Microsoft is using Kestrel in Production for the new ASP.NET website

I could not help but noticed asp.net is now redirecting to a new website which is a sub-domain of Microsoft.com, so I got interested to check how many redirects actually happens when I type asp.net in browser. This is what I found out.

So as its shown in the image below there are 3 redirects post which the new website opens up.

1. http://asp.net
2. https://asp.net
3. https://www.asp.net

All of these are 301/Moved Permanently.

Another interesting thing I noticed is the server used is not IIS which was used before. Its Kestrel this time. Its the same server which David Folwer (who is also an awesome speaker) and Damian Edwards (used to pairs up nicely with Scott Hanselman on standup) mentioned a lot of time during ASP.NET community stand up.

The server is developed by the Asp.net team for .net core I believe and the new website runs on same.

Serialization.

Serialization.

It used to be a very important concept but looks like everything is taken care of nowadays by the framework. Still, I feel the need to mention the same as I found a lack of resources/ blog to guide about the process. what it means, how to do it etc.

what is serialization?

As per Wikipedia,

serialization (or serialisation) is the process of translating data structures or object state into a format that can be stored.

Serialization we do in usually is to convert our code to JSON/XML or converting JSON/XML code back to object. There is an awesome library available for handling JSON which is Json.Net. It is written by a guy named James Newton King who is from New Zealand and currently working at Microsoft on asp.net team.

I have planned a few post on same topic, out of which all deals with either converting your XML to the object of your choice or the object to the XML.

C# provides extensive support to XML, under the namespce System.Xml. More about the namespace can be explored at apisof.net.