JSONTools Project

[Dave.Sanders]

Hey all,

I've been building a project using ASP.Net and something I'm calling "JSON Templates" that are kicking out JSON objects for ExtJS to render pages with. I was having a helluva time trying to match up braces and figure out where my formatting issues were in fairly complicated JSON files. So, this weekend I got fed up and built my own JSON editor.

It's windows only at this point, but its open source and hosted over at github. If you are a windows developer doing a lot of JSON, or getting frustrated with trying to figure out what the heck is going on, then the tool might be helpful.

This is very alpha still, though I've hammered out a lot of features and bugs today. Being open source, if you want to dive in and tackle something on the list, be my guest. Otherwise, I'll keep refining it as my time allows and I need the features.

Hopefully it is useful to at least one other person in the world besides me. :)

Github wiki with F.A.Q. and Roadmap (http://github.com/DaveSanders/jsontools/wikis)


Screen shot (http://github.com/DaveSanders/jsontools/tree/master/Releases/jsontools-screen.png?raw=true)


Releases Folder (http://github.com/DaveSanders/jsontools/tree/master/Releases)(always get the latest one)

[SeaSharp2]

The GUI utility looks nice but you could use the Newtonsoft JSON builder to create valid json strings via direct API calls, then you won't have mismatching braces. Or instead use the Newtonsoft serialize function to convert .Net objects to valid JSON.