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In ASP.net you can use the JavaScriptSerializer class to serialize and deserialize JSON objects. I am going to demonstrate below how simply it is to do this.
First, save the following code in you application as JSONHelper.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Script.Serialization;

namespace Helpers
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Summary description for JSONHelper
    /// </summary>
    public static class JSONHelper
    {
        public static string ToJSON(this object obj)
        {
            JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
            return serializer.Serialize(obj);
        }

        public static T FromJSON<T>(string str)
        {
            JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
            return serializer.Deserialize<T>(str);
        }

        public static string ToJSON(this object obj, int recursionDepth)
        {
            JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
            serializer.RecursionLimit = recursionDepth;
            return serializer.Serialize(obj);
        }
    }
}

Now let’s say you have an object called MyObject from a class called MyClass and you want to serialize it. All you have to do is to use:

MyClass MyObject = new MyClass();
string strJson = MyObject.ToJSON();

That’s it! You get a string that you can now store or pass to another resource as you need it.
Now, in order to deserialize a string into an object simply user:

MyClass MyObject = JSONHelper.FromJSON<MyClass>(strJson);

Enjoy!