How to get value by key from JObject?

Question

I have a JObject like this:

{   "@STARTDATE": "'2016-02-17 00:00:00.000'",   "@ENDDATE": "'2016-02-18 23:59:00.000'" } 

I want to get @STARTDATE and @ENDDATE value from JObject.

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This is a sample code that I've tried to do the task:

JObject json = JObject.Parse("{\"@STARTDATE\": \"'2016-02-17 00:00:00.000'\",\"@ENDDATE\": \"'2016-02-18 23:59:00.000'\"}"); var key = "@STARTDATE";  var value = GetJArrayValue(json, key);  private string GetJArrayValue(JObject yourJArray, JToken key) {     string value = "";     foreach (JToken item in yourJArray.Children())     {         var itemProperties = item.Children<JProperty>();         //If the property name is equal to key, we get the value         var myElement = itemProperties.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == key.ToString());         value = myElement.Value.ToString(); //It run into an exception here because myElement is null         break;     }     return value; } 

Note: The code above cannot get the value by key from JObject.

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Could you help me to find a way to get the value by key from JObject?

Answer 1

This should help -

var json = "{'@STARTDATE': '2016-02-17 00:00:00.000',  '@ENDDATE': '2016-02-18 23:59:00.000' }"; var fdate = JObject.Parse(json)["@STARTDATE"]; 

Answer 2

You can also get the value of an item in the jObject like this:

JToken value; if (json.TryGetValue(key, out value)) {    DoSomething(value); }