Deserialize an object from JSON text

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var json = "{\"Name\":\"Joe Smith\",\"Age\":21}";
var person = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Person>(json);

This yields a Person object with Name “Joe Smith” and Age 21.

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0 Getting started

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2 XmlSerializer

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5 LINQ

6 Networking

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12 Task Parallel Library (TPL)

13 Custom types

14 DateTime parsing

15 Memory management

16 Managed Extensibility Framework

17 Speech Recognition Engine

18 System.Reflection.Emit

19 System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache

20 JSON Serialization

21 TPL Dataflow

22 File Input/Output

23 Platform invoke

24 Code contracts

25 VB Forms

26 ForEach

27 Strings

28 Expression Trees

29 Threading

30 System.Diagnostics

31 ADO.NET

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33 Process and Thread affinity setting

34 Dependency Injection

35 Task Parallel Library (TPL)

36 System.IO

37 Unit Testing

38 Serial Ports

39 System.IO.File

40 Synchronization contexts

41 Using Progress and IProgress

42 ReadOnlyCollections

43 Regular expressions

44 System.Net.Mail

45 Encryption, cryptography

46 Parallel process

47 JSON with Newtonsoft.Json

48 .NET Cor

49 JIT compiler

50 Stack and heap

51 SHA1

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54 Reading and writing ZIP files

55 StdErr stream

56 Upload file and POST data to webserver

57 Acronym Glossary

58 Contributors