What JSON library works well for you in .NET? [closed]

Question

I'd be interested in hearing what JSON library folks in the community have been using inside of .NET? I have a need to parse/serialize some JSON object graphs from inside .NET (C#) to actual .NET types. I could roll my own, but if there are some solid libraries folks have used, I'd like to hear your comments. I saw the list of libraries on the json.org site, but it's a fairly big list and the community is usually good at vetting out the contenders from the pretenders

Any details (pros/cons) of your experience with the library would be incredibly helpful. -- thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I've used Json.NET with success in the past.

Example from the site:

Product product = new Product(); product.Name = "Apple"; product.Expiry = new DateTime(2008, 12, 28); product.Price = 3.99M; product.Sizes = new string[] { "Small", "Medium", "Large" };  string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(product); //{ //  "Name": "Apple", //  "Expiry": new Date(1230422400000), //  "Price": 3.99, //  "Sizes": [ //    "Small", //    "Medium", //    "Large" //  ] //}  Product deserializedProduct = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Product>(json); 

Answer 2

There are at least two built into the framework.

The newer : System.Runtime.Serialization.Json

and the older : System.Web.Script.Serialization

I prefer to not have dependencies on 3rd party libraries. I work with JSON every day and have never needed anything more than what already exists in the framework.