Storing DateTime in MongoDB using C# is easy. Just add a property of DateTime and off you go. Easy. Right? Well, MongoDB stores all date times as UTC, but you can tell the driver to deserialize back as e.g DateTimeKind.Local, but nevertheless, it will be stored in UTC (and maybe not returned with th…
Daniel Wertheim
Saw a video that was talking about the fact that using value objects provides you with always valid objects. Then it showed usage of the new'ish C# minimal construct for a record, using the positional syntax, defining some properties and then went on with life. This does of course not provide yo…
Daniel Wertheim
It's not the first time the Uri gives me pain. This time I got a bug reported on one of my libraries where parts of the provided URL got replaced. A URL is defined as a two string parts which are then used to construct a URI. Now, I'm most certainly misusing it, or have been putting to much…
Daniel Wertheim
Recently I got the question if Structurizer [https://github.com/danielwertheim/structurizer]could be used with anonymous types for flattening of object-graphs for logging. I've had the similar need, producing a key-value representation of some object graphs for the sake of logging and analytics.…
Daniel Wertheim
Recently I heard of the need of taking two typed objects and producing the delta of their properties. So lets look at a simple solution to an object compare that inspects the complete graph of two objects and produces a result of properties that doesn't match. I have a simple project: "Str…
Daniel Wertheim