Serializing "string list" to JSON in C#

(I'v restated my question here: Creating class instances based on dynamic item lists)

I'm currently working on a program in Visual Studio 2015 with C#.

I have 5 list strings that contain data that I wish to serialize to a json file. 

public List<string> name { get; private set; }
public List<string> userImageURL { get; private set; }
public List<string> nickname { get; private set; }
public List<string> info { get; private set; }
public List<string> available { get; private set; }

An example of the desired json file format is the fallowing:

{
    "users" : 
    [
        {
            "name" : "name1",
            "userImageURL" : "userImageURL1",
            "nickname" : "nickname1",
            "info" : "info1",
            "available" : false,
        },
        {
            "name" : "name2",
            "userImageURL" : "userImageURL2",
            "nickname" : "nickname2",
            "info" : "info2",
            "available" : false,
        },
        {
            "name" : "name3",
            "userImageURL" : "userImageURL3",
            "nickname" : "nickname3",
            "info" : "info3",
            "available" : false,
        },
        {
            "name" : "name4",
            "userImageURL" : "userImageURL4",
            "nickname" : "nickname4",
            "info" : "info4",
            "available" : false,
        }

    ]
}

Note that there might be errors in the json example above.

I've tried combining the 5 lists to create 1 list to serialize it using the following code:

users = new List<string>(name.Count + userImageURL.Count + nickname.Count + info.Count + available.Count);
            allPlayers.AddRange(name);
            allPlayers.AddRange(userImageURL);
            allPlayers.AddRange(nickname);
            allPlayers.AddRange(info);
            allPlayers.AddRange(available);

Then I serialize the list with the fallowing code:

string data = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(users);
            File.WriteAllText("data.json", data);

This just creates an array of unorganized objects. I wish to know how can I organize them as expressed in the format above.

PS: I'm pretty new to coding as you can tell. Sorry if I'm not expressing the question correctly or using the right terminology. Also, this is not the original code. The code creates this lists which I wish to serialize into a json file.

PSS: This data is collected using HtmlAgilityPack. I asked a question yesterday asking how could I parse an html file and serialize it's data to a json file. Using HtmlAgilityPack to get specific data in C# and serialize it to json . As nobody answered, I decided to try and do it myself. The method that I used may not be the best, but it is what I could do with the knowledge that I have.

Jon Skeet
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I would suggest refactoring your code to start with - instead of having 5 "parallel collections", have a single collection of a new type, User:

public class User
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string ImageUrl { get; set; }
    public string NickName { get; set; }
    public string Info { get; set; }
    public bool Available { get; set; }
}

...

// In your containing type
public List<User> Users { get; set; }

This is likely to make life simpler not just for your JSON, but for the rest of the code too - because you no longer have the possibility of having more nicknames than image URLs, etc. In general, having multiple collections that must be kept in sync with each other is an antipattern. There are times where it's appropriate - typically providing different efficient ways of retrieving the same data - but for something like this it's best avoided.

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