vb.net - Trying to convert an entire structure to a string in ASP.NET -

i'm using structure follows:

structure userrec     public userrecid integer     public companyrecid integer     public username string     public loggedintime datetime     public userislocked boolean     public userfirstname string     public userlastname string     public useremail string     ... deleted simplicity ... end structure 

when instantiate type variable (dim thisuserrec userrec = (data routine) ), can break code , go immediate window , type "? thisuserrec" , see nice display of every element in structure

? thisuserrec {userrec}     userfirstname: "alex                                                        "     userisdeleted: false     userislocked: false     userisownermgr: false 

i removed elements security , simplicity purposes in example.

so, i'd love save entire structure audit table string. hoping there easy way

dim thisuserrecstring string = thisuserrec 

but of course, know won't work.

anybody know quick way dump contents of structure string? or html table?

you can easely serialize json datacontractjsonserializer.

this guy has great example: how can make datacontractjsonserializer serialize object string?

i converted vb

private function tojson(of t)(data t) string     dim serializer new datacontractjsonserializer(gettype(t))      using ms new memorystream()         serializer.writeobject(ms, data)         return encoding.[default].getstring(ms.toarray())     end using end function 

just call this

tojson(of userrec)(object) 

don't forget import libraries

imports system.runtime.serialization.json imports system.io imports system.text 

and make serializable

<serializable()> _