JSON.NET Error Self referencing loop detected for type

Question

I tried to serialize POCO class that was automatically generated from Entity Data Model .edmx and when I used

JsonConvert.SerializeObject 

Answer 1

To ignore loop references and not to serialize them globally in MVC 6 use the following in startup.cs:

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {
        services.AddMvc().Configure(options =>
        {
            options.OutputFormatters.RemoveTypesOf();
            var jsonOutputFormatter = new JsonOutputFormatter();
            jsonOutputFormatter.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore;
            options.OutputFormatters.Insert(0, jsonOutputFormatter);
        });
    }