Serialize one to many relationships in Json.net

Question

I am using the Entity Framework code first for data access and I have a Company class which has a collection of Employees. The Employee class also has a Company property.

Answer 1

If you are getting this error using WebApi you can put the following in WebApiConfig.cs so json.net ignores circular refs

config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore; 

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