using System;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

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public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        var jsonString = @"'{'\'itemList\':[{\'id\':1,\'name\':\'Item 1 Name\'},{\'id\':2,\'name\':\'Item 2 Name\'}],'listInfo':{'info1':1,'info2':'bla'}}'";       

        var unescaptedstring=Regex.Unescape(jsonString);

        //Remove the extra characters at the first,second and last index of the origial string

        var index = unescaptedstring.IndexOf('\'', unescaptedstring.IndexOf('\'') + 0);

        var ouput = string.Concat(unescaptedstring.Substring(0,index), "", unescaptedstring.Substring(index + 1));

        var index1 = ouput.IndexOf('\'', ouput.IndexOf('\'') + 1);

        var ouput1 = string.Concat(ouput.Substring(0,index1), "", ouput.Substring(index1 + 1));

        var index2 = ouput1.IndexOf('\'', ouput1.LastIndexOf('\''));

        var ouput2 = string.Concat(ouput1.Substring(0,index2), "", ouput1.Substring(index2 + 1));

        //Console.WriteLine(ouput2);    

        //Now deserialze as required:

        var data= JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<RootObject>(ouput2);

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        foreach(var item in data.itemList)

        {

            Console.WriteLine(item.id); 

            Console.WriteLine(item.name);

        }

    }

}

​

public class ItemList

{

    public int id { get; set; }

    public string name { get; set; }

}

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public class ListInfo

{

    public int info1 { get; set; }

    public string info2 { get; set; }

}

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public class RootObject

{

    public List<ItemList> itemList { get; set; }

    public ListInfo listInfo { get; set; }

}