Using System.Json for non-Silverlight projects?

Question

Any idea on how to do it? If not possible, what\'s a good JSON library for C#?

Answer 1

Here's an extenstion method to serialize any object instance to JSON:

public static class GenericExtensions
{
    public static string ToJsonString(this T input)
    {
        string json;
        DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(input.GetType());
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            ser.WriteObject(ms, input);
            json = Encoding.Default.GetString(ms.ToArray());
        }
        return json;
    }
}

You'll need to add a reference to System.ServiceModel.Web to use the DataContractSerializer.