pass xml and get strongly typed .NET OBjects

Question

I've been using Linq To XML in order to mapp the XML DOcument to .NET OBjects.

Could anyone please guide me whether there any too exist where I can pass XML Document (string) and it returns strongly Type .NET OBject?

I've been looking at XSD2Code and having a problem passing the whole XML as it seems to create separate classes for each Elements.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 12 '11 at 05:51

Pretty easy:

take your XML and run it through the xsd.exe command line tool:
```
c:\> xsd.exe yourfile.xml
```
This will produce a corresponding XML schema file (yourfile.xsd)
Run the xsd.exe tool again, this time on the XSD file, to get a C# class:
```
c:\> xsd.exe /c yourfile.xsd
```
This will produce a C# class in yourfile.cs which represents your XML content
Using that class in a project, just deserialize your XML into a C# object:
```
XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(YourClass));

var result = ser.Deserialize(new FileStream(@"D:\temp\yourfile.xml", FileMode.Open));
```
If everything worked as it should, your result now contains a C# class instance that represents 1:1 that XML file's content.

That's it!

Thanks @marc_s, What I'm after is how to deserialize the XML Document and get strongly typed .NET Object. — Nil Pun, Aug 12 '11 at 06:37
@Myagdi I guess you mean type safety. Unfortunately we don't have an `XmlSerializer` that returns T on `Deserialize()` so you have to cast from `object` to `T` yourself. I still wonder why they didn't introduced that with generics in .net2. — mbx, Nov 05 '13 at 14:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '11 at 05:49

0

Just use the xsd util.

IIRC, you call it xsd /c yourschema.xsd > classes.cs.

If you have a bunch of XML without schema, you can also use xsd to try infer a schema. That should be a good starting point anyways :)

answered Aug 12 '11 at 05:49

leppie

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