Adding the Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package to our solution

In this section, we will begin by adding the Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package to our TrackMyWalks shared-core solution, which is essentially a high-performance JSON framework for the .NET platform, which allows you to serialize and deserialize any type of .NET object with help from the JSON serializer class.

We will also have the ability to translate LINQ capabilities into JSON to enable us to create, parse, query, and modify the JSON structure that we receive back from our WalkEntries table, located on the Microsoft Azure platform.

Let's start by adding the Newtonsoft.Json NuGet package to our TrackMyWalks app by going through the following steps:

1. Right-click on the Dependencies | NuGet folder, located within the TrackMyWalks solution, and choose the Add Packages... menu option, as you did in Chapter 4, Creating the TrackMyWalks Native App.

2. Next, within the Search field located within the Add Packages dialog, you need to enter json.net and...