Json.net catching duplicates and throwing an error [duplicate]

Answer 1

--EDIT--

You dont need to deserialize to IDictionary<string, object>. JObject already implements IDictionary<string, JToken>

var obj = (JObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json); //will throw exception for dublicates.
var str = (string)obj["ExampleText"];

Answer 2

If you look to IDictionary in msdn

"Each association must have a unique key"

Your problem in duplicated keys. I think you should use another collection.

Try this

class MyValue
{
  public string Key {get; set;}
  public string Value {get; set;}
}

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<MyValue>>(text);