Chances are you have heard of JSON, but like most people, you may not know what it means. Well, it stands for JavaScript Object Notation. The cool thing about JSON is that it is both human and machine ...

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With SQL Server 2016, it now makes sense to store JSON objects in your database (even though there’s no JSON datatype). Here’s how to query JSON properties to find the rows you want. It’s not unusual ...

ASP.NET Core provides excellent support for formatting data, whether it’s output data or data in the request body. When working in ASP.NET Core, your API methods will typically return JSON data, but ...

Making asynchronous HTTP requests from Webpages is an effective technique in bringing seemingly static pages to life. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) has become a popular technology in creating ...

When I started creating Web Services, I was using ADO.NET DataSets to retrieve data and then sending that data to my consumers using XML. Those Web Services are still there, but my consumers now want ...