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Im starting a new WP7 app that gets information from a DNLA server. The server supports JSON languages for the REST protocol. I did some research and found json.net was very well recommended.

I can get data by using http://192.168.1.1:234/rest/status?media=json Giving me: {"serverStatus":"STARTED","renderers":[{"uuid":"00a0965fa15c","ipAddress":"192.168.1.10","name":"KDL-52NX803","profileId":"9","status":"ACTIVE"},{"uuid":"1829220b083f","ipAddress":"192.168.1.13","name":"Windows Media Player","profileId":"1","status":"INACTIVE"},{"uuid":"5d70ac53cf8e","ipAddress":"192.168.1.14","name":"Unrecognized device","profileId":"1","status":"UNKNOWN"},{"uuid":"60465a95eec4","ipAddress":"192.168.1.22","name":"Playstation 3","profileId":"4","status":"UNKNOWN"},{"uuid":"001dd860bce4","ipAddress":"192.168.1.9","name":"Xbox 360","profileId":"3","status":"INACTIVE"}]}

Im very much new to c#, ive read the official Json.NET documenation, but would prefer to see sample code to get me moving. I have created listbox to collect "renderers" data, and TextBlock for the current "serverStatus" of the server.

If anyone can help and would very much appreciate your efforts

No correct solution

OTHER TIPS

For starters, http://json2csharp.com/ is handy for putting in your json and creating a poco.

public class Renderer
{
    public string uuid { get; set; }
    public string ipAddress { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
    public string profileId { get; set; }
    public string status { get; set; }
}

public class RootObject
{
    public string serverStatus { get; set; }
    public Renderer[] renderers { get; set; }
}

This page has simple examples on serialize/dserialize.

RestSharp is a wonderful HTTP API Client that supports WP7. It will deserialzie for you and also allows you to implement your own serializer/deserializer.

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