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I am using HttpClient to post some data to a NodeJs based server. 

Class Employee
{
      public string Name { get; set; }
}

The functional code:

Employee e = new Employee();
e.Name = "TestUser";
var client = new HttpClient();

var task = client.PostAsJsonAsync(urlTemplate, e);
var result = task.Result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;

The node application expects a property by name FirstName (instead of Name)

In WCF, we can change the name of DataMember by placing an attribute on top of its definition:

[DataMember(Name = "FirstName")]
public string Name  {   get;   set;  }

Do we have similar option when sending data using HttpClient?

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One option is to use Newtonsoft.Json library. on you model class you can do 

Class Employee
{
      [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "FistName")]
      public string Name { get; set; }
}

before you PUT/POST, use JsonConvert.SerializeXXXX function to convert your object into string, and use the string content as your HttpClient payload.

Xiaomin Wu
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You can use JSON serialization properties, as outlined in the documentation. Check out the related post: How can I change property names when serializing with Json.net?.

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