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Created by redmoss on 6/8/2024 in #help
How to serialize part of an object with a guid but then deserialize later?
So at runtime, I'll populate a list of objects that have a guid id and a string name and a bool isFlagged. When I serialize, I don't care about the name because it gets created again when the object is instantiated so there's no need to store that data. But when deserializing, I instantiate the list of objects again, then want to go through each one and, using the guids I saved, set the isFlagged that I had serialized. The problem is, the new instances have new guids so there's no way to map the deserialized data back to their originals. How should I approach this problem?
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Created by redmoss on 6/7/2024 in #help
Additional profiling tools for Visual Studio (or cmdline)?
Two questions really: 1) I'm using the Visual Studio Diagnostic tools to do memory snapshots and look at CPU usage, but one thing I'd really like to do is literally get all the methods in my code listed by the number of times they are called, mainly to review my methods and locate any that are being called way too many times than I expect them to be. I imagine it's quite expensive to track this but I didn't see an obvious way to get this info with the Diag tools 2) What other third-party tools/plugins/etc do you use or would reccomend for finding opportunities for optimizations in my code?
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Created by redmoss on 6/6/2024 in #help
Nice ways to partially serialize and deserialize objects?
Say I've got a class like this: 
class Monster 
{
  public int Id;
  public string Name;
  public int AttackRating;
  public bool Seen;
}
class Monster 
{
  public int Id;
  public string Name;
  public int AttackRating;
  public bool Seen;
}
In my program, I might have various instances of these in a List that I refer to. When I serialize this list, it saves Id Name and AttackRating but these are instanced in the code so if I change the code, the serialization is now out of date for users who try and load the save when the code has moved on. So really, I just want to serialize the Seen property, because the rest is defined in code by the MonsterFactory. However, I'm not sure how I can deserialise a List<Monster> which was just serialised with the Seen properties serialised only, if that makes sense. The other values are instantiated by the appropriate MonsterFactory in code. Now, I can use [JsonIgnore] to serialize just Seen. However the problem is recreating the list of objects without overwriting the other properties using the MonsterFactory for the rest. Basically I want to be able to create my Monster class again from the factory method, but then deserialize a List<Monster> from file that only stored Seen because it's the only property without [JsonIgnore]. But when I do this, it's going to set all my other properties to null. Any thoughts?
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Created by redmoss on 5/21/2024 in #help
How to refactor two classes that need visibility of each other?
I have two classes, InputManager and DisplayManager. In my current model, InputManager sometimes needs to write to the display, and DisplayManager needs to see the current state of input, so they have need of each other. At the moment I'm handling it like: 
inputManager = new InputManager()
displayManager = new DisplayManager()

inputManager.Initialize(displayManager);
displayManager.Initialize(inputManager);
inputManager = new InputManager()
displayManager = new DisplayManager()

inputManager.Initialize(displayManager);
displayManager.Initialize(inputManager);
So both objects have a reference to each other and can call each's relevant public methods. The problem is of course that I get lots of "potentially null" warnings because I can't (seemingly) pass the displayManager via inputManager's constructor because it doesn't exist yet, and vice versa. I was wondering what the right approach is where I can guarantee non-null references but still have the two have access to each other?
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