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Serializing Object Graphs with JSON

Serializing Object Graphs with JSON

Learn about Newtonsoft.Json and contrast its performance and features.

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One of the most popular .NET libraries for working with the JSON serialization format is Newtonsoft.Json known as Json.NET. It is mature and powerful.

Newtonsoft.Json

Newtonsoft.Json is so popular that it overflowed the bounds of the 32-bit integer used for the download count in the NuGet package manager, as shown in the following tweet in the figure:

Negative 2 billion downloads for Newtonsoft.Json in August 2022
Negative 2 billion downloads for Newtonsoft.Json in August 2022

Let’s see it in action:

Step 1: In the WorkingWithSerialization project, add a package reference for the latest version of Newtonsoft.Json, as shown in the ...