Handling MongoDB's ISODate() when attempting to parse a serialized JSON string

Question

I\'m using MongoDB via the official C# driver with an ASP.NET MVC web site.

I have the following C# model:

public class Contact
{
    public ObjectId Id          


        

Answer 1

I realize that I am very late to this party but I'll post an answer anyway in case somebody else comes along looking for a solution (as I did).

The trick is to let the Mongo db driver do the deserialization:

var collection = database.GetCollection("collection name");
var contact = collection.Find(Query.EQ("Name", "Joe Blow"));

Now contact will have the expected values.