Ideally an anonymous type is a reference type and can be defined using the var keyword. You can have one or more properties in an anonymous type but all of them are read-only. In context to a C# class, an anonymous type cannot have a field or a method only can have properties. In this article we will see how we can create json from Anonymous type step by step:
EmployDetail.css
public class EmployeeDetail { public string employeeName { get; set; } public int empCode { get; set; } public IList<string> gender { get; set; } }
Reference following in your main class:
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
Implementation
List<EmployeeDetail> oEmployeeDetails = new List<EmployeeDetail> { new EmployeeDetail { employeeName = "John", empCode = 1001, gender = new List<string> { "male", "female" } } }; //Anonymous call JObject oJobject = JObject.FromObject(new { Department = new { departmentName="Account", role = from p in oEmployeeDetail orderby p.empCode select new { employeeName = p.employeeName, empCode = p.empCode, gender = p.gender } } }); //get json Console.WriteLine(oJobject.ToString());
Output
