https://gabrielmongeon.ca/en/tags/structured-outputs/Recent content in Structured Outputs on Gabriel MongeonHugoenWed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://gabrielmongeon.ca/en/2026/07/structured-outputs-ollama-dotnet/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://gabrielmongeon.ca/en/2026/07/structured-outputs-ollama-dotnet/<blockquote> <p>Part 6 in the &ldquo;Local AI with Ollama and .NET&rdquo; series: <a href="https://gabrielmongeon.ca/en/2025/12/local-ai-development-ollama-dotnet/">Part 1 – Ollama and .NET</a> | <a href="https://gabrielmongeon.ca/en/2025/12/local-rag-ollama-litellm-qdrant/">Part 2 – Local RAG</a> | <a href="https://gabrielmongeon.ca/en/2025/12/ai-agents-ollama-dotnet/">Part 3 – AI Agents</a> | <a href="https://gabrielmongeon.ca/en/2026/02/mcp-csharp-weather-server/">Part 3.5 – MCP Server</a> | <a href="https://gabrielmongeon.ca/en/2026/03/microsoft-agent-framework-ollama-mcp/">Part 4 – Microsoft Agent Framework</a> | <a href="https://gabrielmongeon.ca/en/2026/06/orchestrate-blazor-ollama-with-aspire/">Part 5 – Aspire</a> | <a href="https://gabrielmongeon.ca/2026/07/sorties-structurees-ollama-dotnet/">Version française</a></p></blockquote> <p>Asking a local model to reply in JSON directly in the prompt works most of the time. The problem is the rest of the time: the parsing blows up, and rarely at a good moment. Here&rsquo;s a simple trick to get reliable JSON with Ollama and .NET.</p>