Question

can someone explain me how to use JSON? I know it has something in common with XML but that is as much as I know.
I am trying to get all the names from this page Link and put them in a List so I can put them in a ListView.

Does anyone know how I should do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

You have many alternatives to use Json

WebClient wc = new WebClient();
string json = wc.DownloadString("http://bukget.org/api/plugins");

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DataContractJsonSerializer

var ser1  = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(List<string>));
var list1 = (List<string>)ser1.ReadObject(new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json)));

JavaScriptSerializer

var list2 = new JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<List<string>>(json);

Json.Net (My favorite)

var list3 = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<string>>(json);

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You can even use dynamic

dynamic list4 =  JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
string firstName = list4[0];