Parse JSON String into List

Question

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


        

Answer 1

I use this JSON Helper class in my projects. I found it on the net a year ago but lost the source URL. So I am pasting it directly from my project:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
/// 

/// JSON Serialization and Deserialization Assistant Class
/// 
public class JsonHelper
{
    /// 

    /// JSON Serialization
    /// 
    public static string JsonSerializer (T t)
    {
        DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(T));
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
        ser.WriteObject(ms, t);
        string jsonString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
        ms.Close();
        return jsonString;
    }
    /// 

    /// JSON Deserialization
    /// 
    public static T JsonDeserialize (string jsonString)
    {
        DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(T));
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonString));
        T obj = (T)ser.ReadObject(ms);
        return obj;
    }
}

You can use it like this: Create the classes as Craig W. suggested.

And then deserialize like this

RootObject root = JSONHelper.JsonDeserialize(json);