json deserializing coming back empty - visual-studio-2010

Question

I took suggestions from here and tried to create a class with objects for the parts I need to parse from my json feed. I then tried to deserialize it before mapping the field contents to my objects but the deserialization returns nothing.
Here is the json feed content:
"data": [
{
"id": "17xxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"from": {
"name": "Lxxxxxx",
"category": "Sports league",
"id": "17xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
},
"picture": "http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQB4GscSy-2RHY_0&w=130&h=130&url=http\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fwww.ligabbva.com\u00252Fquiz\u00252Farchivos\u00252Fbenzema-quiz-facebook.png",
"link": "http://www.xxxxxva.com/quiz/index.php?qid=34",
"source": "http://www.lxxxxva.com/modulos/redirectQuiz.php?name=benzema&q=34&time=1312827103",
"name": "DEMUESTRA CU\u00c1NTO SABES SOBRE... BENZEMA",
"caption": "www.xxxxxva.com",
"description": "Demuestra cu\u00e1nto sabes sobre Karim Benzema, delantero del Real Madrid.",
"icon": "http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yj/r/v2OnaTyTQZE.gif",
"type": "video",
"created_time": "2011-08-08T18:11:54+0000",
"updated_time": "2011-08-08T18:11:54+0000",
"likes": {
"data": [
{
"name": "Jhona Arancibia",
"id": "100000851276736"
},
{
"name": "Luis To\u00f1o",
"id": "100000735350531"
},
{
"name": "Manuel Raul Guerrero Cumbicos",
"id": "100001485973224"
},
{
"name": "Emmanuel Gutierrez",
"id": "100000995038988"
}
],
"count": 127
},
"comments": {
"count": 33
}
},
{
"id": "17xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"from": {
"name"
and here is the code I am trying. I tried to also use the jsontextreader and loop through each tokentype and check each one and then read the value but this looks like it will turn out to be tedious.
....
//fetch the content
responsedata = reader.readtoend()
......
dim pp as facedata = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(of faceData)(responsedata)
console.writeline(pp.id.tostring)
and the class objects
Public Class faceData
Public Property id() as string
Get
Return f_id
End Get
Set(ByVal value as string)
f_id =value
End Set
End Property
Private f_id as string
......
any response appreciated.
Does anyone have links to full code where it actually works using vb.net.