Deserializing JSON into an object with Json.NET

Question

I\'m playing a little bit with the new StackOverflow API. Unfortunately, my JSON is a bit weak, so I need some help.

I\'m trying to deserialize this JSON of a User:<

Answer 1

Similar to @Alexandre Jasmin's answer, you can use an intermediary JsonSerializer to convert instead of the using the high-level JsonConvert on .ToString(). No idea if it's any more efficient...

References:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/9453198/1037948
• http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2012/Aug/30/Using-JSONNET-for-dynamic-JSON-parsing

Example:

var root = JObject.Parse(jsonString);
var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
var expectedUserObject = serializer.Deserialize(root["user"].CreateReader());