Converting XML or JSON to C# Classes in Visual Studio

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In the Visual Studio 2012 IDE, a new feature is introduce to convert XML document into C# classes as a Serializable type.

In the .NET framework 4.5 there is another Paste Special option is exists in the Edit menu which enables you to copy the XML as C# Classes.

Copy the XML  you want to create a class/classes for, place the cursor in a class file on the location you want the code to be added and select the following menu items:

• Edit.
• Paste Special.
• Paste XML as Classes.

And you’re done.

Suppose you have following XML File.

And when you paste the above XML using Paste XML as classes. It will looks like that.

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JSON# – Tutorial #5: Deserialising Complex Objects

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The previous tutorial focused on deserialising simple JSON objects. This tutorial describes the process of deserialising a more complex object using JSON#.

Let’s use the ComplexObject class that we’ve leveraged in earlier tutorials:

Let’s instantiate this with some values, and serialise to JSON. I won’t bloat this post with details on how to serialise, covered in previous posts. Here is our serialised ComplexObject instance:

Notice that we have 2 collections. A simple collection of Doubles, and a more complex collection of ComplexArrayObjects. Let’s start with those.

First, create a new class, ComplexObjectDeserialiser, and implement the required constructor and Deserialise method.

Remember this method from the previous tutorial?

This effectively parses the JSON and loads each element into a NameValueCollection. This is fine for simple properties, however collection-based properties would cause the deserialiser to load each collection-element as…

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