using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.IO;

using System.Text;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        string json = @"

            [

              {

                ""Code"": ""AFG"",

                ""Name"": ""Afghanistan"",

                ""Population"": 38928346

              },

              {

                ""Code"": ""ALA"",

                ""Name"": ""Åland Islands"",

                ""Population"": 28007

              },

              {

                ""Code"": ""ALB"",

                ""Name"": ""Albania"",

                ""Population"": 2877797

              },

              {

                ""Code"": ""DZA"",

                ""Name"": ""Algeria"",

                ""Population"": 43851044

              },

              {

                ""Code"": ""ASM"",

                ""Name"": ""American Samoa"",

                ""Population"": 55191

              }

            ]"; 

        // Sumulate ManifestResourceStream with a MemoryStream

        MemoryStream countriesResourceStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json));

​

        var countries = new List<Country>();

​

        using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(countriesResourceStream))

        using (JsonTextReader jsonReader = new JsonTextReader(streamReader))

        {

            var serializer = new JsonSerializer();

            countries = serializer.Deserialize<List<Country>>(jsonReader);

        }

        foreach (Country country in countries)

        {

            Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0,-15} {1,3} {2,9}", country.Name, country.Code, country.Population));

        }

    }

}

​

class Country

{

    public string Code { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }

    public int Population { get; set; }

}