HttpClient is more like a head-less browser. It a powerfull and ideal tool if you are going to be creating many http request. For example you can set default headers and stuff. Here are the top 5 ways it differs from an HttpWebRequest which is taken from here An HttpClient instance is the place to … Read more
Ended up creating a converter: public class BoolConverter : JsonConverter { public override void WriteJson(JsonWriter writer, object value, JsonSerializer serializer) { writer.WriteValue(((bool)value) ? 1 : 0); } public override object ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, object existingValue, JsonSerializer serializer) { return reader.Value.ToString() == “1”; } public override bool CanConvert(Type objectType) { return objectType == typeof(bool); } … Read more
Try: var handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AllowAutoRedirect = false }; HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler);
No. A workaround is to overload with another method that doesn’t have out / ref parameters, and which just calls your current method. public bool SomeMethod(out string input) { … } // new overload public bool SomeMethod() { string temp; return SomeMethod(out temp); } If you have C# 7.0, you can simplify: // new overload … Read more
In case you are still looking, here is an example: http://james.newtonking.com/archive/2011/11/19/json-net-4-0-release-4-bug-fixes.aspx This will allow you to create a table based mapping: public class TypeNameSerializationBinder : SerializationBinder { public TypeNameSerializationBinder(Dictionary<Type, string> typeNames = null) { if (typeNames != null) { foreach (var typeName in typeNames) { Map(typeName.Key, typeName.Value); } } } readonly Dictionary<Type, string> typeToName = … Read more
Why don’t you just generate two random Int32 values and make one Int64 out of them? long LongRandom(long min, long max, Random rand) { long result = rand.Next((Int32)(min >> 32), (Int32)(max >> 32)); result = (result << 32); result = result | (long)rand.Next((Int32)min, (Int32)max); return result; } Sorry, I forgot to add boundaries the first … Read more
For environments where port 13 is blocked, time from NIST can be web scraped as below, public static DateTime GetNistTime() { DateTime dateTime = DateTime.MinValue; HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(“http://nist.time.gov/actualtime.cgi?lzbc=siqm9b”); request.Method = “GET”; request.Accept = “text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*”; request.UserAgent = “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)”; request.ContentType = “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”; request.CachePolicy = new RequestCachePolicy(RequestCacheLevel.NoCacheNoStore); //No … Read more