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DerekT-P21-Mar-22 7:57
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Not whinged about MS for a while, so here goes...

I'm doing lots of work with mapping and webservices, and had (for simplicity) created a basic DTO object called LatLng, consisting of just a Latitude and Longitude property. Then I discovered that MS had an object GeoCoordinate (in System.Device.Location) that had LatLng and also a method for calculating distance to another LatLng. I already had that formula but thought I'd simplify my code by using the GeoCoordinate object and it's DistanceFrom function. Simple - pull out my LatLng class, replace with GeoCoordinate, all good. Everything worked from the start.

Until... I needed to access the LatLng data from a webservice, using JSON. The webservice ran fine, but JQuery wouldn't parse the JSON. Turns out that the GeoCoordinate object has some properties, defined as Double, that default to NaN - NOT zero! When the webservice serializes the object to JSON, it does it as {"Latitude" : NaN} which the browser can't parse as valid JSON, so the whole thing is unreadable. Those properties include Altitude, Speed, HorizontalAccuracy and VerticalAccuracy.

Now, I use the GeoCoordinate in so many places I don't want to explicitly set all these properties (which I don't even need anyway). So I subclassed GeoCoordinate, wrapping it in my own class and setting those four values to 0 in the constructor. All good, surely? Nope, still not working in the JSON serialisation. Close inspection showed that Altitude and Speed were now zero, but the accuracy properties still coming back as NaN. Checked the documentation, confirmed those properties are settable. Setting the value to 1 is all good, but setting it to 0 "works" (as in no error thrown) but the value remains as NaN.

Now, I sort-of understand why you can't have an accuracy of zero in this context... but WHY Microsoft, don't you either throw an exception or at least DOCUMENT that??? (The property even has a documented "Out of Range" exception, but they don't throw it for zero D'Oh! | :doh: )

So two oddities - failing to parse the JSON because of an unquoted text literal "NaN", and a property with an undocumented un-settable value. Wasted the best part of the afternoon... Sigh | :sigh: OMG | :OMG:

(And on the subject of rants, CodeProject seems to have lost the toolbar when making posts in a forum...)
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