The Reference Manager
We want our project to be able to extract data from JSON files and insert it into database. We'll need some code that can systematically read the data from these files.
- Right-click on Reference > Add Reference.
- Add System.Net.HTTP > OK
- Let's take a look for other categories.
- Extensions are assemblies that are not a part of .NET framework, just from external sources.
- Projects contains a list of all other projects in our solution. We have nothing here.
- Shared projects is a new feature in VS, to create a new own assemblies
- COM is wider libraries collection.
- Browse is to search library from local folders.
- Let's google for ".NET read JSON"
- JSON.NET library from newtonsoft is exactly what we want.
- The traditional way is downloading the library from internet and install it on our VS.
- The modern way is using NuGet to fetch the library to us.