How can I use the JsonObject class?

Question

I am building on Windows Phone 7. I noticed in the documentation I can:

JsonObject user = (JsonObject)JsonObject.Load(responseStream);
bool isMember = user["IsMember"];
string name = user["Name"];
int age = user["Age"];

How can I import the JsonObject class?

Solution 1

Add using System.Json; to the top of your file.

Edit
It seems that Windows Phone 7 doesn't support the System.Json namespace so you cannot do it this way. After a cursory search, it seems you have to use the DataContractJsonSerializer class as shown in this MSDN video/source code.

You may also want to consider using Json.NET which appears to be much more efficient than the DataContractJsonSerializer.

Solution 2

I think this library is now deprecated in favour of Json.NET. JsonObject is now a JObject and requires Json.NET library.

Documentation

Comments

[Chris Rae]

This class does not exist on Windows Phone 7.

[Richard Marskell - Drackir]

@Chris R: I'm not sure how Sheehan got it to work then, but try this link for info.