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cameronh90 on March 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source

> Microsoft announcing they'd make JSON.NET, a third party JSON library, the default JSON serializer over their home-grown DataContractJsonSerializer in the next version of ASP.NET MVC

Finally! For those who haven't used it, DataContractJsonSerializer has the most absurd way of serialising dictionaries into JSON. Rather than producing {"k1": "v1", "k2": "v2"} it produces [{"Key": "k1", "Value": "v1"}, {"Key":"k2", "Value": "v2"}]

JamesNK on March 28, 2012 [–]

> DataContractJsonSerializer has the most absurd way of serialising dictionaries into JSON.

DataContractJsonSerializer is a hack that is built on top of an XML parser.

For the people who are unfamiliar with .NET there is a comparison of Json.NET to Microsoft's two JSON serializers here:

http://json.codeplex.com/ <- Json.NET homepage

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