Creating C# classes from JSON (or XML) in Visual Studio 2015 5. October 2015 Shawn .NET (0) I am continually creating classes from JSON. In the past I have used json2csharp.com to accomplish this task. It is a very simply website with one large textbox. Paste your text or a link to text and click the generate button and suddenly you have C# classes! Visual Studio 2015 removes the need for this website. The Visual Studio team has added a new way to paste JSON or XML text and have classes created. This new feature even works better than json2charp.com did. To use the new feature follow the below steps Open a file. If you want to paste JSON the file must be a class file (have the .cs extension). Copy some JSON Select Edit –> Paste Special –> Paste JSON As Classes It will generate as many classes as are needed. I’ll give a few examples to see the benefits of this new feature and how it could be improved. Simple base types { "firstName" : "John", "lastName" : "Doe", "age" : 13, "dateOfBirth" : "2002-10-05T14:13:25-06:00"} And the generated class public c... [More]