Does .NET 4 have a built-in JSON serializer/deserializer?

Question

Does .NET 4 come with any class that serializes/deserializes JSON data?

• I know there are 3rd-party libraries, such as JSON.NET, but I am looking for somethi

Answer 1

Use this generic class in order to serialize / deserialize JSON. You can easy serialize complex data structure like this:

Dictionary>

to JSON string and then to save it in application setting or else

public class JsonSerializer
{
    public string Serialize(T aObject) where T : new()
    {
        T serializedObj = new T();
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); 
        DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(T));
        ser.WriteObject(ms, aObject);
        byte[] json = ms.ToArray();
        ms.Close();
        return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(json, 0, json.Length);
    }

    public T Deserialize(string aJSON) where T : new()
    {
        T deserializedObj = new T();
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(aJSON));
        DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(aJSON.GetType());
        deserializedObj = (T)ser.ReadObject(ms);
        ms.Close();
        return deserializedObj;
    }
}