Aspnet

By default ASP.NET core API methods operate on JSON: they deserialize JSON from request/response body to model type and back. JSON is everywhere and works well… unless you have very high throughput requirements. There are many alternative formats, but Google’s serialization format Protocol Buffers is one of the most used. It has overgone some changes recently: the old proto2 syntax is replaced with proto3. The latter even has an official C# support. The old proto2 used to have unofficial C# ports, and many ASP.NET MVC samples on the internet are based on those. I couldn’t find a working proto3 version, so I created my own. ...

At the beginning of October Microsoft Finland held the yearly developer conference, this time with name Devdays. This year’s conference felt slightly smaller than previously. As there is is lots of churn around the ASP.NET right now and I have a history with that framework, I proposed a presentation about ASP.NET vNext. Gladly it got accepted, and I had to dig deeper into what’s coming from the ASP.NET team. I played with the framework, watched every video and and read every blogpost about it from Scott Hanselman, David Fowler and others. I also prepared some demos, even a Linux demo which I had to scrap on last minute because I had only 45 minutes time to present. I tried to give the audience some guidelines how they can prepare to what’s coming, in order for the upgrade from current ASP.NET to be as easy as possible. It was nice to prepare and present, I hope it helped someone. ...