How do I parse/serialize following JSON in Silverlight 4.0?

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How do I parse/serialize following JSON in Silverlight?

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 05 '10 at 20:44

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There are a number of options, you state "parse/serialise" it would better if you picked one. Do you want to simple parse arbitary JSON? In that case use JsonValue from System.Json:-

 JsonValue root = JsonValue.Parse(jsonString);

If you have a set of .NET types matching the Json into which you want to deserialise then you need to use the DataContractJsonSeralizer in the System.Runtime.Serialization.Json namespace.

answered Nov 05 '10 at 20:44

AnthonyWJones

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serialization is better, and for this I had created the set of .Net types matching the json. but the problem is that I do not find `DataContractJsonSeralizer` in `System.Runtime.Serialization.Json` namespace in `Silverlight 4.0`. – Zain Shaikh Nov 05 '10 at 21:05
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@Zain: you need to add a reference to the System.ServiceModel.Web.dll – AnthonyWJones Nov 06 '10 at 13:01
I have added reference to `System.ServiceModel.Web.dll` but I still do not find `DataContractJsonSeralizer` in it in Silverlight 4.0. :( – Zain Shaikh Nov 06 '10 at 13:58
@Zain: Have your tried it out the spelling error, i.e., `DataContractJsonSerializer` – AnthonyWJones Nov 06 '10 at 17:21
yes, actually I using the `intellisense` of VS2010, and when I write `System.ServiceModel.Web` so I do not find any data contract serializer for json. – Zain Shaikh Nov 06 '10 at 17:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 05 '10 at 20:37

If you don't have a strongly typed object to pass it to, you can probably use DynamicObject, as long as the Silverlight mscorlib has access to that, which I think it would:

http://www.drowningintechnicaldebt.com/ShawnWeisfeld/archive/2010/08/22/using-c-4.0-and-dynamic-to-parse-json.aspx

[edit] This is just another tree to bark up...the other poster's link to JSON.NET is probably more the direction I would go in my own code...but I like strongly typed classes.

I have created a strongly typed object, but how do I use it? — Zain Shaikh, Nov 05 '10 at 20:40

How do I parse/serialize following JSON in Silverlight 4.0?

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