System.Text.Json
Provides high-performance and low-allocating types that serialize objects to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) text and deserialize JSON text to objects, with UTF-8 support built-in. Also provides types to read and write JSON text encoded as UTF-8, and to create an in-memory document object model (DOM), that is read-only, for random access of the JSON elements within a structured view of the data. The System.Text.Json library is built-in as part of the shared framework in .NET Runtime. The package can be installed when you need to use it in other target frameworks.
Install
dotnet add package System.Text.Json --version 11.0.0-preview.4.26230.115
Install-Package System.Text.Json -Version 11.0.0-preview.4.26230.115
<PackageReference Include="System.Text.Json" Version="11.0.0-preview.4.26230.115" />
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