How to return JSON with ASP.NET & jQuery

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You’re not far; you need to do something like this: 

[WebMethod]
public static string GetProducts()
{
  // instantiate a serializer
  JavaScriptSerializer TheSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();

  //optional: you can create your own custom converter
  TheSerializer.RegisterConverters(new JavaScriptConverter[] {new MyCustomJson()});

  var products = context.GetProducts().ToList();   

  var TheJson = TheSerializer.Serialize(products);

  return TheJson;
}

You can reduce this code further but I left it like that for clarity. In fact, you could even write this:

return context.GetProducts().ToList();

and this would return a json string. I prefer to be more explicit because I use custom converters. There’s also Json.net but the framework’s JavaScriptSerializer works just fine out of the box.

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