Json.net serialize only certain properties

Rather then having to use [JsonIgnore] on every attribtue you don't want to serialise as suggested in another answer.

If you just want to specify properties to serialise, you can do this, using [JsonObject(MemberSerialization.OptIn)] and [JsonProperty] attributes, like so:

using Newtonsoft.Json;
...
[JsonObject(MemberSerialization.OptIn)]
public class Class1
{
    [JsonProperty]
    public string Property1 { set; get; }
    public string Property2 { set; get; }
}

Here only Property1 would be serialised.

You can write a custom ContractResolver like below

public class IgnoreParentPropertiesResolver : DefaultContractResolver
{
    bool IgnoreBase = false;
    public IgnoreParentPropertiesResolver(bool ignoreBase)
    {
        IgnoreBase = ignoreBase;
    }
    protected override IList<JsonProperty> CreateProperties(Type type, MemberSerialization memberSerialization)
    {
        var allProps = base.CreateProperties(type, memberSerialization);
        if (!IgnoreBase) return allProps;

        //Choose the properties you want to serialize/deserialize
        var props = type.GetProperties(~BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy); 

        return allProps.Where(p => props.Any(a => a.Name == p.PropertyName)).ToList();
    }
}

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Now you can use it in your serialization process as:

var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings() { 
                      ContractResolver = new IgnoreParentPropertiesResolver(true) 
               };
var json1 = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new SubObjectWithOnlyDeclared(),settings );