Creating a JSON string, if the left-hand varaible has dashes in

Question

I am trying to create a json string to send via a httprequest, I have json string like so:

{
    "a-string": "123",
    "another-string": "hello",
    "another": "1"
}

My problem is, if I try and generate it like so

 string json = new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(new
    {
    "a-string" = "123",
    "another-string" = "hello",
    "another" = "1"
    });

Leads to:

So what is a way of trying to do the above, without getting that error?

[Possible duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12456075/changing-property-names-for-serializing) — Max, May 20 '17 at 19:01
[Possible duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12456075/changing-property-names-for-serializing) — Max, May 20 '17 at 19:02

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

Use Json NewtonSoft NuGet package. Then use my answer here to create a C# class for you json. Since your json has names in them which are not allowed as property names in C#, you can use the JsonPropety attribute so it can use it during serialization. Here is all of the code:

public class Rootobject
{
    [JsonProperty("a-string")]
    public string astring { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("another-string")]
    public string anotherstring { get; set; }
    public string another { get; set; }
}

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        var root = new Rootobject { another = "1", anotherstring = "hello", astring = "123" };
        string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(root);

        Console.Read();
    }
}

Creating a JSON string, if the left-hand varaible has dashes in

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