Parse JSON String into List

Question

string json = \"{\\\"People\\\":[{\\\"FirstName\\\":\\\"Hans\\\",\\\"LastName\\\":\\\"Olo\\\"}
                            {\\\"FirstName\\\":\\\"Jimmy\\\",\\\"LastName\         


        

Answer 1

Since you are using JSON.NET, personally I would go with serialization so that you can have Intellisense support for your object. You'll need a class that represents your JSON structure. You can build this by hand, or you can use something like json2csharp to generate it for you:

e.g.

public class Person
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public List People { get; set; }
}

Then, you can simply call JsonConvert's methods to deserialize the JSON into an object:

RootObject instance = JsonConvert.Deserialize(json);

Then you have Intellisense:

var firstName = instance.People[0].FirstName;
var lastName = instance.People[0].LastName;