DataTable to JSON

Question

I recently needed to serialize a datatable to JSON. Where I\'m at we\'re still on .Net 2.0, so I can\'t use the JSON serializer in .Net 3.5. I figured this must have been

Answer 1

I found this: http://www.bramstein.com/projects/xsltjson/ You can convert your datatable to xml and use a xslt stylesheet to convert the xml to json.

It is more a workaround than a real solution.

Answer 2

Hey budy, its is all here in Rick's blog post Serializing DataTable using Json.NET. He explains in detail how you can accomplish it using Json.NET from James Newton King.

Answer 3

Would it help you convince your bosses to install a library if it's Microsoft's AJAX extensions for .NET 2.0?

Included in them is System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavascriptSerializer, which is used in Step 4 of the last link in your post.