Deserialize JSON string in C# without using reflection

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I'm working on a sandbox solution in Sharepoint, the important restrictions (regarding to this question) due to that are the use of .net 3.5 and there are no reflections allowed. EXAMPLE 1 If I try to deserialize as JSON string into a simple class like this it works fine: JSON STRING ``` {"field":"Picture1","url":"whatever"} ``` C# CLASS ``` public class PictureSetting { public string field { get; set; } public string url { get; set; } } ``` EXAMPLE 2 But if I try to deserialize a bit more complex string I get an error: JSON STRING ``` { "Rows": [ { "Columns": [ { "Width": "100" } ] } ] } ``` C# CLASSES ``` internal class PageStructure { public List Rows { get; set; } public PageStructure() { Rows = new List(); } } internal class StructureElement { public List Columns { get; set; } public StructureElement() { Columns = new List(); } } internal class BlockAssigment { public string Width { get; set; } } ``` ERROR Reques…

Accepted Answer

I suspect the biggest problem is actually here:

```
public class PictureSetting // public, works
```

versus

```
internal class PageStructure // non-public, permission denied
```

it sounds to me like the sandbox is preventing reflection of non-public types/members. This would be consistent with most sandboxes, for example Silverlight: you can use reflection, but only for things that the could would be able to do normally - i.e. access public types / members. Try making `PageStructure`, `StructureElement` and `BlockAssigment` into `public` classes.

Deserialize JSON string in C# without using reflection

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