Roundup #66: Capturing the World in Software, Conventional, Polymorphic classes with System.Text.Json, Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 1

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Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET. I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week. Let me know in the comments or on Twitter.

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Capturing the World in Software

If event sourcing is not scalable, faster, or simpler, why use it?
Event Sourcing gives you a complete, consistent model of the slice of the world modeled by your software. That’s pretty attractive.

Link: https://blog.jessitron.com/2020/01/24/capturing-the-world-in-software/

Conventional

After this tweet by Dave Glick, I found this package that I thought was pretty interesting. Check out the twitter thread for a lot of good info.

https://twitter.com/daveaglick/status/1222286002087174144

Link: https://github.com/andrewabest/Conventional

Deserializing JSON into polymorphic classes with System.Text.Json

While working on SpaceDotNet, a strong-typed client SDK to access the JetBrains Space HTTP API, I came across a scenario to deserialize JSON into polymorphic classes. In this post, I’ll explain how to write a custom JsonConverter for System.Text.Json to help with deserialization for such cases.

Link: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2020/01/29/deserializing-json-into-polymorphic-classes-with-systemtextjson.html