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Replace WCF default JSON serialization

Is it possible to replace the default JSON serialization of WCF (I'm currently testing with the webHttp behaviour), and passing application/json as the MIME type. In particular, I don't like that by default every property is a key/value pair like:

{"Key":"PropertyName", "Value":"PropertyValue"}

I'm using the service only for JSON-enabled endpoints (requesting data with jQuery + WCF).

Solution

  • You can use a message formatter to change the serializer used to deal with JSON. The post at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/carlosfigueira/wcf-extensibility-message-formatters shows an example on how to change the default serializer (DataContractJsonSerializer) to another one (JSON.NET).