Are there any good tools to generate a simple C# class from xml. I have tried XML spy but that takes the data into account and creates a far too complex class structure.
All I want is basically a class for each element and properties for each sub element.
There is a tool that comes with Visual Studio, but it requires a schema – the schema can be inferred from the XML anyway:
http://sharpertutorials.com/using-xsd-tool-to-generate-classes-from-xml/
The tool is called xsd.exe and you can get to it via the Visual Studio command prompt: