.net-core-3.1 – Make Me Engineer

System.Text.Json and Dynamically Parsing polymorphic objects

June 2, 2023 by Tarik

I ended up solving my issue in slightly the same way I had seen a previous article using a discriminator. Since I do not control the API feeds, I do not have a discriminator to drive off of, so I am relying on the properties of the Json object. Need to create a Converter: public … Read more

Why File.ReadAllLinesAsync() blocks the UI thread?

May 26, 2022 by Tarik

Sadly currently (.NET 5) the built-in asynchronous APIs for accessing the filesystem are not implemented consistently according to Microsoft’s own recommendations about how asynchronous methods are expected to behave. An asynchronous method that is based on TAP can do a small amount of work synchronously, such as validating arguments and initiating the asynchronous operation, before … Read more