C# automatic property deserialization of JSON

Question

I need to deserialize some JavaScript object represented in JSON to an appropriate C# class. Given the nice features of automatic properties, I would prefer having them in t

Answer 1

You can do this with JavaScriptSerializer found in the System.Web.Script.Serialization namespace:

JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
Cat c = serializer.Deserialize(jsonString);

I have POCO objects with automatic properties and this works just fine.

EDIT: I wrote about JSON Serializers in .NET which compares this serializer with DataContractJsonSerializer.