Serialize error

Ravi Kumar

hi

i created MVC application with entity framework.

from the code every thing saving properly

after hosting to server getting the fallowing error

A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type 'System.Data.Metadata.Edm.AssociationType'

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Ravi Kumar11y ago
still this bug not fixed
help me any one
Sujeet Suman11y ago
Ravi please once go through below link. This may help you:

http://www.telerik.com/blogs/resolving-circular-references-when-binding-the-mvc-grid

If this is help full for you then please accept my Answer.
Nilesh Jadav11y ago
Hey ravi !

Try below links it will help you in getting solution to your above problem.

1) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16949520/circular-reference-detected-exception-while-serializing-object-to-json

2) http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292970/Avoiding-Circular-Reference-for-Entity-in-JSON-Ser

3) http://johnnycode.com/2012/04/10/serializing-circular-references-with-json-net-and-entity-framework/

Thank you Ravi
Ravi Kumar11y ago
hi patel
i added that line but no change
Ravi Patel11y ago
Hi Ravi ,
In your Global.asax Application_Start method add this line:

GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore;