Deserializing a JSON file with JavaScriptSerializer()

Question

the json file\'s structure which I will deserialize looks like below;

{
    \"id\" : \"1lad07\",
    \"text\" : \"test\",
    \"url\" : \"http:\\/\\/twitpic.         


        

Answer 1

Assuming you don't want to create another class, you can always let the deserializer give you a dictionary of key-value-pairs, like so:

string s = //{ "user" : {    "id" : 12345,    "screen_name" : "twitpicuser"}};
var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
var result = serializer.DeserializeObject(s);

You'll get back something, where you can do:

var userId = int.Parse(result["user"]["id"]); // or (int)result["user"]["id"] depending on how the JSON is serialized.
// etc.

Look at result in the debugger to see, what's in there.