Loading a .json file into c# program

You really should use an established library, such as Newtonsoft.Json (which even Microsoft uses for frameworks such as MVC and WebAPI), or .NET's built-in JavascriptSerializer.

Here's a sample of reading JSON using Newtonsoft.Json:

JObject o1 = JObject.Parse(File.ReadAllText(@"c:\videogames.json"));

// read JSON directly from a file
using (StreamReader file = File.OpenText(@"c:\videogames.json"))
using (JsonTextReader reader = new JsonTextReader(file))
{
  JObject o2 = (JObject) JToken.ReadFrom(reader);
}

Another good way to serialize json into c# is below:

RootObject ro = new RootObject();
     try
    {

        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(FileLoc);
        string jsonString = sr.ReadToEnd();
        JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
        ro = ser.Deserialize<RootObject>(jsonString);


   }

you need to add a reference to system.web.extensions in .net 4.0 this is in program files (x86) > reference assemblies> framework> system.web.extensions.dll and you need to be sure you're using just regular 4.0 framework not 4.0 client

As mentioned in the other answer I would recommend using json.NET. You can download the package using NuGet. Then to deserialize your json files into C# objects you can do something like;

   JsonSerializer serializer = new JsonSerializer();
   MyObject obj = serializer.Deserialize<MyObject>(File.ReadAllText(@".\path\to\json\config\file.json");

The above code assumes that you have something like

public class MyObject
{
    public string prop1 { get; set; };
    public string prop2 { get; set; };
}

And your json looks like;

{
      "prop1":"value1",
      "prop2":"value2"
}

I prefer using the generic deserialize method which will deserialize json into an object assuming that you provide it with a type who's definition matches the json's. If there are discrepancies between the two it could throw, or not set values, or just ignore things in the json, depends on what the problem is. If the json definition exactly matches the C# types definition then it just works.