title: c# get values from json
body: <p>I have a json text and i want to get the values of author name and description tags. no need of other fields like url and urltoimage and all.
  when i run the below code does not providing any string values. i think some error goes here. </p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "status": "ok",
    "articles": [
    {
      "source": {
        "id": "techcrunch",
        "name": "TechCrunch"
      },
      "author": "Khaled \"Tito\" Hamze",
      "title": "Crunch Report",
      "description": "Your daily roundup of the biggest TechCrunch stories and startup news.",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/video/crunchreport/",
      "urlToImage": "https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/tccrshowogo.jpg?w=500&amp;h=200&amp;crop=1",
      "publishedAt": "2017-12-11T20:20:09Z"
    },
    {
      "source": {
        "id": "techcrunch",
        "name": "TechCrunch"
      },
      "author": "Sarah Perez",
      "title": "Facebook is trying to make the Poke happen again",
      "description": "Facebook's \"Poke\" feature has never really gone away, but now the social network is giving it a more prominent placement - and is even considering expanding..",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/11/facebook-is-trying-to-make-the-poke-happen-again/",
      "urlToImage": "https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/facebook-poke-icon.jpg",
      "publishedAt": "2017-12-11T20:02:30Z"
    },
    {
      "source": {
        "id": "techcrunch",
        "name": "TechCrunch"
      },
      "author": "Sarah Perez",
      "title": "Amazon Alexa can now wake you up to music",
      "description": "This fall, Amazon made a play to become your new alarm clock with the introduction of a combination smart speaker and clock called the Echo Spot. Today, the..",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/11/amazon-alexa-can-now-wake-you-up-to-music/",
      "urlToImage": "https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/amazon-event-9270069.jpg",
      "publishedAt": "2017-12-11T17:22:30Z"
    },
    {
      "source": {
        "id": "techcrunch",
        "name": "TechCrunch"
      },
      "author": "Ingrid Lunden, Katie Roof",
      "title": "Apple confirms Shazam acquisition; Snap and Spotify also expressed interest",
      "description": "After we broke the story last week that Apple was acquiring London-based music and image recognition service Shazam, Apple confirmed the news today. It is..",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/11/apple-shazam-deal/",
      "urlToImage": "https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/shazam-app-icon-ios.jpg",
      "publishedAt": "2017-12-11T15:59:31Z"
    }
  ]}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>how to get this? below is my code and its not at all working</p>
  
  <pre><code>var data = (JObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(myJSON);
  string nameArticles= data["articles"].Value&lt;string&gt;();
  MessageBox.Show(nameArticles);
  
  
     public class Source
     {
      public string id { get; set; }
      public string name { get; set; }
     }
     public class Article
     {
      public Source source { get; set; }
      public string author { get; set; }
      public string title { get; set; }
      public string description { get; set; }
      public string url { get; set; }
      public string urlToImage { get; set; }
      public DateTime publishedAt { get; set; }
     }
  
              Article art = new Article();
  
              art = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject&lt;Article&gt;(myJSON);
  
              MessageBox.Show(art.description.ToString());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the above code return object not set to an instance error!</p>