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I have a property that is actually a Dictionary. And I keep many types in this dictionary like TimeSpans, DateTimes, etc. But serializing and deserializing TimeSpans are wrong and it deserializes as string. <pre><code>var dict = new Dictionary<string, object>(); dict.Add("int", 15); dict.Add("string", "foo"); dict.Add("timeSpan", new TimeSpan(1,1,1)); dict.Add("dateTime", DateTime.Now); var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings{ TypeNameHandling = TypeNameHandling.All, TypeNameAssemblyFormat = FormatterAssemblyStyle.Simple }; var serializedObj = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dict, Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented, settings); var deserializedObj = (Dictionary<string, object>)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(serializedObj, settings); //Displaying the types with LinqPad: deserializedObj["int"].GetType().Dump(); deserializedObj["string"].GetType().Dump(); deserializedObj["timeSpan"].GetType().Dump(); deserializedObj["dateTime"].GetType().Dump(); </code></pre> RESULTS: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vaopM.png" alt="Types of the objects"> So TimeSpan in an object can't deserialize to a timespan. I've tried with latest version of Json.Net too. But the result is same. How can I specify type name for TimeSpan? Or should I write a custom converter and how? Edit: I did some tests and I changed serialized timeSpan property like this: <pre><code>""timeSpan"": { ""$type"": ""System.TimeSpan"", ""$value"": ""01:01:01""} </code></pre> and this time json.net could desrialize it as TimeSpan. But How can I specify $type and $value of TimeSpan at Serialization level like this?
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