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C# C# Streams and Data Processing Streaming Data on the Net Searching for News Headlines

Posted by caitlinsheeks
caitlinsheeks
5,423 Points

Everything is out of date! I can't figure out how to get JSON info deserialized

All of the links for this course are out of date. The way that Carling shows us how to do things is out of date. I go to documentation for WebClient and it says not to use WebClient any more, just as an example. I've spent so much time searching for a way to do this using what documentation says to use and I can't figure it out. It's really ridiculous how out of date this course is.

I don't even know where to go from here. My code is nothing like what Carling had now, and it still doesn't work.

I've been trying to use HttpClient, as Microsoft's docs said to use, but I just don't know what I'm doing.

Please drops some hints as to where I should look. I don't mind doing research. I know that's a huge part of coding and I'm used to it. Unfortunately, I'm out of ideas.

1 Answer

Christian Loveridge
Christian Loveridge
3,063 Points
Christian Loveridge
Christian Loveridge
3,063 Points

Unfortunately, the video only gives an idea of what to look for, but you'll have to just focus on the concepts rather than step-by-step instructions. I made the request and just stored the JSON response in a string and then copy it to "paste JSON into a new class" and went from there. Microsoft has an example on their page of how to do it with the HttpClient() method, so that's no longer an issue (in 2023 at least)

I also have cheated a bit through this course and used ChatGPT AI to troubleshoot issues because it's so good at explaining things that get skimmed over in this course, but the hard truth is that this is what it's going to be like as a dev -- a lot of time spent digging through docs, then doing trial and error to figure out what you don't already know.

Anyone else stuck here, good luck! You got this!