Annotation in C# for mapping JsonProperty to a variable
If for some reason you are .NET Framework 2.0 and using Newtonsoft.Json libray than this is gonna be very useful. You have a case where your Json property contains a '-' sign, than obviously you can't have a C# variable to map the same as variable naming scheme does not allow - signs. I recently faced a similar problem and spent hours googling to figure out how to do it in .net 2.0 but all the efforts were in vain. Than after a lot of hit and trial and reading source files I hit this annotation JsonProperty("my-name") and hurray it worked. Just to provide a small example usage: JSON: {"my-name" : "Biplav"} C# snippet: public class Name { private String m_my_name; [JsonProperty("my-name")] public String my_name { get { return m_my_name;} set { m_my_name = value;} }