C# - JSON Viewer

At some point you might have been exposed to JSON data whilst working on a project. Sometimes the data can be hard to read if your not using a decoder and your working with large data.

I developed this simple Windows application that might help you to visualize the data better. The code uses the System.Web.Extenions.dll. If you want to use it in a Windows Forms application, be sure to change the target framework from .Net Framework 4 Client Profile to .Net Framework 4 otherwise you wont be able to add the reference. Once you add the reference you'll have access to the System.Web.Script.Serialization namespace. Within this namespace is a class called JavaScriptSerializer. It has a Deserialize method which can be used to deserialize JSON data to a Type. Use can see from the example code how easy it is to deserialize JSON data with this class.

1. JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
3. try
4. {
5.         string strData = "JSON data";
6.         Dictionary<string, object> dic = js.Deserialize<Dictionary<string, object>>(strData);
7. }
8. catch (ArgumentException argE)
9. {
10.         MessageBox.Show("JSON data is not valid", "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Warning);
11. }

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