Removed json references in .NET 8.0.

Author: HadenSmith

8.0/Numerics/Numerics.csproj

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Release|AnyCPU'">
     <WarningLevel>1</WarningLevel>
   </PropertyGroup>
-
+  
   <ItemGroup>
     <None Remove="new-joe-kuo-6.21201" />
     <None Remove="Properties\new-joe-kuo-6.21201" />
@@ -62,5 +62,5 @@
       <LastGenOutput>Resources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
     </EmbeddedResource>
   </ItemGroup>
-
+  
 </Project>

8.0/Numerics/Sampling/MCMC/Support/MCMCResults.cs

@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
-using System.Text.Json;
 
 namespace Numerics.Sampling.MCMC
 {
@@ -149,8 +148,6 @@ private void ProcessParameterResults(MCMCSampler sampler, double alpha = 0.1)
         /// <param name="mcmcResults">The MCMC Results.</param>
         public static byte[] ToByteArray(MCMCResults mcmcResults)
         {
-            //return JsonSerializer.SerializeToUtf8Bytes(mcmcResults);
-
             var bf = new BinaryFormatter();
             using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
             {
@@ -165,8 +162,6 @@ public static byte[] ToByteArray(MCMCResults mcmcResults)
         /// <param name="bytes">Byte array.</param>
         public static MCMCResults FromByteArray(byte[] bytes)
         {
-            //return JsonSerializer.Deserialize<MCMCResults>(bytes);
-
             using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
             {
                 var bf = new BinaryFormatter();

8.0/Numerics/Utilities/Tools.cs

@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 
 using Numerics.Data.Statistics;
 using System.IO.Compression;
-using System.Text.Json;
 
 namespace Numerics
 {
@@ -628,23 +627,5 @@ public static byte[] Decompress(byte[] data)
             return output.ToArray();
         }
 
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Returns the object as a byte array. 
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="obj">The object to convert.</param>
-        public static byte[] ToByteArray(object obj)
-        {
-            return JsonSerializer.SerializeToUtf8Bytes(obj);
-        }
-
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Returns the object from a byte array. 
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="bytes">Byte array.</param>
-        public static T FromByteArray<T>(byte[] bytes)
-        {
-            return JsonSerializer.Deserialize<T>(bytes);
-        }
-
     }
 }