Issue with serializing data using JSON.Net

Question

I am using a Kendo Scheduler in my app to pull data from my database using a Web Api. I created a Web Api function and just hard coded some data in there to be sure the Kendo Sc

Answer 1

If you are using Json.NET 9.0.1 or later, you can specify a naming strategy for a specific type by marking it with [JsonObject(NamingStrategyType = typeof(TNamingStrategy))]. This overrides the naming strategy of CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver. In your case you want DefaultNamingStrategy:

[JsonObject(NamingStrategyType = typeof(DefaultNamingStrategy))]
public class EventViewModel
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    public string Title { get; set; }

    public string Description { get; set; }

    public bool IsAllDay { get; set; }

    public DateTime Start { get; set; }

    public DateTime End { get; set; }

    public string StartTimezone { get; set; }

    public string EndTimezone { get; set; }

    public string RecurrenceRule { get; set; }

    public string RecurrenceException { get; set; }
}

Note that the [JsonProperty("name")] attributes are no longer needed.

On your global contract resolver, there is also a property NamingStrategy. Setting NamingStrategy.OverrideSpecifiedNames to false also prevents [JsonProperty("name")] names from being overridden globally. For CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver it seems the default is true, which is the cause of your problem.