I have this XML file, and I want to deserialize it to an object. But I don’t want to type its class definition. There is any tool that can create the C# code of the class for me, inferring the data types from sample data?
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I have this XML file, and I want to deserialize it to an object. But I don’t want to type its class definition. There is any tool that can create the C# code of the class for me, inferring the data types from sample data?
Yes. Out of the box, you can use xsd.exe to generate XSD files from XML. You can also use this tool to generate classes from XSD files.
The code it produces is limited, which is why there are some third party tools that have stepped in.
Two of those tools include LiquidXML (costs money) and CodeXS (free). We use CodeXS, because it is free and extensible. We have extended it quite a bit.
EDIT:
CodeXS has an online tool. Just give it an XSD. It produces your classes for you.
They also have a command-line tool (source code) which is extensible and doesn’t require you to send the XSD to their web service. We use it as a pre-build step.