How to read values from config.json in Console Application

Question

I just installed ASP.NET 5 and created a Console Application in Visual Studio. I\'ve added a file, config.json, to the root folder of the project.

It looks like this:

Answer 1

You can use JavascriptSerializer (namespace: System.Web.Extension) to parse json into dictionary and find any value based on its key from json. You code would become:

 string json = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("PathToJsonFile");
 JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
 Dictionary dic = serializer.Deserialize>(json);

If you iterate over the dictionary, you can see all the keys and get their values using dic.

* Just an alternate solution *