C# Could not Cast or Convert System.String to Class object

Question

I am trying to deserialize a JSON string received from a Web API

try
{
    string r = await App.client.GetUser();

    App.Authentication = JsonConvert.Deser         


        

Answer 1

Below code worked for me along the lines of to C.Evenhuis answer,

   var content = response.Content;              
   var jsonResult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(content).ToString();
   var result= JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsonResult);

Here Content is similar to - "\"{\\"Id\\":\\"92209\\",\\"operatorId\\":100000,\\"Status\\":true, .....