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    @MaxHodges, you are right. I just used inline "magic strings" for demonstrating how to parse JSON string values. Didn't want it to look complex with escaping double quotes. In real code we usually have JSON strings obtained from somewhere as variables or passed as parameters. Commented Jan 3, 2016 at 20:26
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    Without .net 4 you don't have 'dynamic' keyword. You can use 'var stuff' for declaration and instead of 'stuff.Name' and 'stuff.Address.City' you have 'stuff["Name"]' and 'stuff["Address"]["City"]' respectively. Commented Jul 17, 2017 at 22:57
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    @Fil That gives you a value of type object, and you can't use indexing on a object. Commented Jul 18, 2017 at 8:15
  • @Alex i'm pretty sure the Newtonsoft.Json variant returns a JObject. also, don't use Json.NET, even VS uses Newtonsoft.Json by now. can now even be used in VSIX without adding it to the package Commented Jun 28, 2020 at 23:18