How to parse JSON data with .Net C#?

There are many occasions arise when we have to get some information form websites, websites offer information to their user in different formats and JSON is one of them.

Actually you can parse JSON data in C# itself by writing some code but JSON.Net library will help a great deal.

Example 
Let's consider an example where we have to get tweets count of a webpage from twitter. Twitter provides us with an easy way to do that by simply sending a request to one of its urls

Request Sample 
https://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http://download.cnet.com/Free-PDF-to-JPG-Converter/3000-2016_4-75728284.html


Request Response

string Response = {"count":10,"url":"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/Free-PDF-to-JPG-Converter\/3000-2016_4-75728284.html\/"}

Here we go, we need to get count variable from that response.

Create a Class in C# and add this code

 public class SharesCount
 {
        private int Count_;

        public int Count
        {
            get { return Count_; }
            set { Count_= value; }
        }

 }

Here you notice that text in orange color, right?

Yeah you need to make sure that class properties match the variable (Count) that we want to get from response.

string src = Response;

SharesCount m = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<SharesCount>(src);
int count = m.Shares;

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