ASP.NET MVC Controller.Json DateTime Serialization vs NewtonSoft Json DateTime Serialization

Question

When I return object that contains DateTime property using

return Json(value);

on client I receive

\"/Date(1336618438854)/         


        

Answer 1

If you dont want to dig in to the Parsing thing than simply convert your date in to the string than parse it with the JSON.

for example

return Json(DateTime.Now.ToString("your date format if you want to specify"));