Iris Classon wrote a good lengthy post about the history of .NET web development and how it all lead to the development of the .NET Core that we have today. As someone who doesn't get to work as much on the web dev side of things, this was a very informative read for me. I think it is a good read for any .NET developer, so check out her post by following the link below.
Uhm the new Windows Terminal is looking rather... fabulous! Honestly, this looks pretty amazing! It also looks like it will be the only command-line terminal I will need in Windows, as it can also work with Powershell. It even has multiple tab support and emojis, wow!
Recently I ran into an issue where I needed to exclude a property from getting serialized using Json.NET. The easy answer is to add a [JsonIgnore] attribute to the property. The problem with doing that is it will also ignore the same property during deserialization. So I needed a solution that allows me to ignore a property using serialization, but still set that property's value during deserialization. Thankfully I found a blog post from 2013 that explains exactly how to do that. I would have wasted more hours searching for an answer had I not found this solution right away.
There's a little known feature of Json.NET that lets you determine at runtime whether or not to serialize a particular object member: On the object you're serializing, you have to define a public method named ShouldSerialize{MemberName} returning a boolean value.
– Marius Schulz
It was only after I found Marius' blog post that I then found the documentation talking about conditional property serialization on the Newtonsoft website.
This is one of the rare instances where I didn't find the answer in StackOverflow. It makes me grateful for the developers who are still cranking out blog posts and sharing solutions to problems on their personal blogs/websites.
Out of the 5 SOLID principles, the Open/Closed principle was the hardest one for me to grasp. This post from Code Maze explains it really well and the code examples were very helpful. This was a good read.
Rather than writing my own post about it, I thought I would share this one instead. After all, as programmers we should avoid reinventing the wheel as much as possible. This is also my first post in a new “Bookmarks” category that I've added to this website. The plan is to use that new post category to share interesting articles that I've found online.