How to serialize static or const member variables using JSON.NET?

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It could certainly serialize the static variable if it wanted to. Serialization is done by inspecting objects and types with the Reflection APIs, and those APIs allow you to do “anything” — there is no technical reason these values cannot be serialized.

There is, however, a logical reason not to support this by default: it doesn’t make much sense. You are serializing an instance, and static or const members are not logically part of an instance but of the class as a whole.

That said, you can still serialize static member if it’s a property:

[JsonProperty]
public static int y { get; set; } // this will be serialized

And of course you can completely override the serializer’s behavior by creating a custom JsonConverter.

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