A recipe for capturing the JSON of the particular array item that failed deserialization with System.Text.Json. When deserializing a response from an external, third-party API it's fairly common to receive a "wrapper" DTO which consists of an array of "item" DTOs and possibly some additional properties. Depending on the API, the list of items could be large and the object graph of each item could be complex. Assume you get well-formed JSON back from the API (so no mismatched curlies…

Introduction Even though AngularJS is approaching end-of-life, it's still deployed in loads of production systems. This post describes some techniques I used to have the validation logic entirely defined (and performed) server-side (ASP.NET WebAPI) - whist giving a client-side validation experience. By that I mean, type into a field and see validation errors as you type (rather than only when you submit the form). Why the heck would you want to even do that? Well - for one, there are…

As part of a recent project I was installing NServiceBus as a replacement for Nimbus in an existing legacy system. The system makes use of Autofac for DI and adds various IStartable services to the container (background services etc). The goal - to continue using Autofac as the DI container for both the application and the NServiceBus message handlers, as well as allow the IEndpointInstance (bus) to be injected into / consumed by IStartable services in the container. Removing the…