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<topic id="SerializingJSONFragments" revisionNumber="1">
  <developerConceptualDocument xmlns="http://ddue.schemas.microsoft.com/authoring/2003/5" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">

    <introduction>
      <para>Often when working with large JSON documents you're only interested in a small
      fragment of information. This scenario can be annoying when you want to deserialize
      that JSON fragment into .NET objects because you have to define .NET classes for the
      entire JSON result.</para>
      <para>With Json.NET it is easy to get around this problem. Using LINQ to JSON you
      can extract the pieces of JSON you want to deserialize before passing them to the
      Json.NET serializer.</para>

<code lang="cs" source="..\Src\Newtonsoft.Json.Tests\Documentation\SerializationTests.cs" region="SerializingPartialJsonFragmentsObject" title="Fragments Object" />
<code lang="cs" source="..\Src\Newtonsoft.Json.Tests\Documentation\SerializationTests.cs" region="SerializingPartialJsonFragmentsExample" title="Deserializing Partial JSON Fragment Example" />

    </introduction>
    <relatedTopics>
      <codeEntityReference>T:Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReader</codeEntityReference>
      <codeEntityReference>T:Newtonsoft.Json.JsonWriter</codeEntityReference>
      <codeEntityReference>T:Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JTokenReader</codeEntityReference>
      <codeEntityReference>T:Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JTokenWriter</codeEntityReference>
      <codeEntityReference>T:Newtonsoft.Json.Bson.BsonReader</codeEntityReference>
      <codeEntityReference>T:Newtonsoft.Json.Bson.BsonWriter</codeEntityReference>
    </relatedTopics>
  </developerConceptualDocument>
</topic>