c# - Json.Net unexpected characters ("") when serializing my entities

Question

I am using the excellent Json.Net library to serialize my entities generated by entity framework. I use the following code to do so :

using (MyVoucherEntities context = new MyVoucherEntities())
{
  List<MyObject> list = context.MyObjects.ToList();
  string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(list);
}

Everything goes well I mean, the objects are correctly serialized except one think : it adds escape characters "" that makes me having nightmare when deserializing on the client side.

 [
     {
         "$id": "1",
         "CreationDate": "\/Date(1293186324257+0000)\/",
        "ImageUrl": "http://www.google.com",
         "Title": "Here is a title"
     } ]

Does anybody know why and how I can get rid of these escape characters slash "" ?

Answer 1

I suspect it's not actually adding escape characters at all. I suspect you're just looking at the string in a debugger, and that's adding the escaping.

Try dumping it to a file or the console.