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Monday, June 16, 2025 | |
Looking into updating a slew of VB.NET API to C# for a client, and figured I should brush off my VB.NET before getting too serious. And I figured that means I should make a console app, connect to a sample API URI at JsonPlaceholder, grab a collection of entities, serialize them, loop through, and access something on each individual entity instance. That's half (or more) of what any API does, right? Oh wow. Slightly larger rabbit hole than I figured. First, you can't make the top-level From stackoverflow.com:
Can confirm. The right answer is to set up an awaiter in a synchronous [sic] From stackoverflow.com:
It is somewhat amazing how few upvotes these have gotten at SO. Aka "VB.NET was never super popular, relatively speaking [to C#], was it?" Here's some working code.
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As I think I've mentioned before, a prof told me in college, "They're all different dialects of the same language." Or as a buddy on the ultimate team said, "It's all zeroes and ones." Nothing fancy going on here, but it does take a while to get your ears tuned to the new (ancient?) dialect. Labels: noteToSelf, VB.NET posted by Jalindrine at 6/16/2025 11:24:00 AM |
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