Entity framework serialize POCO to JSON

Question

I\'m using Ef 4.1 and I\'ve got a POCO object I\'d like to serialize to JSON, I\'ve read there is a problem to do so when using lazy loading but I\'m not sure I can because

Answer 1

The problem is circular references. An easy way to avoid this is to use Json.Net http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json-net.aspx instead of the default MVC json serializer. The latest version of Json.Net will serialize objects with circular references out of the box. http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json/help/PreserveObjectReferences.html for more info on the problem