Deserialize JSON to anonymous object

Question

In C#, I have successfully serialized an anonymous object into JSON by use of code like this...

var obj = new { Amount = 108, Message = "Hello" }; JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer(); String output = serializer.Serialize(obj); 

However, what I would like to be able to do later is to deserialize the JSON string back into an anonymous object. Something like this...

var obj2 = serializer.Deserialize(output, object); 

But the serializer.Deserialize() method requires a second parameter that is the type of object it will deserialize to.

I tried this...

var obj2 = serializer.Deserialize(output, obj.GetType()); 

But this produces an error:

No parameterless constructor defined for type of '<>f__AnonymousType0`2[[System.Int32, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089],[System.String, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]]'.

I'm not sure what this error means.

Answer 1

how about dynamics, the fastest way I see is this:

dynamic myObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(output);  decimal Amount = Convert.ToDecimal(myObject.Amount); string Message = myObject.Message; 

Note: You will need Newtonsoft.json.dll reference