Question

I see that JSON.NET has a DateTime converter:

string javascriptJson = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(entry, new JavaScriptDateTimeConverter());

However I don’t have a JSON object, I simply have a string:

/Date(1276146000000-0500)/

I could create an object, add the date, then parse it, but this seems common enough that there should be a way to do this in a single line. Is there anything out there?

Answer 1

The quotes around the date string are required. Also, the returned value is a DateTime, not a string.

DateTime date =
    JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DateTime>("\"/Date(1276146000000-0500)/\"");