The .net framework supports JSON through JavaScriptSerializer. Here is a good example to get you started.
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
namespace GoogleTranslator.GoogleJSON
{
public class FooTest
{
public void Test()
{
const string json = @"{
""DisplayFieldName"" : ""ObjectName"",
""FieldAliases"" : {
""ObjectName"" : ""ObjectName"",
""ObjectType"" : ""ObjectType""
},
""PositionType"" : ""Point"",
""Reference"" : {
""Id"" : 1111
},
""Objects"" : [
{
""Attributes"" : {
""ObjectName"" : ""test name"",
""ObjectType"" : ""test type""
},
""Position"" :
{
""X"" : 5,
""Y"" : 7
}
}
]
}";
var ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
ser.Deserialize<Foo>(json);
}
}
public class Foo
{
public Foo() { Objects = new List<SubObject>(); }
public string DisplayFieldName { get; set; }
public NameTypePair FieldAliases { get; set; }
public PositionType PositionType { get; set; }
public Ref Reference { get; set; }
public List<SubObject> Objects { get; set; }
}
public class NameTypePair
{
public string ObjectName { get; set; }
public string ObjectType { get; set; }
}
public enum PositionType { None, Point }
public class Ref
{
public int Id { get; set; }
}
public class SubObject
{
public NameTypePair Attributes { get; set; }
public Position Position { get; set; }
}
public class Position
{
public int X { get; set; }
public int Y { get; set; }
}
}
You should also try my ServiceStack JsonSerializer - it's the fastest .NET JSON serializer at the moment based on the benchmarks of the leading JSON serializers and supports serializing any POCO Type, DataContracts, Lists/Dictionaries, Interfaces, Inheritance, Late-bound objects including anonymous types, etc.
Basic Example
var customer = new Customer { Name="Joe Bloggs", Age=31 };
var json = customer.ToJson();
var fromJson = json.FromJson<Customer>();
Note: Only use Microsofts JavaScriptSerializer if performance is not important to you as I've had to leave it out of my benchmarks since its up to 40x-100x slower than the other JSON serializers.