title: Paste JSON string into Visual Studio
body: <p>I am running some C# Unit Tests in Visual Studio using JSON strings I copied from my database such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{ 
      "key" : "Foo", 
      "format" : "Bar"
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to parse the JSON string to a JObject in my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code> JObject.Parse(
      "{ 
          "key" : "Foo", 
          "format" : "Bar"
      }");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I can't do this because Visual Studio won't escape the quotes inside the string. </p>
  
  <p>I know I can add escape characters, however, the strings could be very long, which means manually adding the escape characters would take a very long time.</p>
  
  <p>What is the easiest way to parse my copied JSON string into a JObject?</p>