make it easier to serialize and deserialze the diagram json string. When doing a Kendo Diagram.Save and resulting json string and be able to easily deserialize this into a C# Diagram object with DiagramShapes and DiagramsConnections E.g.: 1) Kendo API does a Diagram.Save() 2) Serialize this to JSON 3) send to server via AJAX callback 4) simply do serializer.Deserialize<RadDiagram>(myJson); Only step #4 is missing, writing my own deserializer now :( The same would be the other way around, creating a RADDiagram with shapes and connections in the back and then serialize this with one call and bind it to the Kendo API.