How to deserialize JSON to objects of the correct type, without having to define the type before hand?

Question

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New to C# so bear with me please.

I have some jso

Answer 1

Deserialize your JSON into the most basic form:

Dictionary theData= new JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize>(jsonString);

string baseItemName = (string)theData["baseItem"];

Dictionary someNode= (Dictionary)theData["something"];

string anything = (string)someNode["anything"];
string nothing = (string)someNode["nothing"];

The call to Deserialize() creates a tree of Dictionary that you can traverse at will.