JSON Serialization
The .NET languages support the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) serialization, offered by the System.Runtime.Serialization.Json namespace. It is particularly useful when you need to serialize objects as JavaScript-compliant and is used in WCF and ASP.NET Ajax applications. Conceptually, JSON serialization works like the WCF serialization illustrated previously. The only difference is that you use a DataContractJSonSerializer class that works as in the following code snippet:
Dim target As New FileStream("C:\Temp\WcfSerialized.xml", FileMode.Create)Dim jsonSerializer As New DataContractJsonSerializer(GetType(Person))jsonSerializer.WriteObject(target, p)
To deserialize objects, you invoke the
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