JsonConvert Exists in both Newtonsoft and System.Net.Http.Formatting Visual Studio 2017 for Mac

Question

I have a project I have been working on using Xamarin's MonoDevelop.

I have been using Newtonsoft's Json nuget package.

I just downloaded Visual Studio 2017 for Mac.

I try to build my project in VS2017Mac and get the following error:

error CS0433: The type 'JsonConvert' exists in both 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' and 'System.Net.Http.Formatting, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'

I thought I should be able to fix that by just adding Newtonsoft.Json. to the front of JsonConvert, but that didn't work.

I don't want to remove Newtonsoft's implementation if possible because I think their library still has more functionality. Is there another way to resolve this? Why didn't adding the full assembly reference work?

Answer 1

I had the following error message but with another library(Ranet) in C#:

Error CS0433 The type 'JsonConvert' exists in both 'Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Tabular.Json, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' and 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed'

I solved it using aliases, but I would like to provide a bit more detail as I struggled to implement using the instructions from these answers and other answers. This is how I did it:

1. In the solution explorer, right click on the "Newtonsoft.json", add ", Newton" to the alias field, it should look something like this:

2. Add the following code to the first line of you file(before all using statements):

extern alias Newton;

3. Add the following reference to the end of your using statements:

using NewtonReference = Newton::Newtonsoft.Json;

4. Now you can call Newtonsoft method using the following code:

NewtonReference.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<string>("");

5. A final example would look something like this:

extern alias Newton;

using System;
using NewtonReference = Newton::Newtonsoft.Json;

public class Test {     
    public static List<string> TestMethod() {
        NewtonReference.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<string>("");  
    }  
}

Hopefully this will be helpful to someone else :)

Answer 2

1. In the Properties window for the project's Newtonsoft.Json reference, change the value of Aliases from global to global, foo.

2. Insert extern alias foo; as the first line of any class that consumes Newtonsoft.Json.

3. Qualify members with foo.. Example: foo.Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(someObject)}.