Circular Reference exception with JSON Serialisation with MVC3 and EF4 CTP5w

Question

I\'m having problems with a circular reference when i try and serialise an object returned via EF4 CTP5. Im using the code first approach and simple poco\'s for my model.

Answer 1

No matter what I did the dynamic proxies kept being a sticking point, I went as far as removing all circular references in my model! but still the problem persisted.

I tried Json.Net but the same problem occurred.

In the end I stumbled upon a post about using a custom JavaScriptConverter

http://hellowebapps.com/2010-09-26/producing-json-from-entity-framework-4-0-generated-classes/

Implemented the code and bobs your uncle everything worked