Consuming REST Services in your Windows Store and Phone Applications

Question

The following discusses a general approach to consuming REST Services in a Windows Phone and Store applications:

http://aka.ms/Yfnjs3

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Bret Bentzinger (MSFT) @awehellyeah

Answer 1

Using dynamic objects really is much easier, I used to deserialize the response to a predefined class which was a waste of time.
Those methods helped me a lot to serialize and deserialize objects and strings.

 public static T Deserialize<T>(string json)
        {
            var _Bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(json);
            using (MemoryStream _Stream = new MemoryStream(_Bytes))
            {
                var _Serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(T));
                return (T)_Serializer.ReadObject(_Stream);
            }
        }
        public static string Serialize(object instance)
        {
            using (MemoryStream _Stream = new MemoryStream())
            {
                var _Serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(instance.GetType());
                _Serializer.WriteObject(_Stream, instance);
                _Stream.Position = 0;
                using (StreamReader _Reader = new StreamReader(_Stream))
                {
                    return _Reader.ReadToEnd();
                }
            }
        }

Thanks,

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