How to deserialise JSON to dictionary(string,string) in vb.net

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_{Friday, July 13, 2012 2:18 AM}

Hello I'm trying to deserialise a JSON response in vb.net and put it in a dictionary.

The response looks like this : {"info1": "1", "data": {"info2": "2", "info3": "3", "info4": "4", "info5": "5", "info6": "6", "info7": "7", "info8": "8", "info9": "9", "info10": "10", "info11": "11", "info12": "12"}}

I want to deserialize this and put the infos from the data {} into a dictionary(string,string). Here's what I tried so far :

Dim js As New System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer
        Dim test As Dictionary(Of String, String)
        test = js.DeserializeObject(TextBox1.Text)

I get no error on build but when i click on the button I get the folowing error : "Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.Object]' to type 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.String]'."

I don't understand at all what this error mean :s

Thanks for the help

All replies (2)

_{Monday, July 16, 2012 9:57 AM ✅Answered}

Download JSON.NET.  Then you will have all you need to deserialize

http://json.codeplex.com/

_{Monday, July 16, 2012 9:50 AM}

Try this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5636428/casting-a-generic-dictionary-containing-a-generic-dictionary

Cheers!