Normally when generating Json you would serialize typed .net objects. In most cases this is the right way to go, but if you have important reasons not to use this approach, for example if the format of the coming data cannot be predicted at compile time and you don’t want to generated dynamically typed objects, for performance reasons, you may consider generating Json code as string. A common way to go is to use StringBuilder, but I would not call it as a very json friendly tool, so here is an alternative.

Json builder can help you iterate through collections and hide json related string transformations from you. Here is how you use it:

Often in a Silverlight client you will need to delay the execution of a particular action. There is no intrinsic setTimeout function like in JavaScript window object but you can use System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer object. If you are looking for a tidy wrapper around this object you may want to consider this solution: