in .NET
In this blog post, I want to get back to an area I genuinely enjoy, exploring the use of HttpClient within your .NET applications. I’ll explain how you can optimise the performance of HttpClient when handling data such as JSON payloads on the HttpResponseMessage. Making HTTP Requests Using HttpClient By default, in the majority of […]
Building ASP.NET Core Hosted Services and .NET Core Worker Services
I’m excited to announce the release of my third and latest course at Pluralsight! This new course covers building ASP.NET Core hosted services and .NET Core worker services. When I first pitched the course proposal to Pluralsight, I was quite surprised that it hadn’t been covered in great detail already. In my daily work, building .NET […]
Upgrading from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to 5.0 (Preview 1)
In this post, I want to take a look at the steps required to upgrade some projects to the first preview of .NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 5.0. Both were released yesterday (16th March 2020) and are the first public previews we have available for these future versions. The .NET 5 roadmap has these scheduled […]