Reading JSON in ASP.NET

I have the newtonsoft library. I want to re开发者_开发知识库ad email id and name from the following JSON string:

var InitialContacts = 
[
    {"guid":"","contactId":"32","contactName":"a, a a","email":"net.hitesh@gmail.com","isConnection":false,"connection":"","displayImg":null,"msgrID":"","msgrStatus":"","isMsgrBuddy":false},
    {"guid":"","contactId":"26","contactName":"bhaiya, manish","email":"yadavmanish_27@yahoo.co.in","isConnection":false,"connection":"","displayImg":null,"msgrID":"","msgrStatus":"","isMsgrBuddy":false}
]

How can I read it in ASP.NET?

Two solutions:

With JSON.Net you can create a class that matches the elements of the JSON string. In this case (Note - this is air code, haven't tested it):

public class TargetClass
{
  public string guid{get; set;}
  public int contactId{get; set;}

  ...
}

You can deserialize to a List.

Another way is to use the delimiters , & : and split the string into an array first by ",". Then for each entry in the array, split again with the ":".