I was getting this crazy “k__BackingField” crap, and quickly found this pablissimo.com post. It links to a post about changing the JSON serializer. Unfortunately, JSON.net is already used, so I am not sure why I was getting the crazy JSON garbage. [DataContract] and [DataMember] did the trick, but I am still left wondering why I had to go here? Oh well, I guess it is better to be explicit anyway, right?

On a semi-related note, I found this post on JSON casing with JsonMediaTypeFormatter. Pretty cool stuff…