This sample uses LINQ to JSON to manually convert JSON to a .NET type.
public class BlogPost
{
public string Title { get; set; }
public string AuthorName { get; set; }
public string AuthorTwitter { get; set; }
public string Body { get; set; }
public DateTime PostedDate { get; set; }
}
var json = """
[
{
'Title': 'Json.NET is awesome!',
'Author': {
'Name': 'James Newton-King',
'Twitter': '@JamesNK',
'Picture': '/jamesnk.png'
},
'Date': '2013-01-23T19:30:00',
'BodyHtml': '<h3>Title!</h3>\r\n<p>Content!</p>'
}
]
""";
var blogPostArray = JArray.Parse(json);
var blogPosts = blogPostArray.Select(p => new BlogPost
{
Title = (string) p["Title"],
AuthorName = (string) p["Author"]["Name"],
AuthorTwitter = (string) p["Author"]["Twitter"],
PostedDate = (DateTime) p["Date"],
Body = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode((string) p["BodyHtml"])
}).ToList();
Console.WriteLine(blogPosts[0].Body);
// <h3>Title!</h3>
// <p>Content!</p>