Mark Keats

Here are some quick extension methods that I created to easily serialize to and from JSON strings.

public static string ToJson(this object obj)
{
	var ms = new MemoryStream();

	var jsonSerializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(obj.GetType());
	jsonSerializer.WriteObject(ms, obj);

	ms.Position = 0;
	var sr = new StreamReader(ms);
	var json = sr.ReadToEnd();

	return json;
}

public static T FromJson<T>(this string jsonString) where T:class
{
	var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonString);
	var ms = new MemoryStream(bytes);
	var jsonSerializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(T));
	return jsonSerializer.ReadObject(ms) as T;
}