Json.Net unexpected characters (“\”) when serializing my entities

Question

I am using the excellent Json.Net library to serialize my entities generated by entity framework. I use the following code to do so :

using (MyVoucherEntitie         


        

Answer 1

It's invalid JSON because the result of serializing a list of objects is an array, i.e., the json will start with a [ and ending with a ]. To fix this, you need to wrap the list of objects in a root object (any instance of a class or an anonymous object), so, the resulting string will start with a { and end with }.

For example:

var output = new List