How to parse huge JSON file as stream in Json.NET?

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This should resolve your problem. Basically it works just like your initial code except it’s only deserializing object when the reader hits the { character in the stream and otherwise it’s just skipping to the next one until it finds another start object token.

JsonSerializer serializer = new JsonSerializer();
MyObject o;
using (FileStream s = File.Open("bigfile.json", FileMode.Open))
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(s))
using (JsonReader reader = new JsonTextReader(sr))
{
    while (reader.Read())
    {
        // deserialize only when there's "{" character in the stream
        if (reader.TokenType == JsonToken.StartObject)
        {
            o = serializer.Deserialize<MyObject>(reader);
        }
    }
}

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