How to return JSon object

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First of all, there’s no such thing as a JSON object. What you’ve got in your question is a JavaScript object literal (see here for a great discussion on the difference). Here’s how you would go about serializing what you’ve got to JSON though:

I would use an anonymous type filled with your results type:

string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new
{
    results = new List<Result>()
    {
        new Result { id = 1, value = "ABC", info = "ABC" },
        new Result { id = 2, value = "JKL", info = "JKL" }
    }
});

Also, note that the generated JSON has result items with ids of type Number instead of strings. I doubt this will be a problem, but it would be easy enough to change the type of id to string in the C#.

I’d also tweak your results type and get rid of the backing fields:

public class Result
{
    public int id { get ;set; }
    public string value { get; set; }
    public string info { get; set; }
}

Furthermore, classes conventionally are PascalCased and not camelCased.

Here’s the generated JSON from the code above:

{
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "value": "ABC",
      "info": "ABC"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "value": "JKL",
      "info": "JKL"
    }
  ]
}

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