Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

JSON Serialization

Starting from .NET Framework 3.5, managed languages support the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) serialization, offered by the System.Runtime.Serialization.Json name-space, which is particularly useful when you need to serialize objects as javascript-compliant and that you use in WCF and ASP.NET Ajax applications. Conceptually JSON serialization works like the WCF serialization illustrated previously. The only difference is that you use a DataContractJSonSerializer class that works as in the following code snippet:

To deserialize objects you invoke the DataContractJsonSerializer.ReadObject method converting the result into ...