“EF BB BF” at the beginning of JSON files created in Visual Studio

Question

I have a bunch of JSON files set as Embedded resource in one of my projects. I\'m using Newtonsoft.Json to parse these files:

Answer 1

That's a byte-order mark (BOM).

I'm assuming your first code block is showing how you get the file. If you want the files in UTF-8 without a BOM, you can use the UTF8Encoding constructor to build an encoding instance without a BOM:

var str = new UTF8Encoding(false).GetString(result);