Louis Somers

At least this issue did not get closed yet... They closed [mine](https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet/issues/474) in favor of [this one](https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/46656) which now is closed again in favor of [another](https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/40427)...

Well, I've been working hard to get around my biggest issue, that was "lack of tooling". I've just uploaded a first Alpha version of MsgPack Explorer. Check out some screen-shots...

You could try viewing your message with MsgPack Explorer (http://www.infotopie.nl/open-source/msgpack-explorer) If you get no errors there you might consider using the same lib in your project.

No official padding support but you could misuse Nil (0xc0) for that purpose. Be sure to document it well if any 3rd party is to be consuming or providing the...

I don't think there remains much to win if you leave the first bullet point there. If it has to be backward compatible, then you are adding more metadata instead...

Yes, that concept is usually called a "schema". We do not need the inheritance features but just a "packed struct" definition for complex (or rather compound) types, that can be...

Thanks for thanking! You are the first to respond after I uploaded it about 3 years ago :-)

Maybe I gave up on HttpClient to soon, but I'm not convinced yet. The advice of using a singleton will never work in my application, unless I use a lock(syncRoot)...

@karelz thank you for your reply. So I should use a static pool of `HttpClient`s for a specific service (with default headers), and create `HttpRequestMessage` instances with all the additional...

I have been making some progress... ``` static std::map ImageCache; Image *Parser::Read_Image(int filetype, const UCS2* filename, const ImageReadOptions& options) { std::map::iterator idx = ImageCache.find(*filename); if (idx != ImageCache.end()) { Image*...