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Re:Ask HN: The current state of DotNet Web development by DamonOehlman on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @01:51AM (#2003382)
How "pure" is the JSON generated using the out of the box serializer? I guess what I'm asking is there much MS cruft in there or does it look pretty clean?
Re:Ask HN: The current state of DotNet Web development by Encosia on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @01:56AM (#2003396)
Completely clean...

Except for DateTime types. Since it uses JavaScriptSerializer under the hood, Json() serializes DateTime values as \/Date(ticks)\/. That, of course, is more the fault of JavaScript lacking a Date literal than Microsoft's serializer. Everyone has to solve that problem some way or another.