LINQ to JASON

LINQ to JSON can also be used to manually convert from JSON to a .NET object

public class Shortie

{

  public string Original { get; set; }

  public string Shortened { get; set; }

  public string Short { get; set; }

  public ShortieException Error { get; set; }

}

public class ShortieException

{

  public int Code { get; set; }

  public string ErrorMessage { get; set; }

}

Manually serializing and deserializing between .NET objects is most useful when working with JSON that doesn't closely match your .NET objects.

string jsonText = @"{

  ""short"":{

    ""original"":""http://www.foo.com/"",

    ""short"":""krehqk"",

    ""error"":{

      ""code"":0,

      ""msg"":""No action taken""}

}";

JObject json = JObject.Parse(jsonText);

Shortie shortie = new Shortie

                  {

                    Original = (string)json["short"]["original"],

                    Short = (string)json["short"]["short"],

                    Error = new ShortieException

                            {

                              Code = (int)json["short"]["error"]["code"],

                              ErrorMessage = (string)json["short"]["error"]["msg"]

                            }

                  };

Console.WriteLine(shortie.Original);

// http://www.foo.com/

Console.WriteLine(shortie.Error.ErrorMessage);