please help me to read JSON in asp.net

Question

i have got following JSON string please tell me how to read it in asp.net.. i have got newtonsoft library also.. please give me solution. i want to read email id and name from below JSON

var InitialContacts = 
[
{"guid":"","contactId":"32","contactName":"a, a a","email":"[email protected]","isConnection":false,"connection":"","displayImg":null,"msgrID":"","msgrStatus":"","isMsgrBuddy":false},
{"guid":"","contactId":"26","contactName":"bhaiya, manish","email":"[email protected]","isConnection":false,"connection":"","displayImg":null,"msgrID":"","msgrStatus":"","isMsgrBuddy":false}]

Answer 1

Check this Blog it has a good example Example

Answer 2

Two solutions:

With JSON.Net you can create a class that matches the elements of the JSON string. In this case (Note - this is air code, haven't tested it):

public class TargetClass
{
  public string guid{get; set;}
  public int contactId{get; set;}

  ...
}

You can deserialize to a List.

Another way is to use the delimiters , & : and split the string into an array first by ",". Then for each entry in the array, split again with the ":".