#dotnet Tech News.
3 stories in the last 7 days
The latest dotnet news, distilled by AI into sharp ~100-word summaries. ByteBrief tracks dotnet across dozens of tech sources and brings you only what matters, updated hourly. Tap any story for the full brief, or open the original source.
DinkToPdf, a popular NuGet package for HTML-to-PDF conversion in.NET services, carries a hidden dependency risk. The package relies on a native wkhtmltopdf binary that is no longer actively maintained. Developers face potential security and compatibility issues as the underlying library stagnates without updates.
PdfPig is a good open-source PDF library for.NET, according to a peer review from Iron Software's developer community. The review comes from the team behind IronPDF, a commercial competitor, and is offered as a transparent, biased assessment. The.NET open-source PDF ecosystem contains many libraries that overlap in functionality.
Datadog extended distributed tracing for.NET applications on Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, Cosmos DB, and APIM. Engineers can follow requests across the full application flow without modifying code. Traces remain connected through asynchronous messaging, including Azure Functions triggers, enabling end-to-end visibility from a single view.
Summaries by ByteBrief